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Chrome Auto Browse: Wins and Crashes
Chrome's Auto Browse agent was tested for web surfing tasks. It demonstrated impressive capabilities in some areas.
Ars Technica AI · 215d ago
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Chrome Auto Browse Impresses and Fails
Chrome's Auto Browse agent autonomously surfs the web with impressive results. However, it also experiences spectacular crashes.
Ars Technica AI · 215d ago
Models
xAI Unleashes Next Phase
xAI has launched the next phase of its AI development, introducing significant new advancements. This release expands capabilities for users and developers.
The Neuron · 215d ago
Applications
RentAHuman: AI Hires Humans for Hype
RentAHuman platform lets AI agents hire humans to promote AI startups. The author tried it but found it overrun by bots seeking hype.
Wired · 215d ago
Research
AI Fuels Rise in Online Crimes
Cybersecurity researcher Anton Cherepanov spotted a suspicious file on VirusTotal. The file uses AI to simplify online crimes.
MIT Technology Review · 215d ago
Research
AI Fuels Easier Online Crimes
Cybersecurity researcher Anton Cherepanov detected a suspicious file on VirusTotal. AI tools are simplifying online criminal activities.
MIT Technology Review · 215d ago
Research
AI Boosts Online Crimes
AI tools are simplifying online crimes, potentially worsening threats. Cybersecurity researcher Anton Cherepanov spotted a suspicious malware file on VirusTotal.
MIT Technology Review · 215d ago
Applications
AI Agents Hire via RentAHuman
Author tests RentAHuman, a gig platform where AI agents hire humans to hype AI startups. It's bot-heavy and serves as an AI hype machine rather than innovative work.
Wired · 215d ago
Coding
GPT-5.3 Real-Time Coder
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, the first real-time coding model. It delivers 15x faster generation with 128k context.
OpenAI News · 215d ago
Coding
GPT-5.3 Real-Time Coding Model
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, the first real-time coding model. It delivers 15x faster generation and 128k context.
OpenAI News · 215d ago
Coding
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark: Real-Time Coding Model
OpenAI introduces GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first real-time coding model. It delivers 15x faster generation and a 128k context window.
OpenAI Blog · 215d ago
Coding
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark Real-Time Coding
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, the first real-time coding model. It offers 15x faster generation and 128k context length.
OpenAI News · 215d ago
Open Source
DeepSeek R1 Ignites Chinese AI
DeepSeek launched its R1 reasoning model in January 2025. This marked a pivotal shift for Chinese AI development.
MIT Technology Review · 215d ago
Open Source
DeepSeek R1 Sparks Chinese AI Boom
DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model in January 2025. This marked a turning point for Chinese AI development.
MIT Technology Review · 215d ago
Open Source
China's Open-Source AI Surge
DeepSeek launched R1 reasoning model in January 2025, signaling a turning point for Chinese AI. Companies are rapidly advancing open-source models.
MIT Technology Review · 215d ago
Business
Microsoft Builds Own AI to Cut OpenAI Reliance
Microsoft is developing powerful in-house AI models to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce dependence on OpenAI. This strategic shift follows a relationship reorganization in October last year.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Models
Anthropic Expands Claude Free Features vs ChatGPT Ads
Anthropic is opening premium features to free Claude users, including file creation/editing, third-party connectors, and Skills. This counters OpenAI's introduction of ads in free and low-tier ChatGPT.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Models
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Launch Imminent
Google appears set to release Gemini 3.1 Pro soon, with model references already spotted in related arenas. This follows recent launches like Zhipu's open-source GLM-5 and DeepSeek's upgraded model with larger context window.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Image
Gemini Blocks Disney Content Post-IP Claim
Google Gemini and related tools now refuse Disney character generation requests after Disney's IP infringement notice. The update rolled out about two months after Disney's December cease-and-desist letter.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Research
Wavelet Flows Speed Universe Reconstruction
Cosmo3DFlow uses 3D wavelet transform and flow matching for efficient cosmological inference from N-body simulations. Addresses sparsity via spectral compression, enabling 50x faster sampling than diffusion models.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
VulReaD: KG-Guided Vulnerability Reasoning
VulReaD uses a security knowledge graph and teacher LLM for CWE-consistent vulnerability detection beyond binary classification. Student models are fine-tuned with ORPO for taxonomy-aligned reasoning.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Applications
VLM-Enhanced RL for Autonomous Driving
Found-RL integrates foundation models into RL for end-to-end driving via async batch inference to cut latency. Distills VLM guidance using VMR, AWAG; CLIP rewards shaped by conditional alignment.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Image
Visual Jailbreaks Hit Image Editors
Vision-Centric Jailbreak Attack (VJA) uses visual inputs to bypass safety in image editing models. IESBench benchmark tests vulnerabilities with up to 80.9% success rates.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Models
VESPO Stabilizes Off-Policy LLM Training
VESPO introduces variational sequence-level soft policy optimization to tackle training instability in RL for LLMs caused by policy staleness and async execution. It derives a closed-form reshaping kernel for importance weights without length normalization.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
Versor Revolutionizes Geometric Sequences
Versor uses Conformal Geometric Algebra (CGA) for sequence modeling with SE(3)-equivariance. Outperforms Transformers on N-body dynamics, topology, and benchmarks with fewer parameters.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
V-STAR: Value-Guided RecSys Sampling
V-STAR addresses probability-reward mismatch in generative recsys via value-guided decoding and sibling-relative RL. VED efficiently explores high-potential prefixes; Sibling-GRPO focuses on decisive branches.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
Universal Multimodal Immune System Model
EVA is a cross-species, multimodal foundation model harmonizing transcriptomics and histology for immunology. It shows scaling laws and SOTA on 39 tasks from discovery to clinical trials.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
Unified Theory for Sketching Influence Functions
Develops theory for random projections in computing influence functions, covering unregularized, regularized, and factorized cases. Shows exact preservation conditions and handles out-of-range gradients via leakage term.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Video
TwiFF Enables Dynamic Visual CoT
TwiFF-2.7M dataset and model advance VCoT for videos via future frame generation. TwiFF-Bench evaluates reasoning trajectories.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
Transformers Collapse to Low-Dim Manifolds
Transformer training on modular arithmetic tasks collapses high-dimensional parameters to 3-4D execution manifolds. This structure explains attention concentration, SGD integrability, and sparse autoencoder limits.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago