Research news and analysis on Web Pulse: 583 curated articles tracking the latest Research developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
PaperBanana, an agentic framework that automates the creation of publication-ready academic illustrations for AI scientists by coordinating specialized agents for reference retrieval, planning, styling, rendering, and it…
The article describes the author's project to build an 80386-compatible processor core in SystemVerilog using original Intel microcode, with real mode operational and over 10,000 test cases passing. It highlights that th…
The article describes a specialized AI agent called "codex-researcher" that uses OpenAI's Codex CLI tool to conduct automated research tasks. It provides detailed instructions on how to configure the tool for live web se…
Weekly roundup of the author's reading, covering three main topics: the challenges of using formal languages like Lean for AI-driven mathematical proofs, the history of the GLP-1 drug class and the biotech company Amylin…
The Intel 8086, introduced in 1978, is a 16-bit processor whose arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) performs 28 operations, including addition, subtraction, and bitwise logic. The ALU is controlled by a combination of microcode …
Papua New Guinea's official 2022 population estimate of 9.4 million was based on an extrapolation from a flawed 2000 census, as the government deemed its 2011 census unreliable. A leaked UN report, using satellite imager…
In 2021, economists Arvind Subramanian, Justin Sandefur, and Dev Patel published influential findings showing that poor countries had begun catching up to rich ones, heralding a "new era of unconditional convergence." Ho…
The article archives two talk proposals submitted to re:publica 2026. The first proposal, "The Future is Decomputing," argues for moving beyond the tech sector's logic of scaling and efficiency toward a more humane and c…
The Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, released in the 1980s, could accelerate floating-point calculations on IBM PCs by up to 100 times using complex algorithms implemented in microcode. The chip contains a microcod…
At the Supercomputing 2025 conference, Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman discussed the company's OmniPath architecture, a high-performance networking solution for HPC and AI workloads that was originally developed at In…
Xint Code is a new AI-powered code analysis tool that autonomously discovered critical zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in Redis, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB without any human intervention, outperforming …
The z8086 is a compact, FPGA-friendly 8086/8088 processor core that runs original Intel microcode by loading a recovered 512x21 ROM, rather than hand-coding individual instructions. Written in about 2,000 lines of System…
A method using Contrastive Decoding to detect when a large language model (LLM) is subtly suppressing information, such as avoiding mentions of a competitor's product. The author trained a "Manipulator" model to omit PyT…
At Supercomputing 2025, EuroHPC, AMD, and Eviden announced the Alice Recoque supercomputer, which will use AMD's upcoming Instinct MI430X GPUs to achieve over 1 Exaflop/s of sustained HPL performance while consuming less…
The Intel 8087, introduced in 1980, was a floating-point coprocessor that performed calculations up to 100 times faster than early microprocessors, significantly benefiting IBM PC applications like AutoCAD and spreadshee…
The article announces the release of an interactive online browser for the 8086 microprocessor's microcode ROM, created by the author after studying the original chip's design. The tool decodes every 21-bit micro-instruc…
Mainstream economics incorrectly views prices as signals of scarcity and value, whereas they actually reflect the ratio of debt-backed money to productive capacity. It introduces a "price-as-capacity-signal" framework, d…
The article, titled "I should stop doing category theory," is a brief, self-reflective piece written on December 1, 2025, in which the author questions the purpose of their work in category theory. The body consists sole…
In a three-month project, the author used AI coding agents to build a 100K-line Rust-based multi-Paxos consensus engine that modernizes Azure's Replicated State Library (RSL) for contemporary hardware, achieving a perfor…
The article explains that Anthropic, the company behind Claude, aims to develop AI that is safe, beneficial, and understandable, viewing its work as a calculated bet to ensure safety-focused labs lead frontier AI develop…