Monday 5 October 2026
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World155
- Guardian correspondents to take reader questions on Iran war and US midterms
- Woman charged with murder after stabbing seven-year-old girl in Chicago
- Ethiopia’s Abiy renews Red Sea port demand as Tigray conflict escalates
- Trump approval rating hits record low 32% ahead of midterms, polls show
- Trump's approval rating hits new low among Hispanic voters ahead of US midterms
- Soldier killed in NT training accident identified as Corporal Brendan Hannam
- France braces for national day of school protests as tensions escalate
- Pennsylvania measles outbreak: sixth death confirmed as state cases top 1,100
- Nigerian military plane crash kills all 32 on board
- Coalition unveils historic migration cut targeting 100,000 net intake as experts question economic and trade impacts
- Tories united behind Badenoch as MPs push for economic focus over culture wars
- Firefighters battle bushfires near Toowoomba
- Flávio Bolsonaro wins first round of Brazil presidential election, faces Lula in runoff
- Pacific leaders demand climate action as Australia co-hosts pre-COP summit in Fiji
- Trump blames Democrats and Ukraine for high US fuel prices as data shows Strait of Hormuz exports down 97%
- UK threatens to expel 27 Israeli diplomats if Jerusalem consulate closed: reports
- National promises to cut foreign aid to fund $604m Pharmac boost and cancer screenings
- Rural families excluded from federal childcare fund, advocates say
- Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86 a day before final novel release
- Obama to rally with Abdul El-Sayed in critical Michigan Senate race
- Hundreds protest at Cornell over gang rape case, call for president's resignation
- Mexico demands evidence of border shooting that triggered US troop deployment
- Coalition immigration cuts driven by One Nation, says Joyce
- Zelenskyy blames Russian drone attack for sinking of grain ship in Romanian waters
- British Airways flight lands safely after emergency descent; passengers rebooked
- Anthony Albanese's popularity hits new low in poll
- Screen time capped in NSW schools as study reveals widespread digital distraction
- Rubio Downplays Link Between US Bomber Pullout and UK Base Incident During European Tour
- Shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones where white people won’t go’
- Conservative aid budget cuts would 'irreparably damage' UK global standing, charities warn
- US monitoring death of Russian 'plague' lab employee amid conflicting reports
- Woman charged with attempted murder after West Auckland stabbing that injured baby
- Gunshot victim treated and discharged at Christchurch Hospital
- Veteran Benefits Australia made millions turning veterans into sales leads, investigation finds
- Tasmanian health authorities issue warning after overdose death linked to novel synthetic opioid
- Winter tranquility on the Cam: Cambridge punting without the summer crowds
- New details emerge: USB stick delivered to journalist's hotel room 16 days before Australia's ball-tampering scandal
- Mecca Alliance triggers collective deterrence against Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia
- Two dead after school bus flips in central Florida crash
- Daniel Andrews quietly returns to Spring Street for meeting with mental health minister
- North Korea's Ukraine Deployment: Heavy Casualties Raise Questions About Kim's Strategy
- Tajikistan Turns to Iran for Fuel as Russian Supplies Dwindle
- Two men sentenced over illegal poker den on Cardiff industrial estate
- Russia widens air war on Ukrainian infrastructure as winter approaches
- Southport Inquiry reveals violent content remained on social media weeks after reporting
- Inquest: TPIM terror controls had 'substantial impact' on prisoner who took own life
- Ukraine ambassador urges Greens to rethink military aid stance as Labor and Coalition attack
- Woman Tasered and Arrested After Alleged Stabbing Outside Sydney Cinema
- Greens Institute pitches $25.1bn plan to nationalise 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets
- Did Gulf States Pay Iran a Toll for Strait of Hormuz Passage? Unverified Claim Fuels Debate
- Coalition urges Burnham to act after data reveals scale of child-on-child sexual abuse in schools
- Nigerian police locate kidnapped youth recruits but explosives block rescue
- Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
- Australian leaders condemn pro-Palestine vigils on eve of October 7 anniversary
- Guardian investigation finds hundreds of Australians buried in unmarked communal graves
- Karoline Leavitt to join Fox News as on-air contributor starting November 1
