Sycophancy in GPT-4o

The recent GPT-4o update to ChatGPT was rolled back due to its overly flattering and agreeable behavior, described as sycophantic, which was caused by an overemphasis on short-term user feedback. To address the issue, the developers are refining the model's training techniques, increasing user control over its behavior, and introducing new features to allow for more personalized and democratic feedback to shape ChatGPT's default personality.

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"AI-first" is the new Return To Office

The latest trend among tech CEOs is to demand that all work be "AI-first," which may be a suboptimal strategy if employees are skilled at their jobs, as AI is more useful for helping those who are below average. This trend appears to be driven by groupthink and signaling among CEOs, who are trying to show they are part of the tech elite by imposing AI on workers, rather than trusting them to choose the tools that are best for their jobs.

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JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

JetBrains has defended its removal of negative reviews for its unpopular AI Assistant plugin, stating that the removals were in accordance with its policy or to remove outdated content, but users have expressed skepticism and frustration. The AI Assistant has a poor reputation, with users citing issues such as limited support, latency, and sparse documentation, and the removal of negative reviews has drawn attention to these problems.

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Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets

The Promptrepo Finetuning tool allows users to create and train AI models using data in Google Sheets, with features such as no-code AI models, flexible training and deployment options, and easy evaluation and integration. The tool supports various AI models, including OpenAI, Mistral, and LLaMA, and offers built-in version control and API integration for seamless deployment into apps, websites, and workflows.

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Someone at YouTube needs glasses

The author is criticizing a new YouTube layout that displays only five videos and a large ad on a 32" 1440p screen, compared to the old layout which showed 30 videos with no ads. The author jokingly predicts that by 2026, the YouTube homepage will eventually show no videos at all, with ads and content being directly injected into users' brains via a hypothetical neural link.

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Pre-Trained Security LLM 8B

Foundation-Sec-8B is a cybersecurity-focused large language model built on the Llama 3.1 architecture, enhanced through pretraining on a curated cybersecurity corpus to address the scarcity of specialized training data. The model has been shown to match the performance of other leading models in certain cybersecurity-specific tasks, and its public release aims to accelerate the adoption of AI-driven tools in cybersecurity contexts.

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The Leaderboard Illusion

The Chatbot Arena, a leaderboard for ranking AI systems, has a distorted playing field due to undisclosed private testing practices and biased scoring, which benefits a few providers like Meta, Google, and OpenAI. This leads to data access asymmetries, overfitting to Arena-specific dynamics, and unfair advantages, highlighting the need for reforms to promote fairer and more transparent benchmarking in the field.

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"It Listens Better Than My Therapist": Discourse on LLMs and Mental Health

A study analyzing over 10,000 TikTok comments found that nearly 20% of users have personally used large language models (LLMs) as mental health tools, with most expressing positive attitudes and citing benefits such as accessibility and emotional support. However, concerns about privacy, generic responses, and lack of professional oversight remain, highlighting the need for clinical and ethical scrutiny in the use of AI for mental health support.

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Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad

State-of-the-art large language models, such as Gemini-2.5-Pro, have achieved impressive performance on mathematical competitions, but a new evaluation reveals they struggle with rigorous reasoning and proof generation, with most models scoring less than 5% on a set of challenging math problems. The results highlight the need for significant improvements in reasoning and proof generation capabilities, as current models are inadequate for real-world mathematical tasks despite their ability to produce correct numerical answers.

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RL for Reasoning in LLMs with One Training Example

Reinforcement learning with verifiable reward using one training example (1-shot RLVR) significantly improves the math reasoning capabilities of large language models, with a single example elevating model performance on certain benchmarks by over 30%. This approach yields substantial improvements across various models, algorithms, and examples, and is primarily driven by the policy gradient loss, with exploration promotion also playing a critical role in its effectiveness.

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DeepSeek-Prover-V2

DeepSeek-Prover-V2 is an open-source large language model designed for formal theorem proving in Lean 4, which achieves state-of-the-art performance in neural theorem proving with an 88.9% pass ratio on the MiniF2F-test. The model is trained using a recursive theorem proving pipeline and reinforcement learning, and is available for download in two sizes: 7B and 671B parameters, along with a benchmark dataset called ProverBench comprising 325 problems.

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OCaml's Wings for Machine Learning

Raven is a comprehensive ecosystem of libraries, frameworks, and tools that brings machine learning and data science capabilities to the OCaml programming language, aiming to provide an efficient and intuitive experience similar to Python. The ecosystem is currently in pre-alpha and consists of several sub-projects, including Ndarray, Hugin, Rune, and Quill, which provide various functionalities such as numerical computation, visualization, and automatic differentiation.

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Show HN: ART – a new open-source RL framework for training agents

Agent Reinforcement Trainer (ART) is an open-source library that utilizes the GRPO reinforcement learning algorithm to train models from their own experiences, allowing for minimal code changes and maximal performance. ART enables users to execute agent runs in their existing codebase while offloading the complexity of the RL training loop to the ART backend, supporting various causal language models and providing a simple training loop overview.

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Awesome List on AI for Security

This is a curated list of tools, papers, and datasets for applying AI to cybersecurity tasks, focusing on modern AI technologies like Large Language Models and their applications in security operations. The list covers various topics, including models, datasets, benchmarks, vulnerability assessment, threat intelligence, and security agents, providing a comprehensive resource for security research and development.

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Show HN: mlop – open-source ML Experiment Tracking

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