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Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (Ann Gehan/The Information)

Ann Gehan / The Information: Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models — Google i

Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising 250M; it has raised ~181M since its 2021 launch (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)

Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising 250M; it has raised ~181M since its 2021 launch — Muon Space, whi

Sources and a draft document: the US proposes that the EU sign on to an AI partnership to help secure chip supply chains; the one-page statement had few details (Alberto Nardelli/Bloomberg)

Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg: Sources and a draft document: the US proposes that the EU sign on to an AI partnership to help secure chip supply chains; the one-page statement had few details — The US

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Sources: Apple plans to skip higher-end M6 chips and launch its next Pro and Max chips in 2027 as part of the M7 lineup, to boost on-device AI capabilities (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to skip higher-end M6 chips and launch its next Pro and Max chips in 2027 as part of the M7 lineup, to boost on-device AI capabilities — Apple Inc. is mak

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Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M — Dating app Bumble

Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to 'midtraining' to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures — Google is r

Applications

Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a $385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens (Will Canny/CoinDesk)

Will Canny / CoinDesk: Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a 385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens — Crypto exchange Kraken, pa

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Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end — Facebook parent is accelera

Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions — The A.I. company's advi

Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving 'access customer by customer' (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” — For AI companies on t

Space-Efficient Language Generation in the Limit

arXiv:2606.25777v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We initiate a resource-aware theory of extit{language generation in the limit} under the minimal constraint of space efficiency. In our framework, a l

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SpaceX rocket launches in 2026 are insanely brutal SpaceX: • 76 operational launches ➝ 76 successes ➝ 0 failures The entire rest of the worl…

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SpaceX rocket launches in 2026 are insanely brutal SpaceX: • 76 operational launches ➝ 76 successes ➝ 0 failures The entire rest of the world combined: • 55 tracked launches ➝ 49 successes ➝ 6 failure

Spam and Sentiment Detection in Arabic Tweets Using MARBERT Model

arXiv:2606.25495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is among the most popular companies in Saudi Arabia, with many customers. Yet, there is still a big room for improvement in

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SPARC: Separating Perception And Reasoning Circuits for Test-time Scaling of VLMs

arXiv:2602.06566v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite recent successes, test-time scaling -- i.e., dynamically expanding the token budget during inference as needed -- remains brittle for

SparseGS: Sparse View Synthesis using 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2312.00206v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently enabled real-time rendering of unbounded 3D scenes for novel view synthesis. However, this technique requi

Spatio-Temporal Mixture-of-Modality-Experts Diffusion for Quantitative DCE-MRI Synthesis from Incomplete MR Sequences

arXiv:2606.25535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative maps from dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) are essential for tumor assessment but are often unavailable due to contrast-agent risks

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Spatio-Temporal Retrieval-based Priors for Adaptive Computational Teaching in Driving

arXiv:2606.25224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based automated coaching systems for complex motor tasks such as high-performance driving remain limited in the ability to be adaptive by their

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Agents

speaking of being n-of-1... i think i'm the #1 VC on the official pokemon AI trading card kaggle tournament

Yohei Nakajima claims to be the top-ranked venture capitalist participant in an official Pokémon AI trading card Kaggle tournament. The post appears to reference his competitive standing in this AI-dr

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Specifying AI-SDLC Processes: A Protocol Language for Human-Agent Boundaries

arXiv:2606.20615v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents now participate as first-class team members across the software development lifecycle, yet no specification language exists for expressing

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Speculative Decoding at Temperature Zero: A Scoped Safety-Invariance Screen with a 48,072-Sample Expansion

arXiv:2606.25097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates inference by letting a draft model propose tokens for a target model to verify, raising a concrete safety question: at

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Speech Codec Probing from Semantic and Phonetic Perspectives

arXiv:2603.10371v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech tokenizers are essential for connecting speech to large language models (LLMs) in multimodal systems. Speech tokenizers are expected to

SpeechEQ: Benchmarking Emotional Intelligence Quotient in Socially Aware Voice Conversational Models

arXiv:2606.25990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As multimodal conversational systems increasingly engage in spoken interaction, their ability to navigate paralinguistic social cues has become a critic

SplatPainter: Interactive Authoring of 3D Gaussians from 2D Edits via Test-Time Training

arXiv:2512.05354v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rise of 3D Gaussian Splatting has revolutionized photorealistic 3D asset creation, yet a critical gap remains for their interactive refinement a

Spotlighting Task-Relevant Features: Object-Centric Representations for Better Generalization in Robotic Manipulation

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arXiv:2601.21416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The generalization capabilities of robotic manipulation policies are heavily influenced by the choice of visual representations. Existing approaches

SSMNBench: Diagnosing Image-based Cross-View Human-Object Understanding via Single-View Sufficiency and Multi-View Necessity

arXiv:2606.25634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in single-image perception, yet their ability to reason about complex cross-view

Tutorials

Stabilizing black-box algorithms through task-oriented randomization

arXiv:2606.25269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As black-box models become foundational to modern research, ensuring their stability is paramount for the realization of trustworthy artificial intell

