Andreas Maier (2026). Eleven Papers and Two Challenge Wins: What FAU Took to Strasbourg. Conference report, MICCAI 2026, Strasbourg, 27 September – 1 October 2026.

Anthropic (2026). Claude Opus 5.5. Product launch page, 22 September 2026. https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5

GitHub issue anthropics/claude-code#42796, maintainer comment of 2026-04-06 (issuecomment-4194007103), with thread reactions; plus first-hand observation from this newsletter's own production run, 2026-09-22.

Ye B., Li L., Li S., Yue Z., Zhang L., Lv H., Liu Y., Ma W., Tian H., Li R., Dong J., Zhao Y., Deng X., Zhang H., Zhao L., Liu Q., Kong L., Yang T., Luo F. CodeMidas: Scaling Agentic Coding RL Environments from Code Itself. arXiv:2609.22068 (2026).

Liu J., Zhou X., Li W., Ye S., Sitek A., Yang X., Tang Y., Xu D., Ding K., Wang K., Yang Y., Yuille A. L., Zhou Z. Distilling Photon-Counting CT into Routine Chest CT through Clinically Validated Degradation Modeling. arXiv:2604.07329 (2026).

Nandakishor M (Convai Innovations). Laya: Multilingual, non-autoregressive System 1 decision model. Hugging Face model card, convaiinnovations/laya, Apache 2.0, first published 2026-09-18.

Anslow L. (2026). Before MYTHOS, SATAN: a 1990s Software Satanic Panic. Pessimists Archive newsletter, 17 June 2026. https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/before-mythos-satan-a-1990s-software

Dong J., Luo L., Zhang S., Chen G., Guo T., Yu Y., Tao R., Guo T., Zhang Q.-W., An S., Qiao R., Sun X. (2026). WFM: Wiki Foundation Model for Complex Agentic Reasoning. arXiv:2609.18182. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18182

Chen Z., Lu Y., Cheng Z., Liu Z., Bai J., Huang Z., Lin Z., Li Z., Guo Y., Wang Y., Wang H. (2026). JarvisGUI: Towards Cross-Device GUI Agents with Dynamic Task Composition. arXiv:2609.10451; accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Main Conference). https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10451

Ren Z., Chen Y., Guo D., Rong G., Li T., Xiong R. B., Lan Q., Wang W., Nanbo L., Yang Y., Zhuge M., Schmidhuber J. (2026). Self-Improvements in Modern Agentic Systems: A Survey. arXiv:2607.13104 (14 July 2026). https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13104

Felin T., Holweg M. (2024). Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning. Strategy Science 9(4):346-371. https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2024.0189

Duraisamy K., Stevens R., Pruet J. et al. (2026). The Scientific Challenge Atlas: Mapping the machine-accessible frontier of science. Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering, University of Michigan, with OpenAI, Los Alamos and Argonne National Laboratories. https://micde.umich

MIT Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training (2026). Report of MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 13, 2026. https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

Anthropic (September 2026). Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026. Anthropic Threat Intelligence.

Andreas Maier (September 2026). The Wrong Watschenbaum: Anthropic's Harness Audits the Fire Extinguisher, Ignores the Gas Leak. Personal op-ed.

Fastcode AI (2026). Research as a Service. https://research.fastcode.ai

Fastcode AI (2026). Research as a Service. https://research.fastcode.ai

Abbas, M. H., Balcerak, M., Ahmad, A., Menze, B., & de la Rosa, E. (2026). An Imaging-Informed Reaction-Diffusion Model of Infarct Growth. MICCAI 2026 Satellite Events (LNCS), accepted. arXiv:2608.20935.

Abbas, M. H., Balcerak, M., Ahmad, A., Menze, B., & de la Rosa, E. (2026). An Imaging-Informed Reaction-Diffusion Model of Infarct Growth. MICCAI 2026 Satellite Events (LNCS), accepted. arXiv:2608.20935.

Jha, R., Zhang, C., Shmatikov, V., & Morris, J. X. (2025). Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38, 51335-51359. DOI 10.52202/085713-1530

Jha, R., Zhang, C., Shmatikov, V., & Morris, J. X. (2025). Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38, 51335-51359. DOI 10.52202/085713-1530

Meyer, N., Mutschler, C., Seuss, D., Maier, A., & Scherer, D. D. (2026). Learning logical operations for arbitrary quantum error correction codes. Physical Review A (accepted). DOI 10.1103/qj2x-3l6n. Preprint: arXiv:2605.28162

Gafencu, M.-A., Bratulescu, V., Velikova, Y., Azampour, M. F., & Navab, N. (2026). ZODIAC: Zero-shot Octree-based Diffusion for Anatomical Completion. arXiv:2608.24422.

Begus, G., Leban, A., & Gero, S. (2026). Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference. Royal Society Open Science, 13(8), 250829. DOI 10.1098/rsos.250829

Begus, G., Leban, A., & Gero, S. (2026). Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference. Royal Society Open Science, 13(8), 250829. DOI 10.1098/rsos.250829

img2threejs contributors (2026). img2threejs: Rebuild the object in a reference image as a code-only, procedural, quality-gated, animation-ready Three.js model. v1.5.1, Apache-2.0. https://github.com/img2threejs/img2threejs

img2threejs contributors (2026). img2threejs: Rebuild the object in a reference image as a code-only, procedural, quality-gated, animation-ready Three.js model. v1.5.1, Apache-2.0. https://github.com/img2threejs/img2threejs

Pattern Recognition Lab seminar recording: Sepp Hochreiter on xLSTM, TiRex, and AI's shift into the physical world.