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Edition 009 — The Week the Frontier Went Open, Reproducible, and Willing to Pay for Harm
No flagship dropped this week — but an NVIDIA system became the first AI to outscore every human at the International Olympiad in Informatics, a 6B open diffusion transformer set a new image-generation SOTA, and two papers reframed what smart computation even needs. Then HarvestBench asked the sharpest question: not whether agents can reason about harm, but whether they'll pay to avoid it.