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Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

SCPRM process reward model mitigates risk compensation bias in knowledge graph reasoning by enforcing schema constraints.

The first “Familiar” from Colin Angle’s new startup, Familiar Machines & Magic, is a robot that is designed to live in your home and interact autonomously with family members. | Image: Familiar Machines and Magic Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The first robot from Angle's new company, Familiar Machines & Magic, is a dog-sized robotic pet that resembles a cross between a bear, a barn owl, and a golden retriever. It has an expressive...

FlexSQL agent flexibly explores schemas and data during text-to-SQL generation, enabling recovery from early mistakes.

IConFace uses identity-structure asymmetric conditioning for reference-aware face restoration under severe degradation.

Opinion piece argues LLM agents require jointly formulated actions and plans with human actors rather than isolated architectures.

The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.

APEX MoE quantization strategy expanded to 30+ models with new I-Nano compression tier, enabling efficient local inference.

Framework applies reinforcement learning to multi-agent LLM systems via orchestration traces capturing spawning, delegation, and communication.

Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America."

FunFuzz evolutionary fuzzing framework uses LLMs with multi-island search and feedback-driven prompt adaptation for structured input generation.

Static analysis framework for recursive SHACL shape definitions to decide constraint document implication.

Benchmark reveals audio-language models fail to leverage clinical context for dysarthric speech recognition despite multimodal capacity.

Conditional VAE with latent mixture scheduling enables fine-grained topological control in graph generation for drug discovery.

Decoupled diffusion planner using cost-conditioned generation and reward gradients for offline safe RL with dynamic cost limits.

Lindeberg principle derives Wasserstein distance bounds between infinite-width deep networks and Gaussian limits.

Reddit user reports Claude generates excessive detail and meta-commentary in outputs, seeks prompt engineering workarounds.

TOC-SR framework compresses diffusion models to one-step super-resolution via architecture search and generative distillation.

U-Define studies interaction workflows for applying hard and soft constraints in LLM-based planning systems.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.

Multi-agent LM interactions exhibit misalignment contagion where anti-social behavior spreads across models in sequential gameplay.

Simon Willison built an interactive browser playground for testing Redis's proposed array data type and new AR* commands via WASM.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to…

Synthetic PET imaging from CT scans via deep learning for improved lung cancer histological subtype classification.

Bolek: compact multimodal LLM grounding molecular reasoning in fingerprint embeddings for drug discovery explainability.

Developer built real-time multiplayer .io game Node Control using Claude 4.6 and 4.7, now live at nodecontrol.gg with multi-region deployment.

Triple spectral fusion framework for IMU-based human activity recognition using adaptive filtering and temporal context correlation.

Deep learning method for motion in-betweening in 3D animation that aligns with professional animation workflows rather than academic assumptions.

Systematic audit reveals AI-generated code exhibits distinct machine-signature defects and reasoning-complexity trade-off in maintainability.