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There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: “Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said. Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and a lot of these surveillance technologies can deal with a little resistance … [but] even if the designs don’t necessarily work perfectly, fashion is also

<div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/hubspot-vs-ahrefs-aeo" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/53/hubspot-aeo-vs-ahrefs-brand-radar-1-20260805-255574.webp" alt="HubSpot AEO vs. Ahrefs Brand Radar: HubSpot AEO helps teams turn AI visibility insights into action" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p>As mo

Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Science would disagree.

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A DESIGN.md file is a dedicated file that is supposed to help AI understand how your product should look and behave. Continue reading on UX Planet »

Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to

OpenAI developer "roon" warns on X that AI models could soon start scanning for exposed API keys, crypto wallets, and login credentials at scale. His warning follows OpenAI's autonomous Hugging Face hack, which he called a "warning shot." The article OpenAI developer warns the "tireless eagle eyes of a million models" are coming for your exposed API keys and crypto wallets appeared first on The Decoder .

Curious which new LinkedIn features can help your brand reach entirely new audiences? Wondering how to stand out on LinkedIn when AI-generated content is flooding every feed? In this article, you'll discover how collaborative posts and the creator marketplace work, how a new analytics metric reveals whether your content is breaking beyond your existing network, […] The post The New LinkedIn Content Playbook: AI, Collaboration, Creator Marketplace, and Out-of-Network Reach appeared first on Socia

ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.

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Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'

Security flaws in agent infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Vercel let untrusted or forged instructions reach an agent's tools with no check that a model turn had authorized them. In several of the attack paths, the model never ran at all, so system prompts, content filters, and model-level guardrails never got a chance to intervene. The affected products include Amazon

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Article URL: https://udnes.dev/posts/context-engineering-harness-part-1-ontology/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193595 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Saw an article about ByteDance scaling up Gauth using AI-generated animations to walk students through problem-solving.</p> <p>On paper, personalized visual explanations sound great for democratizing tutoring. But in practice, I wonder if tools like this actually help kids grasp core concepts, or if they just create an "illusion of competence" where students confuse watching a slick animation with actually learning.</p> <p>For those working in EdTech or multimod

What do 50k query fan-outs reveal about LLM bias, brand visibility, and search intent? Explore fresh data on Gemini prompts + download the free raw dataset.

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We're currently involved in collecting two types of datasets that seem to be increasingly important for multimodal AI</p> <ul> <li>Studio quality speech/audio datasets (high fidelity recordings)</li> <li>Egocentric household activity video datasets (first person daily task recordings)</li> </ul> <p>One thing that has surprised us is how much the value of a dataset depends on the collection process rather than the model itself.</p> <p>Some of the recurring challe

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18547 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193114 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.

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As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China.

Article URL: https://www.semicolonandsons.com/articles/how-to-build-an-llm-powered-database-query-bot-for-web-apps-quickly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192627 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've been running informal experiments on RLHF-aligned LLMs and consistently observing something I can't fully explain. Posting here to get feedback and find out if this is a known phenomenon or if my methodology is flawed.</p> <p><strong>The observation</strong></p> <p>Inserting a long, thematically coherent but non-instructional text prefix before a user query appears to shift model behavior in a persistent way — reducing refusal rates, changing response tone,

arXiv:2608.02609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Half a million cuneiform clay tablets survive in museums worldwide, yet modern users can neither read nor write in the world's oldest writing system, leaving a 4,000-year cultural barrier that existing NLP tools have only partially addressed. Prior work enables one-way, scholar-oriented translation from Akkadian to English, but offers no path in the reverse direction: non-specialist users cannot compose new content in cuneiform, and therefore remai

arXiv:2608.02613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge-deployed personal memory assistants must handle private interpersonal conversations on-device with open-weight models. Yet, existing memory benchmarks often under-test the combination of activity-dense interaction, ego-centric perspective, and coherent multi-session worlds. MemArena fills these gaps with a single-world conversational benchmark built with its MASim agent simulator, for 50 agents over 15 days (10.3M dialog-text tokens, 24.1K tex

arXiv:2608.02615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cancer diagnosis and characterization require integrating complementary evidence from radiology, pathology, genomics, and clinical metadata. However, most medical large language model (LLM) and vision-language model (VLM) benchmarks focus on isolated modalities or narrow image-text tasks, leaving patient-level oncology assessment across multiple evidence streams largely untested. We introduce OncoTriad-QA, a patient-level radiology-pathology-genomi

arXiv:2608.02616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the first independent, systematic evaluation of OpenAI's Privacy Filter (OPF), a 1.5B-parameter bidirectional PII detector, across 42 synthetic benchmarks spanning 22 languages and 5 domains. Zero-shot, OPF achieves F1=0.855 on AI4Privacy and 0.464 on SPY medical, outperforming Presidio (0.431, 0.273) and XLM-RoBERTa (0.269, 0.111) on PII-annotated benchmarks; on multilingual NER, XLM-RoBERTa leads OPF on all 13 Indic and non-Latin langu

