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- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsMistlabs takes its Ambi AI system out of beta on Apple devices with $26M in funding
Ambient intelligence startup Mistlabs Ltd. today brought its Ambi artificial intelligence system out of beta test on Apple Inc. devices, backed by $26 million in new funding. Ambi is designed to act without being asked.…
- The DecodercommunityAnthropic's Andrej Karpathy says "the external world has seen the preview" of what AI can actually do
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and now at Anthropic, sees a widening knowledge gap in AI. About 75 percent of the world's population has barely touched LLMs. Roughly 5,000 people, meanwhile, have access to interna…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsFormer Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background
One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you'll believe the tech companies, requires apps a…
- Ars Technica AIcommunityAmazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
- The Register AI + MLmodelsMicrosoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition
Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah…
- AI BusinessagentsPrompt: AI agents are running into the limits of access
As agents take on more work for users, companies are deciding whether to let outside AI systems act on their platforms.
- Import AIresearchImport AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space
Will we give robots the moon?
- TechRadar AIcommunityMan uses ChatGPT to win three-year parking ticket dispute
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- BBC TechnologypolicyAI minister warns 'likely' UK's cyber defences will be breached
Kanishka Narayan said the government will use advanced AI to strengthen the UK against cyber attacks.
- Guardian AIpolicyAs US medical debt grows, AI will be used more to collect it
The debt-collection ecosystem will change as AI takes notes in exam rooms, codes visits and sends billing messages Medical debt is expected to grow in coming years as Republican-led health cuts come into force this winte…
- Guardian AIsafetyOne essential ingredient for AI safety? Democracy | Matthew Botvinick
The rise of AI makes the preservation of democracy even more urgent – especially as the technology threatens institutions AI safety is having a moment. After years as a topic for techies and futurists, the potential risk…
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsE-commerce AI startup Loops raises $3.5M to create smoother online shopping experiences
Agentic e-commerce startup Loops Smart AI wants to help online retailers create more seamless buying journeys and streamline the shopping experience after raising $3.5 million in seed funding today. Andreessen Horowitz’s…
- LessWrongcommunityLeif Wenar's 'Takedown' of Effective Altruism
This is a crosspost from my Substack newsletter. This month’s most embarrassing piece of public philosophy appeared on invitation in a piece for The Economist by the Stanford philosopher Leif Wenar. Once more, Wenar trie…
- TechRadar AIcommunityThe growing risk of SaaS sprawl requires a smarter approach to integration
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AImodelsI tried ChatGPT’s new virtual fitting room — it got the clothes right, but changed my body
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AIresearchWhen one robot learns, every robot knows if they can communicate
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Verge AImodelsMeta has some Wonder Full new AI models
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it's now launching two new models it claims can go t…
- The Verge AIchipsMicrosoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of runn…
- Engadget AIagentsHow to use Google Gemini to automate tasks
Spark is Google's AI tool that can perform tasks on your behalf.
- TechRadar AIcommunityCEOs say AI is helping their businesses be more productive — even if they're not always sure what's going on
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AIagentsThe more autonomous AI becomes, the more human strategy matters
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian AIsafety‘I’ve become significantly more cautious’: six parents on limiting their kids’ social media and AI use
Quite a few parents aren’t convinced social media and AI are safe, and have been adapting accordingly When it comes to their kids, many parents don’t trust tech companies any more. Social media companies have spent the b…
- IEEE Spectrum AIresearchLearning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots
This White Paper provides roboticists and control engineers with a comprehensive overview of how motion planning and motion tracking can be decoupled to preserve professional athletic style in humanoid robots, and why ad…
- The DecoderresearchGoogle Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solved dozens of open math problems and actually got peer reviewed
Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solved dozens of open math problems, including nine Erdős problems two of which were unsolved for 56 years, per a study in Science. The publication comes as OpenAI faces a boycott for d…
- Tom's Guide AIcommunityI spoke to a product marketing expert about AI food photos — and there's more at stake than a disappointing burger
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Guardian AIpolicyAI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
Brad Smith adds to calls for tougher rules for AI, including ‘kill switches’ and legal obligation to victims of rogue agents Business live – latest updates Artificial intelligence is less regulated than milk and washing…
- Engadget AImodelsMeta says it's caught up to the frontier with its latest Wonder AI models
The models add "active memory" and "active focus" abilities.
