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  • A draft internet standard from Anthropic's Kevin Kelley, dated Oct 30, lets websites opt out of AI training with one robots.txt token, __usage_ai-training, which Microsoft says it will honor starting Feb 1, 2027, and Google aims to support in 2027.
  • In a preprint that is not yet peer-reviewed, a UIUC-led team reports that 90 of 99 results from 11 AI agent memory systems scored below naive RAG, a plain search over the raw conversation history.
  • Divyansh Agrawal's hobby project Qwenputer compiles a 32-bit RISC-V CPU into the Qwen3.5-4B model, and he reports it scored 97.5% on a 40-problem big-number multiplication set, against 55% for the stock model.

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