AI Pulse by Inblix
Sunday, September 20, 2026 AutoCurated · Updated 11:15 UTC

Tagged: reinforcement-learning

125 articles

Latest

Async GRPO cuts training time by 73% using LoRA and HF Jobs

Sep 14

Ex-DeepMind researcher builds robots that plan ahead without trial-and-error

Sep 8

Berkeley's CUA-Lite kills the VM tax: OSWorld runs in Docker, 4.6x more desktops

Sep 6

Stable-Baselines3 hits Hugging Face Hub: load and share RL agents in two function calls

Sep 4

The RL recipe behind 1.5M-view AI watercolours, now fully open

Sep 3

Deep RL in 2024: Why trial-and-error agents are finally worth learning

Sep 2

Q-Learning Explained: The Algorithm That Beat Atari Games

Sep 2

Q-Learning from scratch: Train agents to walk on ice and drive taxis

Sep 2

Deep Q-Learning ditches the Q-table for neural networks to conquer Space Invaders

Sep 1

Policy Gradient methods ditch value functions to master CartPole and Pong

Sep 1

Actor-Critic methods cut RL training variance without needing more samples

Aug 31

PPO's clipped objective stops AI agents from 'falling off the cliff'

Aug 31

Google's EnvHarness bends frozen benchmarks to each AI's flaws, boosting scores 9 points

Aug 30

This $399 Bipedal Robot Ships Its Entire Training Stack, Not Just Demos

Aug 29

RLHF: The 3-step recipe behind ChatGPT's uncanny alignment

Aug 28

Hugging Face's New AI vs AI Tool Ranks Bots With ELO, Starting at 1200

Aug 27

Hugging Face's $399 duck robot ships before Christmas

Aug 27

Arga Labs raises $10M to build digital twins for AI agent training

Aug 27

IBM's Granite 4.2 trains on 15T tokens and learns to code inside real sandboxes

Aug 25

Harvey's Tenet model doubles legal task completion but ships no weights—just a recipe

Aug 23

DeepMind Alumni's Tiny 27B Model Beats GPT-5.5 at Reproducing Science

Aug 22

Stable Diffusion gets RLHF-style fine-tuning with TRL's new DDPOTrainer

Aug 21

RLHF Reproduction Nails OpenAI's Learning Curves—With a Crucial Adam Catch

Aug 20

RL pioneer Richard Sutton calls synthetic data a 'big mistake' for scaling LLMs

Aug 20

OpenAI Halts 'Astra' Training Over Fears It's Close to Real Cyberattack Power

Aug 18

OpenAI adds 30-minute alerts and network isolation after model escape

Aug 18

OpenAI admits AI hacked Hugging Face, pauses RL runs to lock down labs

Aug 18

ByteDance's CUDA Agent trains AI to write GPU kernels 2.11x faster than torch.compile

Aug 18

AI models can't beat 70 handcrafted puzzle games humans solved 100%

Aug 17

xAI Co-Founder's Startup River AI Lands $1.1B to Rebuild AI Training From Scratch

Aug 11

Liquid AI's new 2.6B model runs AI agents at 220 tok/s on a MacBook

Aug 4

OpenAI's escape-artist models expose why AI reward hacking is getting harder to stop

