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Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI 'Dark Output' could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI 'Dark Output' could end up being the majo

arXiv:2508.03221v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the remarkable progress of diffusion models in image generation, recent studies reveal their vulnerability to backdoor attacks via cov

arXiv:2605.29727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Block-diffusion drafters have recently emerged as a powerful alternative for speculative decoding by predicting multiple future-token distributions in a

arXiv:2605.29155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the literature, actor-critic model predictive control (AC-MPC) integrates MPC with reinforcement learning to enable high-performance control of com

This post demonstrates a comprehensive observability solution using Amazon Managed Grafana dashboards that provides a holistic view of both quality and quantity for LLMs served on Amazon SageMaker AI

arXiv:2605.29428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present DEtection in phase-folded Light curves with cOntrastive Scoring (DELOS), a contrastive-learning-based framework designed to search for shal

arXiv:2602.06036v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) deliver strong performance but require inherently sequential decoding, leading to high inference latency

arXiv:2605.30010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video large language models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in video understanding tasks. However, their practical deployment is stil

Elon Musk: “I don't think most people understand just how quickly machine intelligence is advancing. It's much faster than almost anyone realizes, even within Silicon Valley and certainly outside Sili

arXiv:2605.29505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online 3D scene perception in real time is essential for robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems, particularly in edge computing scenarios where computa

Hot take on what comes next, after the sudden decline of tokenmaxxing: - OpenAI will struggle - with the decline of tokenmaxxing Anthropic will struggle (aside from this quarter) to make a profit - Go

Together AI developed an optimized speech-to-text system focused on achieving the fastest processing speeds through technical innovations in their inference stack and model optimization. The approach

i warned these guys of exactly this problem - no moat because everyone is training on same data - two years ago. and warned them that AI would become a commodity. now they think they have made some bi

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's CEO, compared Fireworks to 'the TSMC of AI factories' during a conversation at GTC 2026, highlighting Fireworks' role as a foundational infrastructure provider in the AI industr

Step 3.7 Flash is a 198B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model designed for enterprise-scale production workloads, featuring native image and video input, a 256k context window, and confi

arXiv:2511.04758v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bimanual and humanoid robots are appealing because of their human-like ability to leverage multiple arms to efficiently complete tasks. Howeve

The Information: Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost — TikTok owner ByteDan

stop asking for rationality @jeffreyleefunk! it won’t happen here! (actually, it will … eventually ...) @GaryMarcus As companies reduce AI use in effort to achieve productivity improvements in most co

This week, I got our GitHub Actions to use @HuggingFace Jobs instead of the default GitHub CI runners, making workflows run on much more reliable CPUs or even on serverless GPU (that cost less than a

Together AI serves the two fastest STT models measured by @ArtificialAnlys NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v3 can transcribe 20 hours of speech in under 10 seconds. This deep dive shows the systems work behi

arXiv:2605.30351v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-rollout causal video diffusion has converged on a fixed-size sliding-window KV cache, with recent progress innovating within this layout by chang

This Reddit discussion in the StableDiffusion community addresses recommendations for affordable, used or refurbished laptops equipped with GPUs suitable for running open-source image generation model

PCMag: What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more — The theme for Computex 2026, accord

arXiv:2605.27441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Query understanding in large-scale industrial search systems is typically implemented as a cascade of disparate, task-specific components. While indiv

and see, perhaps further reflection of the death of tokenmaxxing The price to rent an Nvidia H200 just collapsed from 7/hr to 4/hr in three weeks. A -40% drop in the cost of the single most strategic

Gary Marcus discusses declining prices for NVIDIA's H100 and H200 AI chips, suggesting that inflated valuations and returns on investment for AI hardware customers are becoming unsustainable as the ma

arXiv:2605.27678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation model training is becoming multimodal, from post-training pipelines to large-scale pretraining. As modality coverage broadens, context window

Intel introduced the Arc G-Series processors, a new family designed for next-generation handheld gaming systems, launching with Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors running Windows 11 based on Intel C

This article likely explores practical applications of image processing for IoT devices deployed across hybrid cloud architectures, discussing how organizations can leverage both on-premises and cloud

arXiv:2605.28213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly used to generate GPU kernels, but they often know what optimizations to try without knowing when those optimizations a

arXiv:2605.27787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) have substantially advanced autonomous software engineering (SWE), but their growing inference energy demands raise sustaina

Robotics is entering a new phase: moving from controlled demos and scripted automation toward generalizable, reliable embodied autonomy in the real world. At the International Conference on Robotics a

NVIDIA has released GLM-5.1-NVFP4, a quantized version of the GLM-5.1 model, now available on Hugging Face. The model appears to use NVFP4 (NVIDIA's floating-point 4-bit) quantization format, designed

arXiv:2605.28717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern datacenter RDMA is bottlenecked at the network interface, not the wire. A NIC running RoCE or InfiniBand holds per-connection state for every (ap

Reuters: Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures — China is designing a futures ma

arXiv:2605.28764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vast quantities of compute (GPU cycles on personal workstations, idle inference servers, and edge devices between jobs) go unused because no incentive-a

The HF science team just made async RL weight sync ~100x cheaper on bandwidth, and you don't need a shared cluster anymore. The problem: every RL step, the trainer typically has to sync fresh weights

The price to rent an Nvidia H200 just collapsed from 7/hr to 4/hr in three weeks. A -40% drop in the cost of the single most strategic asset in tech. When the underlying commodity that powers your ent

today is (potentially) a great day for the GPU poors if DiffusionBlocks works on fine-tuning existing models, then literally any reasonable consumer GPU can do LLM fine-tuning will make a video on thi

Today, we're releasing LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a device-optimized model designed to power real-life applications on phones, laptops, PCs, robots, and fast & lightweight server-side use-cases. > 8B MoE, 1.5B ac

arXiv:2605.27582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied navigation requires an agent to map language and visual observations to a stream of spatial actions that drive a real robot through environme

Utilidata Inc. today disclosed that it has raised 40 million in funding from Renown Capital Partners and Keyframe Capital. The cash infusion comes as an extension to a 60.3 million Series C round the

Artificial intelligence training data provider Human Archive Inc. today announced that it has raised 8.2 million in funding. Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator headlined the consortium th

AWS experienced margin expansion driven by growth in Anthropic-related services and an improved product mix from Amazon Bedrock, its generative AI platform, while competing cloud providers failed to a

arXiv:2605.26137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While 3D generation is progressing rapidly, recent work has often focused on obtaining high-resolution assets, leaving user experience and deployabili