The Archive

Two-stage detector with signal-informed experts identifies vinyl defect regimes (clicks, bursts, crackle, overlapping damage) for restoration systems.

Toscani-Fourier distance defines Fourier-side probability measure discrepancy with Wasserstein control and topological equivalence properties.

EquiSELD trains O(3)-equivariant sound event localization networks on first-order Ambisonics with improved efficiency and spatial robustness.

Bearings self-supervised framework learns spatial soundfield embeddings from unlabeled first-order Ambisonics via masked auto-encoder and frozen audio encoder.

FM4NILM prompt-programmable foundation model estimates appliance-level power consumption from aggregate meter readings and natural language descriptions.

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.

CraftBench-UE deterministic benchmark evaluates coding agents on 70 Unreal Engine tasks across C++, Blueprint, and editor scripting without LLM judges.

FPGA-accelerated quantized RNN achieves sub-10μs real-time plasma state prediction for Tokamak control via hls4ml synthesis on Xilinx Alveo U50.

Wildlife photography of sea lion and cormorant at Pillar Point Harbor; unrelated to AI.

QwenVLConnector medical VLM unifies classification, detection, counting, regression, and report generation via dense multi-layer Connector on Qwen2.5-VL.

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn't disclose the hack because it didn't consider it to be an "example of model misalignment." The company said that it was an instance of "mistaken identity," and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real co...

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.

Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a professor of law at WashU and professor of technology policy at Carnegie Mellon. The biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. Researchers at the big AI labs including Anthropic and Google DeepMind have quit in noisy ways, saying the models pose real threats and safety isn’t being taken seriously across the industr...

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Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially with government assistance. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and even SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly seemed to agree on aspects of all three things. Anthropic and OpenAI had already been dropping hints that ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! Tags: security , ai , generative-ai , llms , gemini , accidental-cyberattacks

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it made a "complete mockery of the idea of fair use." Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht. Though, the company has tried to distance itself from Hecht's assertions. Microsoft spokesperson Al...

But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.

Simon Willison commentary comparing current LLM skepticism to ignoring a major paradigm shift.

FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.