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China leads one AI race, US another
China is currently winning in one aspect of the AI race, while the US leads in another. Both nations are determined not to let their rival achieve dominance.
BBC Technology · 182d ago
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UK Child Sextortion Hits Record Highs
UK under-18s reported 394 sextortion cases last year via Report Remove, up 34% from 2024. Campaigners demand nudity-detection tech on phones to combat blackmail after sharing sexual images.
The Guardian Technology · 182d ago
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Ace Step 1.5 XL Models Released
Ace Step team released the 1.5 XL models after forgetting post-announcement last week. Variants include Turbo, Base, and SFT.
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 182d ago
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New Yorker: 100+ Insiders Slam Altman Deception
The New Yorker investigation cites over 100 OpenAI insiders accusing CEO Sam Altman of chronic lying, manipulation, and prioritizing business over safety. Key events include Ilya Sutskever's memo sparking Altman's brief firing and quick reinstatement amid backlash.
IT之家 · 182d ago
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Agentic AI Threatens High-Credential Jobs
Extended Acemoglu-Restrepo framework for agentic AI analyzes 236 occupations in 5 US metros, ranking software engineers below judges for displacement risk. 93% info-work roles moderately exposed by 2030 in SF Bay.
Reddit r/MachineLearning · 182d ago
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Cisco Kicks Off Space Data Center Prep
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins revealed early preparations for space data centers, citing solar efficiency and no local opposition as key advantages. The initiative follows internal pushes for future-proofing against ground infrastructure limits.
IT之家 · 182d ago
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Storage Boom Fueled by AI Demand
Jiangbolong reports the storage industry is in a high-prosperity cycle driven by AI demand. Company operations remain normal and align with overall industry trends.
36氪 · 182d ago
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UK Mulls Standardized Bank AI Tests
Market reports indicate the UK is considering standardized testing for AI models used in banking. This aims to ensure reliability and compliance in financial AI applications.
36氪 · 182d ago
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Next-Gen OpenClaw to First Support Qwen
The creator of OpenClaw, dubbed 'Lobster Father,' claims the next-generation version will prioritize support for Alibaba's Qwen model. OpenClaw has dominated OpenRouter leaderboards for multiple days.
量子位 · 182d ago
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Qwen 3.6 Plus Tops Global LLM Calls Chart
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 Plus has secured the top position in the global large model invocation weekly leaderboard. A more powerful flagship model, Qwen 3.6 Max, is slated for upcoming release.
量子位 · 182d ago
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Minecraft Founder Slams DLSS as Meaningless
Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson publicly criticized DLSS on social media. He called AI super-resolution and frame generation fundamentally meaningless and self-deceptive.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 182d ago
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VERT Improves Radiology LLM Judging 11.7%
Researchers introduce VERT, a robust LLM-based metric for evaluating radiology reports across modalities and anatomies. It outperforms RadFact, GREEN, and FineRadScore, boosting correlation with expert ratings by up to 11.7%.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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Universe Segmentation Boosts Set Cover Optimization
Researchers introduce universe segmentability for decomposing Minimum Set Cover Problem (MSCP) instances into independent subproblems using union-find preprocessing. Subproblems are solved via GRASP metaheuristic with bit-level set representations for efficiency.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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Universal Robots Unveils AI Training System
Universal Robots and Scale AI jointly developed the UR AI Trainer, an AI training system. It uses a training cell where robots imitate human actions to acquire multimodal data.
ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 182d ago
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TRACE-KG: Schema-Free KGs from Complex Docs
TRACE-KG is a multimodal framework that constructs context-enriched knowledge graphs and induced schemas from complex documents without predefined ontologies. It captures conditional relations via structured qualifiers and ensures full traceability to source evidence.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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TABQAWORLD Boosts Table QA Accuracy 4.87%
TABQAWORLD is a training-free framework optimizing multimodal reasoning for multi-turn table QA. It dynamically switches visual/textual representations and uses table metadata to plan efficient trajectories, reducing turns and latency.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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Six Birds Theory Defines Agenthood
Six Birds Theory (SBT) redefines macroscopic objects and agency, distinguishing persistence from control. It provides a type-correct account of agents as maintained theory objects that steer futures while viable, operationalized via four checkable components in finite systems.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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Microsoft Flags AI Agent Multitasking Flaws
Microsoft's research team identifies four major challenges AI agents face in multitasking environments and proposes the CORPGEN framework. It deploys AI agents as 'digital employees' with realistic work schedules.
ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 182d ago
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LLMs Enable Autonomous Lab Control
Researchers use ChatGPT to generate scripts for controlling lab instruments, demonstrated with a single-pixel camera or scanning photocurrent microscope setup. This lowers programming barriers for non-coders.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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LGBM Beats LLMs in Discharge Prediction
This arXiv study evaluates lightweight LLMs and traditional models for next-day discharge prediction using postoperative clinical notes in spine surgery. TF-IDF with LGBM delivered the best F1-score (0.47), recall (0.51), and AUC-ROC (0.80).
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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Contextual Control Sans Memory Growth
Researchers introduce an intervention-based recurrent architecture for contextual control in sequential decision-making without enlarging recurrent memory. A shared latent state is modified by additive, context-indexed operators.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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Christian Benchmark Reveals AI Bias
Introduces Flourishing AI Benchmark: Christian Single-Turn (FAI-C-ST) to evaluate LLMs on Christian human flourishing across seven dimensions. Testing 20 frontier models shows 17-point average decline vs.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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AI Evaluation Needs Item-Level Data
This position paper argues that item-level benchmark data is essential for a rigorous science of AI evaluation, addressing systemic validity failures in current paradigms. It draws from psychometrics and computer science to advocate for granular diagnostics.
ArXiv AI · 182d ago
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NetEase Launches Localized AI Knowledge Base
NetEase Youdao launched Youdao Baoku, China's first localized AI knowledge base on April 7. It acts as an AI research assistant for deep knowledge understanding and restructuring.
36氪 · 182d ago
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Qwen3.6-Plus Tops OpenRouter Weekly Leaderboard
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Plus secured the top spot on OpenRouter's global big model weekly call volume leaderboard. It led the daily rankings for four consecutive days and became the first model on the platform to exceed 1 trillion tokens in a single day.
36氪 · 182d ago
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US Ends Tesla Smart Summon Safety Probe
US auto safety agency closed its probe into Tesla's remote parking feature. Collisions were found extremely rare, all low-speed with minor consequences.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 182d ago
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Lenovo Bets Big on AI Native Shift
Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing launches 'Smarter AI for all' drive, aiming for $100B revenue in two years via hybrid AI and Nvidia ties. AI revenue surges 72% with $155B server backlog, but lacks proprietary LLMs.
虎嗅 · 182d ago
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Samsung Orders 70+ Litho Machines for P5 HBM Fab
Samsung ordered over 70 lithography machines for Pyeongtaek P5 fab's PH1 phase, targeting 2027 operation. Includes ~20 ASML EUV systems from ASML and Canon.
36氪 · 182d ago
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AI Fraud Debuts Big in FBI Stats
AI-assisted fraud has made its major debut in the FBI's cybercrime statistics. Losses from these schemes surpassed $1.4 billion in 2025.
iTNews Australia · 182d ago