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Why edu.cn WHOIS is hard to reach outside CERNET — and how to read a static snapshot
The Turing Test can still measure whether a system sounds human, but it no longer tells us whether that system understands, reasons, acts reliably, or deserves our trust.
A data-led look at the 2026 contest cheating wave, changing AI rules, benchmark contamination, and how programming contests can remain meaningful.
Full text of My Girlfriend Jing Tian, anonymous satirical fiction viral in 2026, from the GitHub XeLaTeX repo. Purely fictional; a first-person literary device.
A look at the latest AI agent tools, inference optimizations, and evaluation failures from August 2026.
A long-form analysis of Terence Tao's ICM 2026 lecture Mathematics in the Age of AI, its evidence, limits, and consequences for mathematical research.
Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA therapy met recurrence and distant-metastasis endpoints in 1,137 patients, but full Phase 3 data are still pending.
Anthropic's annualized revenue hit $65B by end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B at the end of last year. Investors reportedly expect $100-120B for 2026. Same week: Amazon was caught destroying rare books at an AI training facility, tracked by a bookseller's hidden AirTag.
Face2Gene led a New York family toward TRPS, while JAMA and newer OpenAI research show both the promise and the limits of AI-assisted rare-disease diagnosis.
DeepSeek open-sourced its agent infrastructure as DeepSeek Harness — a Cordis-powered framework with 1.6k GitHub stars, four runtime modes, a full plugin stack, a Python SDK, and a traceable append-only session log.