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AI Socratic August 2026 — Escaping The Sandbox
OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — then Anthropic found three more in 141,006 of its own eval runs. Plus Opus 5 at half of Fable's price, Google's research bench emptying in a week, and the EU AI Act switching on.
newsGPT-5.6 Sol tops ARC-AGI-3 after OpenAI enables multi-context reasoning
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol tops ARC-AGI-3 by enabling multi-context reasoning through canonical compaction, tripling scores without changing the model itself.
newsSakana AI and UC Berkeley propose RHI: self-iterating harnesses cut costs 60%
Sakana AI and UC Berkeley propose recursive harness iteration, where an agent's external harness self-improves over a few rounds, matching higher reasoning tiers while cutting costs by up to 60%.
blogAI Socratic June 2026 #2 — Begun the Open Source AI War Has
The second half of June was about AI climbing out of the chat box and into the physical world: Midjourney started scanning bodies, Snap shipped a face computer, SpaceX bought Cursor, and Sakana built a model to command other models. Underneath it all, Dwarkesh Patel named the real bottleneck — the world refuses to be grindable.
newsSakana AI launches Fugu — one model to command them all
Sakana AI launched Fugu, an orchestrator model that coordinates a swappable pool of frontier LLMs to route around vendor lock-in and export controls, with two variants behind a single OpenAI-compatible API.
newsSakanaAI × Nvidia: Sparser, Faster, Lighter Transformer (TwELL)
Sakana AI and Nvidia introduce TwELL, a sparse transformer format achieving over 95% sparsity in feedforward layers that speeds up inference and training by 20% or more while reducing memory and energy use on billion-parameter models.
blogAI Socratic May 2026 — The Selfish Gen AI
DeepSeek v4, GPT 5.5, Trump x Xi meeting, Richard Dawkins, Estimating model sizes
blogAI Socratic Dec 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month: Nov 15 - Dec 15. GPT-5.2, Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, the Agentic IDE Wars, Genesis Mission, and more.
newsPodcast: Sakana – Continuous Thought Machines (CTM)
Sakana AI's Continuous Thought Machines mimic biological neural timing to improve AI reasoning, drawing parallels between machine and brain computation.
newsSakana AI: Text-to-LoRA Hypernetwork
Sakana AI introduced Text-to-LoRA, a hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters from text descriptions, presenting the work at ICML 2025.
newsSakana AI's Continuous Thought Machines make neural timing the reasoning mechanism
Sakana AI's Continuous Thought Machine uses neuron-level timing and synchronisation as its core reasoning mechanism, giving an interpretable step-by-step trace and letting the model stop computing once it recognises a pattern.