The Daily Index — Tuesday, May 26, 2026

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NOTES ON POPE LEO XIV'S ENCYCLICAL ON AI

Pope Leo XIV recently released a document on the ethics of integrating AI into modern society. It touches on the environmental impact of the technology, covers the risks of algorithmic systems that make decisions that impact people's lives, discusses how AI amplifies the power of those with resources, and more. A link to the document is available in the article. The writing style is very approachable, even to non-Catholics.

simonwillison.net · 12 min

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ON AI HARDWARE

The market is becoming a stack of memory problems. Hardware changes slowly, while software and model architectures can move quickly. Hardware companies will need to build architectures that remain useful as the bottleneck shifts.

categoryvc.com · 7 min

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GEMINI 3.5 FLASH LOOKS GOOD FOR HOW FAST IT IS

Zvi judges Gemini 3.5 Flash the best model at its speed point but unconvincing against Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.5 outside latency-sensitive workloads, with Google positioning it as a daily driver for agentic workflows that outscores 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench and MCP Atlas while running 4x faster.

thezvi.wordpress.com · 8 min

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ON-POLICY DISTILLATION

On-policy distillation trains a student model on trajectories sampled from its own policy while a teacher provides dense token-level supervision through KL-based regularization, closing the train-inference distribution mismatch that off-policy methods suffer. The canonical formulation unifies forward-KL, reverse-KL, and JSD losses with reverse-KL emerging as the default for mode-seeking smaller students, and a one-line code swap of the regularizer model on top of an RL stack like Tinker implements the technique.

paperswithcode.co · 5 min

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INTRODUCING BENCHBENCH

BenchBench is a benchmark that tests how well models can create a benchmark. It works as a great benchmark for model abilities as well as a test of models' self-awareness. The benchmark tests creativity and not just problem-solving ability. In tests, GPT 5.2 was the only winner, with every other model, from Opus 4.6 to GPT 5.5, struggling to create an actually useful benchmark that others had a hard time solving.

strangeloopcanon.com · 5 min

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GOOGLE DEEPMIND'S ALPHAPROOF NEXUS SOLVES DECADES-OLD MATH PROBLEMS FOR A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus autonomously solved nine out of 353 open Erdős problems, including questions unanswered for decades, at inference costs of a few hundred dollars per problem.

the-decoder.com · 7 min

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GPT-5.6 LEAKS: COMING IN JUNE

GPT-5.6 seems heavily focused on stronger multi-step reasoning, better agentic workflows, and improved frontend generation capabilities.

threadreaderapp.com · 1 min

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HOW AI WILL SAVE PREDICTION MARKETS

Prediction markets have failed to deliver Robin Hanson's 1990 Idea Futures vision.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 10 min

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DEEPSEEK'S 10 TRILLION USD GRAND STRATEGY

DeepSeek's aim is to enable a $10 trillion Chinese AI hardware ecosystem and achieve a $1 trillion valuation for itself.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 35 min

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APPLE'S GENMOJI AND IMAGE PLAYGROUND SET FOR MAJOR VISUAL OVERHAUL IN IOS 27 AHEAD OF WWDC 2026

Apple plans to upgrade AI image tools, Genmoji and Image Playground, in iOS 27, enhancing visual quality and realism.

in.mashable.com · 2 min