Daily digest / 31 October 2026
AI news digest — 31 October 2026
HackerTube
It was Friday night at 11pm, I was tired, I went to YouTube to watch something and realized that I was looking at an enshittified wall of slop. Insanely exaggerated thumbnails, dumb recommendations of the same tired topics, truly terrible idiocracy-grade content. I'm sure this…
Auriga Technical Report: A Task-Agnostic Agent Harness for Zero-Shot Embodied Manipulation
Vision-language models can interpret instructions and plan manipulation tasks, yet struggle when acting directly as robot policies. On RoboDojo, a large planning-execution gap separates high-level task decisions from physical execution: removing arm execution raises GPT-6 Astr…
Agents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work
Arca's head of AI discusses persistent memory, the benefits of a custom harness, and agentic workflows that span days.
Report from the Vatican
Yesterday I had the singular honor of meeting His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV
[AINews] Google admits AI Mode hurts Search revenue; -15% $500B drop worst since 2004 IPO. AI Bear Market coming?
It turns out you cannot have your cake AND eat it
TabAbax: A Tabular Foundation Model Technical Report
Tabular foundation models (TFMs) enable in-context prediction on unseen tabular datasets without task-specific training. Mechanistic work has shown that increasing the depth of the ICL Transformer yields weak gains, leaving the main headroom for gains in the synthetic pretrain…