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Cross-modal alignment transfer technique enables MLLMs to improve on data-scarce modalities like audio and video via model merging.

Operational Validity Contract formalizes monitor alarm policies for LLM agents, distinguishing deployment constraints from probe calibration metrics.

Single detached projection step enables exact constraint satisfaction in neural networks with reduced compute vs. iterative unrolling.

Formal verification bridge from transformers to weighted automata enables rigorous reasoning about LLM behavior in safety-critical deployments.

Gradient-free sampling for energy-based and score-based models via dithered extremum seeking, eliminating score function evaluation.

Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa's "Money" and "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter. (The original samples are here and here, for the curious.) Before that, Kakul held executive roles at Flickr, Yahoo, GitHub, and Adobe. Throughout her career, Kakul has found herself at the intersection of Silicon Valley and creatives. That's been especially true at Splice, where she's not just expanded the platform's footprint by acquiring Spitfire...

David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It's understandable if you're feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous the thing they helped build is. They did, after all, make this mess. But that doesn't mean we should discount their warnings. Robinson says that the culture in industry is fundamentally broken. That this is a deeper issue than simply slapping a few new rules or regula...

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

Minimal substantive AI news reported; no specific announcements, models, or developments disclosed.

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.

Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.

Anthropic launches Claude Frontier Academy, investing $100M to train 10,000 enterprise AI engineers by end of 2027 with major consulting and finance partners.

Simon Willison documents a novelty dinosaur-operated newsstand in Brooklyn's Prospect Park subway station.

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or putting Muse on a small touchscreen device to make what looks kind of like a DIY Muse Charm. "Muse gadgets are open source devices you build yourself," Meta says. "Program an off-the-shelf ESP32 board or set up a Raspberry Pi with our SDKs, then connect Muse to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and ...

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it's rolling out new controls to "ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action." The change comes just weeks after Inc's Jason Aten found that Meta's Muse AI somehow knew the contents of his messages, despite not giving the chatbot explicit permission to access them on his iPhone or Mac. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone pushed back on this repor...

Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

New helpful little guy just dropped. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito - emphasis on work. OpenAI announced Dots earlier this week. Like Muse, Dots have blobby, anthropomorphic avatars and customizable names. In the future, OpenAI says you'll be able to have multiple Dots, but right now you get one. I named mine Dotty McDotf...

SNAP improves 3D geometric representation learning from novel view synthesis by redesigning encoder-decoder architecture and removing pixel-space targets.

4DCodeBench benchmarks agent ability to reconstruct dynamic scenes from video as executable graphics programs, testing inverse graphics reasoning.

Stratified retention framework addresses continual learning in world models where non-stationary environments require strategic forgetting of outdated knowledge.

RNADynBench provides 2585 RNA molecular dynamics trajectories and RNADynNet unifies trajectory generation and dynamics understanding for molecular systems.

EyeRobot 2.0 enables fine-grained bimanual manipulation using active visual fixation and foveal attention with a single stereo camera.

Decentralized optimization framework redesigns local subproblems using graph structure for cooperative computation in distributed multi-agent networks.

LESSER selects post-training data for LLMs using only output-layer gradients instead of full-parameter gradients, reducing computational cost.

Queen, a 4B-parameter model, plays Grandmaster-level chess while generating coherent explanations via encoder-decoder architecture and iterative distillation.

Two-stage AI model predicts neoadjuvant therapy response in breast cancer by inferring transcriptome from histopathology across 10 cohorts.

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money […]