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Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it

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Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and controlling your lights, they've struggled to justify taking up space on the kitchen count

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Knowledge Distillation from Large Reasoning Models to Compact Student Models: A Case Study on the John O Bryan Mathematics Competition

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arXiv:2606.31048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates knowledge distillation from a large reasoning model (DeepSeek-R1) to a compact student model (Qwen2.5-7B). Using historical pr

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Meta introduces a $20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta introduces a 20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users — “All AI glasses

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Multisensory Continual Learning: Adapting Pretrained Visuomotor Policies to Force

arXiv:2606.30988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation often relies on sensory feedback beyond vision, particularly in contact-rich settings where force, tactile, or audio signals reveal i

Nazrin: An Atomic Neural Proof Automation Tactic in Lean 4

arXiv:2602.18767v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Machine-Assisted Theorem Proving, a theorem proving agent searches for a sequence of expressions and tactics that can prove a statement in

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Optimization Algorithms for Joint OFDM Waveform Design and RIS Configuration in 6G Networks: From Convex Relaxation to Foundation Models

arXiv:2606.31334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint OFDM-RIS optimization for 6G is a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem covering sum-rate maximization, energy efficiency, max-min f

RaBitQCache: Rotated Binary Quantization for KVCache in Long Context LLM Inference

arXiv:2606.31519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context Large Language Model inference is severely bottlenecked by the massive Key-Value (KV) cache, yet existing sparse attention methods often

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Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for an Inline Skating Humanoid Robot

arXiv:2606.31807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As humanoid robots become increasingly dynamic, coupling them with reinforcement learning offers a promising approach to solving the complex, underactua

Robustness of Robotic Manipulation: Foundations and Frontiers

arXiv:2606.31494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans and animals exhibit remarkable robustness in physical manipulation, yet robots remain far behind. Progress toward human-level manipulation robu

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Scaling LLM Inference: Multi-Node KV Cache Offloading with GKE & Managed Lustre

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Significant contributors to this article include Sneha Aradhey, Software Engineer, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Michael MacDonald, Sr Software Engineer, Google Cloud Managed Lustre. Enterprise produc

TactX: Learning Shared Tactile Representations Across Diverse Sensors

arXiv:2606.31236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensors provide critical information for contact-rich manipulation, yet tactile representations and policies remain tightly coupled to each spec

A study from @Stanford showed that 71.3% of chatgpt queries could be accurately answered by a local model. I suspect a major part of enterpr…

A study from @Stanford showed that 71.3% of chatgpt queries could be accurately answered by a local model. I suspect a major part of enterprise AI workloads could be run locally too for free (compared

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AERMANI-VLM: Structured Prompting and Reasoning for Aerial Manipulation with Vision Language Models

arXiv:2511.01472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid progress of vision--language models (VLMs) has sparked growing interest in robotic control, where natural language can express the operati

AeroPlace-Flow: Language-Grounded Object Placement for Aerial Manipulators via Visual Foresight and Object Flow

arXiv:2603.07744v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Precise object placement remains underexplored in aerial manipulation, where most systems rely on predefined target coordinates and focus primarily

Ahmad Osman on why local AI is catching up

Ahmad Osman discusses the technological and practical reasons why locally-run AI models are becoming increasingly competitive with cloud-based alternatives, likely covering improvements in model effic

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b9843

b9843 is a release of llama.cpp that reverts 'sched: reintroduce less synchronizations during split compute (#20793)' . The release includes pre-built binaries for multiple platforms including macOS,

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b9849 is a build release from llama.cpp, which enables LLM inference in C/C++ . The release represents an intermediate build version of the llama.cpp library, a widely-used open-source project for run

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Release b9850 is a version of llama.cpp, an open-source software library for large language model inference developed alongside the GGML tensor library. This release likely includes updates, bug fixes

b9851

B9851 is a release of llama.cpp, an LLM inference project written in C/C++ . The release represents a version update in the llama.cpp development timeline maintained on GitHub. This build tag typicall

BERTomelo: Your Portuguese Encoder Best Friend

arXiv:2606.28999v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Encoders have become the state of the art for multiple NLP tasks, especially those requiring deep contextual understanding. While multilingual models

China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips

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Beijing, China-based Meituan Inc. today debuted its next-generation LongCat-2.0 open-source large language model, stating that the company trained the 1.6-trillion-parameter model on domestic Chinese

DivAS: Interactive 3D Segmentation by Depth-Weighted Voxel Aggregation

arXiv:2601.04860v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Interactive 3D segmentation of a reconstructed scene should not require a representation-specific optimization loop. We observe that the recipe for

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Earlier this year, @SpaceX acquired @xAI (now SpaceXAI), which operates the Colossus datacenters in Memphis. As SpaceX continues to invest i…

Earlier this year, @SpaceX acquired @xAI (now SpaceXAI), which operates the Colossus datacenters in Memphis. As SpaceX continues to invest in the area, SpaceX is offering our neighbors in the Memphis

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Empowering a Single-Frequency GNSS Receiver to Achieve High-Precision Positioning with Relative Observations

arXiv:2606.29192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) navigation is widely used to provide absolute, outdoor positioning in field robotics. Advances in Real-Time Ki

