Links

Links for September 25, 2026

1. "Xi's nuclear weapons expansion at seven secret sites"
2. "The clinical trial bottlenecks game"
3. "What Happens When Formalization Becomes Cheap?"
4. "Niko McCarty. on X: "Pioneer Labs recently announced they've made a microbe capable of growing on Mars...""

   This is super interesting. Obvious parallel with LLMs! Get your env & feedback etc right (see ZLM article earlier) and let hill climbing (RL or natural selection) do the work

5. "Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs"