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Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why.

It’s been hot in London this week. Really hot. A dangerous heat wave has hit Western Europe. Yesterday, the UK recorded its highest ever June temperature at 36.1 °C (about 97 °F). But as the weather a

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Research

Heavy-Ball Q-Learning with Residual Weighting Correction

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arXiv:2606.27112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes a corrected heavy-ball Q-learning method for reinforcement learning (RL) and establishes its convergence. It also identifies condi

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Helpfulness Hurts: Domain-Dependent Degradation of Mid-Trained Compassion Values Under Post-Training

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arXiv:2606.26102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard post-training pipelines apply supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) to make language models helpful, but these process

Here is Google Gemini talking about Roger Ebert's review of the 2016 film The Jungle Book. Ebert died in 2013. @GaryMarcus

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This post highlights an apparent error where Google's Gemini AI attributed a film review to Roger Ebert for a 2016 movie, despite Ebert's death in 2013, making such a review impossible. The post, shar

Hermes Agent + Computer Use by @trycua is pretty cool! Looking at Hermes interacting with apps and windows is mind blowing and a bit scary a…

Hermes Agent + Computer Use by @trycua is pretty cool! Looking at Hermes interacting with apps and windows is mind blowing and a bit scary at the same time 😂 Here on Mac with MiniMax M3 and Reachy Min

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HermesBench full leaderboard coming soon. Stay tuned!

Nous Research announced an upcoming HermesBench full leaderboard, indicating they are developing or expanding a benchmarking system, likely for evaluating their Hermes model family or related language

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Local Ai

Heterogeneous Neural Predictivity from Language Models During Naturalistic Comprehension

arXiv:2606.26880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model representations provide structured, high-dimensional annotations of naturalistic language stimuli and can serve as informative neural pre

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Heute vor fünf Jahren, am 26. Juni 2021 fand man in Wien am frühen Morgen ein totes Mädchen auf der Straße. Leonie war gerade einmal 13 Jahr…

Heute vor fünf Jahren, am 26. Juni 2021 fand man in Wien am frühen Morgen ein totes Mädchen auf der Straße. Leonie war gerade einmal 13 Jahre alt, als sie von drei Afghanen in einer Gemeindewohnung er

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Hardware

Hierarchical Muon: Tiled Newton-Schulz Updates for Efficient Muon Optimization

arXiv:2606.27216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Muon-type optimizers construct update directions for dense neural-network weights by applying a finite Newton-Schulz map to momentum-gradient matrices

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HierBias: Context-Conditioned Hierarchical Media Bias Detection with Multi-Task Type Classification

arXiv:2606.26100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Media bias detection is a critical task for ensuring fair and balanced information dissemination, yet existing sentence-level approaches classify each s

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High-Probability PL-SGD with Markovian Noise: Optimal Mixing and Tail Dependence

arXiv:2606.26316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study first-order methods for smooth objectives satisfying the Polyak-L{}ojasiewicz (PL) condition when gradient samples are generated by an exogenou

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Highly-recommended reading. Interesting details in this METR's GPT-5.6 eval. They couldn't get a clean capability number because the model c…

Highly-recommended reading. Interesting details in this METR's GPT-5.6 eval. They couldn't get a clean capability number because the model cheated more than any public model they've tested, and even r

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HiLSVA: Design and Evaluation of a Human-in-the-Loop Agentic System for Scientific Visualization

arXiv:2606.26614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents enable natural language interaction for scientific visualization (SciVis). Still, prior systems have essentially pri

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hisao{}: A GPU-Native Parallel Optimizer for Multimodal Black-Box Functions via Convergence-Anticonvergence Oscillation

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arXiv:2606.26164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finding all modes of a multimodal black-box function is a fundamental challenge in optimization, Bayesian inference, and scientific computing. Existing

History-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2603.06480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded environments, serving as a key capabili

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HOB: A Holistically Optimized Bidding Strategy under Heterogeneous Bidding Environments

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arXiv:2510.15238v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing a single advertising campaign across heterogeneous channels is a central challenge in industrial autobidding. Auction mechanisms va

How AI-native law firms use 'management services organization' structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: How AI-native law firms use “management services organization” structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds — Interest

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How Cara pioneers domain-specific AI for enterprise insurance brokerages with AWS

In this post, we explore how Cara, built in cooperation with AWS, addresses these challenges. We walk through the technical design decisions and the AWS services that support the solution. We also sha

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How Databricks is turning video into searchable, actionable intelligence

Databricks describes how its platform enables organizations to process and analyze video data, converting raw video content into searchable and actionable intelligence through machine learning and dat

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How Do Tool-Augmented LLM Agents Perform on Real-World Energy Analytics Tasks?

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arXiv:2606.26346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic benchmarks have emerged across general-purpose and domain-specific settings, including finance, coding, law, and drug discovery, yet energy-doma

How Good Can Linear Models Be for Time-Series Forecasting?

arXiv:2606.27282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series forecasting research has been moving steadily toward larger architectures, from specialized transformers to general-purpose foundation model

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How Surprising Is Historical Italian to Language Models? Tokenization Tax, Comprehension Tax, and a Simple Mitigation

arXiv:2606.27275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly critical to digital library workflows, yet their ability to process historical language remains poorly und

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How the English Office for Students leverages Databricks to enhance higher education standards and drive better student outcomes

The English Office for Students uses Databricks' data platform to analyze higher education data at scale, enabling better monitoring of institutional performance and student outcomes across English un

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Tutorials

How to evaluate clustering with ground truth?

arXiv:2606.27061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: External indexes can be used for cluster evaluation when ground truth is available. We review the most common external validity indexes focusing on set-

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How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors — 35 thoug

