2026-07-06
Tie training can make DPO/RLHF-trained AIs generalize better
This post covers our recent ICML paper: Spurious Correlation Learning in Preference Optimization: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Mitigation via Tie Training.TL;DROur theorems and experiments suggest that DPO and RLHF have an...
Russia Sent the Su-57 on Its Most Daring Mission Yet — Shooting Down Russia’s Own Top-Secret Stealth Drone
Sixteen years after its first flight, Russia's premier stealth fighter has flown its most daring mission against a Russian aircraft, taken on a back-seater who doesn't fly, and become the...
What Five Years in Banking Taught Me About Building Consumer Apps
Drawing on experience in both banking and children's mobile apps, the article explores which product management skills transfer across industries. It argues that fintech builds rigor around trust, metrics, and...
Taylor Swift Got Married. Here’s What It Means for the Wedding Industry — and the Luxury Brands She Chose
The star-studded nuptials in New York City were also a massive marketing event for numerous brands.
Xbox's CEO wants its games to cater to 'more than a billion people each day', or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional
Alternate title: Does Xbox CEO Asha Sharma know what a billion is?
Crypto Portfolio Tracking Is Broken. It Needs to Become Action-Aware.
Otomato is a portfolio-aware DeFi assistant that helps crypto users monitor positions across DeFi, perps, prediction markets, tokens, and NFTs. Instead of forcing users to refresh dashboards manually, it sends...
I love this short little video montage of actresses...
I love this short little video montage of actresses during Charlie Rose interviews. No dialogue, just quiet reactions. Musical accompaniment by Laurie Anderson (O Superman).
The Mario Meeting
Review season. You start your career thinking the review is the most important milestone of the year, but as an individual, you only see part of the picture. Everyone cares...
Dark Souls controls have ruined action games beyond Soulslikes
Dark Souls popularized a control scheme where the light attack button is on R1/RB. Action games have copied it for years, and I'm sick of it.
AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap
128 GB of memory! In this economy?
Compulsion Games is returning to independent management amid sweeping Xbox reorganization: 'Our immediate priority is to support our team'
Evading its previously-reported closure, Compulsion will retain its IP rights as it transitions to independent ownership.
Halo multiplayer game, Project Ekur, reportedly canceled
Project Ekur, a standalone Halo multiplayer game, has reportedly been canceled, according to a Halo leaker with a track record.
China Now Has More J-20 Stealth Fighters Than America Has F-22 Raptors — and the F-22 Is No Longer in Production
China's fifth-generation fleet has crossed a threshold no Western planner can ignore, and the number is still climbing. The latest J-20s carry new radars, longer-reaching missiles, and homegrown engines, and...
New Suikoden anime trailer showcases a slick look for this classic RPG adaptation
Konami's adaptation of it's classic role-playing game release later this year in japan
Attack on Titan studio's new anime awards are not a reaction to the Crunchyroll Awards
The announcement of the Tokyo Anime Next awards has been painted as a reaction to the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, but the truth is more complex
The Decisive Theater: North Korea and the Problem of Simultaneous War
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by 1.2 million troops and tactical nuclear...
Jason Snell Ends His Column, and 28-Year Run, at Macworld
Jason Snell, at Macworld: My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs...
Premium: The Hater's Guide To SoftBank
Soundtrack: Ozzy Osbourne — Mr. CrowleyA lot of people have been making a lot of fun of the SoftBank 46th annual shareholder meeting and Masayoshi Son’s (to quote Bryce Elder...
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