Thursday 15 October 2026
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World189
- JAMA study: Hegseth's mandatory testosterone screening could flag up to 25 percent of the Army
- California braces for critical fire weather as El Niño adds to 'all hazards' warnings
- Israel halts commercial goods entering Gaza; Hamas rejects tax dispute claims
- ICE enforcement tactics face growing public backlash ahead of US midterms, poll finds
- High-profile youth advocate charged with drug offences
- Woman resentenced to life in prison for death of Telemundo journalist Adan Manzano
- DR Congo protests Formula 1's decision to hold Grand Prix in Rwanda
- Detainee's death adds to record ICE toll, investigation finds
- Harry and Meghan return to the UK, begin charity visits in Nottingham
- Drone attacks on Black Sea ships draw NATO response as strikes enter member waters
- Ethiopian forces enter Aksum as Eritrea tensions rise over Tigray offensive
- Bullets hit microwave and wall in shooting targeting young child, court hears
- US braces for warmer, wetter winter as El Niño reshapes snow patterns
- Minibus Collides With Freight Train at Channel Tunnel Terminal, 19 Injured
- Race tied on eve of Brazil run-off as Bolsonaro holds narrow lead over Lula
- Trump administration moves to ease access to unregulated peptide drugs
- Houthi missile attack hits Saudi-led coalition headquarters at Aden presidential palace
- Community member kills Oregon school gunman after three children and teacher shot dead, police say
- Kangaroo mother care helps premature baby thrive in Gaza hospital
- Australia's digital duty of care bill targets Truth Social; gender 'debates' not policed
- France drops opposition to UK inclusion in 'Made in Europe' legislation, conditional on alignment on Chinese EV tariffs
- ACT commits to illegal tobacco shop crackdown after federal minister warns of 'national joke' risk
- ACT government abandons electronic monitoring plan for high-risk domestic violence offenders, costing $18m a year
- Migrant Workers Association says NZ First adopted its visa policy
- Farage accused of 'protecting' Reform candidate over racist slurs against David Lammy
- USAID's Dismantling Leaves Nepal Exposed to Climate-Linked Disasters, Officials Say
- Shot Auckland officer's recovery: 20 surgeries and a three-year ordeal
- Fontaines DC complete leap from Dublin streets to cosmic stadium rock with Dopamine Chamber
- Two-thirds of Queenslanders doubt Brisbane 2032 Games will stay on budget, poll finds
- Exclusive Brethren leader Bruce Hales fronts inquiry over neo-Nazi election interference claims
- Greens join Coalition to block private health rebate changes, demand pensioner exemption
- US ramps up third-country deportations under Trump despite rights outcry
- Texas sued as software glitch delays nearly 600,000 voter registrations before early voting
- FBI investigates letters with unknown substance sent to U.S. election officials
- US Sues California Over Mail-In Ballots From Likely Non-Citizens
- Family court dismissed concerns over India court data breach a decade ago, emails reveal
- Alleged Chinese spy network posed as retired Australian police on LinkedIn, ABC finds
- Spirit of Tasmania V crew hit by shigella outbreak on delivery voyage, Fair Work application reveals
- Streeting urges US to back Ukraine on Washington visit, acknowledges Starlink tensions
- Third accuser tells Russell Brand trial she was dragged into bar toilet and raped
- Australian unemployment rates rise, multiple outlets report
- UK Threatens Visa Ban on Eritrea Over Refusal to Accept Returns
- Syrian court sentences two Assad loyalists to death over 2025 coastal violence
- Illinois teen arrested over alleged plot to attack Hindu temple, authorities say
- Pakistan orders school inspections after roof collapse kills 34 children; school owner arrested
- Green Party member behind Zionism motion receives death threats
- Big tech firms donated $92 million to Trump's White House ballroom, records show
- Talarico raises record $64m as Musk's $158m powers Republican super PAC in Texas race
- Judge enters not guilty plea for Maduro as he rejects torture charges in New York
