research-integrity
You can move an AI reviewer's score without changing a single result News
A new study rewrote research papers to change only their rhetoric while preserving every scientific claim, and found AI reviewers shifted their overall scores by up to nine tenths of a point, with the effect strongest near the accept-reject boundary.
The viral Riemann result an AI supposedly proved is not in the literature News
A widely shared claim that Claude raised the proven fraction of Riemann zeta zeros on the critical line from 41.6 to 67.2 percent does not match any published result; the closest paper says the two-thirds figure follows only if an assumption nobody has removed can be removed.
NeurIPS papers average six objective mistakes each, up from four News
A study of 2,500 machine learning papers using an automated checker found that the average number of objective mistakes in a NeurIPS paper rose from 3.8 in 2021 to 5.9 in 2025, a 55 percent increase over four years.
An AI replicated 105 ICML orals, and 34 mostly held up News
The research auditing group SAI reviewed all 168 oral papers from ICML 2026, ran full execution-grounded reproductions of 105 of them, and found that only 34 reproduced more than 40 percent of the claims it attempted to check.
An RL Trainer That Invents Its Reward When the Judge Says Nothing News
The published code for SpyRL, a reinforcement learning method built on the promise of fully verifiable rewards, silently substitutes randomly generated votes with a hard-coded 60 percent accuracy rate whenever no judge outputs are present.
ICML caught AI-written peer reviews by hiding secret phrases in submitted papers News
ICML 2026 embedded invisible instructions in submitted PDFs that trick a review-writing LLM into inserting rare marker phrases, flagging about 1% of reviews as machine-generated and desk-rejecting 497 papers whose authors broke a no-LLM pledge.