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Showoff Saturday: Local 4x 6000 Pro (multi-year progression)

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Not the biggest or shiniest, but it's mine From gaming machine inference on the original llama models, to a 4x RTX 6000 Pro Max Q + 4x 3090s local AI cluster. Pictures are in reverse chronological ord

8 Aug 2026

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You may have been told to watch this video about the OpenAI AI hack. You really should, even if you don't usually care about tech stuff. If …

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You may have been told to watch this video about the OpenAI AI hack. You really should, even if you don't usually care about tech stuff. If nothing else, click this link to the 18 minutes in & see how

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8 Aug 2026

An Early Warning of Emerging Biosecurity Risks in Frontier LLMs

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arXiv:2607.18056v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into scientific workflows, yet their growing biological capabilities may outpace c

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An Emerging Retail Portfolio Management Application: Personalized, Tax-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Natural Language Goals

arXiv:2608.05255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retail investors lack access to the kind of personalized, tax-aware portfolio management that institutional clients take for granted -- existing robo-

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Building Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering Systems by Generating Synthetic Data and Decontextualizing User Questions

arXiv:2507.04884v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider open-retrieval conversational question answering (OR-CONVQA), an extension of question answering where system responses need to be (i) a

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Challenges for Musical Education in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation

arXiv:2608.05176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Music education has never been a static discipline. Each major technological shift has forced educators and institutions to reconsider what they teach

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Confidence matters: Leveraging Multi-view Geometric Priors for GS-based Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.06117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a widely-used tool for novel view synthesis, offering real-time rendering in a sparse representation. Howeve

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Dual-space posterior sampling for Bayesian inference in constrained inverse problems

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arXiv:2603.00393v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inverse problems constrained by partial differential equations are often ill-conditioned due to noisy, incomplete data or inherent non-uniquen

Grounded Well-Condition Anomaly Detection on the Volve Field: Constructed Labels, a Baseline, and a Dual-Head Model

arXiv:2608.05685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most public benchmarks for machine-condition monitoring come from test rigs, where faults are induced on purpose and every event is known. Real producti

Hardware Keystores for AI Agent Signing Workflows: A Zero-Trust MCP Enforcement Architecture

arXiv:2608.06130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents performing cryptographic operations (signing Git commits, authenticating API calls, issuing certificates) currently store private keys in so

How Google Cloud detects, contains, and protects against emerging threats

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At Google Cloud, securing your data and business systems is our foundational commitment. We empower our customers with the tools, governance, and infrastructure needed to securely deploy workloads and

In this episode of @wandb's Gradient Dissent , @l2k and Fireworks CEO @lqiao discuss why she believes the industry is at a turning point... …

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In this episode of @wandb's Gradient Dissent , @l2k and Fireworks CEO @lqiao discuss why she believes the industry is at a turning point... ... one that calls for more open intelligence, not less. The

Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data (Arriana McLymore/Reuters)

Arriana McLymore / Reuters: Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data — As shoppers incr

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RxnCLF: Contrastive Transformation-Aware Reaction Foundation Model for Improved Reactivity Prediction

arXiv:2608.06259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reaction yield prediction remains challenging because labeled data are scarce and reaction space is both combinatorially large and sparsely populated, l

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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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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

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

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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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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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A-SR: Self-Evolving Agentic LLMs for Symbolic Regression via Hierarchical Coordination

arXiv:2608.04872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symbolic regression aims to discover closed-form equations from data, but existing LLM-guided methods often rely on a unified proposal loop that compr

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Advancing brain tumor research with privacy-first AI

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The intersection of medicine and AI has led to remarkable innovations. However, developers now face the thorny challenge of building robust medical AI tools that have been tested and evaluated on dive

Agents want to collaborate. So we’re putting that instinct to work on improving open-weight LLMs at formal math. Our latest agent collab tac…

Agents want to collaborate. So we’re putting that instinct to work on improving open-weight LLMs at formal math. Our latest agent collab tackles the @SAIRfoundation challenge of building a cheat sheet

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Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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Anthropic is hiring a custom silicon team to design proprietary chips that will power its Claude models, while still planning a multi‑chip strategy that mixes internally designed hardware with compone

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Architectural Implications of Agentic AI Workflows

arXiv:2608.04458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI is emerging in datacenters, but its architectural implications remain unexplored. We organize agentic workflows in a taxonomy and present its

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Attention-based representations for multi-task computation

arXiv:2608.04243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-head attention layers produce vector representations that support multiple downstream tasks. We establish bounds on the number of heads required i

Delinea targets AI agent risks with real-time authorization

As AI agents gain access to sensitive enterprise systems, AI agent security is becoming increasingly difficult to manage with traditional identity and privilege controls. The shift is driving demand f

