A rejection rule keeps speculative decoding's output exact
Two hand-built character models run two hundred thousand times confirm the accept-or-resample test reproduces the target's exact probabilities, and show how many draft tokens survive it as the draft improves.
OpenAI's grokking paper never explained grokking
Three follow-up papers have since located the cause of the delay in three different places, and none of them agrees with the others.
Apple's iPhone cycle masks a slowing services engine
An iPhone upgrade cycle and a $0.11-per-share tariff refund pushed Apple's June quarter to a $109.4 billion record, while Services growth slowed to 12.1 percent and missed Wall Street's estimate.
The Administration Skips the Merits in Its Own Supreme Court Filing
On the emergency docket, the Solicitor General asks the justices to let the blocked provisions of Executive Order 14399 take effect for the November midterms without defending their constitutionality.
Tech News · 2026-08-01
Claude found a cryptographic weakness in a NIST post-quantum candidate that survived two years of expert review, evidence that model capability is starting to outpace the process meant to check it.
Zugzwang means having to move is the disadvantage
An anonymous Belfast newspaper writer used the English word in 1894, eleven years before the citation historians usually credit.
Current Events, August 1, 2026
Growth slowed to 1.5% in the second quarter, the same week three Federal Reserve bank presidents dissented for a rate hike under the Fed's newest chair.