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Stable-Shift: Biologically Structured Prediction of Transcriptional Responses to Unseen Gene Perturbations

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arXiv:2606.24940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting transcriptional responses to genetic perturbations could reduce the experimental burden of functional genomics, but extrapolation to genes

Stage-Aware and Roughness-Constrained Diffusion Policy for Multi-Stage Robotic Polishing

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arXiv:2606.25754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Polishing is a critical finishing process in high-end manufacturing fields such as aerospace, where surface quality directly affects the service perform

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Stagnant Neuron: Towards Understanding the Plasticity Loss in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Value Factorization Methods

arXiv:2606.25335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) value factorization methods can suffer from a loss of plasticity, gradually failing to adapt when transferring

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StairMaster: Learning to Conquer Risky Hollow Stairs for Agile Quadrupedal Robots

arXiv:2606.25765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Climbing hollow stairs remains a challenging problem for quadruped robots due to the high risk of leg trapping, severe depth sparsity, and high-frequenc

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Applications

State of the art in AI image generation less than 5 years ago.

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State of the art in AI image generation less than 5 years ago. This is a pretty terrific computational image generator for making AI-created trading cards (or, heaven forbid, NFTs) The only prompt I g

State Space Models Meet Remote Sensing: A Survey

arXiv:2606.25329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State Space Models (SSMs), designed for long-range modeling, offer linear computational complexity and strong capabilities in capturing long-range depen

Statistically Valid Hyperparameter Selection: From Tuning to Guarantees

arXiv:2606.25601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperparameter selection is a critical step in the deployment of modern artificial intelligence systems, given the need to tune degrees of freedom suc

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Staying In Character: Perspective-Bounded Memory For Book-Based Role-Playing Agents

arXiv:2606.25632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent LLM role-playing systems build character agents from novels by extracting characters, scenes, and relations. Yet long-narrative role-playing suff

STEB: A Speech-to-Speech Translation Expressiveness Benchmark for Evaluating Beyond Translation Fidelity

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arXiv:2606.25529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) should preserve not only lexical meaning, but also expressive attributes: emotion, scenario style (e.g., news repo

Steering Vision-Language Models with Joint Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2606.25657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have shown promise for analyzing language models, but applying them to vision-language models (VLMs) often yields representat

STOCKSTAY Another Day: The Latest Addition to Turla’s Intelligence Gathering Apparatus

Written by: Jordan Jones Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has conducted an in-depth analysis of a .NET backdoor, tracked as STOCKSTAY, that has been continually developed and deplo

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Story Operators: Decomposing the Original o Sequel Transformation in Embedding Space

arXiv:2606.25379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: I treat a book as a point in a sentence-embedding space and a literary transformation as an operation on points. Given an original novel and its sequel,

Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data — Palo Alto-based bl

Streaming-dLLM: Accelerating Diffusion LLMs via Suffix Pruning and Dynamic Decoding

arXiv:2601.17917v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a compelling paradigm for natural language generation, leveraging parallel decoding and bidirect

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Tools

Stripe + Metronome are hosting a private after-party for founders & product leaders. July 1, 6 – 9pm, SPIN, near Moscone West Ping-pong and …

Stripe + Metronome are hosting a private after-party for founders & product leaders. July 1, 6 – 9pm, SPIN, near Moscone West Ping-pong and World Cup, plus founders and builders worth meeting. Spots a

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Structured Approximations of Measures

arXiv:2310.09149v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the approximation of probability measures in the Wasserstein-p distance by structured classes of approximators, motivated by applicat

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Structuring Sparsity: Block-Sparse Featurizers Capture Visual Concept Manifolds

arXiv:2606.25234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What is the geometry of a visual percept? The most widely used protocols for decomposing neural network representations into interpretable parts treat c

StyleFusion360: View-Consistent Head Stylization via Adaptive Style Modulation

arXiv:2511.22411v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D head stylization enables expressive reimagining of human faces for creative visual experiences in digital media. Existing 3D-aware methods often

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Supervised Post-training of Speech Foundation Models for Robust Adaptation in Speech Deepfake Detection

arXiv:2606.25328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large speech foundation models have shown strong potential for speech deepfake detection, but direct fine-tuning is limited by a mismatch between self

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Supervised Reinforcement Learning for the Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources

arXiv:2606.24947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) is crucial for power system decarbonization, yet unlocking DERs' flexibility is challe

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SurgAtlas: A Large-Scale Surgical Video-Language Dataset with 2,391 Hours of Open and Minimally Invasive Surgery

arXiv:2606.25905v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce SurgAtlas, the largest surgical video-language dataset to date, comprising 15,291 videos (2,391 hours) spanning 18 surgical specialties and

Surrogate models for Rock-Fluid Interaction: A Grid-Size-Invariant Approach

arXiv:2602.22188v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modelling rock-fluid interaction requires solving a set of partial differential equations (PDEs) to predict the flow behaviour and the reactions of

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