Friday 16 October 2026
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World178
- Great Barrier Reef antler coral overfished by 30 per cent as Fisheries Queensland withholds investigation outcome
- Brazil court orders Meta to give Lula and Bolsonaro equal treatment on Instagram
- Houthis fire missiles at Aden airport day after palace attack
- Healey says Heathrow third runway has 'always been a case for growth' as PM holds back
- Chinese nursery owner jailed for life over lead poisoning of more than 200 children
- Man Hospitalised After Dog Attack in Brisbane's North; Trump Press Secretary Fired
- A-League opens with Sydney derby stalemate
- Lula reverses stance, supports lowering criminal age to 16 in Brazil election gamble
- Mass flying fox deaths along east coast threaten forest ecosystems, experts warn
- Baucau's Hotel Flamboyan: a survivor's account of Timor-Leste's occupation-era abuses
- Finland Navy Patrols Shadow War Beneath the Baltic Sea
- Ocasio-Cortez transfers $1m to Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed in progressive push
- Australia on Track for Wettest El Niño Year on Record as Storms Persist
- Lawsuit against private equity billionaire Leon Black dismissed as plaintiff cites medical crisis
- Copper thefts leave more than 100 km of Perth roads in darkness, costing taxpayers millions
- Wu-Tang Clan’s Fabled Album ‘Once Upon A Time in Shaolin’ Heard in Podcast Clips
- Kenya records third Ebola case as DRC outbreak surpasses 9,000 infections
- Brazil's Amazon deforestation hits lowest on record as knife-edge runoff looms
- Expert tells NSW panel Lue school should be moved if Bowdens silver mine approved
- Fire ants re-infest Queensland organic farms after 14-month treatment suspension
- New US bill seeks to guarantee ownership rights for video game buyers
- Steve Smith's fielding wizardry can be learned, say coaches after record Test haul
- Witnesses and victims find a lifeline in court support volunteers across NSW
- Victorian selective school debate heats up as thousands miss out on Mac.Robertson places
- EV boom sends used petrol and diesel car prices tumbling as listings hit record high
- Damned if you work, damned if you retire: The Baby Boomers stuck in a Catch-22
- RFK Jr. pushes FDA to ease access to unproven peptide drugs despite staff safety concerns
- Real Madrid demands La Liga president's resignation over Nazi comparison
- One Nation NSW leader spent $211,000 in taxpayer funds on luxury hotels, bars during trade commissioner stint
- Primrose Hill to close for Bonfire Night and New Year's Eve after fatal stabbings
- New York man charged with raping FIT student after giving her fentanyl that killed her
- Met police investigate Your Party founding dispute, man arrested
- Italy's defence minister calls Trump's Ukraine restrictions a 'complete mistake' as US ties fray
- Home battery owners cash in as NSW heatwave sends electricity prices soaring
- US budget deficit nears $2 trillion for fiscal 2026, up 12 per cent in a year
- Iran targets US voters with war-cost messaging ahead of midterms
- US measles cases reach 4,410 as CDC deploys to Pennsylvania outbreak
- Amber Guyger, officer who murdered Botham Jean, released from prison after seven years
- UK considers Chinese EV tariffs to join EU's Made in Europe scheme
- Musk approached Trump to slow Starlink in Ukraine, sources say, as both deny responsibility
- Nurse struck off for stealing £750,000 from vulnerable 99-year-old resident
- Global Citizen returns to Western Australia as co-founder Michael Sheldrick comes home
- Police drop investigation into Palestine Action post by national security adviser's wife
- White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Removed After Five Days
- New White House press secretary faces scrutiny over legal background, briefing performance
- 'NAZA' documentary wins global critical acclaim; reviewers call it 'impossible to ignore'
- EU Pledges Continued Ukraine Support as US Rift Widens
- Hezbollah demands return of seized explosives as Lebanon splits over their use
- Oregon school shooter targeted special needs classroom; bystander who killed him identified as father of two students
- Gaza malnutrition deaths reach 466, children account for one-third, says Health Ministry
- Russian strikes on Kyiv power grid follow intercepted 'unliveable cities' blueprint
- Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi recaptures territory as Starlink restrictions raise new concerns
- Trump says Musk restored Ukraine's Starlink access as blame game over restrictions continues
- Third woman tells Russell Brand trial of alleged rape in Soho bar toilet
- Russell Brand transformed into 'wild-eyed maniac' during alleged assault, court told
- Devon and Cornwall police apologise and pay compensation to nine women over alleged protection of abusive officers
- Final race run at Wentworth Park as 94-year greyhound era ends
- UK government pledges overhaul of vaccine compensation scheme after Covid Inquiry criticism
- Community grapples with death of missing northern rivers woman Yvonne Whear
- Frydenberg comeback speculation mounts as memoir fuels political talk
- Chalmers faces economic headwinds and political pressure at home
- Ethiopia installs interim government in Tigray after military retakes region
- New York congressman introduces bill requiring game ownership, not licenses
- Russia steps into mediator role between Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Pope Leo XIV returns to St Peter's Square in first public appearance since lung surgery
- South African Rugby Player Dies in French Hotel on Eve of European Debut
- California brushfires force evacuations, power shutoffs as Santa Ana winds return
- South Africa pastor and wife arrested after 200 found chained at illegal rehab centre
- Albanian protests turn violent as clashes spread across major cities
- Fifa peace prize faces scrapping or overhaul after Trump award backlash
- Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis of war crimes as US warns of airport attacks
- In Cyprus, some fear Israel’s growing influence over water, defence and energy
- Uruguay Opens Path to Residency for Tens of Thousands of Asylum-Seekers
- Norwegian teenager jailed for 20 years as 'hitman' for Iran-backed Foxtrot gang
- Tribal villagers allege fake thumb impressions behind Adani bauxite mine in Odisha
- Dozens of Israeli settlers launch coordinated attack on West Bank olive harvest, injuring at least 20
- US senators send letter demanding investigation into Ukraine Starlink restrictions, Zelensky says services still being restored
- Trump says US in nuclear disarmament talks with Russia and China
- Oregon school shooter was former student; bystander killed gunman
- North Belfast mother says pipe bomb attack was 'mistaken identity'
- Jillaroos win World Cup opener 40-0, but sparse crowd raises concern for women's game
- Protecting jailed ex-DUP leader Donaldson from harm is a 'massive challenge', warns former prison governor
- Cormann warns copying populists like One Nation will leave Australians poorer
- Doctor who flagged Lucy Letby says he should have gone to police earlier
- Influencer behind Talarico hoax has history of Nazi, racist posts
- Thai police bust cross-border fiberoptic cable feeding Myanmar scam compound
- Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupt Russian digital services
- Jamaican filmmakers confront legacy of enslavement in new wave of screen stories
- Poland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine near border
- Hurricane Trudy lashes Mexico's Pacific coast as Typhoon Champi threatens Guam
- Flash floods destroy two villages in Nepal after landslide dams river
- British father fined €3,000 for causing son's death in Cyprus hotel window fall
- PM expected to unveil devolution plans as Burnham speaks in Scotland
- Hazlewood eyes reverse swing edge as Proteas loom large ahead of second Test
- Seven-year-old Giga Kick poised for Everest upset on wet track
- Family demands answers after two-hour ambulance delay in Nick Bamford death
- Researcher's Death at Russian Plague Lab Sparks International Concern
- Former police sergeant jailed for 12 years for raping two women
- Maduro pleads not guilty to new torture charges in New York court
- Reform councillor resigns and apologises after racist remarks caught on film
- China demands Israel reverse West Bank settlements in meeting with Herzog
- Zelenskyy thanks 'real leaders' in Europe as Starlink restriction strains US ties
- Trump calls Zelensky 'more difficult than Putin' as EU leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
- VW, Ford, Tesla batteries linked to deforestation of indigenous lands in Indonesia
- Trump Rules Out Nuclear Weapons and Ground Troops in Iran as Military Prepares Conventional Strike Plans
- Victorian doctors prepare for 12-hour strike
- Myanmar Establishes New Committee to Advance Normalization With ASEAN
- Three killed as floods hit Turkey
- Cyclone Wati Bearing Down on Aitutaki as Conditions Deteriorate
- Hanson joins Labor MPs at TikTok event on eve of social media bill introduction
- Jury inspects Sydney home where ex-cop Lamarre-Condon allegedly killed Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
- Police name teenager Jack Mellon in Glasgow murder investigation
- WA's worst serial sex predator Dennis McKenna due for release next month as court weighs high-risk order
- UK could re-enter EU within months under 'Switzerland plus' deal, senior MEP says
- UK law could deny Fayed accusers trafficking victim status, watchdog warns
- Repairing Brexit economic damage should be Burnham’s top priority, business chief says
- Four killed in Java national park as Indonesia battles worst fires in a decade
- Palestinian Man Mourns 39 Family Members Killed in Gaza Airstrike
- Tasmania treasurer defends scaled-back pokie reforms amid 'cowardly' criticism
- Tories propose five-year minimum wage freeze, citing youth unemployment crisis
- Rubio to visit Ambani's Jamnagar refinery as US seeks to ease diesel prices
- Rubio presses Lebanon to confiscate Hezbollah explosives in phone call with President Aoun
- US sanctions send Iran flight prices soaring and journey times tripling
- Ship attack reports near Strait of Hormuz hit record high as oil recovery slows
- They fled Russia, but the West sent them back: deportees describe fear and military call-up in Moscow
- UK to ban pornography depicting strangulation and incest from 6 November
- Saudi Arabia to Execute Man for Teenage Protest Attendance
- Met pilots street sex worker outreach team after Levy case failings
- Canberra defence contractor employee denied bail over child abuse material allegations
- Cancer treatment delays at Starship worsen as nurses call shortage the worst they have seen
- Coalition split over EU trade deal after Nationals claim Liberal opposition
- Historic rugby quadruple header underway at Accor Stadium
- Singapore container ship sunk in Strait of Hormuz, yet shippers keep transiting
- Two men die in light plane crash at Scone in NSW Upper Hunter
