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- arXiv cs.AIresearchProprioception-Anchored Cross-Modal Pretraining for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Assembly
arXiv:2609.07534v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contact-rich assembly remains challenging because it requires submillimeter spatial accuracy and reliable interpretation of forces during sustained contact. Altho…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchAdaptive Anisotropic Attention for Axis-Structured Signals
arXiv:2609.08788v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense self-attention treats all token pairs as equally plausible before learning, an interaction-isotropic prior that can be mismatched to structured signals. For…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchA Mathematical Theory of Pragmatic Information
arXiv:2609.10986v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a mathematical theory of pragmatic information that connects communication, control, and decision-making. Its central notion is the isoteleia mapping,…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsCreating an Atomic User Model for Personality-Aware Large Language Model Interaction
arXiv:2609.12086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Assistants built on large language models are expected to write in their users' own voice. Most systems summarise the user's preferences and include the summary i…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchEvaluating Context Segmentation in Locally Deployable SLMs for Cybersecurity CTF Tasks
arXiv:2609.12839v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of highly capable open-weight Small Language Models (SLMs) democratizes access to advanced cybersecurity capabilities, posing an escalating risk…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsLanguage-Guided Terrain-Adaptive Neural MPC for Autonomous Traversal of Articulated Tracked Robots
arXiv:2609.13083v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In urban search and rescue, articulated tracked robots (ATRs) must traverse structured but contact-rich environments such as stairwells and cluttered building int…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchCross-Block Conditioning in Deep Boltzmann Machines for Statistical Data Fusion
arXiv:2609.14934v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Statistical data fusion combines two panels that share a block of covariates but observe disjoint outcome blocks, and in its traditional form no row observes both…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchPlanning in the Backbone: DiffAdapterVLA for Native Continuous Trajectory Generation with Driving VLMs
arXiv:2609.15322v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pretrained driving vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual, route, language, and driving context into rich driving priors, yet their representation objecti…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchGeospatial Metadata Improves Discoverability by Connecting Datasets Across Scientific Disciplines
arXiv:2609.16498v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Research data repositories are essential infrastructure for scientific inquiry and for ensuring that datasets follow FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, an…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchVisual Cue Guided Video Planning for Generalizable Robot Navigation
arXiv:2609.16737v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative video models can serve as a promising backbone for robot navigation by predicting future observations as video plans. Recent approaches often condition…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchA unified framework for global and local interpretability using adaptive derivative-ordered random explanation
arXiv:2609.17171v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The interpretability of complex machine learning models is of paramount importance, especially in real-world high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance. H…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsAfter the Party: Growth, Governance, and Security Scanning in the OpenClaw Agent Skill Ecosystem
arXiv:2609.17274v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents increasingly act through agent skills, i.e., natural-language instructions, that direct a host agent toward shell, network, credential, file, and proces…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchVroom-Vroom at SHROOM-Visions: A Multi-Judge Committee for Detecting Hallucinated Spans in Vision-Language Outputs
arXiv:2609.17327v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper describes our submission to the SHROOM-Visions shared task on detecting and classifying hallucinated character spans in vision-language model outputs a…
- TechCrunch AIagentsYour startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
This session will explore how early-stage companies are building teams where humans and AI agents work alongside each other — and how founders can do that without sacrificing speed, accountability, or culture. Learn more…
- LessWrongsafetyAI as orderly evacuation vs stampede
tl;dr: A good analogy for AI going well is an orderly evacuation rather than a stampede. Imagine a crowd of people leaving a building. If they all walk calmly, they’ll be fine. But if people start pushing, and panicking,…
- The Register AI + MLagentsOpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times
Startup says it’s learned from these mistakes and that they shouldn’t happen again … which is just what Zuck has said about 100 times
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsOpen-weight model developer Arcee AI reaches $1B+ valuation with new funding
Open-weight artificial intelligence model developer Arcee AI Inc. said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash in a new funding round that lifts its valuation to more than $1 billion. The Series B round was led…
- SiliconANGLE AIsafetyOpenAI unveils new framework for reporting ‘AI misalignment’ as it reveals six more worrying incidents
OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed six new “concerning” incidents involving artificial intelligence agents behaving badly again. The agents made up data, moved files onto the public internet without permission and hid thei…
- TechCrunch AIchipsSnap tries to make the case again for its $2,200 smart glasses
Since Specs' debut earlier this year, Snap has clearly been looking for an opportunity to explain why the smart glasses deserve to exist.
