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SHARD: cell-keyed residual splitting for alignment-resistant private dense retrieval

arXiv:2606.27976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense embeddings underpin semantic search and RAG, yet a leaked vector store hands much of the underlying text back to whoever holds it. The attacks t

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SidConArena: An Environment Evaluating Agents in Open-Ended,Positive-Sum Bargaining Game

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arXiv:2606.27397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating LLM agents requires dynamic environments that go beyond static reasoning and zero-sum games. Real-world economic interaction is often open-

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Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes — Earlier this year,

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The Bear Necessities: A Look at the Drivers, Dynamics, and Applications of the Pro-Russia Influence Ecosystem

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war back into a global s

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We're all over AI Engineer World's Fair on June 29 to July 2. 🦙 📍Visit us at booth L-G47. LlamaParse demos + Fear of Docs swag 🎤 @jerryjl…

We're all over AI Engineer World's Fair on June 29 to July 2. 🦙 📍Visit us at booth L-G47. LlamaParse demos + Fear of Docs swag 🎤 @jerryjliu0, our Founder & CEO, on agentic document parsing and shippin

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you can absolutely vibecode from an NYC subway with your iPhone 30 of us built apps on the 7 train to Flushing. incredible hack hosted by @R…

you can absolutely vibecode from an NYC subway with your iPhone 30 of us built apps on the 7 train to Flushing. incredible hack hosted by @Replit & @BobbyThakkar ft 🎥 @Julessw_ @melodyskim hacking on

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A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)

Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic — Andreou, who onc

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Another case of what I call The Klarna Effect.

Another case of what I call The Klarna Effect. 🦔Ford admitted it had to rehire engineers after replacing them with AI systems that couldn't do the job. The company's VP of hardware engineering said th

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Britain didn't industrialize first by forcing its companies to use more expensive coal. Why would we force American companies to use more ex…

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Britain didn't industrialize first by forcing its companies to use more expensive coal. Why would we force American companies to use more expensive intelligence? AI is rapidly becoming a foundational

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in case anyone was wondering, 300 or so people were referred by chatgpt this year

Swyx reported that approximately 300 people were referred through ChatGPT during a given year, suggesting meaningful user acquisition or community growth driven by ChatGPT recommendations. This post l

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My conversation with @ScottWu46, founder and CEO of @Cognition, the company behind Devin, the first AI software engineer. 0:00 Scott Wu's Ob…

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My conversation with @ScottWu46, founder and CEO of @Cognition, the company behind Devin, the first AI software engineer. 0:00 Scott Wu's Obsession With Winning 2:06 Competitive Programming, Games And

And the idea that frontier open weights models will continue to be released was fragile even before the current de facto licensing regime. h…

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And the idea that frontier open weights models will continue to be released was fragile even before the current de facto licensing regime. https://x.com/emollick/status/2067669551685218638?s=20 Is the

Annoying that OpenAI doesn’t seem to give a GDPval measure for GPT 5.6. One of the best measures of economically valuable work.

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Ethan Mollick notes that OpenAI has not released a GDP value metric for GPT 5.6, which he identifies as one of the most useful measures for quantifying the economic value generated by AI systems. This

Model management is the real SDLC scaling bottleneck. @FactoryAI standardized on Fireworks to solve it: → 2–3x open-model growth → 5–15x mor…

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Model management is the real SDLC scaling bottleneck. @FactoryAI standardized on Fireworks to solve it: → 2–3x open-model growth → 5–15x more work per dollar → day-0 access to every new open-weight mo

next week at @aiDotEngineer, we are joining @togethercompute for a conversation on what goes into running agents at scale. @olive_jy_song, R…

next week at @aiDotEngineer, we are joining @togethercompute for a conversation on what goes into running agents at scale. @olive_jy_song, Research Lead, RL at MiniMax, and @realDanFu, VP of Kernels a

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Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry (Laura Bratton/The Information)

Laura Bratton / The Information: Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry — When Anthr

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AIGP: An LLM-Based Framework for Long-Term Value Alignment in E-Commerce Pricing

arXiv:2606.26787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional dynamic pricing models in large-scale e-commerce suffer from limited interpretability, poor utilization of unstructured information, and m

Compositionality and the lexicon in evolutionary semantics

arXiv:2606.27228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formal semantics has shown that sentence meanings arise by recursively composing lexical meanings, yet much of the literature on semantic universals mod

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ConvMemory v3: A Validity Context Layer for Conversational Memory via Target-Conditioned Relation Verification

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arXiv:2606.26753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational memory retrieval optimizes relevance, yet a retrieved memory can be relevant and simultaneously outdated: a later turn updates, corrects,

Cross-Head Attention Uplift Network with Inverse Propensity Score under Unobserved Confounding

arXiv:2606.27114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uplift modeling, crucial for estimating individual treatment effects (ITE), faces dual challenges: flexibly leveraging inter-group similarity to enhance

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Dream machine -- the next creative economy

arXiv:2606.26114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We examine the structural transformation of creative industries under generative artificial intelligence, drawing on 374 primary sources spanning poli

Epiphany-Aware KV Cache Eviction Without the Attention Matrix

arXiv:2606.26472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As reasoning models emit chains of thought tens of thousands of tokens long, KV cache increasingly becomes a deployment bottleneck. Existing cache evi

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Exact and Deterministic Patch Descriptor Retrieval via Hierarchical Normalization

arXiv:2606.27280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a patch descriptor retrieval method that returns the exact nearest neighbour -- provably identical to exhaustive full-vector search -- while

