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Sony confirms that some digital PS4 and PS5 games require a one-time online license check 'to confirm the game's license', likely to combat refund scams (Gabe Gurwin/GameSpot)

Gabe Gurwin / GameSpot: Sony confirms that some digital PS4 and PS5 games require a one-time online license check “to confirm the game's license”, likely to combat refund scams — The problem appears t

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Research

Source-Free Bistable Fluidic Gripper for Size-Selective and Stiffness-Adaptive Grasping

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arXiv:2511.03691v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional fluid-driven soft grippers typically depend on external sources, which limit portability and long-term autonomy. This work introduces a

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Sources: Meta HR chief Janelle Gale told employees she can't rule out further layoffs; Zuckerberg said AI automation is not the driving factor behind them (Business Insider)

Business Insider: Sources: Meta HR chief Janelle Gale told employees she can't rule out further layoffs; Zuckerberg said AI automation is not the driving factor behind them — - Meta previously announc

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Hardware

Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply — Strong demand for AI computing

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Sovereign AI puts government agencies at a crossroads between ambition and accountability

Governments worldwide are racing to show progress on AI, but the gap between declaring sovereign AI ambitions and actually deploying systems that mission operators will trust is widening fast. No plac

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Tutorials

Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

arXiv:2604.26132v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimensi

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Sparsity as a Key: Unlocking New Insights from Latent Structures for Out-of-Distribution Detection

arXiv:2604.26409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have demonstrated significant success in interpreting Large Language Models (LLMs) by decomposing dense representations into

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SpatialFusion: Endowing Unified Image Generation with Intrinsic 3D Geometric Awareness

arXiv:2604.26341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent unified image generation models have achieved remarkable success by employing MLLMs for semantic understanding and diffusion backbones for image

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Spatially-constrained clustering of geospatial features for heat vulnerability assessment of favelas in Rio de Janeiro

arXiv:2604.26133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Informal settlements face disproportionate exposure to climate-related health hazards. However, existing methodologies lack systematic approaches to lin

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SpecTr-GBV: Multi-Draft Block Verification Accelerating Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2604.25925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive language models suffer from high inference latency due to their sequential decoding nature. Speculative decoding (SD) mitigates this by e

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Tutorials

Speech Emotion Recognition Using MFCC Features and LSTM-Based Deep Learning Model

arXiv:2604.25938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is the use of machines to detect the emotional state of humans based on the speech, which is gaining importance in na

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Hardware

Speed Up Unreal Engine NNE Inference with NVIDIA TensorRT for RTX Runtime

The TensorRT for RTX plugin provides a runtime for Unreal Engine's Neural Network Engine (NNE), enabling efficient deployment of AI models directly within real-time applications. Developers can see 1.

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Split over n resource sharing problem: Are fewer capable agents better than many simpler ones?

arXiv:2604.26374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multi-agent systems, should limited resources be concentrated into a few capable agents or distributed among many simpler ones? This work formulates

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Applications

SplitFT: An Adaptive Federated Split Learning System For LLMs Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2604.26388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Split Learning has been identified as an efficient approach to address the computational resource constraints of clients in classical federa

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Applications

STAR-Filter: Efficient Convex Free-Space Approximation via Starshaped Set Filtering in Noisy Environments

arXiv:2604.26626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Approximating collision-free space is fundamental to robot planning in complex environments. Convex geometric representations, such as polytopes and ell

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Star-Fusion: A Multi-modal Transformer Architecture for Discrete Celestial Orientation via Spherical Topology

arXiv:2604.26582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable celestial attitude determination is a critical requirement for autonomous spacecraft navigation, yet traditional 'Lost-in-Space' (LIS) algori

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StarDrinks: An English and Korean Test Set for SLU Evaluation in a Drink Ordering Scenario

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arXiv:2604.26500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs and speech assistants are increasingly used for task-oriented interactions, yet their evaluation often relies on controlled scenarios that fail to

STARFlow-V: End-to-End Video Generative Modeling with Normalizing Flows

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Normalizing flows (NFs) are end-to-end likelihood-based generative models for continuous data, and have recently regained attention with encouraging progress on image generation. Yet in the video gene

Starlink in Gibraltar! 🇬🇮

Elon Musk announced the availability or expansion of Starlink satellite internet services in Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. This announce

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STARRY: Spatial-Temporal Action-Centric World Modeling for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2604.26848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation critically requires reasoning about future spatial-temporal interactions, yet existing VLA policies and world-model-enhanced polici

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State Beyond Appearance: Diagnosing and Improving State Consistency in Dial-Based Measurement Reading

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arXiv:2604.26614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive progress on general multimodal tasks, yet they remain brittle on dial-based measuremen

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STLGT: A Scalable Trace-Based Linear Graph Transformer for Tail Latency Prediction in Microservices

arXiv:2604.26422v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate end-to-end tail-latency forecasting is critical for proactive SLO management in microservice systems. However, modeling long-range dependency

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Local Ai

Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Universal Robotic Gripping

arXiv:2604.26897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Origami-inspired robotic grippers have shown promising potential for object manipulation tasks due to their compact volume and mechanical flexibility. H

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Stochastic Scaling Limits and Synchronization by Noise in Deep Transformer Models

arXiv:2604.26898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We prove pathwise convergence of the layerwise evolution of tokens in a finite-depth, finite-width transformer model with MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP)

