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When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.16763: When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

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Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

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Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game

Hop.Earth - Play the World!

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Waymo – Dallas Open to All

Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride.

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Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research

Non-saturating, market-derived RL environments that teach agents applied ML, long-horizon optimisation and adaptation under adversarial noise.

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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

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Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

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Why some people mow a lawn better than others

We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.

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Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries

Stable client release and general availability of hosted registries & ecosystem mirrors.

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Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

Join truemetrics - Build technology to navigate the world truemetrics helps organizations to navigate the world more efficiently. We are solving one of the biggest pain points in last mile delivery: how to get parcels, groceries, and food to the right door faster and more efficiently. Our technology sits in the smartphone of the courier and understands where they park, walk and enter a building. Our technology is right now mapping locations in Germany, Qatar, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands and many other countries. Our traction YC-backed, profitable, and past €1.5M ARR - selling to enterprise carriers like GLS, DPD, and PostNord. The core works. Now the job is the take-off from €1M to €10M+: strengthening what's workin

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.

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The Warp Agent CLI

The Warp Agent is now available as a standalone CLI that you can use anywhere – Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, built-in Windows and Mac Terminals – and provides a superior experience for developers who do heavy terminal workflows

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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

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Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

Contribute to ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.

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New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year

The impacts on safety, space and resource use if carspreading continues to go unchecked.

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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

Mini Shai-Hulud malware was injected into keyv and eight related npm packages on August 4, 2026 after an attacker compromised the maintainer's GitHub account

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On this day

Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.

2020

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Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.

2019

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Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign.

2018

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Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones detonate explosives on Avenida Bolívar, Caracas while president Nicolás Maduro is giving a speech to the Venezuelan National Guard.

2018

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NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.

2007

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A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).

2006

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Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence begins.

1995

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The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to give equal time to opposing views.

1987

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The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

1984

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The Ariane 3 rocket is launched for the first time, carrying the Eutelsat I F-2 and Télécom 1A satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit.

1984

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Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, president of the military government of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Captain Thomas Sankara.

1983

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U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

1977

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The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.

1975

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A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.

1974

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Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of Asian origin, beginning the expulsions of Ugandan Asians.

1972

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Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.

1969

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The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.

1965

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Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

1964

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Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy mistakenly report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.

1964

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The Supreme Court of Japan is established.

1947

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An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.

1946

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The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

1944

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Under the state of emergency law, the Finnish Parliament elects Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as the President of Finland to replace the resigned Risto Ryti.

1944

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Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.

1936

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Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.

1924

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Enver Pasha dies in a skirmish between the Bolshevik Red Army and Basmachi troops, to whom he had defected earlier.

1922

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Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict: Mikhail Frunze declares victory over the Makhnovshchina.

1921

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World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.

1915

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World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.

1914

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The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.

1892

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The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.

1889

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Granny, a sea anemone, died in Edinburgh after nearly 60 years in captivity. Her death was reported in The Scotsman and The New York Times.

1887

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American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.

1873

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Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.

1863

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The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.

1854

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The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

1821

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War of 1812: The ultimately unsuccessful Siege of Fort Erie begins as British forces attempt to recapture the fort and drive American forces out of Canada.

1814

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French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.

1796

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The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.

1791

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A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).

1790

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France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.

1789

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Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.

1783

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Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, a fleet of six East India Company ships sets sail from Fort Marlborough to raid the Dutch VOC factories on the West coast of Sumatra including the major port of Padang.

1781

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War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

1704

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Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.

1701

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Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of champagne; it is not clear whether he actually invented champagne, however he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine.

1693

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Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese but both the Moroccan king Abd al-Malik and the Portuguese king Sebastian die. Ahmad al-Mansur follows Abd al-Malik as sultan of Morocco while the death of Sebastian leads to a succession crisis in Portugal.

1578

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First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.

1327

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The so-called Black Parliament at Scone tries William II de Soules and other nobles who had plotted against Robert I of Scotland and intended to place William on the Scottish throne.

1320

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Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham: The army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.

1265

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Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.

598

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The trial against Gaius Verres for corruption is opened, with Marcus Tullius Cicero as prosecutor and renowned orator Quintus Hortensius as defending lawyer.

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