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AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a $99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a 99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a

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AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks — Justin Zheng is

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AI Safety Considerations for Agents With Limited Time to Act

arXiv:2610.10285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the wake of the increasingly public discussion about AI alignment, recent work has tried to propose specific AI architectures that behave safely. H

AirGroundVLN: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Goal-Oriented Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation

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arXiv:2610.10421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-oriented Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to locate and reach targets described in natural language without prescribed routes.

Algorithmic Scratchpads and Curriculum Staging for Arithmetic Reasoning in Tiny Transformers

arXiv:2610.09003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently struggle with deterministic multi-step algorithmic tasks such as multi-digit multiplication and l

Alice: A Large-Scale German Benchmark for Rubric-Based Multi-Dimensional Automatic Short Answer Scoring

arXiv:2610.09661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic Short Answer Scoring (ASAS) is central to NLP for Education. However, openly available benchmarks remain scarce, and existing datasets largely

Align Before You Combine: Reference Space Calibration for Supervision Without Ground Truth

arXiv:2610.09525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a calibration-first framework that produces supervision scores without access to ground-truth labels or a shared annotation space. Our fram

Allocation Stability and Wald Inference under Variance-Aware UCB

arXiv:2412.08843v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Allocation stability is often used to justify Gaussian inference from bandit data, but when is it necessary? In this paper, we address this qu

An Accuracy--Information Tradeoff for Loss-Difference Conditional Mutual Information

arXiv:2610.09206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Loss-difference conditional mutual information (ld-CMI) uses the smallest of the standard observations in the supersample hierarchy of generalization bo

An AI-assisted conditioning and geological interpretation workflow for usage in implicit geological modeling

arXiv:2610.09871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Implicit modeling and Relative Geologic Time are geological modeling techniques that enable more efficient, faster, less biased and more reproducible

An Empirical Study of Agent Skills' Downstream Utility

arXiv:2610.08875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent Skills package procedural guidance and resources for reuse, but a relevant Skill does not necessarily improve task performance. Existing studies

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An extended deep energy method for thermo-mechanical crack propagation

arXiv:2610.09433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermo-mechanical fracture couples transient heat conduction on a cracked domain with a crack that grows as the temperature and the displacement evolve.

An Informational Curse of Horizon in Goal-Conditioned Policy Learning

arXiv:2610.09247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The difficulty of learning goal-reaching policies is often attributed to a 'curse of horizon' that manifests as bias accumulation in temporal-difference

An Invariant Tangent-Angle Descriptor and a Band U-Net for 2D Fragment Adjacency Prediction

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arXiv:2610.09459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the prediction of adjacency between pairs of 2D fragments based on their contours. We improved the two-stage architecture proposed

an open model just beat Jev outright on clinical decisions 🔥 pplx-decider v1.1 got 643 of 669 right vs 628 for Jev, at 42% less per decisio…

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an open model just beat Jev outright on clinical decisions 🔥 pplx-decider v1.1 got 643 of 669 right vs 628 for Jev, at 42% less per decision and about the same speed. and you can download the weights

An RRAM-based Hardware Implementation of a Radial Basis Function Neuron for Edge Classifiers

arXiv:2606.14739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of modern machine learning (ML) solutions on resource-constrained edge devices highlights implementation challenges. This is es

Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX (Ashley Campion/CrowdStrike)

Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike: Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX — CrowdSt

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Anaximander: Interactively Running Geospatial Deep Learning Models on Any Compute Backend

arXiv:2610.09085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Applying deep learning models to satellite imagery from within geographic information systems (GIS) remains high-friction for remote sensing practitione

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Announcing ARC Prize Research Summit 2026 Research Speaker Kevin Murphy @sirbayes is a research scientist at Google DeepMind and author of t…

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Announcing ARC Prize Research Summit 2026 Research Speaker Kevin Murphy @sirbayes is a research scientist at Google DeepMind and author of the “Probabilistic Machine Learning” textbooks, developing AI

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Another great paper from NVIDIA. They find that only 0.6% to 1.2% of model weights change after each RL step in the six models they measured…

Another great paper from NVIDIA. They find that only 0.6% to 1.2% of model weights change after each RL step in the six models they measured. Yet a standard refit copies the full checkpoint to the rol

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Another great paper from Salesforce AI Research. The finding is that a 31B open Gemma-4 web agent scores 74.6% on the 9-app WebArena Infinit…

Another great paper from Salesforce AI Research. The finding is that a 31B open Gemma-4 web agent scores 74.6% on the 9-app WebArena Infinity set, above Gemini 3 Flash with browser use at 70.1%. They