- Azerbaijan enforces school headscarf ban as protests spread and Turkey row emerges
- Radioactive Ore Monazite Emerges as Key to Breaking China's Rare Earth Dominance
- Vinicius Junior says referees 'target' him after four-game suspension
- NHS England issues new guidance: trans patients to be placed in single-sex wards by biological sex
- Argentina adviser cites UK MP's election as evidence of 'Islamisation' in Falklands row
- Student protests in Albania enter third day as demonstrators demand PM Rama's resignation
- Spain Defies Trump on NATO Spending and Iran as Elections Approach
- Trump scraps plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter's execution after bipartisan backlash
- Renters watch and wait as Australia's property downturn deepens
- Labour tells councils to end local deals with Greens unless 'Zionism is racism' policy is condemned
- Ukraine satellite limits persist despite Trump claim, official says
- Senior health civil servant urged to recuse herself from ADHD clinic clampdown over industry ties
- Resources minister urged to correct claim Beetaloo gas emissions will be offset
- Palestine book for young readers pulled from Random House after editorial dispute
- US lawmakers unveil Epstein Wall Street Records Act to probe financier's banking ties
- ‘He’d take boys down to the chicken shed’: Allegations of rape at Canberra youth detention centre
- Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia push oil past US$107, spark global market sell-off
- Data centre backlash emerges as US midterm election issue
- Obama warns online platforms stoke anger and fear but says extremism “not inevitable”
- Man, 74, pleads guilty to raping woman drugged by husband over 20 years
- Syrian authorities arrest suspect in 2013 Baniyas mass killings
- Two chemical tankers ablaze in Black Sea, sailors missing as drone attacks intensify
- Istanbul flooding death toll rises to two as rescues continue after record rainfall
- Seven crew missing after drone attack on tanker off Romania, authorities say
- Russell Brand rape trial: accuser says alleged attack left her fearing pregnancy
- Brazil approves 40-hour working week in boost for Lula ahead of election run-off
- Vučić secretly pushed alleged Belgrade land handover for Trump tower, Guardian reveals
- Camp leader who abused boys to challenge sentence
- Hundreds of IDF investigations into killings still have no public outcome, BBC Verify finds
- Severe drought declared in six areas of England as ministers order daily water monitoring
- College was meant to be 'good debt'. For millions of US borrowers, it no longer pays off
- X removes 13,000 accounts in suspected foreign influence operations ahead of US midterms
- Iran vows to keep fighting until US yields as two ships sink near Strait of Hormuz
- China and North Korea open new border bridge amid deepening ties
- Ukraine says US intelligence cuts hamper air defences as Russian strikes kill 15
- Haze from Indonesian Fires Spreads to Papua, Disrupts Flights and Causes Health Issues
- Vietnam Set to Sign Free Trade Pact With European Bloc This Week
- China says rare earth exports to Europe will continue regardless of US trade deal deadline
- Iraq devalues dinar by 15 percent as war disrupts oil exports and traders face losses
- PM launches brain cancer review after swimmer Archie Goodburn's appeal
- West Midlands firearms discharges fall sharply as region shakes off 'gun crime capital' label
- UK temperatures to rise to 23C before autumn chill sets in
- Police officer found guilty of raping teenage girl and woman in Shetland
- Harry and Meghan make first joint public appearance since UK return in Nottingham
- The Diplomat publishes reflections from a year of interviews with a Thai sex worker
- Poll finds voters increasingly pessimistic on economy ahead of US midterms
- Walsh credits Tedesco, vows to solve vomiting issue as Tedesco confirmed for Fiji return
- Infantino apology fails to satisfy FIFA critics as Trump peace prize faces review
- Divergent Balkan politics shape ties with Israel amid Gaza war
- Albanian PM Edi Rama refuses to resign as student protests enter third day
- Ukraine Strikes Russian Refinery as Zelenskyy Declares US Energy Ceasefire 'Done'
