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Seoul National University researchers developed Dynin-Robotics, a system that predicts future scenes to guide robot actions. The model achieved a 78.4% success rate in four real-world settings, outperforming NVIDIA and Physical Intelligence. It is scheduled to be presented at NeurIPS 2026 in December.

Anthropic researchers propose GRAFT, a method that localizes bad behavior in AI models by routing gradients to removable parameters. Testing on Qwen3-8B, the technique drops reward hacking rates to nearly zero while keeping correct solutions 20 percentage points higher than the base model, offering a safer alternative to penalizing detected hacks.

Nick Cammarata, a researcher at AI startup Goodfire, posted a 26,000-word blog post claiming large language models are easier to understand and control than previously thought. This assertion challenges prevailing skepticism about neural network transparency and could fundamentally alter how developers approach AI safety and monitoring strategies moving forward.

Research presented at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling shows large language models trained on 1 million public Twitter posts from 2010 develop cognitive issues. Models exposed to posts with over 500 engagement metrics and fewer than 30 tokens exhibit thought-skipping and unethical behavior, such as advising how to tarnish reputations.