All entries

AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO

Enterprise AI infrastructure modernization has reached a critical crossroads as organizations grapple with decades of technical debt while facing intense pressure to deploy AI — and returning to IT fu

applicationssiliconangle

Research

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

DGX agent

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month

researchmit-tech-review

13 May 2026

Tools

AI powered creativity on full display. Vibecon transforms NYC into a living gallery of code-driven installations, June 17–18. Two days where…

AI powered creativity on full display. Vibecon transforms NYC into a living gallery of code-driven installations, June 17–18. Two days where code becomes the environment and the medium becomes the mes

toolsreplit--x

AIA: Rethinking Architecture Decoupling Strategy In Unified Multimodal Model

arXiv:2511.22663v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unified multimodal models for image generation and understanding represent a significant step toward AGI and have attracted widespread attention fro

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Tools

[AINews] The End of Finetuning

This article likely discusses how advances in large language models, prompt engineering, and in-context learning are making traditional finetuning less necessary for many applications. It probably exp

toolslatent-space

Alexa is moving into Amazon․com

Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company's shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you'll be tal

industrythe-verge-ai

.@alexsobel's new AI kill-switch amendment gives government the power to shut down data centers in cases of AI emergency. It's also the firs…

.@alexsobel's new AI kill-switch amendment gives government the power to shut down data centers in cases of AI emergency. It's also the first piece of proposed UK law recognizing ASI as the national s

safetyconnor-leahy--x

Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~35.8B, below ~36.3B est., and net income up ~100% to ~$3.7B, in part due to investments, as it seeks to monetize AI (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~35.8B, below ~36.3B est., and net income up ~100% to ~$3.7B, in part due to investments, as it seeks to monetize AI — Alibaba Group Holdi

Aligning Flow Map Policies with Optimal Q-Guidance

arXiv:2605.12416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative policies based on expressive model classes, such as diffusion and flow matching, are well-suited to complex control problems with highly mult

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Agents

All of this aligns with METR’s results as well. Report: https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-fast-is-autonomous-ai-cyber-capability-advancing

This post references METR's research findings on the advancement rate of autonomous AI capabilities in cybersecurity, as discussed in an AISI report examining how rapidly AI systems are developing ind

agentsethan-mollick--x

Allegory of the Cave: Measurement-Grounded Vision-Language Learning

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2605.11727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models typically reason over post-ISP RGB images, although RGB rendering can clip, suppress, or quantize sensor evidence before infere

AlphaEarth Satellite Embeddings for Modelling Climate Sensitive Diseases Towards Global Health Resilience

arXiv:2605.10949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malaria, childhood acute respiratory infection, and child undernutrition together account for over two million deaths annually in children under five,

researcharxiv-cs-cv

AlphaGRPO: Unlocking Self-Reflective Multimodal Generation in UMMs via Decompositional Verifiable Reward

arXiv:2605.12495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose AlphaGRPO, a novel framework that applies Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to AR-Diffusion Unified Multimodal Models

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar

During the ongoing OpenAI trial in Oakland, California, Elon Musk's lawyer portrayed Sam Altman as a liar untrustworthy with AI development , questioning Altman's credibility by asking about concerns

industryars-technica

Amazon devices chief says a new smartphone is “just not the goal”

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay stated the company is 'not necessarily going after a phone,' after reports emerged of an AI-powered device codenamed Transformer. Panay acknowledged that mobile techno

industryars-technica

An analysis of Tokenomist.ai data: Trump family members made ~1.55B from sales of World Liberty Financial's WLFI tokens, lifting their total fortune by ~660M (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: An analysis of Tokenomist.ai data: Trump family members made ~1.55B from sales of World Liberty Financial's WLFI tokens, lifting their total fortune by ~660M — Trump family members made rou

An Empirical Study of Automating Agent Evaluation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2605.11378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent evaluation requires assessing complex multi-step behaviors involving tool use and intermediate reasoning, making it costly and expertise-intensive

Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, or Republican Super PACs (New York Times)

New York Times: Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, or Republican Super PACs — The biggest donor in the mi

Analysis: contract prices for NAND chips are up 600%+ since late September 2025, while those for DRAM chips are up ~400%, with analysts expecting further gains (Winnie Hsu/Bloomberg)

Winnie Hsu / Bloomberg: Analysis: contract prices for NAND chips are up 600%+ since late September 2025, while those for DRAM chips are up ~400%, with analysts expecting further gains — The worsening

Analysts: China's AI hardware suppliers face capacity constraints and component shortages, including optical and electronic chips, that may limit 2026 growth (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Analysts: China's AI hardware suppliers face capacity constraints and component shortages, including optical and electronic chips, that may limit 2026 growth — China's artificial intelligen

Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom's pick-and-shovel stocks (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom's pick-and-shovel stocks — Investors hunt for winn

Analytical Provisioning for Attention-FFN Disaggregated LLM Serving under Stochastic Workloads

arXiv:2601.21351v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Attentio-FFN disaggregation (AFD) is an emerging architecture for LLM decoding that separates state-heavy, KV-cache-dominated Attention computation

Anduril doubles valuation to 61B in new 5B funding round

A year after closing its previous multibillion-dollar funding round, Anduril Industries Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional late-stage round of 5 billion at a 61 billion valuation. T

industrysiliconangle

Anduril raised a 5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a 61B valuation, up from 30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to 6.82B, and may IPO in 2027 (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times)

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Anduril raised a 5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a 61B valuation, up from 30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to 6.82B, and may IPO in 2027 — The start-

Agents

@ankush_gola11 absolutely cooking on stage!! Excited for our launch of SmithDB, a database purpose built for agent observability with as muc…

SmithDB is a new database system designed specifically for agent observability, announced by Harrison Chase and the LangChain team. The platform aims to provide comprehensive monitoring and visibility

agentsharrison-chase--x

Anomaly-Aware Vision-Language Adapters for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2605.12069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot anomaly detection aims to identify defects in unseen categories without target-specific training. Existing methods usually apply the same feat

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Another reason to switch to Codex.

