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- MIT Technology Review AIagentsStop counting tokens, start counting what ships
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens th…
- TechRadar AImodelsSpotify's AI remix feature is tipped for February, but could cost you extra
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- LessWrongcommunityA Gentle Guide to Boredom
It's the strangest feeling, isn't it? It reminds me of an emotion, but rather than residing in the heart, it's in the mind. How does it work for you? Perhaps you need to slow down enough to induce it in yourself, to gath…
- TechRadar AImodelsAmazon's now rolling out its 'Ask this book' AI feature to Kindles
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- WIRED AImodelsWhen You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web
Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.
- The DecoderpolicySaudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal
Saudi Aramco is buying into Humain, the company meant to turn Saudi Arabia into a global AI hub. The article Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal appeared first on The Decoder .
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsEnterprises bring AI to their data as privacy rules tighten and costs climb
Every enterprise AI strategy eventually comes down to the same question: Should proprietary data travel to the model, or should the model come to the data? As privacy rules tighten and geopolitical risk rises, more organ…
- Guardian AIcommunityFrom puregatory to lifehoarding – how best to describe our strange, anxious times? | Emma Beddington
The new words that end up a part of everyday speech can tell us a lot about the zeitgeist. In a world changing faster than ever, we need to coin some more ‘Maxxing” may be one of our words of the year – sufficient unto t…
- TechRadar AImodelsGetting the most out of your collaboration strategy
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The DecodermodelsOpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington
OpenAI is gearing up for a political lobbying and PR push after the US midterms. The article OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington appeared first on The Decoder .
- Guardian TechnologycommunityFrom a life-changing garlic press to a super-glowy serum: 12 buys you’re loving right now
Casserole dishes, electric heaters and silk shirts: your autumnal favourites show you’re hunkering down – with one eye on party season • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Autumn, we’ve been expec…
- TechRadar AImodelsTechnology is reinventing fraud: Financial institutions must keep up
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AImodelsThis Halloween, make sure your sensitive data Is wearing a mask
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian AIcommunityPalantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it
Exclusive: Gap between NHS claim and trusts’ comments described as ‘very misleading’ by senior health official More than two dozen hospital trusts the NHS claims have benefited from Palantir’s medical data platform are n…
- Guardian AIpolicyIt’s time to block reckless AI IPOs and tax billionaires | Naomi Klein and Ilana Glazer
We cannot let the billionaire class take unprecedented risks with our future America is a divided country in crisis. Despite the sunny economic forecast coming from the Trump administration, millions of Americans are str…
- TechRadar AIpolicyThe in-store telemetry blackout costing retailers billions
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- WIRED AImodelsHundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.
- LessWrongcommunityGaming (out) the system
Verification changes the stampede dynamics. I'm currently at FASR in the UK, it's an 8-week program dedicated to "compute verification". That's the not-quite-here-yet technology that would allow us to make agreements abo…
- MIT Technology Review AIagentsThe agentic web is here
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he cal…
- The Register AI + MLstartupsBritain's driverless dream hits a roundabout of awkward questions
Institute for Driverless Transport wants answers on jobs impact and what happens if the supplier bails
- TechRadar AImodelsEveryone should be building with AI, and everyone should know its cost
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- LessWrongresearchHow We Lose
“It’s unbelievable,” the CEO said. “As in, I literally don’t believe it. Model X can do all of that, but still can’t automate tasks that take our researchers a day?” The engineer nodded carefully. He’d been dreading this…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityRyanair faces clash with unions as it mulls pay freezes amid soaring fuel costs
Airline also weighs up reducing crew on flights and increasing use of AI as part of cost-cutting measures Business live – latest updates Ryanair has said it is considering implementing pay freezes, setting the scene for…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsMarble Cognition raises $3.75M for its AI agent workers that watch and learn how people work
Artificial intelligence agents have become two a penny in the enterprise today, but just because they’re rapidly being commoditized does not mean organizations know how best to use them. That’s the challenge a startup ca…
- The Register AI + MLmodelsFrom Expertise to Intelligence: NISCO Deploys World's First Swarm-Intelligence Steel Model at Scale
PARTNER CONTENT: 300+ AI applications delivering surges in core metrics and annual cost reduction of over CNY100m
- Tom's Guide AImodelsI asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity if there really is an AI bubble and when it’s going to burst — and one compared it to the dot-com crash
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Guardian AIcommunityGoogle search has gone from being very handy to useless | First Dog on the Moon
Google’s AI summary is punching a huge hole in their own profits – is this good? Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is Fir…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsMore Rules, Longer Lists? Benchmarking Self-Evolving Agents on a Hidden-Rule Curriculum
arXiv:2610.40758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents rewrite a persistent state from feedback, but it is largely untested whether this lets them learn a rule nobody told them. An agent can also pass by wr…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsBeyond Plausible Prediction: Safety Sufficiency in Web World Models
arXiv:2610.40798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web world models increasingly predict the consequences of candidate actions before agents act, yet a plausible predicted future does not necessarily support the correct saf…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchCircumventing the Computational Hardness of Computational Arbitrage
arXiv:2610.40831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI model marketplaces host providers with heterogeneous costs and capabilities. These differences create an opportunity for computational arbitrage (Olmedo et al., 2026), i…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchIncongruence-Aware Evaluation of Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition in Audio Large Language Models
arXiv:2610.40883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice-interactive large language models process both what a speaker says and how they say it, yet the two channels do not always agree. We ask whether that disagreement deg…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsChatGPT as a Surveillance Assistant? An Exploratory Case Study of AI-Assisted Surveillance Risks
arXiv:2610.40890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate detailed guidance, functional code, and persuasive text at scale. As one of the most widely used consumer language model products…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsDoes Recursive Knowledge Construction Help Agents Verify Consensus Claims in Science?
