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A weekly technical briefing on policy learning, manipulation and embodiment. Mechanism over hype.

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No. 1 · 30 August 2026

Issue 2026-W35

A 0.68M-parameter predictive-coding policy from Sony CSL beat parameter-matched Transformer and LSTM baselines by 4–7× on LIBERO, which is a direct attack on the premise that language-conditioned control needs VLA-scale parameters — while capital moved the opposite way, with Soft