Import AI 470: machines should not have rights; SPADE automates environment generation; Hawkeye builds better GPU kernels
Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
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METR research finds that AI's acceleration of science is uneven: cybersecurity-vulnerability reports sped up considerably from 2025 to 2026, mathematical research accelerated only slightly, and AI research itself showed no measurable acceleration. A university collaboration proposed SPADE, a self-play framework in which LLMs alternately generate executable training environments and solve them. Qwen3-30B-A3B scored 58.3 across the game-environment suite, an 8.1-point gain over its base model.
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