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AdsMind: A Physics-Grounded Multi-Agent System for Self-Correcting Discovery of Adsorption Configurations on Heterogeneous Catalyst Surfaces

Identifying the lowest-energy surface-adsorbate configuration is critical for modeling heterogeneous catalysis, yet exhaustive exploration with ab initio calcul…

IndicContextEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Context Utilisation in Audio Large Language Models Across 8 Indic Languages

AudioLLMs enable speech recognition conditioned on textual prompts such as domain descriptions or entity lists. However, it remains unclear whether these models…

Dango: A Strictly L1-Only Large Language Model for Studying Second Language Acquisition

We introduce Dango, a 1.8B-parameter large language model designed for controlled studies of L1-to-L2 (Japanese-to-English) transfer in second language acquisit…

Generalised Eigenvalue Geometry of Semantic Adversarial Attacks

Recent empirical work shows that semantically equivalent paraphrases can fool financial sentiment classifiers: although a paraphrase remains close to the origin…

Machine Unlearning for the XGBoost Model with Network Intrusion Datasets

Machine Unlearning (MU) has emerged as an important technique for removing specific data points from trained models without requiring full retraining. However, …

Mechanism-Guided Selective Unlearning for RLVR-Induced Reasoning

We propose MAST (Mechanism-Aligned Selective Targeting), a mechanism-guided method for unlearning RLVR-induced reasoning with substantially lower collateral dam…

A Human-in-the-Loop Bayesian Optimization Framework for Constraint-Aware Bioprocess Development

This work presents an extension to Pareto Front Guided Sampling (PFGS), a Human-in-the-Loop (HitL) Bayesian Optimization (BO) framework in which Gaussian proces…

Transformer Geometry Observatory TGO-I: Spectral Geometry Observatory

Despite the widespread adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) and their success across numerous computer vision applications, the fundamental understanding of t…

Enhancing Decision-Making with Large Language Models through Multi-Agent Fictitious Play

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have demonstrated great potential in solving tasks with execution complexity, by distributing subtask…

Diffusion-Proof: Recipe for Formal Theorem Proving Beyond Auto-Regressive Generation

Enhancing the formal math reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become a key focus in both mathematical and computer science communities in…

Explaining Attention with Program Synthesis

A longstanding goal of research on interpretable deep learning is to replace opaque neural computations with human-meaningful symbolic descriptions. In this pap…

Data Intelligence Agents: Interpreting, Modeling, and Querying Enterprise Data via Autonomous Coding Agents

Production data integration is bottlenecked by repeated, lossy handoffs between data owners, engineers, and analysts who must collaboratively discover, structur…

Reference-Driven Multi-Speaker Audio Scene Generation from In-the-Wild Priors

Existing multi-speaker dialogue systems bind speakers to utterances through structured supervision: per-turn tags, multi-stream transcriptions, or learnable spe…

Rethinking Reward Supervision: Rubric-Conditioned Self-Distillation

Post-training of reasoning language models is commonly driven by supervised distillation and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. Distillation often …

The Chandra-Gaia Catalog of Counterparts: Resolving ambiguous Gaia matches to X-ray sources in the Chandra Source Catalog using Machine Learning

We present a framework to cross-match sources from the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC v2.1) with optical sources from Gaia Data Release 3. Unlike purely spatial ap…

Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark "Attention Is All You Need" paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, is joining OpenAI. He only returned to G…

France Advances Europe’s AI Future With NVIDIA Technologies

A year ago at NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, France laid out plans to advance local AI — from new AI factories and national compute capacity to open frontier mod…

The turning point for real-world robotics

Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, shares a vision for robots that learn faster, respond in real time, and …

Get back hours every day with autonomous agents in Amazon Quick

Today, Quick gets even more powerful: new autonomous agents that work continuously on your behalf, an activity feed that helps you prioritize your mos…

Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference now supports inline request payloads

Today, we’re announcing inline payload support for Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference. Customers can now send inference payloads directly in the request body o…

Claude Code v2.1.181

Introducing LifeSciBench

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decision…

Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network out of goats in Age of Empires II to critique AI science

A Microsoft researcher built a working neural network out of goats, bridges, and ice ramps in the Age of Empires II map editor. What looks like a joke is a poin…

Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD bet $310 million on AI startup building 3D world models

Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD are putting $310 million into world model startup Odyssey ML, now valued at $1.45 billion. CIA-linked fund IQT and Google chief scientis…

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons

Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2 with a stable 1-million-token context under the MIT license. On FrontierSWE, a benchmark for hours-long coding tasks, t…

Presidential Message on Men’s Health Week

This Men’s Health Week, I pledge my commitment to ensuring our Nation’s men have the resources they need to be healthy, resilient, and capable of doing what the…

The State of Grocery North America 2026

North American grocery is opening new battlegrounds—and the game is getting more sophisticated, with winners building hard-to-copy models they can own.…

Context intelligence for your data and AI agents at scale

Agents are only as intelligent as the context they can reason over. Today, that context is scattered across data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, databases, …

Copilot individual plan sign-ups are reopening

We’re reopening sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max plans gradually over the next couple of weeks for new subscribers. If you’ve…

Enterprise-managed settings now support bypass permission controls

We’re adding our first governance capability to the enterprise-managed settings configuration. Enterprise administrators can now set disableBypassPermissi…