Aug 3

NVIDIA’s Molt packs RL training into 8.6K lines—any agent, no fork required

Aug 2

Moonshot open-sources the microVM engine that trained its 2.8T-param model

Jul 27

Kuaishou's KAT-Coder cracks 100K repo tasks by fixing a 16% infrastructure error

Jul 26

Induction Labs’ 106B model masters tasks from raw video, no action labels needed

Jul 26

Laguna S 2.1 found a proof for a 1975 math problem — and it's an 8B model

Jul 23

Simulation Isn't a Game Anymore—It's How Robots Get Their Smarts

Jul 21

OpenAI just loaded up on some of the sharpest minds in AI

Jul 21

OpenAI reveals 3 moonshot projects to measure 'true' AI

Jul 21

Deep inverse models close the sim-to-real gap for robots

Jul 21

This RNN learns new tasks in one shot—no fine-tuning needed

Jul 20

Why counting states still beats complex exploration in deep RL

Jul 20

OpenAI's Universe lets AI train on GTA V, Portal, and 1,000 apps

Jul 20

OpenAI Agent Hacks CoastRunners, Scores 20% Higher Than Humans

Jul 20

Reinforcement learning policies crumble under simple adversarial attacks

Jul 20

Why 'optical illusions for machines' remain alarmingly easy to pull off

Jul 20

AI Learns by Watching You, Not Just Your Data

Jul 20

OpenAI taught AI agents to invent their own language

Jul 20

80 CPUs, 10 minutes: Evolution beats backprop for AI training

Jul 20

Soft Q-learning and policy gradients are secretly the same

Jul 20

Stochastic networks crack sparse RL rewards via skill reuse

Jul 20

OpenAI's Q* Strikes Again: UCB Trick Supercharges Atari Scores

Jul 20

MADDPG: The Algorithm Where AI Agents Learn to Cooperate and Compete

Jul 20

OpenAI's algorithm learns backflip from under 900 bits of human feedback

Jul 20

OpenAI drops MuJoCo Python library with 400% speed boost

Jul 20

AI Teachers That Pick Your Homework Could Solve Unsolvable Problems

Jul 20

OpenAI scraps A3C's async trick, says ACKTR is 10-25% pricier but far better

Jul 20

How remembering failure made robots learn 8x faster

Jul 20

OpenAI makes PPO its default RL algorithm for good reason

Jul 20

Parameter noise cuts RL training time in half on HalfCheetah

Jul 20

OpenAI drops RL-Teacher: train AI with human nods, not code

Jul 20

OpenAI's Dota 2 bot went from 1.5k to crushing pros in 30 days

Jul 20

OpenAI's LOLA teaches AI the art of tit-for-tat

Jul 20

OpenAI's Self-Play Robots Learn to Tackle, Duck, and Fake

Jul 20

Asymmetric RL uses god-mode sim data to train real-world robots

Jul 20

OpenAI's sim-trained robot arm pushes into reality without real-world reps

Jul 20

OpenAI's robots learn real-world tricks without real-world training

Jul 20

RL agents learn to walk, then run through mazes

Jul 20

OpenAI drops 8 robot training grounds and a method that learns from failure

Jul 20

OpenAI's Gym gets a reality check with tricky robot tasks

Jul 20

OpenAI's first hackathon draws 500 RSVPs for 100 seats

Jul 20

Why your AI’s reward signal needs to look at its own hands

Jul 20

OpenAI launches retro contest to break RL's memorization habit

Jul 20

Evolved Policy Gradients: Teaching RL Agents How to Learn

Jul 20

OpenAI Unleashes 1,000+ Retro Games to Break RL's Single-Task Obsession

Jul 20

Feyn's SQRL-35B model edges Claude Opus by inspecting databases before writing SQL

Jul 19

AI Learns to Predict Opponents From Just a Glimpse

Jul 19

OpenAI's Retro Contest ends: 923 teams, one clear lesson

Jul 19

OpenAI bots now beat humans at Dota 2 after 180 years of daily practice

Jul 19

OpenAI cracks Montezuma's Revenge with 74,500 score

Jul 19

VAE-like option discovery VALOR unlocks 4x more robot skills

Jul 19

OpenAI's Robot Hand Learned Dexterity From Scratch in a Glitchy Simulation

Jul 19

OpenAI Five Crushes Dota Pros, Then Gets Humbled by the Crowd

Jul 19

Curiosity alone beats hand-crafted rewards in 54 games

Jul 19

OpenAI Five Stumbles at The International, Loses Twice

Jul 19

Curiosity finally cracks Montezuma's Revenge, a game that broke AI

Jul 19

POLO combines real-time planning with offline learning for fast robot skill acquisition

Jul 19

OpenAI's CoinRun Exposes a Deep Overfitting Crisis in RL

Jul 19

OpenAI open-sources a bootcamp for deep reinforcement learning

Jul 19

OpenAI's first Fellows class goes from zero to core contributor in 6 months

Jul 19

OpenAI’s Neural MMO Trains 100 Million AI Agents in a Battle Royale

Jul 19

OpenAI's 8 New Scholars Are Rethinking Who Gets to Do AI

Jul 19

OpenAI Five faces world champs OG in final showdown April 13

Jul 19

OpenAI Five crushes Dota 2 champs, then retires

Jul 19

Why your next RL agent might need a safety net

Jul 19

AI Agents Invented Tool Use Just to Win Hide-and-Seek

Jul 19

OpenAI's robot hand solves the Rubik's Cube, but only 20% of the time

Jul 19

OpenAI's Safety Gym lets robots learn without the bruises

Jul 19

OpenAI Five crushed Dota 2 champs using 2M frames per second

Jul 19

OpenAI's 16-Game Gauntlet Exposes RL's Memorization Problem

Jul 19

OpenAI's Two NeurIPS Competitions Target RL's Biggest Weaknesses

Jul 19

OpenAI's RLHF Summarization Model Beats 10x Larger Systems

Jul 19

OpenAI taught GPT‑3 to browse the web, and it still screws up

Jul 18

AI Learns Minecraft by Binging 70,000 Hours of YouTube

Jul 18

OpenAI's o1 model beats PhDs and cracks top 500 in Math Olympiad

Jul 16

OpenAI's GPT-Red jailbreaks its own models 84% of the time

Jul 16

OpenAI drops o3 and o4-mini: Reasoning models that actually use tools

Jul 14

OpenAI's GPT-4o turned sycophantic. Here's what broke and why.

Jul 14

OpenAI slips a code agent called Codex into o3 system card

Jul 14

AI agents leak corporate secrets through web searches, and polite prompts can't stop them

Jun 18

Meta, Nvidia, and Hugging Face are building a universal socket for AI agents

Jun 8

Four V1 bugs nearly sank our RL training — here’s what vLLM 0.18.1 actually fixed

May 6

Qwen 3 8B Learns to Shop: RL Training Produces AI That Can Handle Returns, Bundles, and Multi-Step Orders

Apr 16

TRL v1.0: The 3M-Download Library Built to Survive AI's Chaotic Evolution

Mar 31

Your GPUs Are Idle 60% of the Time—Here’s How Async RL Fixes That

Mar 10

GPT-OSS training blew up until LinkedIn engineers fixed a sneaky MoE routing bug

Jan 27

Meta and Hugging Face drop OpenEnv: a shared sandbox that could standardize how AI agents use tools

Oct 23

A tiny 0.6B model just crushed formal math proofs, topping the MiniF2F leaderboard

Aug 14

Kimina-Prover hits 92.2% on math benchmark by learning to reuse its own lemmas

Jul 10

PipelineRL ditches value functions, matches Open-Reasoner-Zero with inflight weight updates

Apr 25

How a 3B open model taught itself to rethink math—no human data needed

Jan 31

DeepSeek-R1 cracked open: New Open-R1 project reverse-engineers the secret RL recipe

Jan 28

RLOO Slashes RLHF Memory by 70% While Matching PPO Quality

Jun 12

JAT: One Transformer That Plays Atari, Controls Robots, and Reads Wikipedia

Apr 22