Opinions
AI Writing Has Already Begun to Appear on the Opinion Pages
A Semafor analysis found that AI-generated content remains rare in the opinion pages of The New York Times, The Wall…
Opinions
As AI Enters Sikh Life, Old Debates on Technology and Tradition Continue
Religion News Service reports that AI-generated Sikh devotional music, known as shabads, is circulating on YouTube, prompting renewed debate within…
Opinions
AI’s No Joke, What Next?
In a CounterPunch essay, Michael Albert argues that the race among major AI firms toward artificial general intelligence and superintelligence…
Opinions
War, China, Trump and AI Have Created Perma-Crisis
In a Bloomberg Opinion column, Hal Brands argues that the world is unlikely to settle into a stable equilibrium anytime…
Opinions
Keeping Curiosity in an AI World
In a guest commentary for The Baltimore Sun, retired psychologist Patricia Steckler argues that AI and search engines are eroding…
Engineering
WeMM-Embedding: WeChat’s Multi-Modal Embedding Technical Report
Tencent researchers describe WeMM-Embedding, a family of multimodal embedding models in 2B, 4B, and 9B parameter sizes trained through large-scale…
Engineering
AutoSaddler: Automatic Harness Optimization from Agent Execution Traces
Microsoft researchers present AutoSaddler, a framework that treats agent-harness improvement as an offline learning problem using failure-trace diagnosis, structured patch…
Engineering
On-Policy Self-Distillation in Diffusion Models
ByteDance Seed researchers present DiffusionOPSD, an on-policy self-distillation framework that converts image-level rewards into intermediate training targets for diffusion models.…
Engineering
SecOPD: Defending LLMs Against Adaptive Prompt Injection via On-Policy Distillation
Researchers present Secure On-Policy Distillation (SecOPD), a defensive fine-tuning approach that provides token-level feedback to guide training rather than the…
Engineering
CyberFactory: Scaling Cyber Security Capabilities from Instances in the Wild
Researchers introduce CyberFactory, an open-source framework that integrates data construction, trajectory synthesis, and model training across three cybersecurity tasks: proof-of-concept…
Engineering
Recursive Experiential-Working Memory Evolution for Long-Horizon Agent Harnesses
Princeton University researchers present Recuris, an architecture for long-horizon agent tasks built on two coupled memory systems: a Working Memory…
Engineering
On-Policy Distillation with Verifiable Reward
Researchers introduce OPDVR, a method integrating on-policy distillation with verifiable reward signals for language model training. The approach reformulates on-policy…