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Hardware

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4

NVIDIA's GLM-5.2-NVFP4 is a quantized version of a large language model optimized for inference efficiency using NVIDIA's proprietary quantization format. The model is hosted on Hugging Face and repre

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https://x.com/its_ao/status/2070556265906917860

I cannot provide a summary of this specific X/Twitter post as the URL appears to be either incorrect or from a future date (status ID 2070556265906917860 exceeds current Twitter IDs), making it inacce

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Human-AI Complementarity: A Goal for Amplified Oversight

arXiv:2510.26518v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human feedback is critical for aligning AI systems to human values. As AI capabilities improve and AI is used to tackle more challenging tasks, veri

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Humanoid-DART: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation using Diffusion-guided Augmentation through Relabeling and Tracking

arXiv:2606.26855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitating human demonstrations has emerged as a dominant paradigm for learning humanoid loco-manipulation policies. However, scaling these approaches re

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HumanoidUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation

arXiv:2606.27239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality demonstration data are essential for humanoid robot skill learning, especially for whole-body behaviors that require coordinated perception

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Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation

arXiv:2606.26502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) take longer on harder problems, just as humans do. This surface similarity hides an opposite pattern within items. When an

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Huracan: A skillful end-to-end data-driven system for ensemble data assimilation and weather prediction

arXiv:2508.18486v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Over the past few years, machine learning-based data-driven weather prediction has been transforming operational weather forecasting by provid

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Hybrid privacy-aware semantic search: SVD-truncated document geometry and CKKS-encrypted query reranking under a restricted threat model

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arXiv:2606.26373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense embeddings power semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation, but embedding-inversion attacks can reconstruct source text from a vector:

HyperDFlash: MHC-Aligned Block Speculative Decoding with Gated Residual Reduction

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arXiv:2606.26744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present HyperDFlash, a block-parallel speculative decoding framework tailored to the novel multi-hyper-connection (MHC) architecture proposed by De

I can personally attest: OpenClaude using GLM 5.2 is now performing on par with Claude Code powered by Opus 4.8.

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I cannot verify the claims in this post as the URL format appears invalid and the specific version numbers (GLM 5.2, Claude Code/Opus 4.8) don't correspond to publicly documented model releases as of

I feel like on X all you hear about is elaborate plans by firms to build their own AI stacks but in my experience companies are full of peop…

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I feel like on X all you hear about is elaborate plans by firms to build their own AI stacks but in my experience companies are full of people who want access to Claude or ChatGPT and are pressuring t

Tools

I was at the first AI Engineer Summit @aiDotEngineer ~500 people, limited admission, felt like a secret. Next week it takes over Moscone Wes…

I was at the first AI Engineer Summit @aiDotEngineer ~500 people, limited admission, felt like a secret. Next week it takes over Moscone West: thousands of engineers, 400+ sessions. Huge props to @swy

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I wrote about how accumulating capital won't save you from being disempowered by superintelligent AI.

Connor Leahy argues that accumulating personal capital provides no protection against disempowerment by superintelligent AI systems, suggesting that wealth alone cannot guarantee security or agency in

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IDEA: Insensitive to Dynamics Mismatch via Effect Alignment for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Multi-Agent Control

arXiv:2606.26575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Complex multi-agent control tasks remain challenging for traditional rule-based and model-based approaches, motivating the adoption of learning-based

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Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction

arXiv:2606.26829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in real-world environments must in general be able to recognize previously unseen objects. As robotic systems move toward open-world au

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'If I had to choose just one metric, I'd argue that the KV-cache hit rate is the single most important metric for a production-stage AI agen…

'If I had to choose just one metric, I'd argue that the KV-cache hit rate is the single most important metric for a production-stage AI agent.' - Manus AI prompt caching is important! read about how w

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If removing a few temporary migrants is 'ethnic cleansing', then allowing tens of millions of migrants into a nation against the native popu…

If removing a few temporary migrants is 'ethnic cleansing', then allowing tens of millions of migrants into a nation against the native population's will is ethnic genocide. And 97% are non-white. Jus

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Hardware

“If there is a deflation of the AI bubble, the optimists say that the new infrastructure will remain even if the companies do not — just as …

“If there is a deflation of the AI bubble, the optimists say that the new infrastructure will remain even if the companies do not — just as railways survived the 19th-century railway bust. However, th

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If you are on the verge of AGI or ASI, why isn’t your model smart enough to recognize espionage distillation in real time? You say “cure can…

If you are on the verge of AGI or ASI, why isn’t your model smart enough to recognize espionage distillation in real time? You say “cure cancer in a few years.” Isn’t sniffing illicit distillation qui

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If you want to read an interesting AI thinking trace, try 'I want you to suggest two poems that you think apply very well to the current sta…

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If you want to read an interesting AI thinking trace, try 'I want you to suggest two poems that you think apply very well to the current state of GenAI models like you. Don’t just pick popular poems a

If you wanted to do the same in SF, you could start by extending Treasure Island. Obviously the value of that new land would be considerably…

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If you wanted to do the same in SF, you could start by extending Treasure Island. Obviously the value of that new land would be considerably less than in SF proper. Perhaps 10x less. It would be econo

If your benchmark relies on a static dataset or sampling from a static distribution densely known at training time, then it is fundamentally…

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If your benchmark relies on a static dataset or sampling from a static distribution densely known at training time, then it is fundamentally measuring memorization/retrieval. Which might be fine if yo

I’m a gay man and I’m done staying silent. I survived bullying, the coming-out wars, and actual hate for who I am. What I won’t accept is im…

I’m a gay man and I’m done staying silent. I survived bullying, the coming-out wars, and actual hate for who I am. What I won’t accept is importing millions from cultures where they throw us off rooft

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