arXiv:2610.40906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent scientific agents build knowledge recursively by retrieving evidence, constructing an intermediate state, and judging whether that state contains sufficient informat…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsTowards Portable Specification of the Agent Harness
arXiv:2610.40917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models act only through the infrastructure that surrounds them. That infrastructure, the harness, determines what a model can accomplish and how it fails, ye…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsAgentic World Modeling for Agent Test-time Scaling without Environment Replica
arXiv:2610.40927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) improves large language model agents by sampling and selecting among multiple candidate trajectories, but common realizations assume that these traj…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchDiRAFT: Privacy-Aware Financial Transcript Synthesis from Aggregate Discourse Priors
arXiv:2610.40938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using customer conversations to train and evaluate financial language models raises confidentiality concerns because non-public financial facts can remain after direct iden…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsThe First Few Tokens Matter: Understanding Chain-of-Thought Controllability
arXiv:2610.40939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is a promising way to oversee increasingly capable agents. It succeeds in part because current models appear limited in their ability to c…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsBenchmarking Forecasting Agents on Yesterday's Tomorrows
arXiv:2610.40940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital agents can now gather and organize information, reason over it, and use tools to complete complex tasks. Forecasting puts all of these abilities to the test: it req…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchOpening the Box Changes the Cat: LLMs Detect Chain-of-Thought Monitoring - What now?
arXiv:2610.40946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning allows large language models (LLMs) to generate intermediate reasoning traces in natural language while solving complex tasks. These traces…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsP-ContextBench: From Personal Fact Recall to Personalized Agent Behavior
arXiv:2610.40959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for personal tasks, yet evaluating their safe use of personal context remains difficult because such contexts are private…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchNedimo: An Evidence-Grounded Multilingual Pipeline for AI-Generated Sleep Stories
arXiv:2610.40970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative audio systems can produce large libraries of personalized bedtime content, but ordinary media objectives (retention, completion, and novelty) are poorly aligned…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsThe psychophysics of affect in large language models
arXiv:2610.40985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Good decisions often require considering how outcomes will feel. Yet large language models (LLMs) increasingly enter decision workflows, despite little being known about ho…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchCan Personal Requirements Become Supervision for Planning?
arXiv:2610.40992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Managing multiple chronic conditions through diet requires satisfying disease- and medication-specific requirements jointly across meals and days while preserving establish…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchViolet Teaming in Practice: Lessons from a Pilot Expert Workshop on Governing Complex AI Systems
arXiv:2610.41018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Violet teaming has been proposed as a method to integrate technical, policy, and societal considerations into the evaluation of emerging technologies. Here, we document a p…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsReplayRCA: Measuring Post-hoc Diagnosis and Live Oversight of Agent Failures by Counterfactual Replay
arXiv:2610.41025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language-model agent fails a multi-step task, can another model find the decisive mistake and fix it with a single action? We introduce ReplayRCA, a benchmark that s…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsCapability-Grounded Agentic Planning
arXiv:2610.41040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents serve natural-language requests through tools, data sources, and other agents, and even simple requests often need several interdependent calls. Typically, the L…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsConsensus Within, Competition Between: Decentralized LLM Teams for Perimeter Defense
arXiv:2610.41044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of large language models (LLMs) to coordinate multi-agent teams raises a fundamental architectural question: whether task allocation should be centralized in a sing…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsLanG 2.0: Energy-Efficient Agentic AI for Semi-Automated Security Operations at Scale
arXiv:2610.41072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Security operations centers (SOCs) need to turn terabytes of alerts, logs and flows into trusted, affordable decisions to unveil hidden threats. We present LanG 2.0, an age…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsBABA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Patient-Advocacy Agents
arXiv:2610.41076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An LLM agent that helps a patient get care must do two things. It must reach the correct outcome, and it must follow the necessary procedure. For example, the agent must ge…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchOptimization Techniques for Solving the Minimum Red--Blue Separating Set Problem with an Application to Human--AI Text Separation
arXiv:2610.41081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the so-called Minimum Red''Blue Separating Set Problem (MRBSSP) which arises from computational geometry. In particular, we propose a compact Set-Cover ILP formula…