News Around the World — 2026-11-12 AI Hugging Face Papers — Incentivizing Self-Learning in Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning — fine-grained-reward RL teaches an LLM to autonomously study long textbooks while solving math proofs, with the self-learning strategy transferring to unseen textbooks, subjects, and tasks. Hugging Face Papers — GTAGym: Real AAA Game Tasks Environment for Evaluation and Reinforcement Learning — turns GTA V main-story missions into an RL benchmark with engine-based success checks and parallel evaluation, showing current vision-language agents still struggle with dynamic control tasks like aerial navigation, evasion, and interception. General Software Engineering Radio — SE Radio 746: Marian Kamenistak on Product Management for Software Engineers — new episode covers product-management skills and responsibilities software engineers need to pick up, with Marian Kamenistak.
