The week ahead: 20260706

Research

• [GitHub] pxpipe - cut Fable 5 token usage by rendering text context as images.
• [arXiv] Program-as-Weights - use a spec to generate weights with which to combine pre-trained lora adapters into a task-specific adapter.
• [arXiv] PlanBench-XL - agentic planning and accuracy collapses under noise.
• [Transformer Circuits] Internal representation in LM surfaced by verbalization mid-inference.

Business

• [The Information] OpenAI discovers new way to cut inference costs in half.
• [Anthropic] Fable / Mythos is back.
• [Microsoft] Microsoft Frontier Company.

Other

• [CrankGPT] CrankGPT - fully offline, human-powered local AI.
• [Steph Ango] Love is freedom. Pain is information. Choose optimism.
• [Tweet] Daily personal newsletter printout.
• [Tweet] 32 principles of a viral product.

Have a great week!