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Frontier watch 2026

A short reading and practice pack for following new model releases, benchmark claims, safety updates, and frontier-lab research without getting lost in the weekly noise.

90 minutes · 2 tracks · 4 readings · 4 resources

Tracks

• Frontiers
• AI Foundations

Readings

• What GPT-6 will actually be — AIAcademy
• World models are the new frontier — AIAcademy
• After MMLU: a benchmark literacy guide for 2027 — AIAcademy
• Mech interp shipped: Constitutional Classifiers++ as deployed safety — AIAcademy

Resources

• AlphaSignal — AlphaSignal
• arXiv — Cornell University
• Chatbot Arena — LMSYS / lmarena.ai
• Hugging Face Daily Papers — Hugging Face

Key questions

• Which model-release claims should change what a learner does this month?
• Which benchmark announcements are signal, and which are mostly marketing?
• Which frontier-lab safety updates deserve immediate curriculum changes?