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Exact Model-Free Policy Iteration for Co-safe LTL Planning

arXiv:2608.05047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work studies model-free reinforcement learning for co-safe linear temporal logic (sc-LTL) objectives in finite Markov decision processes, which c

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From Non-Convex Self-Concordant Regularization to Scalable Quasi-Newton Training of PINNs

arXiv:2608.04206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often require high-accuracy quasi-Newton refinement to obtain reliable partial differential equation solutions,

Hardware Design and Security in the Era of Chiplets and LLMs

arXiv:2608.05063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The semiconductor industry is undergoing a dual revolution: the shift toward heterogeneous 2.5D chiplet systems and the integration of Large Language

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Human-in-the-Loop Atlas-Based 3D Asset Segmentation for Interactive Content Workflows

arXiv:2606.17824v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Segmenting 3D assets into meaningful regions remains challenging, especially when segmentation criteria are application-dependent and require

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I don't understand what's controversial here. Books should be written as they have always been. With ink made from crushing the bodies of ra…

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I don't understand what's controversial here. Books should be written as they have always been. With ink made from crushing the bodies of rare insects from Turkey you harvested yourself and then groun

I ported vLLM's serving stack to C++20: 66 MiB binary, no Python at inference, output checked token-for-token against vLLM

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I'm the author, so discount the enthusiasm accordingly. This is an unaffiliated community port, not endorsed by the vLLM project, which it uses to verify its correctness. What started it: I love vLLM,

I would have assumed it was fairly obvious, but in case it's not: a million-line codebase (also known as a 'harness'), running at inference …

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I would have assumed it was fairly obvious, but in case it's not: a million-line codebase (also known as a 'harness'), running at inference time, orchestrating thousands of calls to a neural network f

OpenAI debuts Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and Vercel are on its steering committee (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI debuts Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and Vercel are on its steering committee — OpenAI's GPT-5 tur

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OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as 'meritless.' In a motion filed yesterday to di

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PICopilot: An LLM-based Agentic Framework for Assisting Photonic Integrated Circuit Design via Script Generation

arXiv:2608.01791v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid development of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is shifting the design flow from traditional graphical user interface (GUI)-based

Random features for Grassmannian kernel approximation with bounded rank-one projections

arXiv:2608.04227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a family of random feature maps for scalable kernel machines on low-dimensional subspaces, ie on the Grassmannian manifold. Such representati

Reconstructing Persistent Worlds from Narratives for Narrative-Grounded Interactive Experiences

arXiv:2608.04037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing narrative-grounded interactive experiences remains labor-intensive because interactive content must align with the underlying world implied

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Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT — Executives at Canva,

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Sublogarithmic Swap Regret in Multiplayer General-Sum Games via Hybrid Regularization

arXiv:2608.04149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Swap regret governs the rate at which uncoupled learning dynamics converge to correlated equilibria in multiplayer general-sum games. Under full-infor

The Price of Isolation: Estimating the Ecosystem Cost of Symmetric Two-Sided A/B Testing

arXiv:2608.04432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On two-sided content platforms, symmetric two-sided isolation (assigning matched fractions of creators and viewers to isolated treatment and control s

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The RAIL Principles for Neurosymbolic AI: Reasoning, Assurances, Interfacing and Learning

arXiv:2608.04285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neurosymbolic AI systems that integrate machine learning and symbolic reasoning are rapidly gaining attention. They complement the data-intensive statis

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TourSynbio-Search: A Large Language Model Driven Agent Framework for Unified Search Method for Protein Engineering

arXiv:2411.06024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The exponential growth in protein-related databases and scientific literature, combined with increasing demands for efficient biological information r

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Towards a New Grammar of Reasoning for Artificial Legal Intelligence and the Mecelle as Its Semantic Protocol

arXiv:2608.04011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article examines the enduring epistemic and methodological crisis of traditional legal practice in light of the opportunities and constraints int

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Unsloth's Gemma 4 mmproj silently broke vision & audio on newer llama.cpp builds — anyone else hit this?

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So I had been building ScreenMind, kinda like local ai desktop assistant that uses Gemma 4 for screen analysis, voice memo transcription, and meeting transcription — all through llama-server. Everythi

AI Security Leaderboard: Methodology, Results and Minimal Standard

arXiv:2608.03070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier AI model developers increasingly rely on layered safeguards to prevent catastrophic misuse, but little public evidence exists on how much pro

5 Aug 2026

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Announcing Discovery Loop! I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolViny…

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Announcing Discovery Loop! I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoL

5 Aug 2026

Assessing the Effect of Cross-Domain Mapping on Creativity in Humans and Large Language Models