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The backgrounds were generated with MiniMax M3. Everything else, including the full game design, was done with DeepSeek Flash. Most importan…

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The backgrounds were generated with MiniMax M3. Everything else, including the full game design, was done with DeepSeek Flash. Most importantly, all of this was done inside Hermes Agent. You won't bel

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The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling

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arXiv:2608.06370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool use transforms LLMs into agents that act beyond their training data, and for code-capable models, programmatic tool calling extends this further by

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The Closing Window: How Governments Could Lose Their Ability to Restrain Advanced AI

arXiv:2608.05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI capabilities advance, AI systems will pose greater risks to national security and potentially humanity as a whole. Governments may eventually co

The cloud was always a cat. Qwen3.8-Max just saw it first. 😼☁️ Try it yourself!

The cloud was always a cat. Qwen3.8-Max just saw it first. 😼☁️ Try it yourself! Qwen 3.8 Max is actually impressive Sent a sky pic to it along with Claude Opus 5, Kimi K3, and GPT 5.6 Sol, and asked t

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The em-dash em-beds in Congress: A population-level rise in em-dash frequency in U.S. congressional press releases at the dawn of the large-language-model era, 2021-2025

arXiv:2608.05889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can leave small stylistic traces in text written with their help. The most discussed is the em-dash (U+2014), especially

The ethics of artificial intelligence in the life sciences: Universality, cultural diversity and an architecture of care

arXiv:2608.05436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The life sciences and health research have started to benefit from artificial intelligence, which raises ethical concerns that are real but, we argue,

The Ignition Index: Measuring Global Workspace Dynamics in Language Models

arXiv:2608.05160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Ignition Index (I), a validated scalar metric that operationalizes Global Workspace Theory's (GWT) all-or-none ignition prediction in t

The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images

arXiv:2608.06270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 'thinking-with-images' paradigm equips multimodal LLMs with active visual operations such as crop-and-zoom. However, models using these operations o

The interface of intonation and lexical tone: Boundary phenomena in Mandarin varieties

arXiv:2608.05364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This chapter explores the intricate interplay between intonation and tone in Mandarin Chinese varieties, focusing on f0, the primary acoustic cue for bo

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The Judgment-Consequence Gap: LLM Moral Reasoning in Healthcare Decisions

arXiv:2608.05583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) enter high-stakes domains such as healthcare, understanding their moral reasoning becomes essential. Decisions about s

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The Low Frequency Trap: Video Language Models Fail at Simple Event Bookkeeping

arXiv:2608.06361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world video benchmarks provide broad coverage, but their fixed clips entangle event count, rate, duration, and visual complexity, making failure mo

The Next Screenshot Knows: Gated Hindsight Distillation for Mobile GUI Agents

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arXiv:2608.06065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI agents are commonly trained offline from successful interaction trajectories. Standard training decomposes each trajectory into prefix-action pairs:

The Tamed Subgradient Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm beyond Convexity

arXiv:2608.06283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of sampling from target distributions whose potentials are simultaneously non-smooth, subject to superlinear gradient growth, and n

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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from

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The Vulnerability With No CVE: Managing Persistent Gaps Between Mandate and Authority in AI Coding Agents

arXiv:2608.05884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing guidance identifies excessive agency, excessive permission, weak task-bound authorization, and inadequate agent controls as important risks.

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This might be a good time to mention my recent keynotes titled: 'Agentic AI is Neurosymbolic AI'

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This might be a good time to mention my recent keynotes titled: 'Agentic AI is Neurosymbolic AI' I would have assumed it was fairly obvious, but in case it's not: a million-line codebase (also known a

This story keeps getting crazier. And this is the least crazy AI will be for the rest of our lives.

This story keeps getting crazier. And this is the least crazy AI will be for the rest of our lives. JUST IN: OpenAI's July rogue AI attack on Hugging Face had its origins in an emergent AI swarm that

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this talk by openai researchers going through hugging face incident is totally insane, so much to unpack openai only realized it was their a…

this talk by openai researchers going through hugging face incident is totally insane, so much to unpack openai only realized it was their agent who hacked hugging face infra while asking hf to revoke

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Threshold-Based Early Stopping of Accumulations in Neural Networks with Binary Activation

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arXiv:2608.06177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Binary neural networks are very attractive for constrained deployment, enabling small footprint and low-power inference. For binary activations, the dot

TIL from https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/ that a material chunk o…

TIL from https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/ that a material chunk of Accenture's token spend is non-engineers using LLMs to con

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Timestep-Conditioned Transformers for Global Weather Forecasting

arXiv:2608.06241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing machine-learning weather forecasting models rely on predetermined and fixed autoregressive timesteps. The choice of model timestep involves a f

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TLNM: Externally Validated Tooth Detection, Numbering and Segmentation from Smartphone Photographs Using Mask R-CNN

arXiv:2608.06275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Oral health issues affect billions globally, but the cost and limited access to professional dental care hinder preventive oral healthcare. Research rel

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To See a World in a Living Context: Unified Indoor-Outdoor Urban World Generation

arXiv:2608.05879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-driven 3D generation has advanced rapidly in creating large-scale outdoor environments and detailed indoor scenes, but these domains are usually sy

Topology-Aware Neighborhood Learning for Source-Free Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Image Classification

arXiv:2608.05964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain adaptation has advanced cross-scene hyperspectral image classification, significantly improving discriminative capability in complex scenarios. H

