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New York Times among surge of sign-ups to publisher AI coalition SPUR Press Gazette
Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files BleepingComputer
Anthropic takes risky AI tests offline after models breach govt sites BleepingComputer
Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder TechCrunch
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data TechCrunch
AI in journalism: Live tracker of scandals and mistakes Press Gazette
Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring Microsoft Research
Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company TechCrunch
Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation TechCrunch
This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes TechCrunch
The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Banking Finextra
OCP Global Summit: Amid Ecosystem Adoption, NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Architecture to Help Scale AI Factories Worldwide NVIDIA
Dominion-NextEra merger hearing focused on rates, data centers Utility Dive
Closing the reality gap: Why real-time execution has become the new competitive advantage The Robot Report
Mine hunting goes remote as the Navy replaces minesweepers with robots Breaking Defense
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings TechCrunch
NHTSA weighs probe into claims Tesla Robotaxis speed in school zones Electrek
Tractor Supply opens Idaho distribution center with automation, dedicated AI team Retail Dive
Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background TechCrunch
AGVs vs. UGVs: A new class of ground autonomy takes the field Breaking Defense
Ukraine strikes third Yandex data center, disrupting digital services across Russia The Record
Autonomous military 6×6 packs electric drive and go-anywhere grit [video] Electrek
Agentic payments: How will AI protocols transform finance? Finextra
Veryfi launches AI-powered fraud prevention tools Finextra
Who’s suing AI and who’s signing latest: Reach latest Google AI news partner, USA Today Co sues OpenAI Press Gazette
Aurionpro Solutions names CEO Finextra
Carta secures fund admin licence in Luxembourg Finextra
The next era of retail tech — with AI at the core Retail Dive
FIS launches agentic AI suite for the office of the CFO Finextra
Faithfulness Without Anchors: A Position Paper on the Structural Misalignments of Explainable AI Faithfulness Metrics for Feature Importance arXiv cs.AI
EliteTable: Self-Improving Program Search for Executable Control Policies arXiv cs.AI
Equal-Budget Monte Carlo Tree Search versus Randomized-Restart List Scheduling for DAG Workflows: A Controlled Equal-Budget Computational Study arXiv cs.AI
Know What You Don't Know: Agentic Data Synthesis by Evolving Generation Space for Closed-Loop Learning arXiv cs.AI
SpireBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Strategic Play of Agentic Models with Slay the Spire arXiv cs.AI
Beyond Binary Verifiable Rewards: Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE Agents arXiv cs.AI
CLEAT: Learning Value-Guided Clarification for Interactive Agents arXiv cs.AI
MagicBeanStalk: Escaping the RLVR Zero Advantage Trap with Recursive Data Synthesis arXiv cs.AI
Faithful and Complete LLM-Assisted Automated Construction of Hierarchical Hardware Knowledge Graphs arXiv cs.AI
Representation Alignment from a Few Paired Data via Distilled Optimal Transport arXiv cs.AI
AutoIndexer: Flexible-Order Decoding by Training Causal Models on Chains of Edits arXiv cs.CL
SWE-Duel: Towards a Self-Scaling Arena for Coding Agents arXiv cs.CL
Contextual Correction of Parallel Draftsfor Speculative Decoding arXiv cs.CL
CLUE: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Unsupervised Event Type Induction and Annotation arXiv cs.CL
One Model to Loop Them All: Elastic Latent Recurrence for Language Models arXiv cs.CL
Reflective Prompt Optimization of a Deep-Research Agent: A Topic-Disjoint, Multi-Seed Protocol for Measuring Transferable Gains and Prompt-Level Overfitting arXiv cs.CL
Self-Preservation in Language Models arXiv cs.CL
GeopoliticalQA: Benchmarking Retrieval and Generation over Intelligence Reports arXiv cs.CL
perturber: A Stateless Service for Semantics-Preserving Text Perturbations arXiv cs.CL
GeoFitBench-LLM: A Benchmark for Assessing Large Language Models' Capabilities in Geospatial Data Requirements Elicitation for Geo-Analytic Tasks arXiv cs.CL
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Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs? TechCrunch
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These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet TechCrunch
Will ‘boring’ robots win in the real world? Why robotic form should follow workflow The Robot Report
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’ TechCrunch
Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe TechCrunch
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ARTEX AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks BleepingComputer
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages TechCrunch