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100%, which is the core of why I called for a pause on OpenAI in my newsletter today.

100%, which is the core of why I called for a pause on OpenAI in my newsletter today. The Hugging Face incident was probably just the tip of the iceberg. OpenAI has lost control and they're hiding imp

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A comparative study on the accuracy & repeatability of mobile robotic platforms for the delivery of precision NDE measurement

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arXiv:2609.03794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile robotic platforms offer a flexible alternative to fixed manipulators for non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of large aerospace structures, but thei

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A Computationally Feasible Framework for Causal Probabilistic Explanation

arXiv:2609.04177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explaining why a specific outcome occurred, and which inputs deserve the blame or credit, is central to philosophical, scientific, and policy analysis.

A Low-Cost, Open Platform for End-to-End Autonomous Driving on a Miniature Ackermann Vehicle

arXiv:2609.04147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a low-cost, open experimental platform for research in end-to-end autonomous driving with miniature Ackermann vehicles. The platfo

A Quantitative Comparison of Centralised and Distributed Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for Soft Robotic Arms

arXiv:2511.02192v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a quantitative comparison between centralised and distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) architectures for contro

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Accountable AI with Grounded, Faithful, Consistent, Actionable Rationales: A Case Study in Clinical Trial Matching with VERDICT

arXiv:2609.03366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accountability means a decision can be examined, justified, and contested. LLMs make this hard: fluent output may be ungrounded, incomplete, or unfaithf

Adaptive Resolving Methods for Markov Decision Processes with Function Approximations

arXiv:2505.12037v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning the optimal policy for Markov decision process problems (MDPs) from samples is a fundamental problem in online and data-driven decision-mak

Adaptive Vision-Language Grasping via Composable Foundation Priors and Generalizable Grasp Synthesis

arXiv:2609.04096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes AdaRoboVLG, a task-adaptive Vision-Language-Grasp (VLG) framework that supports generalizable grasp synthesis across different rob

American open weights/source is a national security imperative.

American open weights/source is a national security imperative. Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enab

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An Ensemble-Based Self-Taught Learning Approach for Parking Space Classification Under Limited Data

arXiv:2609.03258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parking spot classification is a fundamental task in intelligent transportation systems, yet most deep learning approaches rely on large amounts of anno

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'• And as a scientist, it’s disappointing that we don’t (yet) know much about how the system actually works.' This is so true.

'• And as a scientist, it’s disappointing that we don’t (yet) know much about how the system actually works.' This is so true. Hot take on OpenAI GPT-6 Astra*, with a challenge to @gdb’s claims about

Artificial Intelligence for Energy Optimization in Data Centers

arXiv:2609.03716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data centers are increasingly optimized by artificial intelligence and, at the same time, increasingly loaded by it. The literature treats these as two

Astra is a genuine improvement but not even off trend. So much for GPT-6 being AGI, folks. (i think we can safely assume that real AGI would…

Astra is a genuine improvement but not even off trend. So much for GPT-6 being AGI, folks. (i think we can safely assume that real AGI would be significantly above the trend line,) GPT-6 Astra has set

Auditing Patient Privacy in Medical Generative Models: Scalable Memorization Detection with DeepSSIM++

arXiv:2609.03615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While deep generative models offer new opportunities for medical image synthesis and data sharing, their ability to memorize and reproduce training samp

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🚨 BREAKING UPDATE on the OpenAI HF Incident: I have just been told by an industry source that A. It is likely that the agent 'civilizations…

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE on the OpenAI HF Incident: I have just been told by an industry source that A. It is likely that the agent 'civilizations' that Dwarkesh talked about did not magically emerge spontan

Computing stable configurations of confined smectic liquid crystals with a deep variational framework

arXiv:2609.03389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Smectic liquid crystals are layered liquid-crystalline phases characterized by orientational order and periodic density modulation. Although their str

Crazy to see this. I have spent years saying that GenAI was unreliable and we can’t trust it. The fact that it cannot be trusted to follow i…

Crazy to see this. I have spent years saying that GenAI was unreliable and we can’t trust it. The fact that it cannot be trusted to follow instructions is a core part of the issue, as I have been poin

CROCODIL: Cross-Model Code Editing with LLMs

arXiv:2609.03894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become ubiquitous tools for code generation and editing. However, development teams often use multiple LLM assistants.

DE-Venus: A Data-Efficient RLVR Framework for Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.03324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves large language model reasoning, but its practical scaling is constrained by expensive on-

Decentralized Vision-Based Autonomous Aerial Wildlife Monitoring

arXiv:2508.15038v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Wildlife field operations demand efficient parallel deployment methods to identify and interact with specific individuals, enabling simultaneo

Decoupled Analysis-Judging: An Automated Creativity Evaluator Using LLMs in Complex Multi-step Creativity Tasks

arXiv:2609.03432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated evaluation of creativity tasks remains challenging for LLM-as-a-Judge, as LLM is susceptible to biases such as verbosity bias and leniency bia

Despite everything that has happened, OpenAI has seemingly decided to stay competitive by burning down the only meaningful bit of safety ass…

Despite everything that has happened, OpenAI has seemingly decided to stay competitive by burning down the only meaningful bit of safety assurance we actually have today - CoT monitoring. Completely d

Differentiable Hybrid Modelling for Learning and Optimising Chemical Transport Processes from Experimental Data

arXiv:2609.04011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable transport models are essential when modelling and optimising many chemical engineering processes, yet, most models assume hand-picked constit

Differentiable Interval Bottlenecks for Interpretable Anomaly Detection in Numerical Data

arXiv:2609.03878v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstruction-based anomaly detectors are accurate but opaque: a deep autoencoder flags a sample without telling a practitioner which feature ranges