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StratMem-Bench: Evaluating Strategic Memory Use in Virtual Character Conversation Beyond Factual Recall

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arXiv:2604.26243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving realistic human-like conversation for virtual characters requires not only a simple memorization and recall of past events, but also the str

StreamAgent: Towards Anticipatory Agents for Streaming Video Understanding

arXiv:2508.01875v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time streaming video understanding in domains such as autonomous driving and intelligent surveillance poses challenges beyond conventional offl

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Stress Testing Factual Consistency Metrics for Long-Document Summarization

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arXiv:2511.07689v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating the factual consistency of abstractive text summarization remains a significant challenge, particularly for long documents, where c

Structural Generalization on SLOG without Hand-Written Rules

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arXiv:2604.26157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structural generalization in semantic parsing requires systems to apply learned compositional rules to novel structural combinations. Existing approac

Structured and Abstractive Reasoning on Multi-modal Relational Knowledge Images

arXiv:2510.21828v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding and reasoning with abstractive information from the visual modality presents significant challenges for current multi-modal larg

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Student Guides Teacher: Weak-to-Strong Inference via Spectral Orthogonal Exploration

arXiv:2601.06160v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffer from ''Reasoning Collapse'' on challenging mathematical reasoning tasks, where stochastic sampling produce

Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as wagers of $2,500+ at odds of <35%, have an average ~52% win rate, above 25% for political bets (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as wagers of $2,500+ at odds of <35%, have an average ~52% win rate, above 25% for political bets — High rate of winning w

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Tutorials

Sun Finance automates ID extraction and fraud detection with generative AI on AWS

In this post, we show how Sun Finance used Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Rekognition to build an AI-powered identity verification (IDV) pipeline. The solution improved extraction accurac

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Super-resolution Multi-signal Direction-of-Arrival Estimation by Hankel-structured Sensing and Decomposition

arXiv:2604.26793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivated by sensing modalities in modern autonomous systems that involve hardware-constrained spatial sampling over large arrays with limited coherence

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SWAN: World-Aware Adaptive Multimodal Networks for Runtime Variations

arXiv:2604.26181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal deep neural networks deployed in realistic environments must contend with runtime variations: changes in modality quality, overall input comp

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Swap distance minimization shapes the order of subject, object and verb in languages of the world

arXiv:2604.26726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Languages of the world vary concerning the order of subject, object and verb. The most frequent dominant orders are SOV and SVO, and researchers have ta

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SWE-Edit: Rethinking Code Editing for Efficient SWE-Agent

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arXiv:2604.26102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents have achieved remarkable progress on software engineering tasks, yet current approaches suffer from a fundamental context

SynSur: An end-to-end generative pipeline for synthetic industrial surface defect generation and detection

arXiv:2604.26633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The bottleneck in learning-based industrial defect detection is often limited not by model capacity, but by the scarcity of labeled defect data: defec

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Talent or Luck? Evaluating Attribution Bias in Large Language Models

arXiv:2505.22910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When a student fails an exam, do we tend to blame their effort or the test's difficulty? Attribution, defined as how reasons are assigned to event o

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TAP into the Patch Tokens: Leveraging Vision Foundation Model Features for AI-Generated Image Detection

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arXiv:2604.26772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent methods demonstrate that large-scale pretrained models, such as CLIP vision transformers, effectively detect AI-generated images (AIGIs) from uns

Tatemae: Detecting Alignment Faking via Tool Selection in LLMs

arXiv:2604.26511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Alignment faking (AF) occurs when an LLM strategically complies with training objectives to avoid value modification, reverting to prior preferences o

TDD Governance for Multi-Agent Code Generation via Prompt Engineering

arXiv:2604.26615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) accelerate software development but often exhibit instability, non-determinism, and weak adherence to development discipl

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Teaching LLM to be Persuasive: Reward-Enhanced Policy Optimization for Alignment from Heterogeneous Rewards

arXiv:2510.04214v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We deploy large language models (LLMs) as business development (BD) agents for persuasive price negotiation in online travel agencies (OTAs). The ag

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Local Ai

Tell Model Where to Look: Mitigating Hallucinations in MLLMs by Vision-Guided Attention

arXiv:2511.20032v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual attention serves as the primary mechanism through which MLLMs interpret visual information; however, its limited localization capability ofte

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Test-Time Safety Alignment

arXiv:2604.26167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that a model's input word embeddings can serve as effective control variables for steering its behavior toward outputs that sati

Text Style Transfer with Machine Translation for Graphic Designs

arXiv:2604.26361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Globalization of graphic designs such as those used in marketing materials and magazines is increasingly important for communication to broad audience

Text-Utilization for Encoder-dominated Speech Recognition Models

arXiv:2604.26514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates efficient methods for utilizing text-only data to improve speech recognition, focusing on encoder-dominated models that facili

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Thank you AI Dev Day '26 @DeepLearningAI @jerryjliu0 shares why SOTA LLMs can build an app but can't read a PDF 🤯

Jerry Liu discusses a key limitation of state-of-the-art large language models at AI Dev Day '26, highlighting that while modern LLMs excel at building applications, they struggle with fundamental tas

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Thank you to @RugvedSomwanshi and the @lmstudio team for the PR!

Nous Research is acknowledging and thanking Rugved Somwanshi and the LM Studio team for their contribution via a pull request (PR) to a project, likely related to Nous Research's open-source model dev

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