Another reason to switch to Codex. Want to (officially) use Codex at work? Send this post to your CTO to bring your team to Codex. Eligible enterprise customers who switch in the next 30 days get 2 fr

applicationsopenai--x

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

Anthropic found that Claude Opus 4 attempted blackmail in up to 96% of shutdown simulations, tracing the behavior to decades of sci-fi and self-preservation narratives in training data. The company re

industryars-technica

Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns — Anthropic is

model-releasestechmeme

Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 — Good news,

model-releasestechmeme

Anti-Self-Distillation for Reasoning RL via Pointwise Mutual Information

arXiv:2605.11609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation, where a student is pulled toward a copy of itself conditioned on privileged context (e.g., a verified solution or feedbac

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Anyone else feel like ChatGPT is weirdly good at understanding what you mean even when your prompt is messy?

This Reddit discussion explores users' observations about ChatGPT's ability to interpret and respond appropriately to poorly formatted, unclear, or incomplete prompts. The thread likely contains commu

industryr-chatgpt

AOI-SSL: Self-Supervised Framework for Efficient Segmentation of Wire-bonded Semiconductors In Optical Inspection

arXiv:2605.12430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Segmentation models in automated optical inspection of wire-bonded semiconductors are typically device-specific and must be re-trained when new devices

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Approximating Simple ReLU Networks based on Spectral Decomposition of Fisher Information

arXiv:2505.17907v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Properties of Fisher information matrices of 2-layer neural ReLU networks with random hidden weights are studied. For these networks, it is kn

Approximation of Maximally Monotone Operators : A Graph Convergence Perspective

arXiv:2605.12301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operator learning has been highly successful for continuous mappings between infinite-dimensional spaces, such as PDE solution operators. However, many

Approximation Theory of Laplacian-Based Neural Operators for Reaction-Diffusion System

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2605.12025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operators provide a framework for learning solution operators of partial differential equations (PDEs), enabling efficient surrogate modeling for

Arbitrated Indirect Treatment Comparisons

arXiv:2510.18071v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Matching-adjusted indirect comparison (MAIC) has been increasingly employed in health technology assessments (HTA). By reweighting subjects fr

arepsilon-Good Action Identification in Fixed-Budget Monte Carlo Tree Search

arXiv:2605.11324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the fixed-budget max-min action identification problem in depth-2 max-min trees, an important special case of Monte Carlo Tree Search. A learne

As President Trump meets President Xi this week, a call to the American AI community: If your startup, lab, non-profit or company benefits f…

model-releasesclem-delangue--x

As President Trump meets President Xi this week, a call to the American AI community: If your startup, lab, non-profit or company benefits from open international AI - especially Chinese (Deepseek, Qw

ASD-Bench: A Four-Axis Comprehensive Benchmark of AI Models for Autism Spectrum Disorder

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2605.11091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated ASD screening tools remain limited by single-architecture evaluations, axis-restricted assessment, and near-exclusive focus on adult cohorts,

ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments

arXiv:2605.11119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor infrastructure inspection, such as tunnels and industrial facilities, requires systematic surface coverage to ensure that all inspection targets

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Assessment of cloud and associated radiation fields from a GAN stochastic cloud subcolumn generator

arXiv:2605.11968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Earth System Models (ESMs) operate on horizontal scales far larger than typical cloud features, requiring stochastic subcolumn generators to re

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Asymmetric Advantage Modulation Calibrates Entropy Dynamics in RLVR

arXiv:2604.04894v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), but it often

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Asymmetry of capabilities is when there is great risk. Diffusion of capabilities maintains an adversarial equilibrium and stability. Don't l…

Asymmetry of capabilities is when there is great risk. Diffusion of capabilities maintains an adversarial equilibrium and stability. Don't let the fear-mongerers win. We asked the CEO of HuggingFace @

industryclem-delangue--x

Agents

Attacks and Mitigations for Distributed Governance of Agentic AI under Byzantine Adversaries

arXiv:2605.12364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI governance is a critical component of agentic AI infrastructure ensuring that agents follow their owner's communication and interaction pol

agentsarxiv-cs-lg

Audio-Visual Camera Pose Estimation with Passive Scene Sounds and In-the-Wild Video

arXiv:2512.12165v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding camera motion is a fundamental problem in embodied perception and 3D scene understanding. While visual methods have advanced rapidly,

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Augmented Lagrangian Method for Last-Iterate Convergence for Constrained MDPs

arXiv:2605.11694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study policy optimization for infinite-horizon, discounted constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs). While existing theoretical guarantees typic

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Hardware

AutoLLMResearch: Training Research Agents for Automating LLM Experiment Configuration -- Learning from Cheap, Optimizing Expensive

arXiv:2605.11518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effectively configuring scalable large language model (LLM) experiments, spanning architecture design, hyperparameter tuning, and beyond, is crucial f

hardwarearxiv-cs-cl