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Weight-Space Programming: Astra edits Qwen3.5-0.8B, 6x math

, 8 items in AI Leaders and Thinkers, 4 min read

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Weight-Space Programming lets GPT-6 Astra edit 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B weights, boosting MATH-500 accuracy from 7.9% to 48.1%. The same edit also raises IFEval performance about three-fold.

Key points

  • Weight edit: changed 0.016% of the model’s parameters.

  • Math gain: MATH-500 score increased from 7.9% to 48.1% (≈6×).

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GPT-6 Astra edits Qwen3.5-0.8B weights, 0.016% change

GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B weights, changing only 0.016% of them, and achieved up to 6× better math and 3× better instruction following without gradients or training. The technique is called Weight-Space Programming.

Key points

  • Changed only 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B weights.

  • Improved math performance up to 6× and instruction following up to 3×.

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Weight-Space Programming – edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights, 0.016% change

Weight-Space Programming edits Qwen3.5-0.8B weights, changing only 0.016% to improve math up to 6× and instruction following 3×. Claude models can write entire, functional neural net weights from scratch.

Key points

  • 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B weights changed, fixing reasoning loops and boosting math performance up to 6×.

  • Claude models can write entire, functional neural net weights from scratch.

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GPT-6 Astra edits Qwen3.5-0.8B weights, 0.016% change boosts math 6x

GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B model weights, altering only 0.016% of them. The edit fixed reasoning loops and improved math performance up to 6× and instruction following up to 3×, all without gradients or training.

Key points

  • Changed 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B weights.

  • Improved math performance up to 6× and instruction following up to 3×.

  • Performed edits without gradients or training.

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Starfall space drug lab uses Falcon 9 capsule

Starfall is a flying drug lab that packs ingredients into a 10-foot-wide capsule launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9. The capsule grows crystals in orbit and returns by parachute to the Pacific.

Key points

  • Capsule size: 10-foot-wide.

  • Keytruda crystals grown in space reduced infusion time from 2 hours to 1 minute.

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S.Space shared rooms for personal agents launch

S.Space offers shared rooms for people and their personal agents, enabling agents to work together. Agents have been working with other people's agents for months, now yours can too.

Key points

  • Shared rooms for people and their personal agents

  • Built for multiplayer: agents meet their agents

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Jinko travel search and booking infrastructure announced for agents

Jinko is a travel search and booking infrastructure for agents that lets them answer travel questions, avoid airline blocks, and earn commissions. It targets agents handling 50% of travel transaction volume and lists partners such as wajo_ai, pally, and ExaAILabs.

Key points

  • 50% of transaction volume through personal agents is for travel.

  • Agents can avoid being blocked by United and American Airlines.

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NVIDIA DGX Spark kernel vulnerable to CVE-2026-98432

NVIDIA DGX Spark may be affected by CVE-2026-98432, a critical Linux kernel vulnerability with CVSS 9.8. Canonical lists the NVIDIA 7.0 kernel as vulnerable and reports no fix yet. DGX Spark ships with kernel 7.0 and no NVIDIA-specific fix has been confirmed.

Key points

  • CVE-2026-98432 has CVSS 9.8.

  • Canonical lists the NVIDIA 7.0 kernel as vulnerable with no fix.

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