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Cyberpunk 2077 Fans Will Appreciate: A guy shared his jacket with screens from the video game on Reddit A cosplayer dreamed for several years of making a jacket of an NUSA infiltration agent. To achieve this, he needed to insert flexible OLED screens into the collar and learn how to display images on them. EDGE. Subscribe.

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Links for 2026-04-30 AI 1. Thinking Without Words — latent reasoning ≈ verbal CoT at far lower inference cost. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22709 2. Latent Agents: post-training for internalized multi-agent debate. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24881 3. Recurrent Transformer: greater depth, efficient decoding. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21215 4. Predictive strategies emerge in real + artificial agents from shared task structure. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.23.720457v1 5. Conductor: train an AI manager to delegate to diverse AIs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04388 6. Stanford/Arc genome LMs generated complete ΦX174-like phages; ~300 tested, 16 viable; Evo-Φ36 used a distant packaging protein where simple swaps failed. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1 7. Reiner Pope: math behind LLM training/serving. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope 8. The paper that killed deep learning theory. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZvQfcLbcNHYqmvWyo/the-paper-that-killed-deep-learning-theory 9. The other paper that killed deep learning theory. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zcGmdQHX66NhC69v6/the-other-paper-that-killed-deep-learning-theory 10. Why SGD stops just short of the edge. https://akyrillidis.github.io/aiowls/stochastic_self_stabilization.html 11. Recursive forecasting from myopic fitness-seekers. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q2zYtNsh62SCphitt/recursive-forecasting-eliciting-long-term-forecasts-from 12. AISI GPT-5.5 cyber eval: among strongest tested; second to solve multi-step cyber-attack sim end-to-end. https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-openais-gpt-5-5-cyber-capabilities 13. Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer up to 3 years early. https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-ai-detects-pancreatic-cancer-up-to-3-years-before-diagnosis-in-landmark-validation-study/ AI politics 1. NYT: Mythos reactions show frontier AI launches acting like weapons tests; Russian pro-Kremlin outlet: “worse than a nuclear bomb.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropics-mythos-ai.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/Ex7ZI] 2. WSJ: White House opposes wider Mythos access over security + limited government availability. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-opposes-anthropics-plan-to-expand-access-to-mythos-model-dc281ab5 [no paywall: https://archive.is/zonHZ] 3. China orders Meta to unwind $2B Manus AI-startup deal. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-blocks-foreign-acquisition-ai-startup-manus-2026-04-27/ 4. Anthropic weighs funding at $900B+ valuation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/anthropic-considering-funding-offers-at-over-900-billion-value 5. Pentagon uses GenAI.mil to create 100K agents. https://defensescoop.com/2026/04/23/pentagon-uses-genai-mil-to-create-agents/ Computer Science 1. Dijkstra invented shortest path in 20 minutes over coffee. https://cacm.acm.org/news/an-interview-with-edsger-w-dijkstra/ 2. Leibniz on symbolic computation and the “combinatorial machine.” https://www.leibnizpapers.org/combinatorial-machine.htm Science and Technology 1. Swedish 1.2M-person study: intelligence positively associated with prosociality. https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/135/668/1141/7914156 2. Longevity hype vs real promise of cell rejuvenation. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/magazine/cell-rejuventation-biotech-longevity-research-altos-labs.html [no paywall: https://archive.is/pVtms] 3. Prediction-market accuracy: informed minority, not crowd wisdom. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6617059 4. ML supports unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena in historical observatory images. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18799 5. SpaceX Musk pkg: 200M super-voting shares for $7.5T valuation + 1M-person Mars colony; second award up to 60.4M shares for space datacentres with 100 TW compute. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/spacex-ties-musk-compensation-mars-colonization-goal-2026-04-28/

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