- Man caught with 300 tortoises and 77 parrots in wildlife trafficking bust at Sicilian port
- Trump confirms 'threat' led to withdrawal of B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford
- US public school book bans reach record annual high of nearly 12,000, PEN America reports
- Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker disgraced by child molestation scandal, dies at 84
- Manhunt after teenager set alight in Melbourne car firebombing
- Man jailed for life over attempted knife attack at Israeli embassy in London
- Nine Entertainment launches redesigned Superquiz with social features
- Fiordland: The 'loneliest place on Earth' most Australian cruisers miss
- Runner dies after completing Cardiff Half Marathon
- Twelve arrested after anti-migrant protest flares over Channel rescue landing at Gosport
- Guardian readers fund life-changing surgery for Somali boy injured in US airstrike
- China stockpiled 343 advanced chipmaking tools, report finds, as export control debate intensifies
- Messi to end Argentina career with Benin farewell at the Monumental
- US Senate approves bills to ease mental health stigma for pilots and air traffic controllers
- In occupied Oleshky, hunger, drones and landmines define life under Russian control
- France suspends police stun grenades amid student protests as 15-year-old loses hand
- Teenager loses hand during police confrontation at French school protest
- Bolsonaro wins first round, markets surge ahead of Brazil runoff
- Russia's new Shturm robot tank fails in mud during debut for Putin
- Maylands neighbours allege dozens of cats from elderly owner's home causing unbearable odours
- FIA to investigate software bug that caused chaos at Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia
- Parti Québécois poised for victory in Quebec election, polls suggest
- Two men die in Channel crossing, child among three killed in separate incident
- Yemeni government forces claim to secure Bab al-Mandab Strait as major offensive begins
- Power restored after London blackout, but businesses face 'domino effect' of disruption
- Okinawa governor says US military discipline 'has not worked at all' as new measures imposed after Marine's arrest
- Djokovic wins China Open after de Minaur retires injured from final
- Flydubai co-pilot originally planned attack for July, investigators say, as RMIT links revealed
- Libyan teachers escalate strike, other unions threaten to join
- Voters in three states to decide tax measures targeting the wealthy
- Republican consensus on Israel shows signs of fracture as America First competes with Christian Zionism
- Trump visits Nebraska to shore up Republican midterm vote as beef import policy stirs anger
- Mysterious death at Siberian anti-plague institute raises fears of bubonic outbreak
- Aramco warns global oil stockpile replenishment could take two years as Strait of Hormuz disruption persists
- Liberals condemn One Nation call to imprison former Victorian premiers
- Perth beaches remain closed as whale carcass leaves high E. coli levels
- A generation's fear of Mr Cruel, passed unnoticed to daughters
- Dengue vaccine now available in Australia after spike in cases and new ATAGI advice
- The age gap in year 12: Being the youngest or oldest in the HSC year
- King's private allowance must not fund Andrew's legal challenge against police, palace says
- Anti-migrant protesters clash with police in Gosport after Channel rescue
- WA premier backflips on Esperance desalination plant as Goldfields pipeline upgrade ramps up
- Police in Pakistan install fishing nets to counter drone attacks
- Extreme heat warnings for southern California as El Niño fuels wildfires and typhoons
- Angus Taylor reveals migration policy targeting 100,000 cap to rival One Nation
- Celebrity fitness guru to face court today
- Russia intensifies strikes on Kyiv infrastructure amid fresh diplomatic push
- Russian drones strike major bridges in Ukraine, Australian outlets report
- Sánchez calls snap election for 29 November as Barcelona housing protest turns violent
- Hawthorn lands Zach Merrett, sets sights on Ben King in AFL trade period
- AFL claims most-watched grand final crown as NRL decider draws 4.29 million
- Murder investigation launched after body found in burning van in Prestatyn
- Severe thunderstorms forecast for south-east Queensland after dry September
- Hurlstone Park: Sydney's Hidden Pocket of Federation Charm
- Kyle MacLachlan on David Lynch, oddball roles and his new memoir Fictional Selves
- Low attendance at Fiji pre-COP meeting as Australia faces pressure to justify costs
- Samoa PM apologises for Nazi salute video, rejects extremism
- Middle East oil exports surpass pre-war levels despite Hormuz tensions, data shows
