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Some of my highlights from day 2 of @aiDotEngineer World's Fair 2026: #AIEWF

This post shares key takeaways and highlights from the second day of the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 conference, likely covering notable presentations, announcements, or developments in AI engineeri

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Sony announces end of PlayStation discs, parts of digital store in the same day

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Sony announced it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028, with future releases sold digitally through the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Sony

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Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference 'significantly outpaces physical discs' (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

Stephen Totilo / Game File: Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs” — New games

Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores 'in all other countries' in July 2027 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores “in all other countries” in July 2027 — The virtual

Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 8%+ (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 8%+ — Meta Platforms Inc. is dev

South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to 102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record 44.82B in chip shipments (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia)

Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia: South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to 102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record 44.82B in chip shipments — SEOUL —

Sparsity-Inducing Divergence Losses for Biometric Verification

arXiv:2606.31664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Performance in face and speaker verification is largely driven by margin-penalty softmax losses such as CosFace and ArcFace. Recently introduced alpha

Spatial Reasoning via Modality Switching Between Language and Symbolic Representation

arXiv:2606.31285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human reasoning is inherently multimodal: when problems become difficult, we rarely think in words alone. We often externalize our reasoning by sketchin

SpectralSplats: Robust Differentiable Tracking via Spectral Moment Supervision

arXiv:2603.24036v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time, photorealistic novel view synthesis, making it a highly attractive representation for model-based vi

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spent monday night dodging projectiles in VR instead of making small talk over lukewarm IPAs. this is how @aiDotEngineer happy hours should …

spent monday night dodging projectiles in VR instead of making small talk over lukewarm IPAs. this is how @aiDotEngineer happy hours should be😤 always fun to meet founders, give away @CopilotKit saber

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SPFSplatV2: Efficient Self-Supervised Pose-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Views

arXiv:2509.17246v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce SPFSplatV2, an efficient feed-forward framework for 3D Gaussian splatting from sparse multi-view images, requiring no ground-truth pose

SpheRoPE: Zero-Shot Optimization-Free 360 Panorama Generation with Spherical RoPE

arXiv:2606.32033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a zero-shot, training-free and optimization-free framework for generating 360 panoramic images and videos by directly injecting spherical pri

SpikeLogBERT: Energy-Efficient Log Parsing Using Spiking Transformer Networks

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arXiv:2606.31781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Log parsing is a fundamental step in automated log analysis, transforming raw system logs into structured event templates for downstream tasks such as

Stabilization Learning: A Paradigm Transition Bridging Control Theory and Machine Learning

arXiv:2606.31562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stabilization learning is an interdisciplinary paradigm that bridges control theory and machine learning. Its core idea is to enable systems to adjust t

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Stage-Transition Dense Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.31377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon robotic manipulation is often limited by sparse and delayed rewards, while manually designing dense shaping si

Stealthy Multi-Task Adversarial Attacks

arXiv:2411.17936v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, raising serious safety concerns in the real-world systems. While prio

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STEB: Style Text Embedding Benchmark

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arXiv:2606.31741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While semantic embeddings are rigorously evaluated on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark, the evaluation of style embeddings remains fragmented, wit

StemVLA:An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model with Future 3D Spatial Geometry Knowledge and 4D Historical Representation

arXiv:2602.23721v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate visual observations and language instructions to predict robot actions, demonstrating promising

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Step-by-Step Video-to-Audio Synthesis via Negative Audio Guidance

arXiv:2506.20995v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a step-by-step video-to-audio (V2A) generation method that provides finer control over the generation process and more realistic audio sy

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Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly $2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in the shopping comparison market (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly 2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in the shopping comparison market — Alphabet Inc.'s Google was or

Stoked for my GTME talk at @aiDotEngineer tm. One shotting the remaining bits on the plane rn. Super appreciate @swyx for the opp!!

Swyx announced excitement about giving a talk on GTME (likely a technical topic) at an AI engineering conference or event organized by @aiDotEngineer, expressing gratitude to Swyx for the speaking opp

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Streaming Gaussian Encoding for 4D Panoptic Occupancy Tracking

arXiv:2606.30754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camera-based 4D panoptic occupancy tracking (4D-POT) is a promising paradigm for holistic scene understanding from multi-view imagery, enabling joint re

Structural Preservation and the Logical Expressiveness of Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2606.17882v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bridges between graph neural networks (GNNs) and logical formalisms have been established by fixing architectural choices, such as the types of aggr

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Structure-Regularized Interpretable TCR-Epitope Prediction

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arXiv:2606.30902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: T cell receptor (TCR)-epitope binding prediction is essential for understanding adaptive immunity and developing immunotherapies. Existing sequence- a

Structured memory filtering with metadata in AgentCore Memory

In this post, you will learn how metadata works across configuration, ingestion, and retrieval, explore enterprise use cases including multi-agent and multi-tenant architectures, and discover best pra

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Structured SIR: Efficient and Expressive Importance-Weighted Inference for High-Dimensional Image Registration

arXiv:2603.17415v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Image registration is an ill-posed dense vision task, where multiple solutions achieve similar loss values, motivating probabilistic inference

