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Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back

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Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested 30B — More banks are being invited

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15 Apr 2026

South Africa = racist regime

South Africa = racist regime The South African laws are literally super racist, plain and simple. It’s not complicated: imagine if the law was called “White Empowerment”, instead of “Black Empowerment

Space Force looks at moving 'significant number' of launches from ULA to SpaceX

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The US Space Force is reassessing its launch strategy following repeated technical malfunctions experienced by ULA's Vulcan rocket, particularly issues with its solid boosters. These reliability conce

SpaceX is moving at literal light speed right now SpaceX launched 2 more Falcon 9s in under 24 hours AGAIN - Florida in the morning, Califor…

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SpaceX is moving at literal light speed right now SpaceX launched 2 more Falcon 9s in under 24 hours AGAIN - Florida in the morning, California at night Even with unlimited budgets, government space p

SpanKey: Dynamic Key Space Conditioning for Neural Network Access Control

arXiv:2604.12254v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: SpanKey is a lightweight way to gate inference without encrypting weights or chasing leaderboard accuracy on gated inference. The idea is to condition

Sparse Growing Transformer: Training-Time Sparse Depth Allocation via Progressive Attention Looping

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arXiv:2603.23998v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing approaches to increasing the effective depth of Transformers predominantly rely on parameter reuse, extending computation through recursive

SparseWorld-TC: Trajectory-Conditioned Sparse Occupancy World Model

arXiv:2511.22039v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces a novel architecture for trajectory-conditioned forecasting of future 3D scene occupancy. In contrast to methods that rely on

Spatial Atlas: Compute-Grounded Reasoning for Spatial-Aware Research Agent Benchmarks

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arXiv:2604.12102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce compute-grounded reasoning (CGR), a design paradigm for spatial-aware research agents in which every answerable sub-problem is resolved by

Spatial-Spectral Adaptive Fidelity and Noise Prior Reduction Guided Hyperspectral Image Denoising

arXiv:2604.12600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The core challenge of hyperspectral image denoising is striking the right balance between data fidelity and noise prior modeling. Most existing methods

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Speaker effects in language comprehension: An integrative model of language and speaker processing

arXiv:2412.07238v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The identity of a speaker influences language comprehension through modulating perception and expectation. This review explores speaker effects and

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SpecBound: Adaptive Bounded Self-Speculation with Layer-wise Confidence Calibration

arXiv:2604.12247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding has emerged as a promising approach to accelerate autoregressive inference in large language models (LLMs). Self-draft methods, w

SpecBranch: Speculative Decoding via Hybrid Drafting and Rollback-Aware Branch Parallelism

arXiv:2506.01979v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently, speculative decoding (SD) has emerged as a promising technique to accelerate LLM inference by employing a small draft model to propo

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Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages — In Febru

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StableSketcher: Enhancing Diffusion Model for Pixel-based Sketch Generation via Visual Question Answering Feedback

arXiv:2510.20093v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly enriched the quality of generated images, challenges remain in synthesizin

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Stanford just tested whether LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters’ AI legal research tools are really “hallucination-free,” as they claim. Spoiler…

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Stanford researchers tested the claims made by LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters that their AI-powered legal research tools are 'hallucination-free,' and found those claims to be inaccurate. The study re

.@Starlink is the best internet around. On flights it is miles ahead of anything else. Just a superior service/product.

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Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet service, has been praised for delivering superior connectivity compared to competing options, including in-flight internet services on commercial aircraft. The se

Starship static fire successful!

Elon Musk announced a successful static fire test of SpaceX's Starship vehicle, a critical pre-launch milestone in which the rocket's engines are ignited while the vehicle remains secured to the launc

Stendr snags $5.4M in pre-seed funding to develop AI-native drone-tracking tech

Norwegian defense technology startup Stendr said today it has closed on 5.4 million in pre-seed funding in order to deliver advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for modern weapons systems. Th

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StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction

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arXiv:2604.03136v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluate

Stress Detection Using Wearable Physiological and Sociometric Sensors

arXiv:2604.12746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stress remains a significant social problem for individuals in modern societies. This paper presents a machine learning approach for the automatic detec

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StructDiff: A Structure-Preserving and Spatially Controllable Diffusion Model for Single-Image Generation

arXiv:2604.12575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces StructDiff, a generative framework based on a single-scale diffusion model for single-image generation. Single-image generation ai

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Style-Decoupled Adaptive Routing Network for Underwater Image Enhancement

arXiv:2604.12257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is essential for robust visual perception in marine applications. However, existing methods predominantly rely on uni

Subcritical Signal Propagation at Initialization in Normalization-Free Transformers

arXiv:2604.11890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study signal propagation at initialization in transformers through the averaged partial Jacobian norm (APJN), a measure of gradient amplification acr

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SubFlow: Sub-mode Conditioned Flow Matching for Diverse One-Step Generation

arXiv:2604.12273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we id

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Subspace-Guided Feature Reconstruction for Unsupervised Anomaly Localization

arXiv:2309.13904v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly localization aims to identify anomalous regions that deviate from normal sample patterns. Most recent methods perform feature m

Super exciting projects ahead!

