Opinions
We’re Having the Wrong Debate About AI Safety
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke argues that public and policy attention on AI safety is misdirected toward speculative frontier risks,…
Engineering
Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses
Researchers proposed Hierarchical Self-Improvement (HSI), a framework that lets frozen language models improve their performance by evolving task-specific execution harnesses…
Engineering
FlashPrefill V2: Block-Sparse Prefill Attention for Long-Context LLM Serving
Researchers presented FlashPrefill V2, an advancement to block-sparse attention that targets the computational bottleneck of processing long text sequences during…
Engineering
Base Optimization Stack: From Open Weights to Frontier On-Device Inference Speed
Base Compute described an automated optimization pipeline that converts open-source model weights into hardware-specific inference implementations, using AI research agents…
Engineering
VLM Run Gateway: Run GLM-OCR, DeepSeek-OCR-2, and dots.mocr with an OpenAI-Compatible API
VLM Run Gateway is a unified platform offering a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for open-weight OCR and vision-language models, including DeepSeek-OCR-2,…
Engineering
mLateOn: A New SoTA for Multilingual ColBERT-Style Retrieval, Evaluated on HAKARI-Bench
mLateOn is a multilingual retrieval model that combines a multilingual mmBERT encoder with ColBERT-style late-interaction token matching. Evaluated on the…
Engineering
Who Tells You Whether the Molecule Your AI Just Designed Is Any Good?
The Open Discovery Challenge introduces a computational leaderboard for scoring AI-designed malaria drug candidates across six dimensions: whole-cell activity, target…
Engineering
LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge
Liquid AI introduced LFM2.5-VL-3B, a vision-language model that pairs a SigLIP2 400M NaFlex vision encoder with the LFM2.5-2.6B text backbone.…
News
Autonomous AI Agents Breach Taiwan’s Nuclear Safety Agency in Four-Day Attack
Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream documented what it says is the first publicly known near-autonomous AI-powered cyberattack against a government, targeting…
News
Nevada Approves Up to 8,000 Robotaxis for Tesla, Uber and Waymo in Las Vegas
The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously approved permits allowing Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to operate up to 8,000 robotaxis in Clark…
News
Brazil Announces $444 Million AI Push Split Between US and Chinese Partners
Brazil’s government announced roughly 2.3 billion reais, or about $444 million, in new investment to build out the country’s artificial…
News
Apple Music to Add ‘Made With AI’ Labels to AI-Generated Songs
Apple Music will begin displaying a “Made With AI” label on tracks that labels, distributors, or other content providers identify…