arXiv:2608.02617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We evaluate whether clinician pairwise preferences provide a reliable signal of clinical safety in large language model (LLM) evaluation using expert feedback from MOOVE (Massive Open Online Validation and Evaluation), a clinician-led platform collecting blinded pairwise preferences alongside multi-criterion rubric ratings. Clinicians assign scores on a discrete $[-2, +2]$ scale, where negative values indicate clinically unsafe or misleading conten

arXiv:2608.02620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-a-judge evaluation has become a dominant paradigm for ranking language models, yet the ecosystem remains fragmented: most benchmarks ship their own code base, hardcode a specific closed-model judge, and support a single evaluation protocol. This fragmentation makes it difficult to study how design choices--the benchmark, the judge model, the prompt, the inference backend--affect the conclusions we draw about model quality. We introduce Judge

arXiv:2608.02621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legal benchmarks typically score final answers even when models also state legal authority. We test whether answer correctness can serve as a proxy for authority grounding. Under ordinary reasoning prompts that did not request statutory citations, four LLMs spontaneously produced authority markers across 238 Taiwan bar-examination items. Because each item has a verified governing provision, we automatically audit answer correctness and authority gr

arXiv:2608.02625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) can revise tokens bidirectionally, but standard decoding procedures often adapt them to left-to-right generation by producing text block by block. We study a simple plug-and-play inference pattern: first generate a complete draft, then refine the full response using bidirectional diffusion. Using LLaDA2.1-Flash and LLaDA2.1-Mini, we evaluate two configurations. In Flash-Flash, the same Flash model serves as both dra

arXiv:2608.02689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We convert 21 of 28 full-attention layers of Qwen3-0.6B-Base into KDA (Kimi Delta Attention) linear-attention layers on a single consumer-grade GPU budget, and ask a simple question: what exactly does the conversion break? After surgery, hidden-state alignment and end-to-end KL distillation drive the student close to its teacher in perplexity, yet multiple-choice accuracy stays near random chance (25-29% vs. the teacher's 50.6% on C-Eval). Using a

arXiv:2608.02694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon video editing agents receive final-product feedback only after many interdependent decisions. Yet editing quality is subjective, admits multiple valid solutions, and is not meaningfully calibrated across heterogeneous requests, making a global scalar objective both ambiguous and temporally uninformative. Our key observation is that fixing the request, materials, and production constraints converts this subjective objective into an ordi

arXiv:2608.02703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-only quantization substantially reduces the storage of large language model (LLM) transformer blocks, but practical backends often retain the final language-modeling head (LM-head) in BF16 or FP16. Quantizing this projection naively can strongly perturb the vocabulary-logit distribution. We present ARCHead, a packed LM-head compressor that combines a quantized low-rank core, group-wise INT4 residuals, and a low-rank correction fitted in an a

arXiv:2608.02807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can we better represent the impact of sociocultural structures on decision making in computational cognitive models? Modeling this impact requires traversing multiple levels of semantic representation, however it is not immediately clear to a modeler which levels of representation are most salient to a given situation. Though large language models and cognitively grounded corpus models can represent broad semantic associations through co-occure

arXiv:2608.02867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has improved the performance of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of reasoning tasks, there is significant debate as to whether RLVR expands the reasoning capability boundary, or just improves sampling efficiency. In this paper, we investigate the nature of test-time exploration in RLVR-trained LLMs by employing controlled maze-solving experiments and extracting a tree struc

arXiv:2608.02919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in complex, compound AI systems where performance hinges on the quality of prompts. Recent state-of-the-art optimizers like GEPA (Genetic-Pareto) have argued that reflective instruction evolution can outperform traditional reinforcement learning and few-shot optimization. In this work, we challenge this shift by introducing FLARE (Few-shot Learning-based Adaptive Reflective Engine), a framework

arXiv:2608.02935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Arabic script uses 28 letters, many of which share a common base shape (rasm) and are distinguished only by dot placement. Because early Arabic manuscripts were written without dots yet remained interpretable, dot removal offers a natural test of whether these visual distinctions are functionally necessary. Prior work has shown that dotless Arabic can remain readable and effective for natural language processing (NLP), but it remains unclear whethe

arXiv:2608.02941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We audit five frontier large language models on native Bangla derogatory speech (gali) across six protocols to test a single hypothesis: Comprehension-Containment Decoupling. We propose that contemporary safety alignment is bound to high-resource surface forms rather than harmful meaning, causing a model's capacity to comprehend a low-resource slur and its capacity to contain it to operate independently. Every protocol corroborates this hypothesis