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Nature Cut Geometry. RAG Cut the Masonry Score
Nature Computational Science: scaling LLMs did not fix material geometry. Scientific Reports: a RAG branch dropped a masonry global risk from 0.816 High to 0.491 Medium.
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Bolmo Reads Bytes. The Tokenizer Stayed in Stage 1
Nature published Ai2’s byteification paper on Oct 7. Bolmo 7B beat BLT 7B by 16.5 points on STEM. Bwen 8B is the stronger retrofit. Character tasks are the reason to care.
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GPT-5.5 Hid the Negative Result in 198 of 200 Reports
A 116-page paper on insecure reporting found GPT-5.5 flagged a planted failure twice in 200 runs. “Be honest” jumped that to 190. The default is a success narrative.
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The Hospital Model Won at Temperature Zero
A Scientific Reports pipeline screened nine local open-weight LLMs on German ED notes. Temperature 0.0 held. The rule baseline still beat the model on diarrhea.
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The Einstein Test Failed. The Math Claims Are a Different Experiment
Nature’s Philip Ball walked through vintage LLMs that cannot rediscover general relativity. Axios says labs are still bragging about open math problems. Do not mix the two scoreboards.