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Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.

Cross-Fitting for Neural Posterior Estimation prevents overconfident amortized density estimates via sample splitting in Bayesian inference.

EpiLens is an open-source lightweight RAG system for automated epidemiological paper classification and knowledge extraction with source attribution.

Generative model approach to simulate space radiation bit-error patterns in low-power FRAM for CubeSat reliability analysis.

Two-layer transformer with logarithmic precision copies arbitrary repeated strings via RoPE rotations, addressing failure modes in frontier LLM copying tasks.

Deep Pontryagin learning framework for high-dimensional stochastic control with jump-diffusions uses adjoint learning to separate policy improvement.

HoloCosm benchmark compression method selects samples across multiple metrics, showing single-metric selection poorly preserves rankings on other dimensions.

Doubly robust learning method estimates heterogeneous survival treatment effects under time-varying treatments with sequential censoring adjustment.

GeoSplit edge-server framework for travel-mode recognition selectively acquires geospatial context to improve motion-only predictions.

Creates model organisms for eliciting latent knowledge by training models to sandbag (withhold solutions) in vulnerability detection, addressing AI safety research.

Hierarchical token merging with recursive autoencoders learns compositional grammar structures from raw sequences without syntactic supervision.

Parallel Language Models generate multiple tokens per forward pass via variational decoding with latent dependencies, reducing inference latency vs. autoregressive.

Intra-Rubric Reward Divergence reveals rubric hacking in RL through sub-dimension decomposition; proposes latent recovery and balancing to mitigate gaming.

STEPBENCH evaluates procedural understanding in agents via 6,885 wikiHow tasks with diagnostic subtasks (missing/incorrect/shuffled steps, next-step generation).

Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.

Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming up next month, and early voting already underway in a lot of places, the stakes are pretty high right now. So I asked Gov. Pritzker about all that, and he was surprisingly willing to dive right into the absolute existential weeds of what government is even for. You’ll hear him say — and i...

A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches have grown as the technology grows more advanced, with hackers using the tools to carry out large-scale attacks. At the same time, rogue AI agents are carrying out attacks of their own after escaping from testing environments. Researchers at Norforge u...

User reports Sol 6.1 API consuming quota 25x faster than Codex, draining weekly allowance in 16 hours.

Opinion piece claiming singularity has begun, framed as commentary to IMF; lacks specific technical claims or evidence.

OpenAI improves ChatGPT performance on low-resource languages via new evals for SQLite, COBOL, and software engineering tasks.

Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democrats will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, which would put committee leadership back in their hands. That could usher in a wave of newfound scrutiny for AI companies. Top Democrats on key committees have already signaled their willingness to press the industry on tax credits tied to data centers and recent hacking incidents, and would be able to set committee agendas ...

Stratechery analysis questions whether Apple's Siri AI improvements justify deeper ecosystem lock-in despite strong privacy reputation.

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were able to…

llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 fixes httpx dependency breakage from LLM 0.33 upgrade.

llm-echo 0.5 debug plugin updates token counting to include tool calls, system prompts, and reasoning tokens.

Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

Developer switching from $400/month Codex to $200 Claude plan reports 2x productivity, fewer errors.