- US considers $335,000 ad campaign to encourage Afrikaner emigration from South Africa
- US reportedly considers use of 'mother of all bombs' in potential renewed strikes on Iran
- South Africa overhaul batting line-up as Rabada firms for second Test against Australia
- Liberal candidate Charles Aponso unaware of state treaty at forum, draws party rebuke
- Catalano appears in court for first time since domestic violence charges
- Kiss confident Nawaqanitawase will choose Wallabies over Fiji for World Cup
- Yorkshire Wildlife Park to reopen Friday as inquest hears tiger victim died of multiple injuries
- European football leaders urge Wenger to challenge Infantino for Fifa presidency
- Digital duty of care bill introduced to parliament
- Healey welcomes surprise UK growth as a sign of resilience ahead of first Budget
- Family demands answers after Brisbane man, 51, dies in two-hour ambulance wait
- Return to Khartoum shadowed by drone warfare, wartime essay warns
- China opens first overseas airpower facility in Laos, satellites reveal eight aircraft
- Golden Dome missile defense system deemed infeasible by analysts
- Uniform Friday sermon proposal in Kashmir draws backlash from religious leaders
- UK charity watchdog to warn against 'intimidation' after Farage calls for prosecutions of asylum seeker groups
- Woman charged after allegedly poisoning colleague's curry lunch with snail pellets
- Zelenskyy voices 'betrayal' by US over diesel deal and Starlink restrictions
- Trump calls Ukraine's refinery strikes “a disgrace” as US-Kyiv rift widens
- Senegal escalates crackdown on LGBTQ+ people, HRW report finds
- Piha campground to reopen this summer against council recommendations
- Victoria's $160.6 billion debt becomes defining election issue, says business leader
- Trump takes midterm campaign to western states
- Indonesian city blanketed by orange haze as air pollution index tops 1,200
- Death toll rises to 34 in Peshawar school roof collapse; owner arrested
- Treasury faces calls for accountability after coroner finds it 'materially contributed' to employee's suicide
- Warsaw's tallest tower symbolises Poland's rapid economic rise since communism
- Navy chief orders fleet-wide sweep after recording device found on HMAS Leeuwin
- Australian citizen unlawfully detained for 945 days by Home Affairs, ombudsman finds
- African Nations Weigh Implications of Israeli Election
- Wong slams Israeli ambassador as military refuses to release drone audio in Zomi Frankcom case
- Doctors excluded from safety meetings before Elizabeth Struhs death, inquest hears
- G20 finance chiefs gather in Bangkok amid fallout from Iran war
- WA councillor pushes for defamation reform, citing chilling effect on local government
- Sydney Morning Herald dominates Walkley Awards finalists, photographers win top Nikon prizes
- Renshaw influence behind Weibgen's World Cup push
- Trump confirms Fort Hood execution will not be livestreamed
- NSW unemployment hits five-year high as interest rates, petrol prices bite
- Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sex offences in 'catastrophic descent into disgrace'
- CFMEU delegate charged with drug trafficking, weapons offences as broader bribery probe widens
- Guilfoyle forced out as Greece ambassador, extending wave of women leaving Trump administration
- NT Labor backflips, backs moratorium on hyper-scale data centres
- Adelaide University opens early retirement scheme as $90m student shortfall grows
- Musk says Trump and US military decide Starshield limits after Ukraine disruption complaint
- El Niño Drought Leaves Amazon Primed to Burn, NASA Satellite Images Show
- Teenager dies as torrential rain floods Istanbul
- Bipartisan support for free abortion care in Victoria as Coalition matches Labor pledge
- White House press secretary Zacharia admits failing California bar exam
- Brazil cuts maximum work week to 40 hours in boost for Lula before runoff
- Indonesia tests dry ice to fight toxic haze as fires ravage region
- Report: Israeli forces detained over 2,000 Palestinian children since October 2023
- North Korea tests two submarine-launched cruise missiles, state media says
- Suspected Israeli social media recruitment drives alarm in Lebanon and Iran