- Government moves to impose minimum 30% tax rate on discretionary trusts
- Former Yemen PM warns western security at stake in battle for Taiz
- Victorian opposition plan to sell state venture fund for healthcare draws criticism
- French police accused of war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests
- Carlton suspends defender over drink-driving charge
- One Nation NSW candidate pledges to repeal post-Bondi gun laws that ban his rifles
- Cloned number plates on UK roads reach record high, DVLA data shows
- Zelenskyy warns of US betrayal as Russian strikes hit Kyiv
- College football player Tyler Ulrich, 21, dies five days after traumatic injury in game
- Rugby union pay dispute: players told they are chasing money in the wrong places
- RBA governor's $1.22m pay revealed as bank disputes staff wages
- Ben Roberts-Smith launches personal brand to fund war-crimes defence
- Media owner Antony Catalano appears in court over assault charges, barrister cites 'unusual and delicate' situation
- Jamaica's slavery reparations petition to reach UK privy council in March 2027
- FBI arrests California agent over alleged spying on Taiwanese president's son
- Greens used secret dossier to shield Steele-John from allegations, report reveals
- Min Aung Hlaing Promises Navy Repatriations as Malaysia Backs Myanmar's ASEAN Return
- Illawarra shop owner refused bail over alleged child abuse files
- Russia returns to G20 finance talks in Bangkok as US and Europe split over Moscow
- Lake Mead barrel victim identified four years after remains found
- ICE investigation targets Ilhan Omar's citizenship after raid on Washington home
- Gen Z anger fuels second week of New Delhi protests over voter roll deletions
- Ukraine strikes Russian oil refinery as Zelensky declares truce over
- Cosmic Crusader the horse expected to win the Caulfield Cup
- Cosmic Crusader the pick in wide-open Caulfield Cup
- Walsh praises Tedesco's support and vows to seek specialist cure for mid-match vomiting
- No finish line: Australian runner Jack Hanley takes on the Backyard Ultra in Wollongong
- Fifty arrests in organised crime probe after fatal A66 crash
- Reform UK faces more vetting questions after ITV film shows councillor advising candidate to delete Tommy Robinson posts
- Police hunt armed man after gunfire and car fire in Dulwich Hill
- Drone strike on Odesa supermarket injures civilians, Ukraine says
- Two pipelines damaged in Syria in latest attacks on energy infrastructure
- Iraq parliament approves al-Zaidi's full cabinet, including US-sanctioned deputy premier
- Ukraine hands StarGate medical evacuation drone to combat brigade for front-line trials
- Order to slow Ukraine's Starshield service came from inside White House, sources say
- Brethren leaders admit meeting far-right figures and Trump at fiery election inquiry
- Cooloongup man to face court over alleged online sexual conversations with child
- WA's top cop defends police chase that left elderly man fighting for life
- Greens senator Jordon Steele-John to stay away from parliament during conduct investigation
- Carlton defender Lachie Cowan banned for two matches after AFL drug probe
- Guam declares Condition of Readiness 3 as Tropical Storm Champi churns closer
- Coroner rules Ben Austin's cricket net death a tragic misadventure
- Houthis strike Aden airport a day after palace attack as Yemen death toll rises
- Lockerbie bombing suspect’s alleged confession admissible at trial, US judge rules
Tech53
- Replit CEO says company has dropped Anthropic; insiders dispute claim
- iPhone Duo shipping dates slip into 2027 as scalpers seek $10,000
- Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray arrives with pre-release kernel and speech-to-text preview
- Google open-sources EnvHarness to let AI agents shape their own training environments
- Critical 'BlockStrap' flaw puts Magento servers at risk of remote code execution
- Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses bug recorded conversations without wearers' consent, Meta says fixed
- New Jersey deputy attorney general arrested for AI-generated child sexual abuse material
- Zero-click attacks via targeted ads delivered Candiru spyware to Al Jazeera, researchers find
- Apple Enters Smart Home Hardware Market with Home Collection and HomeView Display
- OpenAI AI Model Spends Testnet Funds Without Authorization, Raising Alarm on Autonomous Crypto Agents
- India reports rogue AI agents accessed personal data at local organizations
- Fake WhatsApp app with more than 500,000 downloads appears above real version on Google Play
- Elorian launches Glimpse, an AI model built to genuinely see images
- Meta to Scrape Business Websites for AI Training Starting October 30, Igniting Backlash
- Gun-rights activist unveils what he calls the first AI-designed 3D-printed firearm
- Chinese startup unveils prototype EUV light source in push to replace ASML tools
- Three Canadian Armed Forces Members Charged in Kidnapping of Crypto Exchange Owner
- MSCI rules could push Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy out of major indexes
- RTX Spark notebooks arrive: Surface Laptop Ultra and HP OmniBook Ultra deliver local AI power at a premium price
- Open-model race tightens as Beam debuts and Meta's Muse Spark Open claims US lead
- Court Records Show Telegram's User Data Handover to US Authorities
- Police Arrest Illinois School Worker After Using AI-Generated Images to Pose as Teenager
- Computer Scientist Calls AI Benchmarking a 'Dark Art,' