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Senate votes to ban its members and staff from using prediction platforms

Following concern over insider trading, the U.S. Senate today voted unanimously to ban its members and staff from using prediction markets that can be used to make anonymous bets on future events, inc

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Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races

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The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to ban senators and Senate staff from participating in prediction markets . The action was prompted by insider trading concerns, particularly after Kalshi suspended a

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Applications

Sentiment Analysis of AI Adoption in Indonesian Higher Education Using Machine Learning and Transformer-Based Models

arXiv:2604.27439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study analyzes Indonesian student opinions on the adoption of artificial intelligence in higher education using two approaches: TF-IDF-based machin

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Tutorials

Sequential Inference for Gaussian Processes: A Signal Processing Perspective

arXiv:2604.28163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The proliferation of capable and efficient machine learning (ML) models marks one of the strongest methodological shifts in signal processing (SP) in

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Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a 'sustained, cross-border attack' (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack” — Servers operated by Ubuntu and

@Shopify https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/blob/main/optional-skills/productivity/shopify/SKILL.md

The Shopify skill for Hermes Agent enables integration with Shopify e-commerce platforms, likely allowing automated interactions with store management, product listings, orders, and customer data thro

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Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform powering millions of businesses worldwide Thank you to the @Shopify team for building their own …

Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform powering millions of businesses worldwide Thank you to the @Shopify team for building their own official Hermes Agent skill enabling your agent to manage pr

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Should you use a sandbox for your agent? @ListenLabs Co-Founder & CTO @florian_jue shared what can go wrong on the Max Agency podcast hosted…

This post discusses the use of sandboxes for AI agents, featuring insights from Florian Jue, co-founder and CTO of Listen Labs, during an appearance on the Max Agency podcast. The discussion likely co

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shoutout to the man @kylejeong for cooking this up 🔥 every agent can now get a dedicated browser subagent in seconds to navigate sites, fil…

shoutout to the man @kylejeong for cooking this up 🔥 every agent can now get a dedicated browser subagent in seconds to navigate sites, fill out forms, click through things, you get it Deep Agents x B

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Shuffling-Aware Optimization for Private Vector Mean Estimation

arXiv:2604.28032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study d-dimensional unbiased mean estimation in the single-message shuffle model, where each user sends a single privatized message and the analyzer

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Signature Kernel Scoring Rule: A Spatio-Temporal Diagnostic for Probabilistic Weather Forecasting

arXiv:2510.19110v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern weather forecasting has increasingly transitioned from numerical weather prediction (NWP) to data-driven machine learning forecasting t

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Simple Self-Conditioning Adaptation for Masked Diffusion Models

arXiv:2604.26985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate discrete sequences by iterative denoising under an absorbing masking process. In standard masked diffusion, if

Simulating clinical interventions with a generative multimodal model of human physiology

arXiv:2604.27899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how human health changes over time, and why responses to interventions vary between individuals, remains a central challenge in medicine.

Simulating Infant First-Person Sensorimotor Experience via Motion Retargeting from Babies to Humanoids

arXiv:2604.27583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motion retargeting from humans to human-like artificial agents is becoming increasingly important as humanoid robots grow more capable. However, most

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Simulating Validity: Modal Decoupling in MLLM Generated Feedback on Science Drawings

arXiv:2604.26957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In science education, students frequently construct hand-drawn visual models of scientific phenomena. These drawings rely on a visual structure where

Skills-Coach: A Self-Evolving Skill Optimizer via Training-Free GRPO

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arXiv:2604.27488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Skills-Coach, a novel automated framework designed to significantly enhance the self-evolution of skills within Large Language Model (LLM)-

So good

So good Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform powering millions of businesses worldwide Thank you to the @Shopify team for building their own official Hermes Agent skill enabling your agent to m

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Softmax-GS: Generalized Gaussians Learning When to Blend or Bound

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arXiv:2604.27437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D GS) is widely adopted for novel view synthesis due to its high training and rendering efficiency. However, its efficiency reli

Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces — Jake Nesler's

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Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as 4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about 40B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as 4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about 40B — Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $4 billion in its initial pub

Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that has raised $5.7B via junk bonds — Philippe Laffont'

Hardware

Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~12B in 2026, up 60% from 7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~12B in 2026, up 60% from 7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China — Chinese tech

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Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised 6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; 4.5B comes from limited partners (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised 6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; 4.5B comes from limited partners — Peter T

Hardware

Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for 'lawful' use (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for “lawful” use — The Pentagon

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SpaAct: Spatially-Activated Transition Learning with Curriculum Adaptation for Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2604.27620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable an embodied agent to follow natural-language instructions and navigate to a target location in unsee

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Applications

Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild

arXiv:2604.27422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a 3D novel sparse-view synthesis framework for unconstrained real-world scenarios that contain distractors. Unlike existing methods that prim

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SpatialGrammar: A Domain-Specific Language for LLM-Based 3D Indoor Scene Generation

arXiv:2604.27555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatically generating interactive 3D indoor scenes from natural language is crucial for virtual reality, gaming, and embodied AI. However, existing L

Spectral Dynamic Attention Network for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

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arXiv:2604.27326v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperspectral image super-resolution is essential for enhancing the spatial fidelity of HSI data, yet existing deep learning methods often struggle wi

SpecVQA: A Benchmark for Spectral Understanding and Visual Question Answering in Scientific Images

arXiv:2604.28039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spectra are a prevalent yet highly information-dense form of scientific imagery, presenting substantial challenges to multimodal large language models (

Splitting Argumentation Frameworks with Collective Attacks and Supports

arXiv:2604.28112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work proposes novel splitting techniques for argumentation formalisms that incorporate supports between defeasible elements. We base our studies on

Splitting Assumption-Based Argumentation Frameworks

arXiv:2604.27964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assumption-Based Argumentation (ABA) is a well-established formalism for modelling and reasoning over debates, with a wide range of applications. Howeve

SQuadGen: Generating Simple Quad Layouts via Chart Distance Fields

arXiv:2604.27329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D shapes from scanning, reconstruction, or AI-generated content often lack simple quad mesh layouts -- critical for efficient editing and modeling. E

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Safety

Stable Behavior, Limited Variation: Persona Validity in LLM Agents for Urban Sentiment Perception

arXiv:2604.28048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proxies for human perception in urban analysis, yet it remains unclear whether persona prompting p

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Stable but Wrong: An Inference Limit in Galactic Archaeology

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arXiv:2604.27368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical inference in observational science typically relies on a fundamental assumption: as sample size increases and uncertainties decrease, the in

Standard Intelligence raises $75M to develop efficient computer use models

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised 75 million in funding. Sequoia and Spark Capital led the round. They were joined by multipl

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Starlink is seriously just awesome.

I cannot provide a summary for this entry as the source appears to be a social media post expressing a subjective opinion rather than factual information suitable for a knowledge base. The URL format

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State-Dependent Lyapunov Method for Rank-1 Matrix Factorization

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arXiv:2604.26993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study gradient descent for rank-1 matrix factorization through a certificate-based viewpoint. The central object is a parameterized quadratic certi

Static Program Slicing Using Language Models With Dataflow-Aware Pretraining and Constrained Decoding

arXiv:2604.26961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static program slicing is a fundamental software engineering technique for isolating code relevant to specific variables. While recent learning-based

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Stating that women do not have penises is conservative. Stating that the scientific method is superior to ancestral tribal dances for seekin…

Stating that women do not have penises is conservative. Stating that the scientific method is superior to ancestral tribal dances for seeking truth is conservative. Supporting a rational immigration p

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Statistical Channel Fingerprint Construction for Massive MIMO: A Unified Tensor Learning Framework

arXiv:2604.27574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Channel fingerprint (CF) is considered a key enabler for facilitating the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) in massive multiple-input mul

Step-level Optimization for Efficient Computer-use Agents

arXiv:2604.27151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents provide a promising path toward general software automation because they can interact directly with arbitrary graphical user interfa

Stop Holding Your Breath: CT-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Bronchoscopy

arXiv:2604.28179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bronchoscopic navigation relies on registering endoscopic video to a preoperative CT scan, but respiratory motion deforms the airway by 5-20 mm, creatin

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Hardware

Strait: Perceiving Priority and Interference in ML Inference Serving

arXiv:2604.28175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning (ML) inference serving systems host deep neural network (DNN) models and schedule incoming inference requests across deployed GPUs. How

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Student Classroom Behavior Recognition Based on Improved YOLOv8s

arXiv:2604.27293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In classroom teaching, student behavior can reflect their learning state and classroom participation, which is of great significance for teaching qualit

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Supercharging Agenda Setting Research: The ParlaCAP Dataset of 28 European Parliaments and a Scalable Multilingual LLM-Based Classification

arXiv:2602.16516v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces ParlaCAP, a large-scale dataset for analyzing parliamentary agenda setting across Europe, and proposes a cost-effective method

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Tools

Switching to Together AI flipped it: ⚡️Zero training-blocking failures ⚡️~50% cost savings vs. AWS ⚡️Issues resolved within hours via shared…

Together AI reported significant improvements after switching from AWS, achieving zero training-blocking failures, approximately 50% cost savings, and rapid issue resolution within hours through share

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Syntactically-guided Information Maintenance in Sentence Comprehension

arXiv:2604.27468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maintaining information in context is essential in successful real-time language comprehension, but maintenance is cognitively costly and can slow proce

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Synthetic Computers at Scale for Long-Horizon Productivity Simulation

arXiv:2604.28181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Realistic long-horizon productivity work is strongly conditioned on user-specific computer environments, where much of the work context is stored and or

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