Super fun to touch grass with friends from @turbopuffer @modal @llama_index @p0 @browserbase @cursor_ai

Super fun to touch grass with friends from @turbopuffer @modal @llama_index @p0 @browserbase @cursor_ai The Agent Open was a galaxy brain idea that @murtazakhomusi and I did together — couldn’t be hap

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Super proud to say that the team and I put almost all our effort into resolving every P0 and P1 issue and PR in the entire Hermes Agent repo…

Super proud to say that the team and I put almost all our effort into resolving every P0 and P1 issue and PR in the entire Hermes Agent repo over the last week and a half, and as of 5 minutes ago, aft

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Surprise as a Signal for Plasticity and Metacognition

arXiv:2606.31495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study a single idea across two settings: that a prediction-error signal, computed by a small predictor over the latent space of a frozen encoder, can

Surrogate Fidelity: When Can Open LLMs Explain Closed Ones?

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arXiv:2606.32008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability (MI) requires full access to model internals, yet the APIs for most widely deployed language models at best expose log-prob

Surrogate-Gated Generation and Foundation-Model Embeddings for Bayesian Materials Design

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arXiv:2606.28578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Closed-loop materials discovery iterates between proposing candidate structures and evaluating their properties, and property evaluation dominates the

SwiftAudio: Data-Efficient Caption-Only Distillation for One-Step Text-to-Audio Diffusion-based Generation

arXiv:2606.31259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based text-to-audio (TTA) models achieve impressive synthesis quality but suffer from high inference latency due to iterative multi-step den

Symmetry in language statistics shapes the geometry of model representations

arXiv:2602.15029v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The internal representations learned by language models consistently exhibit striking geometric structure: calendar months organize into a cir

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SyncCache: Exploiting Asymmetric Dynamics for Fast Audio-Driven Portrait Animation

arXiv:2606.30849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have significantly advanced audio-driven portrait animation, but their high computational cost leads to substantial infere

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T-QPM: Enabling Temporal Out-Of-Distribution Detection and Domain Generalization for Vision-Language Models in Open-World

arXiv:2603.18481v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains a critical challenge in open-world learning, where models must adapt to evolving data distributions. Whi

TabPATE: Differentially Private Tabular In-Context Learning Without Public Data

arXiv:2606.31474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models enable accurate in-context learning (ICL) from small labeled datasets, but the private records placed in context can leak thro

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TactX: Learning Shared Tactile Representations Across Diverse Sensors

arXiv:2606.31236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensors provide critical information for contact-rich manipulation, yet tactile representations and policies remain tightly coupled to each spec

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TAG-DLM: Diffusion Language Models for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

arXiv:2606.31166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-attributed graphs (TAGs), where each node carries a natural language description, require models to jointly reason over text and graph topology. Ex

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Tailored minimal reservoir computing: on the bidirectional connection between nonlinearities in the reservoir and in data

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arXiv:2504.17503v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study how the degree of nonlinearity in the input data affects the optimal design of reservoir computers, focusing on how closely the model's non

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Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China — Taiwanese prosecutors detai

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TAPE: Tether-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Unknown 3D Cavities Using a Tangle-Compatible Tethered Aerial Robot

arXiv:2606.30817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents the first method for autonomous exploration of unknown cavities in three dimensions (3D) that focuses on minimizing the distance tr

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Tasks moved from closed models to open models on Together AI cost one-fifth to one-seventh as much. That's from @DecagonAI co-founder @Ashwi…

Tasks moved from closed models to open models on Together AI cost one-fifth to one-seventh as much. That's from @DecagonAI co-founder @AshwinSreenivas in the NYT today. This is what abundant intellige

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TaxoMIL: Taxonomy-Constrained Learning for Hierarchical Whole Slide Image Analysis

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arXiv:2606.31100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole slide image (WSI) analysis is central to computational pathology, with multiple instance learning (MIL) emerging as the standard pipeline for slid

TDGT: A Tabular Data Generation Toolkit supporting adaptive GPU-accelerated Bayesian mixture models, diffusion-based models, and latent-space generative modeling

arXiv:2606.31268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing demand for privacy-preserving data sharing has positioned synthetic data generation as a critical component of responsible AI workflows. D

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Teaching LLMs String Matching, Backtracking, and Error Recovery to Deduce Bases and Truth Tables for the Combinatorially Exploding Bit Manipulation Puzzles

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arXiv:2606.23672v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents our algorithmic innovations for the NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge, focusing on Bit Manipulation Puzzles. In this tas

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Teaching LLMs to Recommend and Defer in Underrepresented Epilepsy Care

arXiv:2606.31036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Specialist epilepsy expertise is scarce in resource-constrained settings, making LLM-based decision support attractive for frontline clinicians managing

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Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability

arXiv:2601.18778v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: RL methods for scaling large reasoning models stall on datasets with low initial success rates, and thus little training signal. We investigat

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Team MKC at CLPsych 2026: Capturing and Characterizing Mental Health Changes through Social Media Timeline Dynamics

arXiv:2606.31464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have motivated their adoption across a wide range of domains, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) f