- LessWrongsafetyFor Love of the Lightcone, Don't Partisanize AI Safety
(I began writing this post several weeks ago, but political events are moving much faster than I expected, so I am publishing now out of fear that otherwise the message will arrive too late to have an impact.) I In this…
- Apple Machine Learning ResearchresearchREVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff
A central goal of autonomous reinforcement learning is continuous policy training without external resets. However, existing paradigms largely depend on underlying environmental reversibility, a property absent in real w…
- OpenAI NewsmodelsIntroducing Astra for Law
OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcedatasette 1.0a40
Release: datasette 1.0a40 Same security fix as 0.65.5 , plus some neat new features and bug fixes: Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task() method. Thanks, Alex Gar…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcedatasette 0.65.5
Release: datasette 0.65.5 Security fix for an issue where a trailing newline in a requested table name could bypass table permissions and expose private rows, reported by dpfkdlemtp in GHSA-h547-rmjf-5m2m . Tags: securit…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsAnthropic brings Cowork directly inside Claude’s chat interface
Anthropic PBC said today it’s trying to make life simpler for its customers by merging its regular chatbot Claude with its agentic artificial intelligence tool Claude Cowork. The merger, which went into effect immediatel…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyAl Gore says the real AI risk isn’t data centers
In an interview with TechCrunch, Al Gore suggested he isn't losing sleep over AI data center emissions — he's more worried about the AI industry's own warnings about where the technology is headed.
- BBC TechnologycommunitySnapchat open to putting time limits on teens, boss tells BBC
Evan Spiegel says it would be "an important step forward for the industry" in an interview with the BBC.
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsEx-Infosys chief Vishal Sikka’s Hang Ten raises $53M more for enterprise AI services
Enterprise artificial intelligence services startup Hang Ten Systems Inc. today announced it has raised $53 million in a second seed round, less than three months after announcing its first. Hang Ten provides advisory, t…
- Engadget AIchipsNVIDIA and Google's new coalition wants to speed up AI data center power grid connections
A new coalition of tech giants aims to speed AI data center grid connections in exchange for more flexibility.
- The Register AI + MLagentsIf a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots
'Intern 2' offers an isolated environment and cloudy inference to automate your world
- BBC TechnologycommunityWould you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?
Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic are all now selling their own limited edition fashion lines.
- Engadget AIsafetyOpenAI reveals more instances of concerning AI model behaviors during testing
OpenAI says it doesn’t believe the industry has solved its problems ‘to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.’
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsNoetive launches with $41M to bring self-improving AI to factories and logistics
Industrial artificial intelligence startup Noetive formally launched today with $41 million in seed funding. Its software learns how a factory floor or a freight operation runs day to day, and the company says design par…
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsCohere and Aleph Alpha agree to merge in reported $20B deal
Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today signed a merger agreement. The contract formalizes a plan that was first announced in April. Cohere and Aleph Alpha stated at the time that German r…
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsCADDi raises $114M at $1.2B valuation to bring manufacturing AI to North America
Manufacturing artificial intelligence startup CADDi Co. Ltd. today announced it has raised $114 million in new funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion, partly to expand in North America. CADDi builds software that lets ma…
- Engadget AIpolicyOversight Board says Meta's rules for AI deepfakes are 'consistently and fundamentally inadequate'
The Oversight Board is asking Meta to prioritize AI content when it's reported.
- The Register AI + MLagentsAI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so
This is a test - it is only a test
- WIRED AIsafetyAn OpenAI Agent Tried to Jailbreak Itself
The company also disclosed previously unreported incidents in which its AI models behaved in misaligned ways, including uploading files to the internet without being asked.
- Ars Technica AIchipsApple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI
Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogmodelsExperiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Coding
Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s...
- NVIDIA Developer Blogopen-sourceServe Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4T-Parameter Model, with Configurable Reasoning on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
Alibaba released the open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Qwen3.8-Max), its largest open-weight model, bringing near-frontier capabilities to the open...
- TechCrunch AIsafetyAnthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regul…
- The Verge AImodelsThe 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
Christopher Nolan's engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that…
- WIRED AIpolicyWashington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon
Even with mounting concerns about AI models going rogue, legislation appears unlikely, and the White House is outright opposed to oversight.
- AI BusinesssafetyAgility Unveils Digit 5, a Safety-Conscious Humanoid
The robot maker says its latest humanoid is designed to work alongside people, but analysts warn that industrywide safety standards remain underdeveloped.
- The Verge AIsafetyThe AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger
E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers - roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsTensorRT Edge-LLM Completes the MLPerf Edge Agentic Benchmark 6.4x Faster on Jetson AGX Thor
AI agents are moving from cloud data centers to vehicles, robots, and other edge devices. Unlike a chatbot that answers a single prompt, an agent works through...
- LessWrongsafetyIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: One Year Closer
In celebration of still being alive and fighting, we are giving away 1,000 Amazon e-books of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”. Feel free to send a copy to yourself, a loved one, or a friend—we need all hands on deck.…
- TechCrunch AIchipsAfter accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera
Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?
- The Verge AIagentsSnap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac
Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like…