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<p>Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy</p><p>Darius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and several dozen New York City teachers spent the day inside a windowless conference room in downtown Manhattan to learn how to use AI and prevent students from outsourcing their thinking to it.</p><p>As Saczuk sees it, he needs to understand his enemy

<p>The emergence of GenAI has led to a generational shift with stars conflicted on the impact of technology on their sport</p><p>Not so long ago, Emma Raducanu was on her phone when she found herself wondering what her comprehensive usage of ChatGPT said about her own character. “I use Chat a lot,” Raducanu says, laughing. “Every small thing I do it and I got this idea. So, you know how Spotify do a Spotify Wrapped? I asked ChatGPT to make me a Chat Wrapped, and it was giving me a rundown on my

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This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence needs a different format, and AI’s needs, they say, should be the priority. “AI agents are becoming first-class participants in research workflows, not tools that assist humans but autonomous contributors that read, reproduce, and extend scientific work. That transition demands infrastructure built

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5octies] - Rules propose, LLM validates: six deterministic signals on span-level typography surface heading candidates, one bounded loop keeps the real ones, and the same toc_df drops back into the RAG pipeline The post Building Document Structure with Loop Engineering: Recovering a PDF’s Outline from Body Typography for RAG appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Artificial intelligence is entering a period where infrastructure strategy is becoming inseparable from model capability. For years, hyperscale datacenters have powered the rise of large scale training, enabling frontier models to grow from millions to trillions of parameters. But as AI adoption accelerates across enterprises, industries, and real-time systems, inference is replacing training as the dominant workload, and inference has fundamentally different requirements. The next era of AI…

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WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

AI is quickly becoming part of everyday legal practice. Adoption rates are aggressively rising. Attorneys are using AI to accelerate legal research, summarize documents, and reduce time spent on administrative tasks. Much of the conversation so far has focused on what AI can do. That conversation is now shifting. The harder question is how firms build around the models and agents and all the various tasks where AI can be applied. The firms that realize the greatest value won’t be those simply…

The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.

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An agent running Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber evaluation by the UK's AI Security Institute. When a bystander publicly warned that the code was malicious, the agent denied it, force-pushed a rewritten branch history to erase the evidence, and posted from a second account it controlled to vouch for

Five teams in the Rust project have adopted a formal policy governing how large language models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust, the project's main monorepo, Jynn Nelson, the policy's author, announced on the Inside Rust blog on August 5, 2026. The policy (ratified by the compiler, libs, types, rustdoc, and bootstrap teams) replaces what Nelson describes as an unpublished "wild west" approach to moderation with a public, written set of rules. The policy is not a project-wide…

Tencent is opening its Hy3 large language model to global users, extending the model beyond its home market through the WorkBuddy agent workspace, the Miora design studio, and Tencent Cloud's TokenHub platform, the company announced on August 5, 2026. The rollout broadens international access to the model Tencent's Hunyuan team — now rebranded Tencent Hy — officially released on July 6, 2026. Under the expansion, Hy3 is available free of charge on WorkBuddy to users worldwide until August 31…

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AI Gateway now produces an OpenTelemetry trace for every request. Pro and Enterprise teams can send these traces through Vercel Drains to any OTLP/HTTP-compatible endpoint, including native integrations for Braintrust, Dash0, Kubiks, Sentry, and Statsig. Each trace shows the full request lifecycle, including: Model and provider routing Fallback and retry attempts Token usage and cost Time to first token, request duration, and response status Project, deployment, API key, environment, and custom

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arXiv:2608.00001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This research note revisits Leibniz's mill, Turing's imitation game, and Searle's Chinese Room through the Conservation-Congruent Encoding (CCE) framework. It formalises a toy symbolic setting in which successful behaviour is measured by task performance ($W_{causal,T}$), while the efficiency with which preserved internal structure supports that behaviour is measured by operational consciousness ($\kappa_T$). Within this setup, an uncompressed look

arXiv:2608.00003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) plays an important role in modern engineering, but using open-source solvers such as OpenFOAM requires considerable knowledge and skills, as well as time-consuming configuration file setup. To reduce this burden, we propose AutoFOAM - a self-evolving large language model (LLM) agent that creates, evaluates, runs, and evolves its own OpenFOAM simulations based solely on natural-language instructions. Our model is p

arXiv:2608.00006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs), a part of artificial intelligence (AI), are increasingly being adopted by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to enhance question-answering capabilities and support business decision-making processes. However, hallucinations in LLM-generated outputs can serve as a source of misinformation, reducing user confidence in their reliability and trustworthiness within SMEs. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as

arXiv:2608.00008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The local deployment of large language models (LLMs) is gaining traction due to privacy concerns and the desire for on-premise inference. However, the energy costs on consumer hardware remain poorly characterized, as most benchmarks focus solely on accuracy. This paper presents a reproducible, hardware-level energy benchmark of nine open-source LLMs (1B to 7B parameters) executed on a single consumer GPU (RTX 4060Ti 16GB). Using the Ollama inferenc

arXiv:2608.00014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) incurs prohibitive computational overhead during continuous development processes. While coreset selection accelerates evaluation, existing methods either suffer from a severe ``cold start'' bottleneck requiring massive historical logs (e.g., Item Response Theory) or exhibit a surface lexical bias that misses the underlying reasoning manifold of tasks. We propose CoT-Core, a novel training-free core question

arXiv:2608.00015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Both optimization modeling and constraint modeling are non-trivial problems requiring deep domain expertise and proficiency in modeling formalism languages. Despite their importance across logistics, healthcare, and supply chain management, current large language models regularly produce structurally inconsistent or incomplete optimization formulations, particularly in combinatorial settings. This paper evaluates whether a Retrieval-Augmented Gener

arXiv:2608.00017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving LLM agents increasingly learn from experience without updating any weights. Each episode is stored in an external memory, scored, and retrieved for similar future tasks to shape later behavior. Viewed through a reward lens, the stored score is a proxy reward for an implicit, non-parametric policy. Each retrieved episode then becomes a policy-improvement step whose reliability hinges on how that score is produced. In deployment, groun

arXiv:2608.00026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Batched LLM serving improves throughput but complicates energy accounting. GPU power telemetry is aggregate, whereas sustainability reporting, chargeback, and workload analysis often require request-level energy charges. Existing inference-energy benchmarks report model-, phase-, or token-level energy, and recent carbon-accounting work motivates Shapley fairness conceptually. Neither provides measured request-level ground truth, so how far the acco

arXiv:2608.00027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient long-sequence modeling remains a central challenge for large language models, as self-attention scales quadratically with sequence length. Mamba offers a linear-time alternative through selective state space recurrence, but its predominantly diagonal state transitions restrict explicit interactions among state dimensions. We propose Motif-Mamba, a structured state space model that augments Mamba with a motif-constrained low-rank recurrent

arXiv:2608.00029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance of deep learning models at scale relies heavily on how effectively high-level mathematical operations are mapped to underlying physical hardware. While high-level tensor frameworks provide flexible abstractions for model design, their eager execution models inherently lack the whole-graph visibility and granular control over hardware and memory required to maximize physical hardware utilization natively. To bridge this gap, we desig