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Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

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Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and

Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects

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Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get 'thorough, periodic secur

Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner,

Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others — Anthropic is launch

Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward Claude; ending chats is 'the primary enforcement mechanism' (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude; ending chats is “the primary enforcement mechanism” — The usage po

Anytime-Feasible First-Order Optimization via Safe Sequential QCQP

arXiv:2511.19675v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents the Safe Sequential Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming (SS-QCQP) algorithm, a first-order method for smooth i

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APE: Selective Fine-tuning with Acceptance Criteria for Language Model Adaptation

arXiv:2505.19912v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Adjacent Possible Exploration (APE), a selective fine-tuning method for adapting large language models that systematically explores param

ARCS: Towards Precise Text-to-SQL via Structured Disambiguation

arXiv:2610.09396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As text-to-SQL systems move beyond demonstrations toward real-world deployment, ambiguity in user questions becomes a primary source of errors. Such amb

Arctic Questions, Missing Answers: A Dataset and Benchmark for LLM Abstention in Arctic Science

arXiv:2610.09446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) should abstain from scientific multiple-choice questions when no option is valid, but frequent abstention alone does not de

Are Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning Methods Really Different?

arXiv:2610.09122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) offers many parameterizations, yet their methodological and functional differences remain unclear. We compare six

Are We Really Benchmarking Forecasting Models? The Impact of Preprocessing on Time Series Performance

arXiv:2610.09096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While established literature underscores the pivotal role of preprocessing in forecasting accuracy, this stage remains largely overlooked in current res

Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised 200M at a 3.1B valuation, up from $1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised 200M at a 3.1B valuation, up from 1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., th

Argos: Adapt Rich Geometric Priors for Generalizable Online Scene-Change-Detection

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arXiv:2610.10181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in dynamic environments require reliable detection of how their surroundings change over time. Existing learning-based methods largely

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Artificial intelligence pathways from weather to climate

arXiv:2610.09770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning has made rapid advances in weather forecasting: autoregressive models trained on atmospheric reanalyses now rival dynamical models acros

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As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And tha…

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As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our soc

As easy as asking

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As easy as asking After @elonmusk tweeted my guide to connecting Claude and ChatGPT to Grok @Bot, people had 5 questions. 1. Do I need an API key? Nah. Just log into Claude or ChatGPT, like you do in

Ask the Expert: LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Cyber Defense

arXiv:2610.09337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policy-based reinforcement learning (RL) approaches have produced promising results for autonomous cyber defense; however, they are sample-inefficient

At WebexOne, Cisco’s Jeetu Patel argues the agent era will be won on context, cost and control

For as long as Cisco Systems Inc. has held its WebexOne event, the show has aimed to drive thought leadership in the collaboration industry. This year, with artificial intelligence on tap, it had its

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Attention-Mass Condensation for Sparse Decoding

arXiv:2602.06317v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attention-mass concentration creates an opportunity for sparse decoding, but retained mass alone does not guarantee a stable greedy decision:

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Attention via Black-Box Vector Search

arXiv:2610.10135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse attention mechanisms estimate attention over n tokens using a small subset of keys. Many existing approaches use maximum inner product search (

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[audio.cpp] Recent updates you might have missed: Higgs Audio TTS use 48% less VRAM (< 6GB), HTDemucs 2.2× faster, PocketTTS 2.2× faster on CPU, and WebUI generation history feature

Hi all, a bunch of performance improvements have been landed in audio.cpp. The biggest highlight is Higgs Audio TTS, which now runs with around 6 GB VRAM, a 48% reduction in peak memory usage compared

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Auto-Regressive Models Need Structural Registers: Semantic Foresight Improves Coherent Driving Video Continuation

arXiv:2412.03758v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Front-view driving video continuation is a critical component for constructing sophisticated world models. However, maintaining long-term coherence

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AutoAdapt: Automatic Domain Discovery Enables Low-Cost Extensibility

arXiv:2610.10349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction-tuned models are deployed into environments where domains are heterogeneous and evolve, yet adding new domains or data typically requires co

Automation Anywhere acquires Boost.ai to expand customer-facing voice AI

Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, fr

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Autonomous Driving Research Requires a Community-Driven Data Paradigm

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arXiv:2610.08825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving has made remarkable progress, with recent AI advances enabling commercial deployments that are reshaping urban mobility. Yet the fiel

Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Multichain MDPs: A Hierarchical Decomposition Approach

arXiv:2610.10326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study learning optimal policies in average-reward multichain Markov decision processes (MDPs), where the optimal gain may depend on the initial state