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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and g
arXiv:2604.27953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) become increasingly integrated into decision-making systems, it is essential to understand how visual inputs influence
arXiv:2601.20969v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Epistemic planning extends (multi-agent) automated planning by making agents' knowledge and beliefs first-class aspects of the planning formalism. O
Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY —
The Federal Data Paradox examines how U.S. federal agencies accumulate vast amounts of data but face significant barriers to accessing and utilizing it effectively. The article likely discusses challe
arXiv:2604.27168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the Field of Safe Motion (FSM), a quantitative safety model for determining whether a driver maintains a collision-free escape route, or 'out
Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it — Women are u
The goblin thing was fun as it was a real quirk that was emblematic of what makes AI interesting, and it organically came out of an AI user discovery. So was, for what it was worth, Ghiblitization Whe
arXiv:2604.26965v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, f
arXiv:2604.26954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Strategic model selection and reasoning settings are more effective than ensembling for optimizing automated scoring with large language models (LLMs)
arXiv:2604.27274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI transitions toward multi-agent systems (MAS) to solve complex workflows, research paradigms operate on the axiomatic assumption that agent collabo
The latest crop of models remains below 1% on ARC-AGI-3 -- for now. Where will the scores be by the end of the year? GPT-5.5 & Opus 4.7 on ARC-AGI-3 - GPT-5.5: 0.43% - Opus 4.7: 0.18% We found 3 failu
arXiv:2604.27282v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrial risk assessment tools are used on over one million U.S. defendants each year, yet their use for predicting rare violent re-offense faces a ba
The new Grok comes in below the latest Chinese open weights models, Grok 4 was at the frontier when released. (& Artificial Analysis: please stop using GDPval-AA which is not a useful test of anything
arXiv:2412.05135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a novel method for measuring the discrepancy between a set of samples and a desired posterior distribution for Bayesian inference.
The Slanic salt mine in Romania features massive underground chambers and caverns that visually resemble the fictional Mines of Moria from J.R.R. Tolkien's works, with its vast architectural scale and
arXiv:2604.27673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Target-Event-Agent Networks (TEA Nets) as a computational framework to extract subjects (``Agents'), verbs (``Events'), and objects (``Targ
arXiv:2604.27292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Every system that performs effects has two boundaries: what it can do (expressiveness) and what governance covers (governance). In nearly all deployed A
Mike Stone / Reuters: The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz — The U.S. Navy is ra
Greg Otto / CyberScoop: The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored — The guidance
arXiv:2604.27209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models can now generate substantial code and draft research text, but research-software projects require more than either artifact alon
This post documents technical challenges encountered while redesigning the X (formerly Twitter) ads manager system, suggesting the overhaul of the legacy Twitter advertising infrastructure involved si
arXiv:2604.27096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The purpose of our paper is to develop a unified multi-agent architecture that automates end-to-end machine learning (ML) pipeline generation from datas
This is the year of browser use agents!!! I'm so excited Build agents with LangChain + @browserbase. Give your Deep Agents search, fetch, and browser subagents to access the full web. All with full ob
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, which many are buying for AI and agentic tools, “may take several months to reach supply demand balance” — During today's e
arXiv:2601.02845v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-horizon conversational agents have to manage ever-growing interaction histories that quickly exceed the finite context windows of large l
arXiv:2604.27359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intent-based networking promises to revolutionize telecommunications network management by enabling operators to specify high-level goals rather than lo
arXiv:2604.28053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Responsible AI research typically focuses on examining the use and impacts of deployed AI systems. Yet, there is currently limited visibility into the
arXiv:2604.27296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for code editing, yet the prevalent full-code generation paradigm suffers from severe efficiency bo
Gary Marcus critiques the AI industry's focus on scaling model parameters and training data (tokenmaxxing) as an inefficient approach to advancing AI capabilities. He argues that simply increasing tok
arXiv:2604.28076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Table Question Answering, where most queries can be answered by extracting information or simple aggregatio
arXiv:2601.20239v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-grained and contact-rich manipulation remain challenging for robots, largely due to the underutilization of tactile feedback. To address this,
