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- arXiv cs.AIagentsEquity Bias: An Ethical Framework for AI Design
arXiv:2604.21907v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Equity Bias is a philosophical and practical framework for building more equitable AI systems. It treats AI as an interpretive agent that constructs meaning and k…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchBetter Reward Models Are Not Always Less Biased: Social Alignment Beyond Standard Reward Benchmarks
arXiv:2605.05003v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward models are central to LLM alignment, yet current benchmarks reveal little about how they represent diverse and sometimes competing social preferences. We e…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchMoLS: SNR-Guided Module-Wise Learning-Rate Calibration for Large Language Models
arXiv:2605.05794v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) contain functionally distinct modules with heterogeneous gradient statistics. Although Adam(W) adapts updates at the parameter level,…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchQ-MMR: Off-Policy Evaluation via Recursive Reweighting and Moment Matching
arXiv:2605.06474v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a novel theoretical framework, Q-MMR, for off-policy evaluation in finite-horizon MDPs. Q-MMR learns a set of scalar weights, one for each data point,…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchMedAction: Towards Active Multi-turn Clinical Diagnostic LLMs
arXiv:2605.07305v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most existing LLM diagnoses are evaluated on static, single-turn settings where complete patient information is provided upfront, an oversimplification of real cl…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchPOETS: Uncertainty-Aware LLM Optimization via Compute-Efficient Policy Ensembles
arXiv:2605.07775v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Balancing exploration with exploitation is a core challenge in black-box optimization and reinforcement learning. We introduce POETS ($\textbf{Po}$licy $\textbf{E…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchAttractor-Vascular Coupling Theory: Formal Grounding and Empirical Validation for AAMI-Standard Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation from Smartphone Photoplethysmography
arXiv:2605.10871v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Attractor-Vascular Coupling Theory (AVCT), a theory-guided framework for deriving interpretable blood pressure (BP) predictors from photoplethysmograph…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchVLMs Trace Without Tracking: Diagnosing Failures in Visual Path Following
arXiv:2605.15672v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) perform strongly on multimodal benchmarks, yet their ability to reliably follow continuous visual structure remains unclear. We focu…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchShaping the Prior: How Synthetic Task Distributions Determine Tabular Foundation Model Quality
arXiv:2605.18971v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: What determines the quality of a tabular foundation model? Unlike language or vision, tabular foundation models acquire their inductive biases almost entirely fro…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchEfficient Benchmarking Is Just Feature Selection and Multiple Regression
arXiv:2605.25773v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient benchmarking techniques aim to lower the computational cost of evaluating LLMs by predicting full benchmark scores using only a subset of a benchmark's…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchProbing Collision Grounding in Vision-Language Models for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2605.31196v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe human--robot collaboration requires more than visual description: a monitor must determine whether the robot body is safely separated, already colliding with…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchStemBind: When MLLMs Get Lost Between Rules and Instances in Abstract Visual Reasoning
arXiv:2606.00148v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often know the rule but pick the wrong answer: on abstract visual reasoning (AVR) tasks, a model can describe what it see…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchContinuous Audio Thinking for Large Audio Language Models
arXiv:2606.18273v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large audio language models (LALMs) have shown impressive capabilities on diverse audio understanding tasks, ranging from speech transcription to music analysis.…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchSteerVTE: Seamless Video Text Editing with Style and Glyph Control
arXiv:2606.23254v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual text editing aims to precisely modify text in images and videos while preserving stylistic consistency and visual realism. Despite significant advances in…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchWorld from Motion: Generative Dynamic Gaussian Reconstruction from Monocular Video
arXiv:2607.01202v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present World from Motion, a method for generating freely renderable dynamic 3D Gaussian representations from monocular videos. Our approach conditions a video…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchHow Should Transformers Encode Numeric Values in Electronic Health Records?
arXiv:2607.01391v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: How do we encode numeric values in transformer-based sequence processing, particularly in electronic health record (EHR) data? We systematically compare discrete,…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsGaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks
arXiv:2607.05369v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For robots to work reliably in commercial and industrial applications, recent advances in agentic coding systems have potential to combine interpretable robot pro…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchWAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models by Watching Human Play at Test Time
arXiv:2607.06988v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Steering robot foundation models (RFMs) toward new task variants or user-preferred behaviors remains challenging, often requiring additional robot demonstrations,…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchHow Do I Know What to Say Next? Barenholtz's Autogenerative Theory as an Enrichment of Harrisean Integrationism
arXiv:2607.07891v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Roy Harris's Integrationist linguistics offers a compelling critique of the referentialist tradition embedded deep at the heart of computational approaches to lan…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchSemantic Anchoring for Robotic Action Representations
arXiv:2607.13597v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit rich semantic representations from pretrained Vision-Language Models, yet fine-tuning on limited robot demonstrations…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsAgentGUI: An Interface for Observing and Steering Long-Running AI Agents
arXiv:2607.26300v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents are increasingly adept at tackling complex, long-running tasks. With the rapid surge of autonomous capabilities, human oversight is systematically laggi…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchFinVerse: Toward More Realistic Evaluation for Financial Time-Series Forecasting
arXiv:2608.03259v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time-series foundation models (TSFMs) are increasingly evaluated on broad benchmarks that apply uniform conventional forecast evaluation metrics across heterogene…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsAn LLM agent for end-to-end computational materials discovery
arXiv:2608.20434v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Coordinating multi-scale tasks is an effective strategy for computational materials discovery, yet the diverse algorithms and tools involved make this process hig…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsPolyMemDB: A Polyglot Database System for AI Memory Management
arXiv:2608.25577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the widespread adoption of personal intelligent agents, users generate massive, heterogeneous data during long-term interactions. Leveraging this data as lon…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsFrom Review to Authorization: Key-Isolated Threshold Signing for LLM Agents
arXiv:2609.05901v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous LLM agents can turn semantic judgments into consequential actions such as payments and permission changes. If the same process makes these judgments an…
- Engadget AIstartupsAnthropic files to go public
The company may be valued as high as $2 trillion.
