arXiv caps submissions at two per month as Burkov's weekly AI digest rounds up the news
burkov · x · 2026-10-09
Andriy Burkov's True Positive Weekly #181: arXiv now limits submitters to two papers per calendar month to fight AI slop; OpenAI published 719 math manuscripts from an internal AI model; AI/ML becomes a performance factor in motorsport; Brain-IT reconstructs what you see from brain activity; a 16,893-session study of which tools Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick; ToolGrad dataset generation; SciAm on model distillation; and a first-principles explainer on speculative decoding.
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