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[research]Sep 2, 2026By ByteBulletin Editor

OpenAI’s Astra model introduces 'opaque recurrence,' sparking AI safety debate

The new reasoning technique allows models to process queries in loops rather than linear sequences, raising concerns among experts about the monitorability of chain-of-thought logs.

[research]Aug 10, 2026By ByteBulletin Editor

RL or SFT? New Research Teases Apart What Actually Drives Reasoning in LLMs

A new arxiv study compares reinforcement learning against supervised fine-tuning to isolate which training method truly boosts reasoning performance in large language models.