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Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, while automatically routing requests to the correct device. In an example shared by Amazon, a person with a supported washing machine can say, "Alexa, my kid's soccer jersey could use a deep clean, but the tag says cold wash only." From there, Alexa Plus would navigate the washer's cycle options and choose the correct setting. The new integra...

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it was primarily focused on delivering answers to quick questions with minimal delay. But in a blog post, the company said people immediately started using voice mode for far more than casual queries. They were using it to work "through real business problems," which Haiku was not really designed for. T...

The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI has "fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more." That shift has changed "how we operate and organize," Conte writes. During an interview on Decoder, last month, Conte laid out his stance on AI, saying that the company is "100 percent embracing" AI tools internall...

VLM-IE3D framework enhances vision-language models with implicit and explicit 3D geometry tokens from RGB video for improved spatial reasoning.

Expanding Flow Maps (EFMs) enable flow-based generative models to handle variable-dimensionality distributions via expanding interpolants with conditional noise.

GraphVid enables precise multi-object video generation control via graph-structured representations instead of trajectory or text constraints.

Theoretical analysis proves Barzilai-Borwein optimization method fails superlinear convergence on open set of quadratics for dimension n≥4.

Synthetic data generation framework using deep learning to automate surface defect detection in rotogravure printing quality control.

Philosophical critique: surprisal theory's linguistic difficulty predictions are tautological without constraints on language model specification.

TimePNS framework for time-series model explanation using counterfactual necessity to identify essential (not spurious) decision factors.

MedGame transforms static clinical cases into interactive decision-driven learning games using LLMs and dual narrative/director engines.

EnsembleEGNN molecular foundation model encodes conformational ensembles of cyclic peptides using equivariant GNNs with set attention pooling.

Consensus anomaly detection applied to Ghana malaria surveillance data identifies spatiotemporal hotspots in Ashanti, Northern regions 2014-2023.

Study reveals LLM moral reasoning involves structured resistance-compliance dynamics paralleling human social psychology, beyond simple sycophancy reduction.

OpenForgeRL enables end-to-end training of harness-native agents with open infrastructure, addressing limitation of complex inference harnesses like Claude Code.

VCSD proposes visual contrastive self-distillation removing need for privileged information in on-policy distillation via pure input conditioning.

MIRROR framework exploits complementary reasoning paths across text, diagram, and combined modalities to improve vision-language model reasoning on geometry problems.

X³-OPD cross-modal distillation framework transfers reasoning from text LLM teacher to audio-language student via on-policy alignment and acoustic perception.

Neural networks solve coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for Yang-Mills gauge theory with percent-level agreement to fixed-point solutions.

Theory paper argues human participation persists in automated systems for technical, complementarity, and normative reasons beyond current AI capability limits.

Zero-Flow Two-Sample Test uses learned directional misalignment patterns for distribution testing, separating witness learning from hypothesis evaluation.

DONDO releases 26 open w2v-BERT speech recognition models for African languages spanning six countries, trained on religious text corpora.

Windowed-MTP optimizes speculative decoding at million-token context by eliminating full-KV attention overhead in multi-token prediction draft heads.

Petri-net-guided LLM test generation for concurrent Rust APIs addresses shallow test synthesis by integrating formal models with executable test concretization.

ElasticTTT framework prevents prior collapse in test-time tuning of diffusion models for video editing by preserving distribution-mapping during optimization.

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API access to a growing roster of third-party image, video and audio models alongside […]