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SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX's quarterly earnings. The AI division, which the company said in its documents to go public was the source of most of its value, lost $1.5 billion this quarter, slightly less than in the same quarter last year. SpaceX made deals with Anthropic in May and Google in June to provide compute to the other two AI companies, putting it in competition with other neoclouds such as CoreWeave. The increased presen...

Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

MiniMax releases H3, a multimodal generative model generating 15-second video from text/image/audio input; MLX port enables inference on Apple Silicon.

OpenAI addresses third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and announces new safeguards for AI model testing protocols.

Technical reconstruction of ChatGPT Work's agent architecture: memory, scheduling, browser automation, plugins, and tool composition.

ParVL framework scales multimodal LLMs via parallel computation reuse between ViT and LLM, enabling task-specific optimization without fixed component allocation.

SocietyBench evaluates LLM agents on forecasting real social-world events by ingesting news/social media timelines and measuring counterfactual event prediction.

WorldCup Arena prospectively evaluates six frontier LLMs with extended thinking on live 2026 FIFA World Cup forecasting across 104 matches, eliminating memorization risk.

TurnSight applies turn-level hindsight self-distillation to Tool-Integrated Reasoning, enabling finer credit assignment than trajectory-level RL in long-horizon agent tasks.

PAST-Bench benchmarks recursive self-improvement in personal AI agents by measuring whether retained preferences, task histories, and skills improve performance over sessions.

Test-time scaling taxonomy clarifies distinct inference algorithms (sampling, voting, search) in reasoning LLMs, standardizing evaluation protocols and compute accounting.

Agogic demonstrates music tokenization—not model scale—drives text-to-symbolic-music generation quality, using Qwen backbone with seven representations and Frechet Music Distance.

ALiBi positional encoding has numerical underflow bug where linear bias scaling zeros attention weights; characterizes impact in state-of-the-art models and mitigation strategies.

Conditional diffusion models for synthetic histopathology images; evaluates FID/IS limitations with domain-specific metrics for medical data generation.

string2string Studio: WebAssembly-based browser platform for string algorithms across NLP, biology, and humanities; alignment, distance, similarity, and BLAST search.

LLMs recover missing semantic optimizations in C/C++ code that compilers overlook, evaluated on SeGaBench with 120 cases.

The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast fashion companies or beauty brands flying out influencers with the goal of flooding social media with sponsored content. This time, it was a major AI company. Over the weekend, several influencers began posting about OpenAI's "first ever brand trip,"...

Video-DeepResearch extends multimodal agents to video streams; identifies modality bias and knowledge leakage bottlenecks in current models.

ReflectRL improves LLM reasoning by learning from failed expert trajectories as reflective signals during on-policy post-training.

HIVE benchmark reveals voice transcription and keyboard perturbations reduce LLM accuracy across instruction tasks.

Information-geometric analysis of GFlowNet forward-policy training using Fisher-Rao metric and natural gradient optimization.

Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as "not healthy," but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of the internet has centered on how a creator can square a brand built on authenticity and credibility with a technology trained on the (often uncompensated) works of others, and which has a well-known tendency to generate plausible-sounding falsehoods. Some attention has fallen on...

HalluTruthQA-4K: 4,000 expert-annotated Arabic QA instances for fine-grained hallucination detection across four knowledge domains.

Unconditional separations prove low-depth quantum circuits compute tasks intractable for constant-round diffusion and transformer LMs.

Adaptive test-time scaling via fuzzy controller allocates per-query compute based on prompt complexity and model confidence.

Game-theoretic analysis shows foundation model agents achieve rational cooperation through similarity inference, challenging decoupled-agency assumptions.