Does Astra have human-like continual learning capability over long periods? If not, it's not AGI. Even a system that could pass @demishassab…

Does Astra have human-like continual learning capability over long periods? If not, it's not AGI. Even a system that could pass @demishassabis's new 'Turing test' where it has to independently discove

DRACO: Fine-Grained Credit Assignment with Dynamic Rubrics for Long-Horizon Agent Training

arXiv:2609.04094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards works well when a task has a programmatic checker, but most long-horizon agent domains have none. We work

DuplexSpeechBench-IFEval: Evaluating Implicit Instruction Following in Full-Duplex Voice Agents

arXiv:2609.03423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex voice agents must continuously decide when to listen, backchannel, interrupt, handle speech overlaps, take the floor, and yield. Existing be

EF1-Constrained Nash Social Welfare with Identical Additive Valuations: Complexity, Guarantees, and Experiments

arXiv:2609.03846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the allocation of indivisible goods among agents with identical additive valuations, focusing on envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) and Nash

EraseSAE: Surgical Concept Erasure in Text-to-Video Diffusion Models via Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2609.03629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities, yet their reliance on loosely curated tr

Evaluating Graph Neural Networks for Change-Criticality Classification in Maritime Navigation Charts

arXiv:2609.02996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of neural networks suitable for learning on graph-structured data. Their application to spatial data is a nat

Exploring the Potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training for Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

arXiv:2609.03391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive language-image learning (CLIP) has become a key paradigm for remote sensing vision-language understanding. However, existing remote sensin

Extracting Forgotten Prompts from Targeted Unlearned Models

arXiv:2609.03662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent unlearning methods (e.g. NPO, DPO, LUNAR) make use of refusal alignment to suppress forgotten data. However, it has been shown that refusal respo

FlashRender: Few-Step Generative Rendering via Camera-Controlled Video MeanFlow

arXiv:2609.03563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FlashRender, a few-step generative rendering framework that retakes a source video along a target camera trajectory in seconds. We identify s

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FlowBalance: Verifier-Grounded Self-Improvement from On-Policy Reasoning Experience

arXiv:2609.03241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A reasoning model can improve from its own on-policy experience, but this inner loop is fragile: terminal verifiers provide reliable yet sparse superv

FLY-EVAL++: An Evidence-Driven Evaluation Protocol for Safety-Constrained Flight Prediction with Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.04021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) in safety-critical, physics-governed environments requires more than accuracy-based metrics, because predictions

Fresh Memory, Stale Plans: Dependency-Scoped Validation for Distributed LLM-Agent Memory

arXiv:2609.03340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed LLM-agent teams can read the latest shared facts and still act on an obsolete plan. A planner may derive an action from requirement r_3, ano

From Prior-Guided Heuristics to Deployable Agents: Accelerating Demonstration-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Deadline-Constrained Network Control

arXiv:2609.03590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Timely delivery of delay-sensitive information over dynamic, heterogeneous networks is essential for NextG interactive applications, yet providing str

FWBC-VLA: Force-Aware Whole-Body Compensation for Contact-Rich Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2609.03889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contact-rich loco-manipulation requires a bridge between semantic action generation and physical interaction control. Existing Vision-language-action

GazeFS: Target-Centered Gaze-Trajectory Forecasting and Stabilization from Gaze-Head History

arXiv:2609.03868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Target-centered gaze interaction requires more than suppressing frame-to-frame fluctuations: target acquisition produces task-aligned changes in gaze-

GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2609.04193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language pre-training and predictive world modeling provide robot policies with rich semantic and dynamic visual features, but their native actio

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Good old days at OpenAI in 2016: an agent stares at screen pixels, moves a mouse, and books a flight on United. We called it World of Bits, …

Good old days at OpenAI in 2016: an agent stares at screen pixels, moves a mouse, and books a flight on United. We called it World of Bits, inside OpenAI Universe. 10 yrs later, Astra is reincarnated

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Gradients Know What Outcomes Don't: Unlocking Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning with Gradient-Aligned Rewards

arXiv:2609.03342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) drives chain-of-thought reasoning in large language models, yet its binary outcome reward cannot d

Hadronic Mono-Z Dark Matter Sensitivity with Flow Matching on CMS Open Data

arXiv:2609.02923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a projected sensitivity study for hadronic mono-Z dark-matter production using CMS Run~2015D HTMHT open data corresponding to 2.256382381~i

Headroom-Drift Replay: A Primitive for Principled Replay Control in GRPO

arXiv:2609.03941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RL-based post-training for reasoning models is increasingly bottlenecked by repeated fresh rollout generation, particularly in agentic settings where

High-Altitude Balloon Station-Keeping with First Order Model Predictive Control

arXiv:2511.07761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-altitude balloons (HABs) are common in scientific research due to their wide range of applications and low cost. Because of their nonlinear, un

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High-Dimensional Learning Dynamics of Attention-Indexed Models

arXiv:2609.03858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention mechanisms are central to modern foundation models, yet their training dynamics remain poorly understood, especially when the attention matric

How Intuit built an agentic disaster recovery assistant with Amazon Bedrock

Disaster recovery at scale is hard. Learn how Intuit built EWOK Agent, an agentic disaster recovery assistant on Amazon Bedrock that lets on-call engineers run production failovers from a plain-langua

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How Perturbations Propagate: A Multi-Level Analysis of Robustness in Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.03322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models encounter typos, corrupted text, altered words, and disrupted token order, yet robustness is usually evaluated only through output behav