not much happened today

**Meta** released **KernelLLM 8B**, outperforming **GPT-4o** and **DeepSeek V3** on KernelBench-Triton Level 1. **Mistral Medium 3** debuted strongly in multiple benchmarks. **Qwen3** models introduced a unified framework with multilingual support. **DeepSeek-V3** features hardware-aware co-design. **BLIP3-o** family released for multimodal tasks using diffusion transformers. **Salesforce** launched **xGen-Small** models excelling in long-context and math benchmarks. **Bilibili** released **AniSORA** for anime video generation. **Stability AI** open-sourced **Stable Audio Open Small** optimized for Arm devices. Google’s **AlphaEvolve** coding agent improved **Strassen's algorithm** for the first time since 1969. Research shows **chain-of-thought reasoning** can harm instruction-following ability, with mitigation strategies like classifier-selective reasoning being most effective, but reasoning techniques show high variance and limited generalization. *"Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning can harm a model’s ability to follow instructions"* and *"Mitigation strategies such as few-shot in-context learning, self-reflection, self-selective reasoning, and classifier-selective reasoning can counteract reasoning-induced failures"*.