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OpenAI extends Codex with productivity tools for nontechnical users

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OpenAI Group PBC today released a set of features that will make it easier for nontechnical people to use its Codex automation tool. The update comes five months after Anthropic PBC added similar capa

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OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users (OpenAI)

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OpenAI: OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users — OpenAI today released a new report

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OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is personal (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is personal — AI is going to be one of the mo

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Agents

OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT — OpenAI is e

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OpenDPR: Open-Vocabulary Change Detection via Vision-Centric Diffusion-Guided Prototype Retrieval for Remote Sensing Imagery

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arXiv:2603.27645v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-vocabulary change detection (OVCD) seeks to recognize arbitrary changes of interest by enabling generalization beyond a fixed set of predefined

Agents

OpenHospital: A Thing-in-itself Arena for Evolving and Benchmarking LLM-based Collective Intelligence

arXiv:2603.14771v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based Collective Intelligence (CI) presents a promising approach to overcoming the data wall and continuously boosting th

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OpenWebRL: Demystifying Online Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning for Visual Web Agents

arXiv:2606.02031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building capable visual web agents requires long-horizon reasoning, precise grounding, and robust interaction with dynamic real-world websites. Despit

Optimal Bayesian Stopping for Efficient Inference of Consistent LLM Answers

arXiv:2602.05395v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A simple strategy for improving LLM accuracy, especially in math and reasoning problems, is to sample multiple responses and submit the answer

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Optimal-Point Variance Reduction For Bayesian Optimization With Regret Guarantee

arXiv:2606.00956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies a one-step lookahead Bayesian optimization (BO) method and its theoretical guarantee. Although the empirical effectiveness of one-ste

Optimal Regularization for Performative Learning

arXiv:2510.12249v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In performative learning, the data distribution reacts to the deployed model - for example, because strategic users adapt their features to game it

Applications

Optimal Transport-based Permutation-Invariant Bayesian Optimization of Offshore Wind Farm Layouts

arXiv:2606.00009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian Optimization (BO) is widely and successfully adopted for solving optimization problems having an expensive-to-evaluate, black-box, and non-conv

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Optimizing 3D Gaussian Splatting via Point Cloud Upsampling

arXiv:2606.00450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a technique for creating and rendering 3D scenes, however its performance depends heavily on the quality of initial seed

Optimizing accuracy and diversity: a multi-task approach to forecast combinations

arXiv:2310.20545v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a multi-task optimization approach based on a deep learning architecture for time series forecasting. We leverage large collections of ti

Optimizing Diversity and Quality through Base-Aligned Model Collaboration

arXiv:2511.05650v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Alignment has greatly improved large language models (LLMs)' output quality at the cost of diversity, yielding highly similar outputs across g

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OptiWorld: Optimal Control for Video World Generation under Physical Constraints

arXiv:2606.00499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video generation models are becoming a scalable form of world models, but they mainly generate plausible motion rather than proactively control or optim

Hardware

Opus 4.8

Opus 4.8 likely refers to a software release, update, or feature announcement covered by Ben's Bites, a technology newsletter focused on AI and software developments. Without access to the specific ar

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Order within Chaos: Capturing Intrinsic Energy Anomalies for AI-Manipulated Image Forgery Localization

arXiv:2606.02178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in generative AI have led to image editing models capable of producing realistic forgeries that evade traditional image forgery lo

OSCAR: Obstacle Survival Curves for Adaptive Robot Navigation

arXiv:2606.00990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A mobile robot following a graph of known routes can make costly navigation errors when a temporary obstacle blocks a critical edge: waiting too long be

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Out-of-Distribution generalization of quantile regression with heavy tailed inputs: an SVM approach

arXiv:2606.00265v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study quantile regression in an extrapolation regime where the covariate takes unusually large values. Under regular variation assumptions, extreme

Industry

Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital — UK company has deployed q

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PACE: Phase-Aware Chunk Execution for Robot Policies with Action Chunking

arXiv:2606.00537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language-action and diffusion-based robot policies often use action chunking, where each policy query predicts a sequence of future action

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Applications

PaCo-VLA: Passivity-Shielded Compliance Prior for Contact-Rich Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

arXiv:2606.00515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation demands both high-level semantic reasoning and the safe regulation of high-frequency contact dynamics. While Vision-Language

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PaCX-MAE: Physiology-Augmented Chest X-Ray Masked Autoencoder

arXiv:2606.01537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical diagnosis often requires combining imaging with physiological measurements, yet deployed models typically operate on unimodal data. We present

PAI-Studio: Cinematic Video Background Replacement with Camera-Aware Motion

arXiv:2606.01399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PAI-Studio, a new reference-conditioned video synthesis task that addresses a long-standing challenge in cinematic background replacement: ge

PaintBench: Deterministic Evaluation of Precise Visual Editing

arXiv:2606.00188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While current multimodal models are proficient at open-ended visual editing, executing precise single-answer edits remains an important obstacle. To p

