[29th June 2025] Interesting Things I Learnt This Week

1. The Illusion of Thinking - A recent paper from Apple's Machine Learning Research team challenges the idea that Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) can truly "think." The researchers argue that current methods for evaluating these models, which often use standard math and coding problems, are flawed due to potential data contamination and a focus on final answers rather than the reasoning process.…