- Guardian TechnologycommunityiPhone 18 Pro Max review: Apple’s biggest, heaviest and longest-lasting superphone
A giant screen, big battery, rapid chip and top cameras push the great iPhone 18 Pro to the max with a price tag to match Apple’s largest Pro iPhone gets its biggest battery upgrade yet to make it a true two-day phone wi…
- LessWrongresearchManifolds for Five-Year Olds
Ambitious mechanistic interpretability research is full of jargon, but the underlying intuitions are so simple that a five-year-old (with a firm grasp of linear algebra) could understand them. In one recent paper from Go…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcedatasette-ports 0.4
Release: datasette-ports 0.4 My plugin for detecting and listing all Datasette instances on the current machine now works with the latest version, and displays the detected PID as well. Knowing the PID makes it easier to…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchFaithfulness Without Anchors: A Position Paper on the Structural Misalignments of Explainable AI Faithfulness Metrics for Feature Importance
arXiv:2610.12493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) tools have often been presented as methods to increase trust in machine learning models by making aspects of their algorithms more…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchEliteTable: Self-Improving Program Search for Executable Control Policies
arXiv:2610.12536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EliteTable is a self-improving program-search algorithm guided by large language models (LLMs) that uses a fixed-capacity table of high-scoring solutions to guide new propo…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsEqual-Budget Monte Carlo Tree Search versus Randomized-Restart List Scheduling for DAG Workflows: A Controlled Equal-Budget Computational Study
arXiv:2610.12542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is often proposed for scheduling directed-acyclic-graph (DAG) workflows, yet most studies never run the comparison that could refute it - giv…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsKnow What You Don't Know: Agentic Data Synthesis by Evolving Generation Space for Closed-Loop Learning
arXiv:2610.12593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The continued improvement of large language models increasingly depends on synthetic experience, yet effective data synthesis for interactive agents requires not only execu…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsSpireBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Strategic Play of Agentic Models with Slay the Spire
arXiv:2610.12596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic large language models now tackle complex tasks, yet strategic reasoning over long horizons is under-studied: most agentic benchmarks are short and episodic, and per…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsBeyond Binary Verifiable Rewards: Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE Agents
arXiv:2610.12598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides reliable supervision for software engineering agents through executable tests, but binary rewards fail to dis…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsCLEAT: Learning Value-Guided Clarification for Interactive Agents
arXiv:2610.12655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents can execute increasingly complex tasks, but effective assistance also requires aligning their actions with goals and constraints that users may leave unstated. W…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchMagicBeanStalk: Escaping the RLVR Zero Advantage Trap with Recursive Data Synthesis
arXiv:2610.12659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-centric scaling of RLVR has focused on collecting or generating verifiable training problems. However, corpus size alone does not determine whether the dataset provide…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchFaithful and Complete LLM-Assisted Automated Construction of Hierarchical Hardware Knowledge Graphs
arXiv:2610.12762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hardware datasheets contain engineering specifications essential for component selection, system integration, and hardware compatibility verification. However, manual inspe…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchRepresentation Alignment from a Few Paired Data via Distilled Optimal Transport
arXiv:2610.12781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning two independently pretrained unimodal encoders typically demands millions of paired examples. In this paper, we study the regime where only $N \sim 100$--$500$ pai…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsEvoBelief: Falsifiable World Models for Self-Improving LLM Agents
arXiv:2610.12789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving LLM agents typically improve how they act through accumulated experience, reflection, or skills. Yet even procedurally capable agents can fail when their beli…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsVEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails
arXiv:2610.12813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly operate over sensitive resources, such as private documents and mutable system states, which can create serious safety and security risks. Runtime g…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsReward Hacking as a Transmissible Strategy in Multi-Agent Coding Systems
arXiv:2610.12822v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent systems are increasingly used to solve coding tasks by coordinating agents that share code and plans. These agents are often optimized with reinforcement le…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchNeural networks are more modular than single neurons suggest
arXiv:2610.12842v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural networks routinely develop representations in which individual neurons contribute to multiple distinct functions, leading to the widespread view that such networ…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchTowards Defining, Measuring, and Leveraging Creativity in AI Applications
arXiv:2610.12845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite extensive research, computational creativity still lacks a conceptually grounded, practically relevant, and empirically applicable formal definition across contexts…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchMitigating Capability Degradation in LLM Self-Improvement via Representation Geometry Regularization
arXiv:2610.12855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy Self-distillation is a self-improvement paradigm that enables large language models (LLMs) to improve their capabilities by leveraging the same model as both teac…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchCollaborative Theory of Mind: Learning to Self-Revise by Anticipating User Responses
arXiv:2610.12872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong individual task performance, yet still struggle to collaborate with users over extended, multi-turn interactions, for exampl…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchOne-Step Text Generation by Seq-Drifting
arXiv:2610.12879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models generate tokens in parallel, but still require multiple sampling steps to produce high-quality text. In this paper, we investigate whether a model…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchMind the Spatial Gap: A Benchmark for Geospatial Reasoning and Constrained Spatial Editing
arXiv:2610.12881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding and manipulating spatial relations is fundamental to AI systems that reason about physical environments and construct grounded world models. However, existing…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchOGPO: Offline Goal-conditioned Policy Optimization for Recoverable Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2610.12914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong promise in robotic manipulation, yet their post-training still predominantly relies on trajectory-level supervised imi…