Engineering
AnTrap: Benchmarking GUI Agent Robustness Against Runtime Anomalies
AnTrap is a benchmark that injects realistic dynamic anomalies — such as unexpected pop-ups and action misuse — into Android…
Engineering
The Handoff Tax: What Happens When You Switch Models Mid-Agent-Run
This study measures the cost-quality trade-off of switching between cheaper and more capable models partway through a long-running coding agent…
Engineering
Gated Recurrent Transformers: Trading Parameters for Depth via Recurrence
Gated Recurrent Transformer is a new architecture that brackets a single shared transformer core, iterated multiple times, between fixed prelude…
Engineering
Prefix Sliding: Capping Memory for Long Test-Time Reasoning
Prefix Sliding is an inference technique that discards reasoning tokens outside of a fixed prefix (containing key instructions and tools)…
Engineering
RetrievalRouter: A Query-Aware Router for Document Retrieval Pipelines
RetrievalRouter is a lightweight router that learns from query text alone which retrieval pipeline — varying by modality and by…
Opinions
The AI We Should Fear Isn’t the One That Will Fight Us. It’s the One That’s Too Nice.
Raj Bandyopadhyay argues that the AI risk deserving the most attention is not existential conflict but excessive agreeableness. Citing a…
Engineering
Self-OPD: Teacher-Free On-Policy Distillation for Flow Matching Models
Self-OPD is a teacher-free on-policy distillation framework for flow matching models that replaces a separate, task-specific teacher with the student…
Opinions
Will AI Sycophancy Contaminate Law Enforcement?
Jake Laperruque examines how AI sycophancy, the tendency of AI systems to tailor responses to flatter users and validate their…
News
UK Chip Startup OLIX Raises $312 Million for Photonic AI Inference Chips
UK-based chip startup OLIX has closed a $312 million Series B funding round at a $3.3 billion valuation, led by…
News
AI Dictation Startup Wispr Raises $280 Million Series B at $2 Billion Valuation
AI dictation startup Wispr has raised $280 million in a Series B round led by Menlo Ventures at a $2…
News
UK Actors Launch Campaign Demanding Legal Protection From AI Voice Cloning
About 80 UK performers, including Nicola Coughlan, Siobhán McSweeney, Hugh Bonneville, and Matt Lucas, have signed an open letter backing…
News
Meta Fixes Smart Glasses Loophole That Let Users Hide the Recording Light
Meta is rolling out a software update for its Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, and Meta AI smart glasses that stops…