- Western populations to start shrinking as soon as 2029, Moody's warns of fiscal strain
- Australia swelters through second hottest September on record as snow depth hits zero in Kosciuszko
- Pressure mounts for inquest into Port Hedland triple murders as federal minister backs grandmother
- Zach Bryan breaks Gillette Stadium record wearing 'Free Palestine' shirt
- Works begin on renewal of WA's iconic Goldfields water pipeline
- Scotland on course to miss child poverty targets 'by wide margin', charity warns
- Tedesco’s grand final brilliance not enough to lock in World Cup No.1 jersey
- Perth youth crisis accommodation turning away 15 children a day, data shows
- UK considers tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports, report says
- Court of Appeal to hear challenge over Drumcree Orange Order parade decision
- WA Greens staffer's Land Forces Expo ban temporarily lifted after legal challenge
- Cherry-Evans bows out with grand final field goal as Roosters win; salary cap concerns linger
- Puigdemont poised to return as amnesty ruling nears, but Catalonia has changed
- New EU ambassador to UK signals Brussels ready to engage as Burnham government weighs options
- South Korean care home director sentenced to 15 years for sexually abusing disabled residents
- FBI arrests California woman over spying on Taiwan president's son; Taiwan calls it 'transnational repression'
- Australian taken to Syria as a boy may avoid Iraq trial and return home on passport, sources say
- Jaymie Graham appointed North Melbourne coach for 2027
- One Nation to pay market rates for Rinehart’s $8m Brisbane HQ, Joyce says
- Father-of-six identified as man shot dead by NSW police near Rugby
- Auction clearance rate slumps to three-month low as Australian property market slows
- Gillian Anderson asks superfans to avoid front row of West End play, then clarifies comments
- Yeo makes World Cup call, Walker earns Kangaroos spot
- Brazil presidential election heads to runoff between Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro
- Barnaby Joyce and Josh Burns clash over government spending in inflation debate
- One Nation to relocate headquarters to Brisbane office purchased by Gina Rinehart
- Labuschagne scores first century in 11 months, answering Test future questions
- Perth musician's daily 'Idea a Day' challenge wins fans in Pharrell, John Mayer and SZA
- G7 agrees to release emergency oil reserves after Trump diesel threat
- Dance teacher arrested at Canberra Airport over alleged child exploitation material, granted bail
- New Zealand declines to join Canada-led Defence Bank
- Badenoch warns UK 'cannot afford' all policies, promises spending cuts at Tory conference
- Israel's national security adviser confirms co-pilot planned Ben Gurion Airport crash
- White House defends new press aide who posed in anti-Biden shirt with rifle
- Japan looks to establish first centralised intelligence agency since WWII amid China tensions
- Portland student charged with attempted murder and domestic terrorism after mixing chemicals in cafeteria
- ICAC probe into Liberal Party donations ends with key figure Christian Ellis still at large in the UK
- Trump warns South Korea to finalize Alaska LNG deal or face higher tariffs
- Four African leaders issue joint declaration as Ethiopia conflict escalates
- Yemen Launches Major Offensive Against Houthis as Iran Signals Readiness for War
- Reality TV star Sam Wood charged with domestic violence offences, family issues statement
Tech52
- AI agent protocol exposes organisations to cross-agent attacks, researchers warn
- Wikipedia operator confirms 'rogue' OpenAI agents linked to May outage
- Dynatrace Closes $915M Acquisition of Arize, Betting AI Agents Need Application-Style Monitoring
- FBI confirms multiple arrests in ShinyHunters investigation, suspect detained in Jordan
- Hackers scanning for critical Rejetto HFS flaw allowing full server takeover
- OpenAI Introduces Text Watermarking, Takes Opt-In Approach Unlike Rival Anthropic
- Reflection AI launches Beam, an open-weight model aimed at challenging Chinese rivals
- AI Chip Startup Etched Fielding Funding Offers at $40B+ Valuation
- CFTC and SEC propose joint crypto framework after Congress fails to pass CLARITY bill
- OpenAI apologises to Australia ahead of grilling as parliamentary inquiry hears artists risk becoming 'roadkill'
- TikTok launches AI shopping assistant and one-click in-app checkout
- OpenAI adds text watermarking to ChatGPT and Codex, starting with EU users
- Organised crime groups weaponise AI for drug trafficking, Australian authorities warn
- Tens of thousands reportedly worshipping AI as deity, prompting bans and online churches
- S&P Global launches risk assessment framework for crypto lending vaults
- Lola Vision Systems automates the hard part of running AI models on device chips
- Bromcom notifies schools of data breach affecting legacy single sign-on system
- Bitcoin stalls near $86,000 after posting best weekly close in eight months
- M6 Mac Mini Gets First Price Drop During Amazon October Prime Day
- Norway proposes temporary ban on AI glasses in public places
- HackerRank launches Chakra, an AI agent that conducts and evaluates job interviews
- Alleged Ploutus ATM malware developer appears in US court after arrest
- OpenAI to test visual ads in ChatGPT, expanding its advertising push
- Tencent signs $7 billion deal with Oracle for 100,000 AI chips
- Australian parliamentary committee demands OpenAI explain how it will prevent AI accessing private data
- South Korea probes bank data breaches as authorities suspect AI-powered attacks
- Researchers Track Chinese AI Agent Fleet Targeting Alibaba Map Service
- Open-source tool that removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 gains popularity, frees up to 30GB
- Critical Dell System Update flaw grants root access to enterprise servers
- Hackers steal 8 million records from Danish government citizen database
- SEC approves 3x leveraged ETF tracking bitcoin and ether
- Treasury crackdown exposes crypto's role in Hamas fundraising network
- Safeworld exits stealth with $12M to build safety simulations for generative AI robots
- Former OpenAI safety lead says company's safety culture is 'broken', citing recent incidents
- Sam Altman: world should accept 'bad things' from AI for its benefits
- Kraken Operator Payward and Singapore Gulf Bank Launch 24/7 Institutional Crypto Settlement Platform
- Windows 11 KB5124010 update crashes games and apps using AC-3 audio, Microsoft confirms
- Cloudflare fixes container flaw that exposed other customers' residual disk data
- Russia completes prototype 130nm chipmaking tool, a 25-year step behind global leaders
- Bitcoin Edges Above $86,000 as Weak U.S. Jobs Data Cools Rate Hike Bets
- Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta execs to testify under oath at New York City Council AI hearing
- Google admits Intel-based Googlebooks may struggle with some Android apps on launch day
- Trump appoints intelligence chief Jay Clayton to lead new AI taskforce
- Google suspends open-source bug bounty program after AI-generated report deluge
- Ethereum staking queue stretches to 25 days with nearly 1.5 million ETH waiting
- Cloudflare Plans Public Certificate Authority for Quantum-Safe TLS
- Zcash NU7 upgrade activated on testnet, mainnet target set for November
- Zcash Activates 25-Second Blocks on Public Testnet Ahead of Schedule
- OKX-ICE Joint Venture Files to Launch 24/7 Tokenized US Stock Trading Platform
- OKX and NYSE Parent ICE File for Tokenized US Stock Platform Under SEC Innovation Exemption
- Qantas hack suspect cooperating with FBI as more arrests loom
- Money stolen by social media and email account hacking in UK jumps 400% in a year
Business45
- Disabled woman had to 'crawl on hands and knees' to get off train
- Menlo Ventures invests in AI coding startup Factory days after public spat with Khosla
- Lucid Q3 deliveries fall 6.7% as production cut takes effect under new CEO
- Concerns over data centre use of recycled water at new Western Sydney facility
- SpaceX shares surge on Morgan Stanley upgrade, Musk regains trillionaire status
- Hyundai CEO calls for 'level playing field' to counter Chinese EV threat
- PepsiCo recalls 122,000 cases of Gatorade across 37 US states over undeclared food dyes
- Travel columnist warns luxury tourism has ‘let them eat cake’ problem amid cost-of-living crisis
- Air New Zealand Skycouch: A Review of the Economy Bed on a 17-Hour Non-Stop Flight
- Glasgow council and Unison reach pay deal, averting mass fire-and-rehire
- Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal faces lawsuit claiming stockholders were shortchanged
- Thanksgiving airfare surges more than 30% as jet fuel costs hit passengers; cheapest and most expensive November routes revealed
- Skydance Names Leadership Team Ahead of Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Close
- Sainsbury's and Morrisons Held Exploratory Merger Talks, Reports Say
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 finalizes Disrupt Stage lineup for October event
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 names five judges for Startup Battlefield 200 final
- CNN chief Mark Thompson to stay on as Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery complete US$110 billion merger
- GM confirms hybrid vehicles are coming to U.S. lineup as EV demand cools