Topometric Autonomous Vehicle Localization by Combining Visual Embeddings and Feed-Forward 3D Models

arXiv:2608.06021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective Visual Localization (VL) requires a map of the environment that combines compactness for efficient scalability with robustness against visual

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Toward Deployable Bangla Sign Language Recognition with Expert-Validated Data and a Lightweight Attention-Based Model

arXiv:2608.06252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Bangladesh communicate mainly through Bangla Sign Language (BdSL). Automatic BdSL recognition on personal devices c

TRACE: Learned Proprioceptive Odometry for Legged Robots under Unreliable Contact Conditions

arXiv:2608.05975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we present TRACE (Tokenized Robust Attention for Contact-Aware Estimation), an end-to-end learned proprioceptive odometry estimator for

Tracing the Heart: An Evidence-Linked Pipeline for Heart-Failure Feature Engineering

arXiv:2608.06366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health record (EHR) feature engineering is a major bottleneck in clinical research and AI, accounting for 39-45% of data scientists' workload

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Training a Conditioned Video Game Agent on a VLM Annotated Dataset

arXiv:2608.05954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful but far from easy-to-use technique for policy learning. In the specific case of video games, access to the gam

Training-Free Token-Level Steering for LLM Personalized Co-Writing

arXiv:2608.06069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) show great promise for personalization, they often lack specialized domain knowledge. Conventional solutions like fin

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TRAJDEBUG: Tracing Error Lifecycle to Identify Critical Failures in Long-Horizon Agent Trajectories

arXiv:2608.06346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agentic systems have shown remarkable capabilities in complex domains, while suffering from cascading errors and difficulty in debugging. Crit

Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation Disrupts Conscious Ankle Proprioception and Produces a More Constrained Locomotor Pattern in Unimpaired Adults

arXiv:2608.05635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation (tSCS) modulates spinal sensorimotor circuits primarily through activation of afferent networks. While prior wo

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Tree-NET: Enhancing 2D Medical Image Segmentation Through Efficient Low-Level Feature Training

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arXiv:2501.02140v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper introduces Tree-NET, a novel framework for medical image segmentation that leverages bottleneck supervision to enhance both segment

TriQua: Reconciling Granularity and Context in Factuality Evaluation

arXiv:2608.05228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 'decompose-then-verify' paradigm for LLM factuality evaluation faces a fundamental trade-off: atomic facts, i.e., one sentence conveying one unit of

Trust-Based Incentive Mechanisms in Semi-Decentralized Federated Learning Systems

arXiv:2602.08290v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In federated learning (FL), decentralized model training allows multi-ple participants to collaboratively improve a shared machine learning mo

TruthLens: Object Hallucination Detection via Self-Evaluating Truthfulness Scores in LVLMs

arXiv:2608.05616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the remarkable progress of large vision language models (LVLMs), object hallucination remains a fundamental challenge that hinders their trustwo

TRW: TRACE-RealWorld---An Auditable Consistency Contract for World Models as Materialized Views

arXiv:2607.21910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models let agents plan against predicted physical state, but that state drifts; re-observation is costly and delayed, and repair can fail. We

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Try Grok Build http://X.ai/build

Try Grok Build http://X.ai/build Grok Build officially reaches v1.0.0, rapidly becoming one of the most powerful coding harnesses in the world After 100+ updates in just over 10 weeks, SpaceXAI’s codi

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TS-RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2608.06223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While deep learning models, particularly transformer-based architectures, have shown impressive performance in time series forecasting, the application

Turing's Frist Imitation Game: Design Concepts and a Human-Approximates-Machine Reading

arXiv:2608.05558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper examines Turing's 1948 report, 'Intelligent Machinery', as an important conceptual source for the later imitation games. Its first contribu

turns out you can get indirect prompt injection to ~0 on unseen attacks if you stack enough layers (model training + input probes + a classi…

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turns out you can get indirect prompt injection to ~0 on unseen attacks if you stack enough layers (model training + input probes + a classifier checking intent). didn't expect that a year ago. auto m

Industry

Twilio’s stock jumps on solid earnings and revenue beat and strong momentum in voice AI

A solid earnings and revenue beat helped to reignite investor enthusiasm for the communications software maker Twilio Inc. today, and its stock jumped more than 17% in after-hours trading. The company

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Tytan: Interactive Neurosymbolic Construction of Analytic Semantic Schemas from Relational Data

arXiv:2608.06331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: From natural-language query interfaces to automated report generation, data analysis tools need a description of the data: the real-world entities it

Applications

Uncertainty-Aware World Model for Aerial Image-Goal Navigation

arXiv:2608.05597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial image-goal navigation requires an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to reach a target location specified by a goal image. Existing world-model-based

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Unified Agent: Managing Interactions across Devices

arXiv:2608.05729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As capabilities rapidly increase, AI agents can move from running inside one app to acting across a user's devices over time. Yet existing agent systems

Unified Planning-Learning Framework for Robust UUV Navigation Under Partial Observability

arXiv:2608.05365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an observation-only autonomy framework for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) navigation in dynamic underwater environments that in

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Unifying Structured and Unstructured Data Insights with BQ Search Innovations

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Modern enterprises possess a vast amount of unstructured data, yet they frequently encounter significant challenges in managing and extracting value from it. Historically, unlocking the insights hidde

Universal Concept Disruption for SAM3 Image Segmentation

arXiv:2608.05983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: SAM3 extends promptable segmentation from geometry-driven mask prediction to open-vocabulary concept segmentation, where a text-conditioned grounding mo