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Experience Graphs: The Data Foundation for Self-Improving Agents

arXiv:2606.29823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The database community has repeatedly advanced the state of the art by recognizing that new workloads demand new system architectures. We argue that l

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Exploring the Effects of Entanglement on Quantum Machine Learning of Pathogen Epitope-Receptor Binding

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arXiv:2606.28655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) provide a flexible substrate for hybrid quantum machine learning (QML), but their practical value on Noisy Inter

FADA: Few-Shot Domain Adaptation via Dynamics Alignment for Humanoid Control

arXiv:2606.28476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision humanoid control is limited by target-domain dynamics mismatch, where the same control objective can induce different realized motions un

FalconTrack: Photorealistic Auto-Labeled Perception and Physics-Aware Vision-Based Aerial Tracking

arXiv:2606.29783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-based aerial tracking is critical in GPS-denied environments. Reliable perception for tracking depends on large-scale labeled data, yet most ph

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Half price Starlink for people in the Memphis region

Half price Starlink for people in the Memphis region SpaceXAI has announced that they will be applying a 50% discount on the standard @Starlink monthly price for both new and existing customers in the

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Hard-constraint physics-residual networks for hydrogen crossover prediction and high-pressure extrapolation in PEM water electrolysis

arXiv:2511.05879v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hydrogen crossover is a critical safety and efficiency constraint in high-pressure polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE), bu

HiAP: A Multi-Granular Stochastic Auto-Pruning Framework for Vision Transformers

arXiv:2603.12222v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Transformers require significant computational resources and memory bandwidth, severely limiting their deployment on resource-constraint hard

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Little Brains, Big Feats: Exploring Compact Language Models

arXiv:2606.30062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large language models have been dominating the research landscape recently, small language models remain highly relevant across various domains;

Mandol: An Agglomerative Agent Memory System for Long-Term Conversations

arXiv:2606.29778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term conversational agents need to remember and query cross-session, multi-typed information with complex correlations. Existing agent memory sys

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NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon

NASA is considering repurposing an engineering development version of a nuclear-powered Mars rover for the moon's south polar region in a mission called PROMISE ('Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping

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Neuromorphic Energy-Aware Learning for Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation

arXiv:2606.28600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neuromorphic and edge computing research has focused on reducing the inference cost of neural network controllers, yet in physical closed-loop systems

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Robust Extended Kalman Filter for Land Navigation Using Massive Array of MEMS IMUs

arXiv:2606.29271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a robust Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) architecture for land navigation using an array of hundreds of low-cost micro-electromechanical syste

SCREP: Scene Coordinate Regression and Evidential Learning-based Perception-Aware Trajectory Generation

arXiv:2507.07467v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous flight in GPS-denied indoor spaces requires trajectories that keep visual-localization error tightly bounded across varied missions. Map-

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Stability Boundaries and Motor Performance in Delayed Robot-Mediated Dyadic Interactions

arXiv:2510.14511v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper establishes analytical stability boundaries for robot-mediated human-human (dyadic) interaction systems, subject to haptic communication

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The Speedup Paradox: Rethinking Inference Speed-Quality Trade-off in Embodied Tasks

arXiv:2606.28529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied foundation models have recently been widely used to improve robot generalization and task success rates. Previous works apply lossy efficient

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The Undecidability of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Alignment

arXiv:2606.28639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article establishes the foundational mathematical limits of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) safety, proving that the core barrier is not th

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Today, we give robots a /skills library that self-evolves and compounds indefinitely! Introducing ASPIRE: a robot solving its 100th task is …

Today, we give robots a /skills library that self-evolves and compounds indefinitely! Introducing ASPIRE: a robot solving its 100th task is no longer as clueless as solving its first. Coding agents ob

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UltraImageGen: Efficient Ultra-High-Resolution Image Generation with Hierarchical Local Attention

arXiv:2510.16325v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ultra-high-resolution text-to-image generation is increasingly vital for applications requiring fine-grained textures and global structural fidelity

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CacheMPC: Certified Cached Model Predictive Control for Quadruped Locomotion

arXiv:2606.28300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model Predictive Control (MPC) is the standard predictive layer in hierarchical quadruped controllers, but the per-cycle QP solve limits the update rate

Learning to Throw: Agile and Accurate Cable-Suspended Payload Delivery with a Quadrotor

arXiv:2606.27603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadrotors offer the agility needed to rapidly transport suspended payloads during time-critical applications, including search-and-rescue and medical d

ReScene: Structured Indoor Scene Reconstruction from Multi-View Captures

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arXiv:2606.28060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constructing simulation-ready 3D scenes from multi-view captures is a key bottleneck for Embodied Artificial Intelligence, as downstream tasks require o

Structured-Li-GS: Structured 3D Gaussians Splatting with LiDAR Incorporation and Spatial Constraints

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arXiv:2606.27509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we develop a Structured framework for Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with LiDAR integration (Structured-Li-GS). It is a lightweight Gaussian S

Support-Constrained RL Enables Real-World Policy Improvement without Real-World Experience

arXiv:2606.27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations. Improving these policies with reinforcement learning (RL)

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WattLayer: Get Layers Right to Estimate Inference Energy of Neural Networks

arXiv:2606.27841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to increasing concerns about energy consumption, yet there is a lack of standardized m

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