- Nvidia on track to reach $6 trillion valuation this month, options data suggests
- Google data center project in Finland under investigation after forest clearing without environmental assessment
- UK reviews Chinese car tariffs to align with EU amid 'Made in Europe' talks
- Euro slides to 17-month low as French debt fears rattle markets
- Average five-year fixed mortgage rate hits 6% for first time in three years
- Lidl GB sales top £13bn as price cuts and Deluxe range drive growth
- Cerebras shares rise 6% after Altman reassures investors of 'close partnership'
- China shuts 670 rural banks in push to stabilise financial system
- BT acquires TalkTalk out of administration in £400m rescue deal saving 900 jobs
- Bitcoin on verge of bullish signal not seen in over a year
- BBC morale 'dented' as drawn-out plan to cut 2,000 jobs takes its toll
- TVSN begins closing-down sale after failing to secure buyer; suppliers left in the dark
- Museums boost revenue with licensing deals as funding pressures mount
- Euro hits 17-month low as Spanish, French political uncertainty rattles markets
- ANZ trader called 'hypocrite' but judge backs rate-rigging claims, exposes 'Hobbesian' trading floor
- Critical Resources engages GexplOre for gold exploration in Suriname
- Rare look inside Boeing's 737 factory as planemaker battles trust crisis
- Petrol prices in New Zealand hit highest level since Iran-US war
- UK 'complacent' about food security, more than 150 experts warn government
- Accelerate Resources hits thick manganese zones at Woodie Woodie North project
- Bank of America warns global interest rates approaching dangerous tipping point for Australian superannuation
- Rising Treasury yields spark fiscal fears, but experts say crisis not yet imminent
- Richmond investment property sells at a loss as Melbourne clearance rate drops after rate rise
- King River launches biggest-ever drilling program in Mindoolah gold push
- Engaged couple buys Erskineville house day before wedding as vendor cuts reserve
- Children's books featuring Black protagonists fall 8% in UK, study finds
- North Sea oil workers vote to strike, threatening UK fuel supplies
Australia17
- Melbourne Airport passengers praise new drop-off zone as 56-year-old departures ramp closes
- Coalition pledges ‘mental health reset’ with sweeping reviews in Victorian election pitch
- Seven tips for building midweek meals around vegetables, from Alice Zaslavsky
- Joy Korean Fried Chicken's new Enmore home faces 'Sydney's best' hype test
- Promoter reveals Nick Cave's Melbourne homecoming almost derailed by venue resistance
- Melbourne critic says Kentaro's $29 lunch is a bargain compared to expensive omakase dinner
- Queensland holds out as NSW and Victoria impose classroom screen time limits
- Investigation reveals NSW authorities burying deceased in unmarked communal graves without notifying families
- Two bushfires threaten Lockyer Valley homes as blazes expected to merge within days
- Former LNP MPs tapped for roles on Queensland legal discipline tribunal
- Brisbane 2032 Olympic emblem inspired by pink cockatoo's crest
- Queensland police officer charged with domestic violence and computer hacking offences
- Child hospitalised after alleged racial attack in Greenbank park
- Paddington luxury apartment plan approved despite objections over loss of affordable homes
- Family still seeking answers four years after woman's death following tram fall in Melbourne
- Roosters celebrate historic NRL double with fan day and late-night party
- Five years, $10,000 and still no plan: Melbourne apartment owners hit wall on electrification
Science8
- Optogenetics pioneers win 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- A GP's daily habits for feeling better at 56: yoga, diet, and rest
- Dementia researchers declare ‘breakthrough’ as drugs and blood test transform outlook
- Hubble Data Points to Second-Generation Planet Around White Dwarf
- Optogenetics pioneers awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Moderate drinking's dementia protection 'debunked' by newer research
- New forensic evidence bolsters theory of ancient Egyptian human sacrifice
- Skull fractures suggest servants of Egypt's ancient kings were sacrificed
AI research110
- Outcome-only reinforcement learning can teach models to judge reasoning steps
- Transformer maps CAD designs directly to physics fields, skipping meshing
- Framework reveals that LLM judges share perception but differ in prioritization
- Graded preference optimization improves limb-motion caption fidelity
- A tiny LoRA intervention unlocks deep reference-following in transformers
- SCOPE recovers complete PDE fields from sparse observations via mask-conditioned latent prediction.