- LessWrongcommunityAnthropic are the Good Guys
Consider reading Some Memories of Early Anthropic first to get a sense of my raw experience before you read my speculative interpretation. I’m writing these lines in Alamogordo, New Mexico. I’m about as close as a civili…
- SiliconANGLE AIresearchApollo analysis shows no one besides the biggest tech giants is seeing benefits from AI
Despite all of the hype and the multiple millions of dollars invested in artificial intelligence, most of corporate America outside of its biggest technology firms is yet to see any financial payoff, according to an anal…
- The Register AI + MLpolicyAfter threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling
PLUS: AI datacenter bubble wobbles in Australia; E-commerce app suggests it can detect diseases; India’s top telco to IPO amid investor frenzy; and more!
- OpenAI NewsmodelsIntroducing GPT-6.1 Terra
Bringing fast and capable computer use to everyone
- Apple Machine Learning ResearchresearchGHARP: Real-Time Gaussian Head Animation from Large-Scale Reconstruction Prior
We present GHARP (Real-time Gaussian Head Animation from Large-scale Reconstruction Prior), a method that animates 3D human heads in real time from a few input images of a subject and a driving expression signal. We deco…
- OpenAI NewsresearchWorking with academic communities to build scientific understanding
OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.
- BBC TechnologycommunityBig, noisy and coming to a town near you - why the data centre backlash is growing
Data centres are the lifeblood of our digital world, but there are growing concerns about their environmental impact. The BBC explores their rise in charts.
- TechRadar AIsafetyQuote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 'We have to do something useful with AI, or we'll quickly lose social permission'
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Engadget AIpolicyElvis Presley's estate is suing Anthropic over copyright infringement
The latest AI copyright infringement suit centers around a single music artist from decades past: Elvis.
- TechCrunch AImodelsGrok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
- LessWrongcommunityThe AI buildout is the largest bet in the history of capitalism.
This is part linkpost, and an expansion on a previous shortform posted on LW. I believe a massively undermade point in favour of the belief that AI will be a very big deal is that the AI buildout over the past four years…
- LessWrongresearchDifferent eval awareness may track different graders
TL;DR: Qwen3.6 27B shows different kinds of eval awareness, most notably on safety and capabilities evals. The split seems to track how the eval is graded, by an LLM judge or by an automated checker. One explanation is t…
- LessWrongcommunitySan Francisco State University in Twilight
You will agree that for a woman who has fought three duels, all of them kills, indulging in such fears is ludicrous. But what's around the corner now is a duel so big that I don't think I have the guts for it; in Faust's…
- TechRadar AIchipsThis crowdfunded $109 hub wants to pool the RAM in your old PCs, Macs, and phones to run bigger AI models — but the engine underneath is software you can already get for free
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- LessWrongcommunityA Study of China Does Not Personal Experience Make
I am often skeptical of arguments about China that rely heavily on personal experience. The author may explicitly acknowledge that their experience is limited without appropriately treating their arguments with rigor bef…
- LessWrongcommunityPersonal Experience Does Not A Study of China Make
I am often skeptical of arguments about China that rely heavily on personal experience. The author may explicitly acknowledge that their experience is limited without appropriately treating their arguments with rigor bef…
- Guardian AIpolicyAnthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models
Authentic Brands Group says AI company infringed on rights of songs by the King such as Can’t Help Falling in Love The owners of Elvis Presley ’s music catalogue are suing the artificial intelligence ( AI ) company Anthr…
- LessWrongsafetyFrom overeliciting to undereliciting LLM propensities in just a few months
For a while, we felt we had a pretty good grasp over LLM behaviour because we had to exert significant effort to elicit misaligned behaviour. Then, fairly suddenly, we moved to undereliciting misaligned behaviour. Let us…
- LessWrongresearchTracing Subliminal Learning Through Pretraining
This post summarizes our paper , Tracing Subliminal Learning Through Pretraining, which was developed as part of EleutherAI’s SOAR program . TL;DR We study subliminal learning , the phenomenon in which a student model ac…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyAI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunitySeam Cutter
Tool: Seam Cutter I built this weird and very specific cropping tool - it lets you create a horizontal or vertical cut across an image, then slide the two sides relative to each other. Effectively it lets you crop out a…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityThe hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
- Guardian TechnologycommunityNeighbours is being recut into a microdrama focused on Margot Robbie – and her co-stars aren’t happy
Actor’s storylines in the famous soap will be recut into vertical micro-episodes to be watched on phones – but her fellow cast members say they haven’t been consulted The long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours is…
- Guardian AIpolicy‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report
State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Western Australian government has said it is “extreme…