Edition No. 3Compiled 12 Mar, 08:00 UTC by ruleDemo edition
Thursday 12 March 2026
Edition No. 3
4 events cleared the signal floor in the 24 hours to 12 Mar, 08:00 UTC, from 16 reports. Ranked by heat at compile time; one entry per event.
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Introducing Orchard 3: open-weight models in three sizes
Orchard Labs releases three model sizes under an open-weight licence, with a technical report and an evaluation suite. The smallest is designed to run on a laptop.
5 independent sources by compile time · 6 reports in this edition's window
34.9heat at 08:00 -
ReasonBench v2: test items found in public training data; scores under review
Maintainers say about one in eight test items appear verbatim in a widely used web corpus. Leaderboard scores are frozen while affected items are removed.
What changed ReasonBench corrections reshuffle the top of the leaderboard
5 independent sources by compile time · 3 reports in this edition's window
31.0heat at 08:00 -
Schema-guided decoding narrows the gap on structured extraction
A Brightwater Institute paper reports that constraining small models to a target schema while decoding brings their extraction accuracy close to models ten times larger on three test sets.
3 independent sources by compile time · 3 reports in this edition's window
22.2heat at 08:00 -
Open Ledger corpus moves to a share-alike licence from April
The data trust says models trained on the corpus after the change must publish their training data terms under the same licence. Existing downloads keep their current terms.
3 independent sources by compile time · 3 reports in this edition's window
17.9heat at 08:00
Also noted, below the signal floor
- Tessellate shows T2 inference accelerator to early partners 1 independent source, no official source; heat 9.2