- PDE models falter when sensor patterns change between training and testing
- Bilevel optimization bridges the retriever-policy credit gap in agentic RL
- Pairwise token watermarking improves AI text detection without altering output
- LLMs evade latent monitors by learning from prior feedback alone
- Large-scale CT dataset provides tumor masks for 9 organs
- AI agents cheat to maximize rewards, benchmark shows
- Jointly evolving algorithmic plans and code yields fast hybrid optimizers
- Predicting expert removal error makes batched MoE decoding more efficient
- Low-rank router enables scaling mixture of experts to many more experts
- Two-stage verifier combines reasoning and tool-use for safer computer agents
- Tunable attention masks enable subquadratic long-context sequence modeling
- First benchmark and method for team-based vision-and-language navigation under constraints
- GeoVerse blends geometric latent diffusion with video generative priors for consistent novel views
- Real-voice benchmark reveals model-specific demographic bias in Audio-LLMs
- Latent recurrence learns graph search beyond its training depth
- Sensitivity-aware residual-stream pruning improves LLM compression without retraining
- Verifiable visual rewards let image generators train on synthetic scenes and transfer to natural prompts
- Factorized n-gram memory with basis-level gating improves language model efficiency
- Tetra serves 2.7-bit language models without expanding lattice codes
- New benchmark measures speech recognition across 17 Arabic dialects
- LLM assistants can accidentally disclose withdrawn secrets in revision comments
- Answer pooling revives saturated multiple-choice benchmarks by withdrawing elimination credit
- Weighting schedules in score-based models determine which data features are learned and at what rate
- Activation-guided subspaces improve forward-only fine-tuning of large language models
- Joint token-feature KV cache compression speeds long-context LLMs
- Two-sided associative memory correction boosts linear attention performance
- Multi-Fidelity Control Variates Stabilize Data-Scarce Reinforcement Learning
- Agentic copilot accelerates ML accelerator co-design by grounding insights in fresh simulation data
- Local counterfactual edits outperform global unsafe subspace removal
- Unified retention and compensation for KV cache eviction via coverage calibration
- Shared memory improves looped Transformers while shrinking context caches
- Controlled desktop scenes improve visual grounding for computer-use agents
- Low-rank KV cache compression preserves all tokens during long reasoning
- Test-time calibration learning improves LLM accuracy and confidence without labels
- Graph memory keeps continual LLM adaptation efficient as experience accumulates
- One vision backbone can continually absorb new foundation model capabilities
- Training models on multiple viewpoints reduces excessive user affirmation
- New AI debate protocol achieves worst-case, instance-optimal oversight guarantees
- Visual reward optimization can improve robots while reinforcing wrong-object mistakes
- Separating research choices from execution improves long-horizon agent performance
- Jailbreak prompts measurably weakened safeguards across eight open-weight models
- Verified self-improvement makes agent harness optimization more reliable
- Continuous diffusion language models match discrete peers while enabling smoother control
- Benchmark tests multi-camera 3D tracking across synthetic and real spaces
- LLM layers follow a three-stage functional segmentation, fine-tuning only the critical bottleneck layer boosts performance
- Recurrent memory policy improves robot manipulation on tasks requiring spatial recall, counting, and timing
- Lifted training with prototypes improves classifier accuracy without changing inference architecture
- A Stackelberg game framework lets discrete diffusion learn which token corruptions most improve the denoiser
- Tool use shifts how LLMs compute refusal, not just their outputs
- LLM persona prompts alter non-target attributes, breaking selective control assumptions
- Decoding as optimisation on the probability simplex unifies and composes sampling strategies
- Robot policies generalize better when future tokens remain at inference
- Framework guides discrete diffusion with sequence-level objectives without exponential enumeration
- Sparse flow matching generates 3D shapes at ultra-high voxel resolution
- Strong language models often fail to recognize their own errors
- Multimodal models show a gap between aesthetic judgment and design action for UIs
- LLM agents complete tasks yet leak information across community boundaries, new benchmark shows
- Safety feedback after jailbreak causes unpredictable behavior divergence in tool agents
- Flow matching plus physics yields more trackable 3D human motion from video
- Dependency-aware credit assignment improves reinforcement learning for terminal agents
- Bidirectional start-goal curriculum accelerates sparse-reward reinforcement learning without demonstrations.
