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Agent-based model simulates opinion formation across cultural groups via word-of-mouth and mass media influence.

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

Position paper argues LLM self-explanations are plausible but unfaithful; proposes criteria for actionable interpretability.

Simon Willison comments on Kimi K3's refusal to leak its system prompt, noting the model's polite deflection.

PHP-AIO protocol formalizes hidden systemic risks (knowledge erosion, resilience, regulatory) in role-level automation decisions.

Vision-language model achieves SOTA remote sensing benchmarks via simple scaling recipe without task-specific architectural changes.

Comprehensive realistic benchmark for DRL reach-avoid task on robotic arms; shows poor generalization from simplified settings.

PEACE framework transfers adult ECG models to pediatric populations via cross-modal alignment; addresses label scarcity.

Empirical study shows boundary-seeking distillation fails for autoencoder knowledge transfer on MNIST.

Matrix product operators reduce exponential tensor growth in multivariate polynomial models for function approximation.

Semiparametric framework models stochastic fundamental diagrams in traffic flow while preserving physical constraints.

Simon Willison releases tool to detect common linguistic patterns in LLM-generated text.

A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar proposes AI scorecard framework measuring ROI via useful work, cost-per-task, dependability, and compute efficiency.

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance at for two seconds, weather predictions influence major strategic decisions in many industries, with real money, livelihoods, and even actual lives at stake. Farmers use…

Satirical proposal: hyperscalers mitigate data center water consumption by converting golf courses to parks, citing Google's 10.9B gallon 2025 usage vs. Coachella Valley golf water footprint.

Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B released as largest open-weight model with Opus 4.8-class performance at Sonnet 5 pricing.

Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly, enabling browser-in-browser execution; project cost ~$25k in Claude Opus tokens.

Capcom's RE ENGINE team set out to bring path tracing into two shipping titles at once, Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA, each with a different visual... Source

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 (2.8T params), claims top performance vs. Claude Opus 4.8 Max and GPT-5.5, promises open-weight release by July 2026.

Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.

Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.

Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, and most agents still share credentials; and only three in ten isolate their highest-risk agents. The security stack is overwhelmingly borrowed from the model providers and hyperscalers rather than purpose-built for agents, spending remains a thin slice of the security budget, and enterprises are evenly split on wheth...

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

Study validates whether LLM conditional distributions satisfy law of total probability across partitions, probing statistical self-consistency in in-context learning.

RoboTTT extends robot policy context to 8K timesteps enabling one-shot imitation and long-horizon task performance without inference latency increase.

MeanFlowNFT adapts forward-process RL from DiffusionNFT to average-velocity generators for efficient few-step generation alignment.