- Discrepancy Emerges Over US-China Military Crisis Agreement After Summit
- Deleted records show Burnham had two hospitality dinners with Man City chairman
- Tanker catches fire in Romanian waters as drone attacks on Black Sea shipping intensify
- Conroy vows to end 'rot' in Defence after missile program's $15.6m procurement bungles revealed
- LNP introduces sweeping IR overhaul giving minister strike-termination powers
- Yass Valley residents face 76 per cent rate rise as council opens consultation
- Illinois teen detained over alleged plot targeting Hindu temple, prosecutor says he 'couldn't wait' to kill Indian people
- Union warns Queensland jails could reach triple capacity under new breach bail laws
- Greens senator Jordon Steele-John takes leave as letter alleges inappropriate comments to women
- Kenya's Ebola response faces test beyond Nairobi as suspected case in Wajir underscores border challenges
- Trump suggests government leakers 'should be shot'
- Donaldson ruled out of Bledisloe Test, Meredith handed start at No.10
- Court hears Lamarre-Condon asked friend to dispose of phone after alleged murders
- US inflation accelerates as midterms loom, deepening affordability problem
- Online safety bill to penalise platforms promoting gender-based violence
- Kenya confirms second Ebola death as virus spreads to Nigeria
- Sexual assault reported at fraternity house near University of Chicago
- Excluding ADHD and autism claimants from PIP would not save money, thinktank warns
- Radar survey uncovers hundreds of unmarked outback graves in far-west NSW
- Premier urged to apologise after Christmas school event post draws backlash
- Archived posts show One Nation candidate's far-right crusade rhetoric as party polls at 23 per cent
- 'The Test' returns with cameras on Australia's tour, but Starc and Head still aren't watching
- Bazzana, Guardians locked 1-1 with Rays as World Series dream nears
- Algeria Moves to Reclaim Sahel Broker Role as Mali Retakes Kidal
- Four arrested in shooting of 49ers player Keion White
- Criminal syndicates produce counterfeit cigarettes with Australian health warnings at industrial scale: minister
- Denmark pushes back after Trump claims oil and mineral exploration to begin in Greenland
- Costa Rica opens mega-prison as Bukele-style crackdowns spread across Latin America
- Manchester City guilty of 114 financial charges as case stirs UK-UAE tensions
- Senator David Pocock leads renewed push to ban controversial herbicide paraquat
- Labor and Coalition block bill to ban shackling of women giving birth in prison
- Five homeless men found dead on Michigan trail as police investigate possible serial killer
- Unemployment hits 4.7 per cent, highest in five years, as rate rise expectations recede
- IBAC report: Ministers given false information as $285m COVID grant rorts were concealed
- NATO weighs redeploying anti-drone defenses as Black Sea attacks sink cargo ship
- Schools and libraries protest FCC plan to cut or end $2 billion E-Rate internet program
Business52
- Global sugar prices hit 19-month high as Brazil's crop disappoints
- Netflix replaces chief content officer Bela Bajaria with former Disney executive Peter Rice
- Sydney Airport security staff strike, delays expected
- Danika Mason to leave Today show, fourth host departure since June
- Porsche reveals Mission S concept car as part of turnaround plan
- KFC drops Pepsi for Coca-Cola in US for first time in decades
- First wave of redundancies hits Whyalla steelworks as blast furnace shutdown takes effect
- Car insurance premiums surge nearly 60% in four years, ASIC report finds
- Amazon Australia sold fire-risk light months after warning, tests find
- Withings puts third-party health data syncing behind subscription for new users
- New Zealand petrol prices rise despite falling oil: RNZ asks why
- McKinsey partner Chris Bradley resigns from charity board after 'glass cliff' comments controversy
- Anduril CEO defends government contract wins amid ties to Trump administration
- Tesla Roadster flies, drives upside down at long-delayed Texas reveal, production set for 2028
- Ramp raises $1.85 billion at $60 billion valuation as AI push accelerates
- SK Hynix unit seeks US approval for China factory equipment as part of deal for US plant
- CoreWeave credit stress intensifies as AI debt fears spread across markets
- IEA confirms emergency release of 20 million barrels of diesel as prices surge
- Thames Water asks creditors for £2.4bn more to stave off collapse
- TSMC chip capacity becomes fierce battleground as AI demand drives record quarter
- Banking executives expect tax raid in Healey Budget, as unions press for £9bn levy
- Cost of Balancing UK Power Grid Reaches Nearly £50m a Day as Wind Farms Curtailed
- TSMC scouts US datacenter readiness as it plans billions in new chip capacity
- Southwest retires A-List loyalty status, adopts silver, gold and platinum tiers
- Elon Musk accuses memory makers of 'extortionate' pricing, praises Micron
- UK Culture Secretary 'minded to intervene' in Sky's £1.6bn takeover of ITV's broadcasting arm
- OpenAI accuses former employee of taking 100-plus trade secret files to Apple
- Treasury Counselor Zervos Hits Back at IMF Debt Warning, Citing Forecasting Failures
- ASML says AI demand outstrips supply, raises sales outlook
- Treasury yields tumble as investors flee tech stocks for safe-haven bonds
- US wholesale prices jump 6.3% annually in September, biggest gain since 2022
- Healey Vows 'Breathing Space' Budget as IMF Backs UK Fiscal Plan
- Two dead, one seriously injured in explosion at Intel's Israeli chip plant
- Wallace & Gromit maker Aardman posts another loss despite revenue rise
- China dumped aluminium windows and doors in Australia, trade commission finds
- Federal Court documents reveal detailed allegations against former Super Retail boss
- BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Warns Data Center Moratorium Would Trigger US Recession, Flags $40 Trillion Debt
- Tech sell-off intensifies as chip shares tumble and BHP dives on AI worries
- UK households have paid an extra £13,961 on bills since 2021, TUC says
- TSMC posts record profit for sixth consecutive quarter, beating estimates on AI chip demand
- UK economy grows unexpectedly in August, defying forecasts of contraction
- Australia's first Michelin stars awarded to 11 South Australian restaurants
- Bitcoin falls below $81,000 as Fed rate hike bets rattle markets; Kospi plunges 8%
- South Australia to abolish public school fees from 2027
- ACCC takes Kmart to court over nail glue burns and button battery safety
- Four men face court over alleged extortion of construction executive
- Iron Bear retakes full control of Labrador iron ore project as Vale exits farm-in deal
- Jio Platforms aims to raise $3.2 billion in historic Indian IPO
- Locksley Resources expands NSW copper footprint with Iron Duke option
- Sydney FC teenager Akol Akon set for $2.5m MLS move to Colorado Rapids
- Five startups reach Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026
- Asia tech rout deepens, circuit breakers triggered as US inflation and AI debt fears spike
Tech49
- ChatGPT Chrome extension gains 'computer use' over open tabs as Atlas browser closes
- Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster after disastrous launch with AI upscaling issues
- GitHub accounts hijacked in GhostAction campaign hit 30,000 repositories
- Citizen Lab uncovers first known use of targeted ads to deliver zero-click mercenary spyware
- Fake Arch Linux packages impersonating yay and paru removed from AUR after malware upload
- Google rolls out AI-powered scam defenses for Android users
- Anthropic taps nonprofits METR and SecureBio for independent AI safety evaluation
- Hackers exploit unpatched Collabora flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers
- Volvo to deploy Nvidia-powered hands-free driving system by 2030
- OpenAI engineer charged in recording device case had ties to Saudi government
- Bluesky expands AI-powered Attie platform to let users build websites, games, and interactive experiences
- OpenAI gives developers three months to migrate from GPT-4 models
- Proxyjacking campaign hijacks D-Link and Ubiquiti devices to sell stolen bandwidth in 34 countries
- Meta unveils Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model built with Apple for Mac Studio
- Shelly launches Presence Gen4 sensor that tracks up to 10 people without cameras
- Rivian plans to bring third-party AI agents into its electric vehicles
- Israeli ad-tech firm Discover-Tech implicated in spyware targeting Al Jazeera devices
- Eight US states sue OpenAI over claims ChatGPT harms children
- Smartphone shipments plunge as memory crisis drives price surge
- Sipeed Announces MaixStation, a Chinese AI Mini PC Rival to Nvidia DGX Spark
- Nvidia RTX Spark laptops go on sale: Windows on Arm arrives for AI workloads
- Bitcoin bounces back above $82,000 after brief drop below $80,000 as inflation fears ease into weekend
- Russia Central Bank Confirms P2P Crypto Ban from July 2027 as Sberbank Joins Exchange Register
- Google Launches Universal Cart Shopping Tool in the US
- Big Tech invests billions in specialized AI engineers to prove returns on spending
- Eiliko robot toy stores conversations on insecure Chinese servers, security investigation finds
- TSMC confirms Texas expansion talks with Elon Musk's Terafab, insists on operational control
- Spyware Makers Use Online Ads to Hack Devices, Citizen Lab Report Finds
- INTERPOL-led operation nets 95 arrests in child sexual abuse material crackdown across 17 countries
- Yandex data center strikes slow, but do not stop, Russian bot traffic, Cloudflare finds
- ASML reports record $13bn quarter as chip demand pushes orders into 2030
- HEX token plunges 30% as reports surface of founder Richard Schueler's arrest in Istanbul
- Ledger opens $849 pre-orders for Atom crypto device amid Asia tampering probe
- Amazon expands Bee AI gadget line with wearable and card-sized recorder
- Nvidia CEO urges US-China AI safety dialogue, calls technology 'potentially dangerous'
- US Air Force pilots used malware-ridden USB drives for mission planning, says former security official
- UK stops short of AI-specific measures in Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
- Bitget, Liquid exploits push Q3 crypto hacks toward $1.2B
- ASIC Unveils Proposed Crypto Exchange Rules With A$14 Million Capital Floor
- UK Legal Aid Agency confirms hackers stole records dating back to 1978
- Met Police reprimanded over unlawful use of retail crime platform Auror
- Bitcoin mining pool Binance Pool to shut down as hashrate falls 65%
- Anthropic tells investors it is profitable and cash-flow positive ahead of IPO
- Ricursive Intelligence bets on AI-designed chips to ease the compute crisis
- VanEck withdraws application for Lido staked Ether ETF
- Polygon completes Coinme acquisition, gains US payments licenses
- AI-Designed Enzymes Can Cut Specific Disease-Associated Proteins
- Flock CEO defends surveillance cameras amid privacy backlash: 'We shouldn't pause progress'
- Colossal Biosciences unveils GenoMorph AI platform to speed up de-extinction work
Science13
- Fijian conjoined twins successfully separated in Saudi Arabia
- Google reports 40-fold error cut on quantum chip using 'magic state cultivation'
- NASA completes rollout of next-generation solar arrays to boost power on the International Space Station
- Microplastics found to generate DNA-damaging free radicals in water, study shows
- NASA Satellites Track Likely Strongest El Niño Since 1950 Unfolding This Fall
- Rewilding atoll islands could help them withstand sea-level rise, study finds
- NASA moon base engineer discusses path to lunar outpost in new podcast
- Neanderthal shoulder bone may reveal oldest known fatal spear wound
- Artemis II heat shield passes rigorous NASA analysis, validating reentry change
- Should pre-teens use protein powder? Health reporter investigates her son's plea
- Pig kidneys frozen for a year successfully revived in scientific first
- Chandra study traces 'Treble Clef' radio formation to black hole outburst and cluster collision
- Pope Leo recovers from lung cancer surgery as non-smoker cases rise
Australia9
- Victoria forces agents to reveal auction reserve prices in underquoting crackdown
- Supercars to return to Phillip Island in five-year deal
- Queensland LNP unveils controversial workplace law changes, including power to break public sector strikes
- Wollert shooting victim named as Ali Albadri, police hunt suspected gangland executioners
- Inquest hears missing Mackay schoolgirl’s skull was used as ashtray at pub
- Man sentenced to nearly five years for driving stolen Landcruiser through Northland shopping centre
- Labor warns of ‘Newman-era attack on workers’ as Queensland parliament returns
- Maritime unions slam Brisbane CityCat bar trial as 'ridiculous proposal'
- Teen charged with attempted murder over botched Sydney school pick-up shooting
AI research110
- Apertus adds image, audio and longer reasoning without architectural changes
- Video generation models often fail to generate causally coherent physical event chains
- Functional supervision improves cross-model KV cache transport over reconstruction alone
- Reasoning models encode the future value of alternative next tokens
- E8 lattice vector quantization enables 2-bit keys for LLM KV-cache compression
- LLM orchestrator persistently coordinates robot teams in dynamic disasters
- Diffusion language models enforce task-level security against prompt injection
- Multi-objective evolution yields stronger, more transferable agent harnesses
- Recurrent-state quantization fails at long decode horizons due to scale-state feedback
- LLMs can say no but still execute harmful tool calls, with language-dependent gaps
- Computational graphs replace free-form reasoning for verifiable LLM outputs
- SkillHorizon benchmark reveals that language agents struggle to complete long business workflows as task scope grows
- Separating exploration and exploitation policies with classifier-free guidance improves diffusion RL fine-tuning
- Recurrent memory signals predict which KV cache entries hybrid LLMs will need
- Motion capture from video works with any target skeleton topology
- Survival sandbox benchmark evaluates autonomous agents on sustained goal execution
- Self-improving data synthesis adapts embedding models to new tasks with minimal human input
- LightVAE speeds up video autoencoders by exploiting temporal and depth redundancy
- DexCast learns real-world dexterous control from human videos without teleoperation
- Context scheduling improves long-horizon robot video prediction
- AI agents still cannot reliably deliver end-to-end on underspecified business requests.
- One model matches pixels across any pair of five sensor modalities
- Co-Adaptive Routing and Retrieval Learns Query Rules Without Supervision
- Generative chroma keying from unaligned background references preserves foreground performance
- Cross-video human demonstration pairs improve robot world-action model transfer
- Echo enables fast 4-bit tensor-parallel all-reduce with controlled error accumulation
- Coarse-to-fine text generation matches diffusion quality at much higher speed
- RL gains in no-think mode stem from reactivating existing reasoning
- A closed-loop system lets harness agents improve without external teachers
- Coherent visual scenes can weaken safety safeguards in multimodal models
- Polynomial-time algorithms face fundamental limits in online convex optimization with switching experts
- Muon optimizer boosts training success for long-horizon repository agents
- Decoupling abstract state from visual state improves video world model consistency
- Entropy signals guide efficient reasoning repair in LLMs
- Systematic study reveals what matters for world modeling in robot VLAs
- Generative framework converts sparse panoramas into annotated multi-room 3D scenes
- Post-training gains in audio models may reflect format adaptation, not true audio understanding.
- Agent memory benefits more from event aggregation than retrieval alone
- Vision scales multimodal learning without altering pure-text loss
- Transformer text generation may never converge, but temperature ensures it
- Diagnostic feedback drives iterative benchmark evolution revealing hidden LLM agent weaknesses
- Execution-verified feedback improves LLM harness optimization for SQL, Cypher, and Python generation
- New benchmark reveals LLMs' limitations in retrieving multiple facts from memory
- AI agents fail to produce honest scientific follow-up papers in new benchmark
- Agent benchmark shows LLM agents frequently violate contextual integrity when handling user data.
- Similar language models draw more decisive votes than rankings predict
- Tool discovery paradigm crossover: Retrieve-then-Plan wins on simple queries, Plan-then-Retrieve on complex ones at scale
- Orchestrating coding agents broadens autonomous computational research beyond optimization
- Object-centric 3D memory enables consistent video generation under large viewpoint changes
- Cross-model KV cache reuse introduces safety incompatibility in language models
- Mixed-supervision method improves mammography segmentation for rare lesions
- Protocol risks in multi-agent systems depend on downstream agent decisions, not just local exploitability
- Video agents improve their own harnesses using unlabeled video
- TempoKV compresses video generation KV caches by exploiting key-value predictability asymmetry
- Training with solver feedback boosts reliability of language model reasoning
- LLMs struggle to turn words into reliable physical actions
- Self-evolving visual agents learn tool use from unlabeled images using margin reward.
- Many contrastive training strategies for multimodal embeddings add little value
- Task synthesis via artifact transitions yields long-horizon agentic trajectories.
- Skill-based benchmark reveals stark agent reliability gaps hidden by lenient scoring
- RL framework mitigates reasoning-tool trade-off in MCP agents
- Near-linear time random Fourier features with strong concentration guarantees
- Dormant backdoor can lie hidden in one model and activate on merging
- MLLMs struggle to perceive human physical states quantitatively from video
- Reward-guided token weighting makes language-model distillation more effective
- Near-square experts and depth-aware allocation improve MoE models
- Multimodal training needs different scaling recipes for text, vision and audio
- New benchmark tests whether LLM agents can actively investigate causal systems
- Calibrated depth reward improves 4D consistency without harming visual quality
- Benchmark evaluates AI agents' sustained progress on long-horizon tasks with process rewards
- Forecasting future actions makes language-agent training more sample-efficient
- Hindsight assigns token credit from one verified language-model rollout
- Tree-trained draft branches make speculative decoding accept longer continuations
- Hyperbolic geometry beats extreme network depth in goal-conditioned maze navigation
- Coding agents’ reports omit much of their recoverable task state
- Translation agents learn to retrieve evidence only when it improves results
- Action-aware embeddings retrieve better robot experiences for future actions
- Progress-aware training helps small language model agents escape repetitive loops
- Spatially addressed memory preserves scenes across long generated videos
- World model learns where to predict and where to generate
- One LiDAR model generates, forecasts and resimulates driving scenes in real time
- Context-aware credit assignment improves language agents on long-horizon tasks
- Benchmark exposes separate static and dynamic memory failures in video worlds
- Iterative reasoning states help multimodal models refine their own answers
- A single transformer trains nested model sizes in one pass
- Predicting tool outputs speeds reinforcement learning without corrupting rollouts
- UltraBERT balances masking strategies to improve classification and retrieval
- Spatial rewards and staged training improve image layout accuracy
- Enterprise agent risks emerge when local decisions break shared constraints
- Agentic image checks test depicted facts, not AI provenance
- Query-adaptive neuron steering improves frozen language models across benchmarks
- Intermediate snapshots improve long-horizon coding agents at lower cost
- Terminal agents can build adaptive environments for their own training
- Frontier AI agents solve most expert-level theoretical physics calculations
- Models can isolate restricted image concepts during pretraining
- Agents search more effectively by choosing which reasoning branch to revisit
- Base models can reveal agent skills before instruction tuning
- Verifier-based rewards train coding agents toward formally correct programs
- Human demonstrations scale whole-body learning for humanoid loco-manipulation
- Verified retries let smaller code models recover lost capability
- Symplectic latent dynamics prevent rollout contraction in visual world models
- Two-bit scalar quantization better preserves language model predictions
- Coding agents produce functional code that often fails security tests
- Persistent memory keeps generated 4D worlds consistent across camera paths
- Diffusion transformer depth profiles reflect prediction targets, not just feature granularity
- One Bitwise Diffusion Framework Generates Across Three Multimodal Domains
- Recursive harness edits help agents adapt without answer keys
- Open training stack scales mobile agents across apps and tools
- Sparse replay memory extends linear attention to million-token contexts
- Advantage guidance makes supervised policy training competitive with offline RL