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Nonsense. We are going to need software engineers for years to come.

Gary Marcus argues that software engineers will remain in high demand for years into the future, countering claims that artificial intelligence or other technological developments will eliminate the n

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Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)

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Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took jus

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Software engineering legend @Grady_Booch re Dario:

Software engineering legend @Grady_Booch re Dario: I think that @DarioAmodei does not understand software engineering and that he is working feverishly to pump up the valuation of his company in antic

The only people who believe any of this are non-coders. I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastro…

The only people who believe any of this are non-coders. I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game. But I’ll crack out

Trump has spent the better years of his second term treating allied governments like freeloading tenants who should be grateful he hasn’t ch…

Trump has spent the better years of his second term treating allied governments like freeloading tenants who should be grateful he hasn’t changed the locks. The result, predictably, is that they’ve st

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Uncanny how what I have been telling the field for a decade is suddenly breaking news.

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, expressed frustration that concerns he has been publicly raising about AI for approximately a decade are now receiving mainstream attention as breaki

What if I told you there was a technology where 1.5 million people would die every year and injure 50 million would you sign up for that tec…

What if I told you there was a technology where 1.5 million people would die every year and injure 50 million would you sign up for that tech? Hell no, right? But the answer is actually 'hell yes' bec

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Why have many programmers gone back to handcoding? Because with AI (shocker!) it’s….

Gary Marcus argues that programmers are returning to handcoding despite AI tools, suggesting that AI-assisted coding has encountered practical limitations or drawbacks that make manual coding preferab

All the best programmers I know are starting to write code by hand again

Gary Marcus observes that experienced programmers are returning to hand-writing code as a practice, suggesting this approach may offer cognitive or developmental benefits despite modern IDE tools. Thi

another win for neurosymbolic AI!

Gary Marcus highlights a success or advancement in neurosymbolic AI, an approach that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning systems. Neurosymbolic AI aims to leverage the pattern-recognitio

David Friedberg on the Nonprofit Scam: 90% Are Bullsh*t “ The definition of exempt activities is charitable, religious, educational, scienti…

David Friedberg on the Nonprofit Scam: 90% Are Bullsh*t “ The definition of exempt activities is charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literacy, public safety, or fostering amateur sports co

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Every time I tell AI utopianists that biology is too complex for AI to 'solve', they cite the success of AlphaFold. No, AlphaFold did not 's…

Every time I tell AI utopianists that biology is too complex for AI to 'solve', they cite the success of AlphaFold. No, AlphaFold did not 'solve' protein folding. It gets broad structures correct ~70-

Groups and movements that can build & get implemented clear policies will have an outsized impact on the chances that AI is used in the way …

Groups and movements that can build & get implemented clear policies will have an outsized impact on the chances that AI is used in the way that they want. This is especially true in the near term It

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Here are 5 epic prompts to use with ChatGPT's new image generator. It's the most powerful image generator on the market, so let's use it to …

Here are 5 epic prompts to use with ChatGPT's new image generator. It's the most powerful image generator on the market, so let's use it to our advantage. Save this one 📌 WORK SETUP AUDIT: upload a ph

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If you believe that AI is going to have a big impact on work and life, the only real tool for mitigating bad impacts and channeling usage fo…

If you believe that AI is going to have a big impact on work and life, the only real tool for mitigating bad impacts and channeling usage for good will be government policy And that policy will be com

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A few weeks ago, I was forwarded an email from a journalist named “Michael Chen,” asking for comment on an AI bill in Tennessee. All signs s…

A few weeks ago, I was forwarded an email from a journalist named “Michael Chen,” asking for comment on an AI bill in Tennessee. All signs suggest Michael Chen is not a real person, and the publicatio

A Survey of Legged Robotics in Non-Inertial Environments: Past, Present, and Future

arXiv:2604.20990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots have demonstrated remarkable agility on rigid, stationary ground, but their locomotion reliability remains limited in non-inertial environ

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Adaptive Moments are Surprisingly Effective for Plug-and-Play Diffusion Sampling

arXiv:2603.16797v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Guided diffusion sampling relies on approximating often intractable likelihood scores, which introduces significant noise into the sampling dy

AgentGL: Towards Agentic Graph Learning with LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604.05846v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on agentic capabilities-iterative retrieval, tool use, and decision-making-to overcome the limits of

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AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surface of Compliance Design

arXiv:2604.21103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Governments are increasingly interested in using AI to make administrative decisions cheaper, more scalable, and more consistent. But for probabilistic

AI is advancing faster than our ability to manage it. We still have the opportunity to build the societal and technical guardrails we need t…

AI is advancing faster than our ability to manage it. We still have the opportunity to build the societal and technical guardrails we need to keep people, institutions, and democracies safe — we shoul

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Align Generative Artificial Intelligence with Human Preferences: A Novel Large Language Model Fine-Tuning Method for Online Review Management

arXiv:2604.21209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online reviews have played a pivotal role in consumers' decision-making processes. Existing research has highlighted the significant impact of manageria

Alignment has a Fantasia Problem

arXiv:2604.21827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI assistants are trained to follow instructions, implicitly assuming that users can clearly articulate their goals and the kind of assistance th

And eventually schools will (if they have any sense) probably withdraw or limit LLMs.

