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Kimi Raises $1.2B, Valuation Hits $10B+
Moonshot AI's Kimi secured over $700M in a new round led by Alibaba, Tencent, and others, just over a month after a $500M raise. Valuation now at $10-12B, doubling previously.
36氪 · 211d ago
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February 17, 2026
data-privacy
EU Parliament Bans AI on Work Devices
European Parliament disabled AI features on official devices via email to all MEPs and staff. Concerns focus on cybersecurity risks from cloud-based processing.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 211d ago
Applications
Chunwan Robots Excel, Nearing Market Launch
Humanoid robots dazzled at 2026 Chunwan Gala with jokes, skits, sword dancing, street dance, martial arts, and natural human interactions. Performances far surpassed last year's shaky debut.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 211d ago
Applications
Robots First Replace Humans in Spring Gala
2026 CCTV Spring Gala exploded with embodied AI and robots, from stage design to visuals and performances. Following 2025 industry boom, it became the most tech-heavy edition ever.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 211d ago
Coding
Unity AI Beta Generates Games via Text Prompts
Unity plans to launch a Unity AI beta at GDC in March, enabling natural language prompts to create full casual games without coding. The tool leverages top LLMs and Unity's platform context for seamless prototyping to production.
IT之家 · 211d ago
Coding
Unity AI Beta Generates Games via Natural Language
Unity plans to launch a Unity AI beta at GDC in March, enabling natural language prompts to create complete casual games without coding. The tool integrates top LLMs and custom models to streamline prototyping to production.
IT之家 · 211d ago
Research
SpaceX Enters Pentagon AI Drone Race
SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary are competing in a classified Pentagon program for voice-controlled autonomous drone swarms. Elon Musk's recent company merger thrusts them into AI-enabled weapons development.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 211d ago
Infrastructure
Micron's $200B Factory Push Breaks AI Memory Bottleneck
Micron Technology plans $200 billion investment in new factories to tackle the worst storage chip shortage in 40 years. The expansion targets AI memory constraints, powering data storage for smartphones, autos, laptops, and data centers.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 211d ago
Applications
Unitree Chunwan Robot Video Goes Viral Overseas
Unitree humanoid robots performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage. The official video from Unitree reached nearly 100,000 views in under 10 hours overseas.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 211d ago
Applications
Spring Fest Box Office Hits 10B, AI Orders Surge
2026 Spring Festival box office surpassed 10 billion yuan including pre-sales by Feb 17. Qianwen data shows AI ticket buys on Damai jumped 372x in two days.
36氪 · 211d ago
Applications
Robotaxi 19% Availability After 8 Months
Tesla's Robotaxi service launched in Austin 8 months ago now has just 19% availability. This lags far behind Elon Musk's prior commitments.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 211d ago
Infrastructure
AI Climate Claims Branded Greenwashing
A report dismisses tech industry claims that AI can fix climate issues as greenwashing. Most references are to traditional machine learning, not energy-intensive generative AI like chatbots and image tools.
The Guardian Technology · 211d ago
Research
X-Blocks: Linguistic Blocks for AV Explanations
X-Blocks introduces a hierarchical framework analyzing natural language explanations for automated vehicles (AVs) at context, syntax, and lexicon levels. RACE, a multi-LLM ensemble with Chain-of-Thought and self-consistency, achieves 91.45% accuracy on Berkeley DeepDrive-X dataset.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
VeRA: Verified Reasoning Data Augmentation
VeRA converts benchmark problems into executable specifications—templates, generators, and verifiers—to create unlimited verified variants at near-zero cost. VeRA-E generates equivalent problems to detect memorization, while VeRA-H hardens tasks for fresh challenges.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Models
VeRA: Scalable Verified Reasoning Data Augmentation
VeRA is a framework that transforms static benchmark problems into executable specifications for generating unlimited verified variants. It features VeRA-E for equivalent rewrites to detect memorization and VeRA-H for hardened tasks at intelligence frontiers.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Models
VaryBalance: Top LLM Text Detector
VaryBalance detects LLM-generated text by exploiting greater variation between human texts and their LLM-rewritten versions versus LLM texts. It quantifies this via mean standard deviation for robust distinction.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
Trajectory-Dominant Pareto Optimization for Intelligence