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Forward Deployed Engineering is the most critical ingredient for Enterprise AI adoption. It’s why the most important companies on the planet…

Forward Deployed Engineering is the most critical ingredient for Enterprise AI adoption. It’s why the most important companies on the planet are investing so heavily into it. That’s why we put togethe

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From Celebrities to Anyone: Characterizing AI Nudification Content, Technology, and Community Dynamics on 4chan

arXiv:2606.27234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI nudification uses generative models to create synthetic non-consensual sexually explicit imagery (SNEACI) of real individuals. Prior work has exami

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Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization

arXiv:2606.26899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embedding-based retrieval ranks items by their similarity to a query in a shared vector space and usually aims to return the highest-scoring items. In m

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Hierarchical Muon: Tiled Newton-Schulz Updates for Efficient Muon Optimization

arXiv:2606.27216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Muon-type optimizers construct update directions for dense neural-network weights by applying a finite Newton-Schulz map to momentum-gradient matrices

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Hybrid privacy-aware semantic search: SVD-truncated document geometry and CKKS-encrypted query reranking under a restricted threat model

arXiv:2606.26373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense embeddings power semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation, but embedding-inversion attacks can reconstruct source text from a vector:

Inference-Time Robot Behavior Steering through Physically-Aware Reconfiguration of Task-Structure

arXiv:2606.26588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central challenge in deploying learned robot policies is inference-time behavior steering: redirecting a policy at test time to satisfy user preferenc

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Know2Guess: A Contamination-Aware Multi-Zone Benchmark for Knowledge-Boundary Evaluation in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.26101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable evaluation of large language models should separate supported answering from unsupported guessing without conflating either with data contami

LCAi: Life Cycle Assessment with big data fusion and retrieval-augmented generation-assisted interpretation

arXiv:2606.26857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The interpretation phase of life cycle assessment often lacks structured mechanisms for translating quantified improvement opportunities addressing envi

Pianist Transformer: Towards Expressive Piano Performance Rendering via Scalable Self-Supervised Pre-Training

arXiv:2512.02652v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing methods for expressive music performance rendering, a conditional generation task that aims to generate a human-like performance from

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RecallRisk-BERT: A Multi-Task Framework for Post-Report Medical Device Recall Triage

arXiv:2606.27174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical device recalls are a critical regulatory mechanism for protecting patient safety. The growing volume of FDA recall records presents challenges i

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Self-Supervised Tree-level Biomass Estimation in Urban Environments From Airborne LiDAR and Optical Observations

arXiv:2606.26194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban tree biomass remains less spatially explicitly quantified than biomass in managed forests because many estimates rely on inventories or coarse pro

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Semantic Early-Stopping for Iterative LLM Agent Loops

arXiv:2606.27009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent large language model (LLM) loops, for example a Writer that drafts and a Critic that revises, are almost always terminated by a fixed iterat

Trace AI SDK 7 operations with LangSmith!

LangSmith enables tracing and monitoring of AI SDK 7 operations, allowing developers to observe and debug their AI applications built with the SDK. This tool provides visibility into model interaction

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VW may close four factories to adapt to the future, report says

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is reportedly preparing a major overhaul that could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and eventually close four factories in Germany. The plants targeted for closure a

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What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant

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What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending

A Framework for Directed Hypergraph Signal Processing via tensor t-SVD

arXiv:2606.25112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Directed Hypergraph Signal Processing (DHGSP), a unified framework that extends graph signal processing to accommodate both higher-order (p

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Agents are easy to demo locally. The hard part is shipping them inside a real app. We published a deployment cookbook for @LangChain agents:…

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Agents are easy to demo locally. The hard part is shipping them inside a real app. We published a deployment cookbook for @LangChain agents: full-stack examples with streaming UI, subagents, thread hi

AI Coaching for Accelerating Human Skill Development with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.25337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI copilots can substantially boost human performance through shared control, but excessive assistance can induce over-reliance and skill atrophy. This

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Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory

Apple announced price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, citing increased memory and storage costs that CEO Tim Cook said had become unavoidable. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created extraordi

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Apple says 'the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage'; the MacBook Neo rises from 599 to 699 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises from 599 to 699 — Apple Raises P

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Apple’s Macs and iPads and Microsoft’s Xbox consoles are getting more expensive — blame AI

The surging cost of memory chips has translated into a bonanza for companies like Micron Technologies Inc., but for almost everyone else there’s going to be a steep price to pay, with both Apple Inc.

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AutoRelAnnotator: Calibrated Model Cascades for Cost-Efficient Relevance Evaluation in Sponsored Search

arXiv:2606.25871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How can we generate high-quality relevance annotations at scale without the cost and delays of human labeling? Relevance annotations are the backbone

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Beyond Defensive Reporting: Machine Learning for Active Anti-Money Laundering Control in Insurance

arXiv:2606.16663v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Money laundering through insurance claims poses a threat to insurers both through fraudulent payouts and reputational and regulatory risk. Despite t

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Tutorials

Breaking Data Symmetry is Needed For Generalization in Feature Learning Kernels

arXiv:2604.00316v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Grokking occurs when a model achieves high training accuracy but generalization to unseen test points happens long after that. This phenomenon

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deployment cookbook for langchain agents!

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deployment cookbook for langchain agents! Agents are easy to demo locally. The hard part is shipping them inside a real app. We published a deployment cookbook for @LangChain agents: full-stack exampl