arXiv:2604.27321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face mounting operational challenges. These challenges come from increasing threat volumes, heterogeneous SIEM plat
arXiv:2604.27217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cognitive decline is highly heterogeneous across individuals, which complicates prognosis, trial design, and treatment planning. We present the Personal
arXiv:2604.27478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Terrestrial network limitations drive the integration of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), notably mega-constellations comprising thousands of low Earth
arXiv:2604.27256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present extsc{dm-PhiSNet}, a physically constrained extsc{PhiSNet}-based equivariant model that predicts one-electron reduced density matrices (1-R
arXiv:2604.27499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Off-road nighttime autonomous driving suffers from unreliable visible-light perception, making infrared modality crucial for accurate freespace detectio
arXiv:2604.27247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hedges and other linear woody features provide valuable ecosystem services, particularly within intensively managed agricultural landscapes. They are ke
arXiv:2604.28087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rule-based systems remain central in safety-critical domains but often struggle with scalability, brittleness, and goal misspecification. These limita
arXiv:2602.21361v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ptychographic imaging at synchrotron and XFEL sources requires dense overlapping scans, limiting throughput and increasing dose. Extending coh
arXiv:2604.27586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning over heterogeneous artifacts (PDFs, spreadsheets, slide decks, etc.) increasingly occurs within structured agent workflows that iteratively ex
arXiv:2509.25845v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in diffusion and flow-matching models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in high-fidelity image synthesis. A promin
arXiv:2604.27928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tunnel inspection requires outputs that can support defect localization, measurement, severity grading, and engineering documentation. Existing traini
arXiv:2504.18902v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the forthcoming era of 6G networks, characterized by unprecedented data rates, ultra-low latency, and ubiquitous connectivity, effective ma
arXiv:2511.09416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer Semantic Genetic Programming (TSGP) is a semantic search approach that uses a pre-trained transformer model as a variation operator to g
arXiv:2503.22676v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present TranSplat, a method for instant, accurate object relighting within the Gaussian Splatting (GS) framework. Rather than relying on costly i
arXiv:2604.27975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional Shot Boundary Detection (SBD) inherently struggles with complex transitions by formulating the task around isolated cut points, frequently
arXiv:2604.27958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to the scarcity of large-scale in-the-wild triplet data and the improper use of masks, the performance of video virtual try-on models remains limite
Troubling US fertility rates just hit another record low In 2025, the US general fertility rate fell to 53.1 - the lowest level ever recorded Japan, South Korea, and Germany have already been shrinkin
This past week delivered another gut punch for science in the US. This time, the target was the National Science Foundation—a federal agency that funds major research projects to the tune of around $9
arXiv:2604.27132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in high-stakes domains demand reliable verification, yet centralized approaches suffer four
Try the Grok Imagine agent mode beta! Your entire creative workflow just collapsed into one infinite canvas. In @imagine Agent Mode, you can brainstorm, write, generate and edit images, then turn them
arXiv:2604.27861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decompositional jailbreaks pose a critical threat to large language models (LLMs) by allowing adversaries to fragment a malicious objective into a seq
arXiv:2604.27356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous graphs are widely used to model multi-relational systems, but missing node attributes remain a major bottleneck for downstream learning.
Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack , with the hacktivist group The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, aka 313 Team claiming re
arXiv:2604.28095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate lesion segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. However, lesions often resemble surrounding tissues and exhibit i
arXiv:2507.13486v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Uncertainty quantification of the photogrammetry process is essential for providing per-point accuracy credentials of the point clouds. Unlike airbo
arXiv:2604.27414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in autonomous driving because they combine visual perception with language-based reasoning, supporti
arXiv:2510.17196v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effectively processing long contexts is a critical challenge for language models. While standard Transformers are limited by quadratic complex
arXiv:2604.27491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modeling 4D human-object interaction (HOI) is a compelling challenge in computer vision and an essential technology powering virtual and mixed-reality a