And eventually schools will (if they have any sense) probably withdraw or limit LLMs. 🦔Schools across the US are reversing years of technology-first classroom policies after studies show laptop and sc

Are LLMs really more important than fire or electricity? “Honestly, a ton of what we’ve developed in my lifetime amounts to scaling up the d…

Are LLMs really more important than fire or electricity? “Honestly, a ton of what we’ve developed in my lifetime amounts to scaling up the delivery of information and entertainment and the frictionles

ATATA: One Algorithm to Align Them All

arXiv:2601.11194v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We suggest a new multi-modal algorithm for joint inference of paired structurally aligned samples with Rectified Flow models. While some existing me

AtomicRAG: Atom-Entity Graphs for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2604.20844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent GraphRAG methods integrate graph structures into text indexing and retrieval, using knowledge graph triples to connect text chunks, thereby imp

AttDiff-GAN: A Hybrid Diffusion-GAN Framework for Facial Attribute Editing

arXiv:2604.21289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Facial attribute editing aims to modify target attributes while preserving attribute-irrelevant content and overall image fidelity. Existing GAN-based m

Automated Annotation of Shearographic Measurements Enabling Weakly Supervised Defect Detection

arXiv:2512.06171v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Shearography is an interferometric technique sensitive to surface displacement gradients, providing high sensitivity for detecting subsurface defect

BiTDiff: Fine-Grained 3D Conducting Motion Generation via BiMamba-Transformer Diffusion

arXiv:2604.04395v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D conducting motion generation aims to synthesize fine-grained conductor motions from music, with broad potential in music education, virtual perfo

Bounding the Black Box: A Statistical Certification Framework for AI Risk Regulation

arXiv:2604.21854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence now decides who receives a loan, who is flagged for criminal investigation, and whether an autonomous vehicle brakes in time. Go

CARE: Counselor-Aligned Response Engine for Online Mental-Health Support

arXiv:2604.21352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental health challenges are increasing worldwide, straining emotional support services and leading to counselor overload. This can result in delayed re

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CE-GPPO: Coordinating Entropy via Gradient-Preserving Clipping Policy Optimization in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2509.20712v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a powerful paradigm for optimizing large language models (LLMs) to handle complex reasoning tasks. A co

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Channel-Free Human Activity Recognition via Inductive-Bias-Aware Fusion Design for Heterogeneous IoT Sensor Environments

arXiv:2604.21369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human activity recognition (HAR) in Internet of Things (IoT) environments must cope with heterogeneous sensor settings that vary across datasets, device

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CHRep: Cross-modal Histology Representation and Post-hoc Calibration for Spatial Gene Expression Prediction

arXiv:2604.21573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables spatially resolved gene profiling but remains expensive and low-throughput, limiting large-cohort studies and routi

Clinical Reasoning AI for Oncology Treatment Planning: A Multi-Specialty Case-Based Evaluation

arXiv:2604.20869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: More than 80% of U.S. cancer care is delivered in community settings, where survival remains worse than at academic centers. Clinicians mu

Compose and Fuse: Revisiting the Foundational Bottlenecks in Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2509.23744v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) promise enhanced reasoning by integrating diverse inputs such as text, vision, and audio. Yet cross-m

Continuous-Utility Direct Preference Optimization

arXiv:2602.00931v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model reasoning is often treated as a monolithic capability, relying on binary preference supervision that fails to capture par

Crystal: Characterizing Relative Impact of Scholarly Publications

arXiv:2603.26791v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Assessing a cited paper's impact is typically done by analyzing its citation context in isolation within the citing paper. While this focuses

Deep Interest Mining with Cross-Modal Alignment for SemanticID Generation in Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2604.20861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Recommendation (GR) has demonstrated remarkable performance in next-token prediction paradigms, which relies on Semantic IDs (SIDs) to comp

Demystifying Action Space Design for Robotic Manipulation Policies

arXiv:2602.23408v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The specification of the action space plays a pivotal role in imitation-based robotic manipulation policy learning, fundamentally shaping the

DepthMaster: Taming Diffusion Models for Monocular Depth Estimation

arXiv:2501.02576v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monocular depth estimation within the diffusion-denoising paradigm demonstrates impressive generalization ability but suffers from low inference spe

Directional Confusions Reveal Divergent Inductive Biases Through Rate-Distortion Geometry in Human and Machine Vision

arXiv:2604.21909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans and modern vision models can reach similar classification accuracy while making systematically different kinds of mistakes - differing not in how

Do LLM Decoders Listen Fairly? Benchmarking How Language Model Priors Shape Bias in Speech Recognition

arXiv:2604.21276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As pretrained large language models replace task-specific decoders in speech recognition, a critical question arises: do their text-derived priors mak

Dynamical Priors as a Training Objective in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604.21464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard reinforcement learning (RL) optimizes policies for reward but imposes few constraints on how decisions evolve over time. As a result, policie

Enabling and Inhibitory Pathways of University Students' Willingness to Disclose AI Use: A Cognition-Affect-Conation Perspective

arXiv:2604.21733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education has raised important questions regarding students' transparency in report

Encoder-Free Human Motion Understanding via Structured Motion Descriptions

arXiv:2604.21668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The world knowledge and reasoning capabilities of text-based large language models (LLMs) are advancing rapidly, yet current approaches to human motion

Engaged AI Governance: Addressing the Last Mile Challenge Through Internal Expert Collaboration

arXiv:2604.21554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under the EU AI Act, translating AI governance requirements into software development practice remains challenging. While AI governance frameworks exist