Agents

PairedGTA: Generating Driving Datasets for Controlled Photometric Shift Analysis

arXiv:2606.01192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating the performance of visual perception systems for autonomous driving is essential to ensure reliable operation across diverse environmental sc

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Industry

Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to 3B, including 388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to 3B, including 388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — - Palo Alto Network

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Industry

Palo Alto Networks shares slip despite third-quarter earnings and revenue beat

Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc. edged down in late trading today despite the cybersecurity company beating expectations on earnings and revenue in its fiscal third quarter and raising its outlook fo

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Tutorials

PALTO: Physics-Informed Active Learning for Tri-Gate FinFET Design Optimization for Vertical Power Delivery

arXiv:2606.01265v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of machine learning-driven optimization for designing application-specific GaN tri-gate FinFETs in vertical

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PaperVoyager : Building Interactive Web with Visual Language Models

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arXiv:2603.22999v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in visual language models have enabled autonomous agents for complex reasoning, tool use, and document understanding. However, exist

Paradoxical noise preference in RNNs

arXiv:2601.04539v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recurrent neural networks (RNNs) used to model biological neural networks, noise is typically introduced during training to emulate biologi

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Tutorials

Parallel Complex Diffusion for Scalable Time Series Generation

arXiv:2602.17706v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models learn data distributions indirectly through denoising, making the difficulty of generative modeling closely tied to the dependency

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Parameter Alignment Mitigates Catastrophic Forgetting in Multilingual Expert Language Models

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arXiv:2606.00284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While continual pretraining~(CPT) is a practical way to extend large language models to new languages, naive finetuning on targeted data erodes existing

Parameter-efficient Dual-encoder Architecture with Differentiable Choquet Integral Fusion for Underwater Acoustic Classification

arXiv:2606.02341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Underwater acoustic classification has a wide array of oceanic applications, but faces challenges due to an increasingly complex acoustic environment.

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Pretrained Models for Instance Segmentation Tasks

arXiv:2606.01947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research and applications in artificial intelligence have recently shifted with the rise of large pretrained models, which deliver state-of-the-art re

Parameter-Free and Group Conditional Online Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2606.00419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is critical for the deployment of machine learning predictors in real-world scenarios where the data distribution may

Applications

Parametric Social Identity Injection and Diversification in Public Opinion Simulation

arXiv:2603.16142v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently been adopted as synthetic agents for public opinion simulation, offering a promising alternative to costl

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Partial Fairness Awareness: Belief-Guided Strategic Mechanism for Strategic Agents

arXiv:2606.00826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Strategic machine learning investigates scenarios where agents manipulate their features to receive favorable decisions from predictive models. To addre

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PaSBench-Video: A Streaming Video Benchmark for Proactive Safety Warning

arXiv:2606.02443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Between the first visible sign of danger and the moment an accident occurs, there is often a window where intervention remains possible. Video-capable

Pasted File Editor

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Tool: Pasted File Editor I really like how you can paste a large volume of text into claude.ai (or the Claude desktop/mobile apps) and it will detect it as a large paste and turn it into a file attach

PathAR: Structure-First Autoregressive Synthesis of Multimodal Pathology Images

arXiv:2606.01543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data scarcity in multimodal pathology motivates unified generative models that synthesize modality-specific appearance while preserving anatomically coh

PathCRF: Ball-Free Soccer Event Detection via Possession Path Inference from Player Trajectories

arXiv:2602.12080v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite recent advances in AI, event data collection in soccer still relies heavily on labor-intensive manual annotation. Although prior work has ex

Pause and Think: A Dataset and Benchmark for Video-Grounded Assistive Action Suggestion

arXiv:2606.00616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle with grounded reasoning, temporal consistency, and context aware planning in videos. We introduce pause-

Pave-GRPO: Beyond Instantaneous Guidance through Principled Average Velocity Decomposition

arXiv:2606.01636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for aligning flow-based generative models with human pref

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Paving the Way for Point Cloud Video Representation Learning Using A PDE Model

arXiv:2606.01604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Investigating spatial-temporal correlations, specifically how spatial points vary over time, is crucial for understanding point cloud videos. Traditiona

pcbGPT: Automatic PCB Schematic Synthesis from Natural Language Requirements

arXiv:2606.01188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Translating natural-language hardware requirements into correct printed circuit board (PCB) schematics remains difficult in embedded, IoT, and wearabl

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Tutorials

PE-means: Improved Differentially Private k-means Clustering through Private Evolution

arXiv:2606.00342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of differentially private (DP) k-means clustering in Euclidean space. Previous solutions rely on summing the private data directly,

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Local Ai

PEACE: A Planner-Executor Agent with Constraint Enforcement for UAVs

arXiv:2606.00104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly used to drive autonomous systems, yet existing approaches either keep the model in a tight control loop, raising la

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