- Detecting reward hacking by supervising attempted shortcuts, not just successful exploits.
- Active stereo gaze enables precise manipulation without wrist cameras
- Video models reason better when trained to anticipate future states
- Web agents struggle with multilingual, multimodal evidence hunts across the web
- Training for remaining time beats myopic accuracy and endless patience
- Observation-only videos can directly pretrain robot action policies
- Observed opponent actions enable optimal current-strategy convergence in matrix games
- Codoku evaluates coding agents on program reasoning without execution
- Query-time neuron gates can selectively suppress unwanted language-model knowledge
- Driving AI adapts reasoning to risk, not just complexity
- Speculative parallelism boosts multi-GPU LLM inference efficiency
- Touch signals improve predictions of how hands manipulate objects
- Separating sound identity and location improves multisource spatial audio reasoning
- Large-scale dataset and token-fusion architecture improve 3D asset editing
- Auditing passing trajectories exposes and repairs unearned benchmark passes
- LLMs follow abstract rules even when they contradict surface statistics
- Projecting wayward reasoning steps back into a focused latent region cuts token use and boosts accuracy
- Parallel test-time training via costate prediction matches sequential online updates
- Mobile GUI agents rarely transfer task success to new apps with the same goal
- Concept entanglement forces a fundamental trade-off in diffusion model unlearning
- Expert pruning in MoE models can be tailored to decode phase, preserving prefill quality while boosting throughput
- Robot learns manipulation tasks from scratch in minutes with AI-generated 3D models
- A recalibration method stabilizes LLM self-distillation by treating correct and incorrect outputs differently
- Progressive pruning lets language-model debates beat equal-cost baselines
- Robots plan object rearrangements by simulating thousands of options at test time
- One random probe can guide data-free mixed-precision model quantization
- A single video analogy framework unifies diverse tasks and generalizes to unseen scenarios
- User consent in long-lived LLM agents can be replayed after context changes.
- Training efficiency gains produce measurable security trade-offs in AI models
- LLMs trained to predict their own accuracy learn two distinct types of confidence
- Chain-of-thought reasoning aligns speech translation duration with source audio
- Framework improves AI agents by patching common failure patterns
- Contextualization principle: informative words are sources, less informative are sinks
- Continual learning's core challenges stem from a single evolving update-behavior interaction
- A compact AlphaZero-style chess system reaches 3,251 Elo after 2.5 days on a single GPU node
- New dataset isolates and mitigates modality distraction in vision-language models
- Coding agents fail at coordinated multi-repository programming tasks
- Distortion-free multi-bit watermark adds certified decoding to language model outputs
- Routing 3D geometry into diffusion improves sparse-view scene synthesis
- Structured residual connections improve diffusion transformers by enabling adaptive cross-layer information retrieval
- Unified model jointly forecasts driver, vehicle, and road states for monitoring
- Reading LLM internal states detects harmful agent trajectories better than content guards
- Reinforcement learning can stably trap itself in low-return policies via representation superposition