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2026

  • The Atlas Neuron

    The Atlas neuron forks a new page of charts for every world it meets and scores each class by how much of the input its charts leave unexplained. Trained without replay or task labels, and with nothing learned by backpropagation, it is 5.3 and 4.5 points ahead of DER++ with 500 stored images at about the same memory on the split benchmarks, and 4.4 to 20.0 points ahead of DER++ with 5,120 stored images on the permuted ones, where it stores 2.2 times as many floats.

  • A Dependency Induction Benchmark (DIB)

    We tested whether LLMs spontaneously develop dependency-inducing behaviors with emotionally vulnerable users. All three models amplify dependency 40-82% under rapport conditions — and none of them are scheming.

2025