Super exciting projects ahead! We are looking for excellent people to help build our vertically integrated AI stack. Numerics, quantization, HW simulators, compiler, runtime, kernel performance, RTL,

Surrogate models for diffusion on graphs via sparse polynomials

arXiv:2502.06595v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion kernels over graphs have been widely utilized as effective tools in various applications due to their ability to accurately model th

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Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks — Virginians previously embra

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Synthetic POMDPs to Challenge Memory-Augmented RL: Memory Demand Structure Modeling

arXiv:2508.04282v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent benchmarks for memory-augmented reinforcement learning (RL) have introduced partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) environments

SynthPix: A lightspeed PIV image generator

arXiv:2512.09664v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We describe SynthPix, a synthetic image generator for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) with a focus on performance and parallelism on accelera

T2I-BiasBench: A Multi-Metric Framework for Auditing Demographic and Cultural Bias in Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2604.12481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image (T2I) generative models achieve impressive visual fidelity but inherit and amplify demographic imbalances and cultural biases embedded in

Task Alignment: A simple and effective proxy for model merging in computer vision

arXiv:2604.12935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficiently merging several models fine-tuned for different tasks, but stemming from the same pretrained base model, is of great practical interest. Des

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TCL: Enabling Fast and Efficient Cross-Hardware Tensor Program Optimization via Continual Learning

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arXiv:2604.12891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning (DL) compilers rely on cost models and auto-tuning to optimize tensor programs for target hardware. However, existing approaches depend on

Teaching LLMs Human-Like Editing of Inappropriate Argumentation via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604.12770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Editing human-written text has become a standard use case of large language models (LLMs), for example, to make one's arguments more appropriate for a d

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Technical Report -- A Context-Sensitive Multi-Level Similarity Framework for First-Order Logic Arguments: An Axiomatic Study

arXiv:2604.12534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Similarity in formal argumentation has recently gained attention due to its significance in problems such as argument aggregation in semantics and enthy

Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat — EToro Group L

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TEMPLATEFUZZ: Fine-Grained Chat Template Fuzzing for Jailbreaking and Red Teaming LLMs

arXiv:2604.12232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks, where adversarial inputs

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TempoNet: Slack-Quantized Transformer-Guided Reinforcement Scheduler for Adaptive Deadline-Centric Real-Time Dispatchs

arXiv:2602.18109v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time schedulers must reason about tight deadlines under strict compute budgets. We present TempoNet, a reinforcement learning scheduler that pa

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Temporal Flattening in LLM-Generated Text: Comparing Human and LLM Writing Trajectories

arXiv:2604.12097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in daily applications, from content generation to code writing, where each interaction treats the mod

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TempR1: Improving Temporal Understanding of MLLMs via Temporal-Aware Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2512.03963v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Enhancing the temporal understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is essential for advancing long-form video analysis, enabling tasks

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Tencent HY-World-2.0 is now public

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Tencent HY-World 2.0 is an open-source AI world model that generates real 3D scenes directly usable in game engines like Unreal Engine and Unity; unlike previous versions which produced video-based wo

TeRA: Vector-based Random Tensor Network for High-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

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arXiv:2509.03234v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), have significantly reduced the number of trainable parameters ne

Ternary Logic Encodings of Temporal Behavior Trees with Application to Control Synthesis

arXiv:2604.12092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior Trees (BTs) provide designers an intuitive graphical interface to construct long-horizon plans for autonomous systems. To ensure their correctn

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Tesla Diner

Tesla is developing a diner concept, likely combining a retro-themed restaurant experience with Tesla Supercharger stations, allowing EV owners to dine while their vehicles charge. Elon Musk has refer

Tesla has just released a new app update. Clips downloaded to your phone now finally include details such as speed, steering wheel angle, an…

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Tesla has just released a new app update. Clips downloaded to your phone now finally include details such as speed, steering wheel angle, and Self-Driving state. No more screen recording FSD clips! He

Tesla Semi

Tesla Semi This is the sound of the all-electric Tesla Semi. Deliveries of the new Production Version begin this year: • Long Range model has 500 miles of range with a full payload. • 1.7 kWh per mile

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Tesla Service

Tesla Service refers to Tesla's vehicle maintenance and repair network, which has been a recurring topic of discussion for Elon Musk on social media. Musk has frequently addressed customer complaints