Both used Pi, medium reasoning and ~200k context, with compaction and no overall task budget. Qwopus ran Q4_K_M on llama.cpp; Flash-Next ran IQ2_XS on Strata. This model is really nice to use huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwop…
probably fine.
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
I have a touchscreen on my beautiful DELL XPS oled display I use it absolutely every time I accidentally touch the screen and remember it exists. Then I wonder why I used it while staring at the fingerprints it left
you can fine-tune any OS model to do this with specific "wake words / tokens" kinda scary
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
I completely rebuilt mempact and it was surprisingly difficult to get a meaningful edge/gain over pi on my compaction engine. We did however beat it slightly and we also find using smaller local models mempact is a better drop in replacement for the default compaction engine.
Feel free to check it out tell your agent to drop it in as an alternative to the default compaction engine or hack on it, improve it and submit a PR - working great for smaller local models. github.com/topmass/mempact










