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DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the U.S. ordered federal…
Cloud Deployment Incoming: ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’ Arrives on GeForce NOW
Lock in and load out this GFN Thursday. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, bringing a new campaign…
Why Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill
When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for…
Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) Anything
Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.
1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them
1Password is introducing a new feature that allows AI agents to sign into your accounts without actually seeing or handling your…
Different Tasks, Different Timesteps: Temporal Task-Aware Quantization for Diffusion Language Models
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) introduce unique quantization challenges due to their iterative denoising process. In this work…
Inside-JEPA: From Prediction to Relational Grounding in Latent World Models
Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn world models in latent space, enabling efficient planning but leaving…
When More Metadata Misleads: Probing Field-Level Grounding in LLM-Generated Museum Descriptions
Metadata-conditioned generation is often framed as a data-to-text task in which additional input fields should improve grounding…
RaSFNet: Ray-aligned and Scan-aware Fusion Network for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is a fundamental component of 3D perception for autonomous driving and robotics…
‘The tech bro fight club is real!’ The titans of AI get the Succession treatment in a wild new TV show
The Audacity is a fearless satire taking on Silicon Valley’s ‘egomaniac weirdos’. Its creator and stars talk ayahuasca…
Track finding and particle identification performance with particle physics foundation models
Modern high energy nuclear and particle physics experiments produce large amounts of sparse data that must be reduced…
AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the…
Prompting Strategy Effects Depend on the Judge: A Multilingual Study of LLM-as-a-Judge Robustness
LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation is increasingly applied to multilingual tasks, yet prompting strategies such as Chain-of-Thought and…
Memory before Goal: Role of Pre-History Memory for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Humanoid loco-manipulation in dynamic scenes is non-Markovian: cues vanish as objects change or are hidden, or leave the view as…
Network topology shapes consensus and vulnerability in LLM populations
As large language models (LLMs) are deployed in interacting populations, their collective behaviour depends not only on the…
Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see…
Prompt Sensitivity in Tool-Augmented Model Comparisons
Language models are compared on question-answering benchmarks that pose each question in one wording, and a reworded question can…
PriMa-Causa: Causal Prescriptive Maintenance
Automated manufacturing requires data-driven decisions under uncertainty and sparse observational records, and unplanned downtime…
Rethinking Fisher Vectors for Second-order Multi-scale Deep Feature Aggregation in Scalable Scene Retrieval
Aggregating CNN responses into a compact discriminative vector, given their lack of geometric invariance, is a challenge. To…
How tech became the villain of the US midterms
Datacenters, AI and distaste for the billionaires developing it has soured Americans on big tech How will Trump’s mass…
Mixing Matters: Evidence Position Bias Across Sequence Mixers in Long-Context Question Answering
Long-context models often use answer-bearing evidence less effectively when it appears away from a prompt boundary. We compare…
Google Search Tests Layout Change For Local Knowledge Panel
Google is testing moving things around in the local knowledge panels in Search by swapping the position of the company name…
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