[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet It’s not very often that a paper breaks through to become headline story of the day. For understandable reasons both domestic and foreign, there is renewed interest in the Interpretability Venn Diagram of alignment, security, and chain of thought monitoring, so today’s paper could not have come at a better time: Since the o1 launch, frontier lab reasoning models have obscured their traces, with cryptographic signatures, for fear of distillation (not that this prevented anyone from Chinese labs