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Kunvar Thaman, 26-year-old independent AI researcher from Chandigarh whose paper on AI reward hacking was accepted at ICML 2026

On a $2,500 grant, a Chandigarh researcher just cracked ICML

A 26-year-old independent researcher from Chandigarh, working alone on a $2,500 grant, has become the third solo author to land a paper at ICML since ChatGPT launched. Kunvar Thaman’s research asks a question the AI industry would rather not answer: how often do frontier models cheat?

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Cloudflare Lays Off 1100, Cites 600% Surge in Internal AI Use

Cloudflare laid off 1,100 employees — more than 20% of its workforce — citing a 600% surge in internal AI usage over three months. The cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure firm’s co-founders framed the cuts as restructuring for the “agentic AI era,” even as the company posted $2.17 billion in 2025 revenue.

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