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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Despite the growing hy

Pieter Haeck / Politico: The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing “a possible risk to the public interest” — BRUSSELS — The Dutch

A Reddit post from r/ChatGPT where the user discusses disappointment with Ferrari's new 'Ferrari Luce' electric vehicle and uses ChatGPT to generate design concepts for an aesthetically appealing elec

The goal of training a machine learning model is loss minimization. That was just being applied to algorithms, and now it's being applied to whole enterprises. Loss minimization is one thing that the

arXiv:2409.08379v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping knowledge work, yet their impact on voluntary, self-guided open innovation forums (contributors cho

arXiv:2602.16340v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the implicit bias of momentum-based optimizers on smooth homogeneous models. We show that extit{momentum steepest descent} algorithms like

the importance of traces! Trace data is literally worth its weight in gold these days, if you know what to do with it! As has been established, creating effective agents requires shipping early, obser

arXiv:2404.00176v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Lexical Semantic Change Detection (LSCD) is a complex, lemma-level task, which is usually operationalized based on two subsequently applied usage-le

This post draws a comparison between Elon Musk and Sam Altman based on insights from SpaceX's S-1 filing, highlighting shared characteristics or philosophies between the two tech leaders. The analysis

arXiv:2605.11182v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) and on-policy self-distillation (OPSD) have emerged as promising post-training methods for large language models, offer

arXiv:2509.14250v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper explores prompts and prompting in large language models (LLMs) as dynamic semiotic phenomena, drawing on Peirce's triadic model of signs,

arXiv:2411.00934v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual content on social media has become increasingly influential in shaping political discourse and civic engagement, but it also limits par

arXiv:2605.24411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing language model applications struggle to meet the demand for emotionally oriented support, primarily due to their inability to maintain deep, pe

arXiv:2605.23918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The AI inference industry keeps models loaded in GPU memory around the clock to avoid cold-start latency, implicitly treating idle power as a fixed co

arXiv:2605.24556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual retrieval increasingly underpins cross-lingual question answering and retrieval-augmented generation. Strong zero-shot scores on multilin

The near impossible is becoming possible. We are building toward a sustained human presence at the lunar South Pole. It begins with Phase 1: CLPS landers and LTV rovers testing the “science of surviva

arXiv:2605.24477v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Normalized Maximum Likelihood (NML) codelength, or stochastic complexity, represents a principled criterion for universal coding. While recent coare

An OpenAI insider (@thsottiaux) raises concerns about the risks of over-relying on AI agents to handle cognitive tasks, warning against wholesale delegation of thinking to autonomous systems. The warn

arXiv:2605.24697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models promise faster generation by refining many token positions in parallel, but this parallelism introduces a hidden contr

arXiv:2605.24782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) excel at predictive tasks on satellite imagery, their performance can arise from visual correlations rather than u

The pressure Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported. The rate of incomi

arXiv:2605.25880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale transformer training and deployment are increasingly constrained by the transfer of activations, gradients, and optimizer states across acce

The road to Hell is paved with closed-source citadels disguised as good intentions. The Pope is right: AI takes on the characteristics of those who build it, finance it, and regulate it. So the questi

The Rogue. A film I’ve been trying to make for more than ten years. This project pushed me creatively more than anything I’ve ever done. and I truly believe this is going to become a pivot moment for

The SpaceX IPO is a shitshow. When you peel back the layers, you realize how thoroughly corrupt it is. SpaceX’s unconventional corporate arrangements appear to benefit Elon Musk at the expense of othe

The Telegraph: Macron tore up 65 years of doctrine to defend Europe with French nukes, with or without the US. Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, and now the Czech Rep

arXiv:2605.24096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Core systems like key-value stores have historically taken years to build, and are designed to be general so as to amortize cost across deployments, p

arXiv:2605.25868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The speed and accuracy of an artificial teammate fundamentally alter the failure states of Human-AI integration. While high-speed AI interventions ris

arXiv:2605.24718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tokenizer fertility the number of tokens per word imposes a hidden cost on non-English NLP. We measure fertility for ten foundation models across 25 Eur

arXiv:2605.25134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse optimization is a fundamental challenge in various practical applications. A popular approach to sparse optimization is ell_p regularization. H

There are two ways to add login to your app on Replit: → Replit Auth: zero setup, users sign in with their Replit account → Clerk Auth: your own branded sign-in, dev/prod environments both take one pr

arXiv:2605.25208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) was introduced to explain why an emotion occurs, but this goal is now often reduced to binary pair/non-pair predict

this basically destroys the extrapolations that had Anthropic making two trillion dollars a year. It's clear that growth for coding tools such as Claude Code has decelerated from the pace it was since

This is our mission. The timeline for achieving this shrinks significantly if we can 10-100x the useful output of our engineering and manufacturing teams. AI and robotics make this possible. This can

this logic from 2024 held up pretty well considering all that’s changed. 9 reasons that OpenAI could someday be seen as the WeWork of AI: 👉 Lots of competitors are catching up. 👉 OpenAI has been force

arXiv:2605.25850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates large language model (LLM) abstention learning, specifically using ternary reward, which incentivize truthfulness in large lan

arXiv:2605.24489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enzyme-reaction retrieval is a fundamental problem in computational biology, underpinning enzyme characterization, reaction mechanism elucidation, and t

Elon Musk expressed enthusiasm on X (formerly Twitter) about constructing a major lunar base, reflecting his vision for SpaceX's long-term goals of sustained human presence on the Moon. The post likel

arXiv:2603.06687v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Geo-temporal understanding, the ability to infer location, time, and contextual properties from visual input alone, underpins applications suc

TinkerAPI, developed by TML, is a post-training infrastructure tool that Soumith Chintala recommends as an essential component for new AI companies during their startup phase. The tool appears to addr

arXiv:2605.24846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) display strong comprehensive abilities, yet the internal mechanisms that support these behaviors remain insufficiently un

arXiv:2605.25046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: YOLO-series and DETR-based detectors struggle with tiny-object detection. YOLO-style models benefit from efficient dense prediction, but their large-s

Hugging Face has released 1-bit and Ternary Bonsai Image 4B, a new family of lightweight image-generation models optimized for efficient diffusion inference. These models are designed to deliver high-

Today's Training Data episode takes us BTS on the infrastructure challenges required to do large RL runs at scale, featuring @ellev3n11 (Composer Lead at @cursor_ai) and @dzhulgakov (Co-Founder at @Fi

arXiv:2605.25310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents produce trajectories whose calls form a directed dependency graph: earlier tool outputs supply arguments to later calls. Whether t

arXiv:2507.10593v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Every LLM tool call is structurally an RPC -- a function name, JSON arguments, and a serialized result -- yet each protocol (native Python, MC