AI systems stagnate in long-horizon adaptability due to trajectory-level Pareto traps, not data or capacity limits. The paper introduces Trajectory-Dominant Pareto Optimization, defining dominance over full trajectories, and Pareto traps as local optima blocking global paths.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Models
SSLogic Scales Logic via Agentic Synthesis
SSLogic is an agentic meta-synthesis framework that scales logical reasoning tasks at the family level using iterative Generate-Validate-Repair loops for Generator-Validator pairs. It features a Multi-Gate Validation Protocol with adversarial blind reviews by independent agents to ensure data reliability.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
SELFCEST: Learned Parallel Model Clones
SELFCEST equips base language models to spawn same-weight clones in parallel contexts via agentic reinforcement learning. It trains end-to-end with global task rewards and shared-parameter rollouts to allocate budgets across branches.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
PlotChain Benchmark for MLLM Plot Reading
PlotChain introduces a deterministic benchmark for evaluating multimodal LLMs on extracting quantitative values from engineering plots like Bode and FFT. It features 450 plots across 15 families with ground truth and checkpoint diagnostics for failure analysis.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
NL2LOGIC: 99% Accurate NL-to-FOL Translation
NL2LOGIC is a new framework using abstract syntax trees (AST) to translate natural language into first-order logic via large language models. It combines a recursive LLM semantic parser with an AST-guided generator for high syntactic accuracy and semantic faithfulness.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
MAPLE: Sub-Agent Design for AI Personalization
MAPLE decomposes LLM agent limitations by separating memory, learning, and personalization into dedicated sub-agents. Memory manages storage/retrieval, Learning extracts insights asynchronously, and Personalization applies them in real-time.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
Lang2Act Boosts VLM Visual Reasoning with Emergent Tools
Lang2Act enhances Vision-Language Models (VLMs) via self-emergent linguistic toolchains for fine-grained visual perception in VRAG, avoiding rigid external tools and info loss from image ops. It employs a two-stage RL framework: first to build a reusable action toolbox, second to exploit it for reasoning.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Models
Geometric Taxonomy of LLM Hallucinations
Researchers propose a geometric taxonomy classifying LLM hallucinations into three types: unfaithfulness, confabulation, and factual error. Benchmark hallucinations show strong domain-local detection but fail cross-domain, while human-crafted confabulations enable a single global detection direction.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
Dual-Cycle Framework for Safe Role-Playing LLMs
A training-free Dual-Cycle Adversarial Self-Evolution framework addresses jailbreak vulnerabilities in LLM role-playing agents. It couples a Persona-Targeted Attacker cycle for stronger jailbreaks with a Role-Playing Defender cycle that distills failures into a hierarchical safety knowledge base.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Models
DPBench Reveals LLM Coordination Failures
DPBench introduces a benchmark for LLM multi-agent coordination using the Dining Philosophers problem across eight conditions varying timing, group size, and communication. Tests on GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Grok 4.1 show strong sequential performance but >95% deadlock in simultaneous settings due to convergent reasoning.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Models
BotzoneBench: Scalable LLM Game Eval
BotzoneBench offers a scalable framework for evaluating LLMs' strategic reasoning in games using fixed hierarchies of skill-calibrated game AIs. It avoids quadratic costs and instability of LLM-vs-LLM tournaments by providing absolute, linear-time measurements.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Models
BotzoneBench: Scalable LLM Game Eval Benchmark
BotzoneBench introduces a scalable framework for evaluating LLMs' strategic reasoning in interactive games using fixed hierarchies of skill-calibrated game AIs. It assesses five flagship models across eight diverse games via 177,047 state-action pairs, revealing performance gaps and behaviors comparable to mid-tier game AIs.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
AST-PAC Enhances Code MIA with AST Guidance
Researchers introduce AST-PAC, a syntax-aware adaptation of PAC for membership inference attacks on code LLMs. It uses AST-based perturbations to create valid calibration samples, outperforming baselines on larger files but facing limits on small or alphanumeric-rich code.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago
Research
AMOR: Entropy-Gated SSM-Attention Hybrid
AMOR is a hybrid model inspired by dual-process cognition theories, dynamically activating sparse attention only when SSM predictions show high entropy uncertainty. It projects Ghost KV from SSM states for O(n) efficiency, outperforming SSM-only and Transformer baselines on retrieval tasks with perfect accuracy using just 22% attention positions.
ArXiv AI · 211d ago