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The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

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Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your compatibility with friends. As noted on the app's FAQ page, it combines human insight, data from NASA, and AI to deliver personalized advice for users each day. The terms of Midjourney's deal, which reportedly closed in spring, haven't been disclosed. Midjour...

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

SM4RT learns structured motion geometry for 4D dynamic reconstruction by modeling rigid-body kinematics instead of point-wise flow.

Skill Self-Play reconciles task diversity and verification reliability in LLM self-evolution via co-evolving skill agents.

Explainable RL framework for air traffic control demonstrates interpretability techniques for high-stakes AI-human collaboration.

Regression Tax study quantifies performance degradation when adding skills to LLM agents across 6K runs on office automation tasks.

PinEqualizer addresses cold-start bias in Pinterest's multi-stage search and recommendation systems.

Quantum Spectral Models encode matrix-level structure via spectral data-reuploading for quantum machine learning.

Two-stage PRO-clinical stacking predicts dysphagia risk in head-and-neck cancer using patient-reported outcomes.

Study finds Grok assigns 2-5x higher credibility to ethnonationalist pseudo-science than Claude, GPT, Gemini across four LLM families.

CausalForge automates causal inference research using Lean proof assistant to ground LLM-generated results formally.

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when the Google traffic dries up. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay talk about the week's Google Zero news, including Reddit's interest in getting out of an AI training deal, and the publishers considering blocking Google from crawling ...

Bag-of-waves learns interpretable EEG waveform dictionaries for neurological diagnosis without labels in low-data regimes.

Novel reservoir architecture for volatility forecasting using regime-conditioned experts and quantum implementations in Qiskit.

Kappa-LoRA uses condition numbers to identify which LoRA matrices justify tuning, reducing fine-tuning cost for large models.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with improvements in agent execution, coding, and professional tasks.

Stratechery weekly digest covering Chinese AI models, Hugging Face developments, and tangential sports business commentary.

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing Mythos-class model that drew the government's ire, was taken offline for a few weeks along with Mythos 5, and then brought back with even stronger cyber safeguards than before.) The Fable 5 concerns -...

Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. In a blog post, Meta says this update marks its "next step toward personal superintelligence," something CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted as the future of AI. Meta is powering the upda...

GPU-efficient algorithm for singular value soft-thresholding via polar decomposition, with accuracy trade-offs noted.

Every byte moved has a cost. As model checkpoints grow to hundreds of gigabytes or even a terabyte, that cost adds up quickly. To make things even worse, moving... Every byte moved has a cost. As model checkpoints grow to hundreds of gigabytes or even a terabyte, that cost adds up quickly. To make things even worse, moving these model weights around the cluster is extremely common. For instance, a cold start may pull weights from remote storage into GPU memory; autoscaling and rolling updates must populate each new replica; and RL post-training continuously… Source

Mixed-sign spectral regularization method extending negative-ridge endpoints in overparameterized linear regression via early-stopped gradient descent.

MineValiCoder addresses LLM-based TDD by mining test quality and using bipartite graphs to validate code without human test cases.

ADAPT-GQE uses generative AI and transformers to learn efficient quantum ground-state preparation circuits for electronic structure.

Generalization bounds via Rademacher complexity for k-neighborhood data augmentation strategy in learning optimization solver iterates.