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Agent harnesses function as compositional generalizers, shifting the burden of handling unseen tasks from model training to harness design for more...

DiffGI replaces binary geometry images with a continuous 2D TSDF and introduces differentiable Marching Squares, enabling end-to-end optimization for high-fidelity thin-shell surfaces such as garments.

New research shows internal alignment mechanisms paired with meta-cognitive control play a key role in managing deceptive alignment risks as AI...

Top AI developers are reversing their own commitments to pause near risky thresholds while racing toward superintelligent agents, per the Future of Life Institute’s AI Safety Index.

The 2026 AI Index reveals models growing more powerful while governance struggles to match the pace.

• Productivity gains: AI boosts work quality...

Unified models like S1-Omni consolidate fragmented scientific capabilities into one system, outperforming GPT-5.5 and Gemini-3.1-Pro across most...

Three angles reveal how LLMs reason:

• Joint scaling laws govern pretraining-to-post-training, clarifying optimal compute splits and RL's policy...

Two new systems show how structured knowledge and predictive models can give AI agents deeper understanding and planning.

• RAGU refines GraphRAG...

US governance abdication leaves frontier AI oversight to corporations and rivals like China, while 272 experts rank dangerous capabilities,...

How does AI reshape software engineering risks and quality?

• Backdoor tracing: CodeTracer traces poisoned AI completions to training data with <0.03...

Two new models highlight rapid gains in creative media generation.

• VideoRAE turns frozen video foundation models into compact latents, hitting SOTA...

xHC expands the residual stream into N=16 parallel streams—the first HC method to scale meaningfully beyond N=4—by combining temporal feature...

Ouroboros delivers 2.61× faster vision transformer video analysis on edge devices using just 13% of conventional compute by tracking motion to reuse...

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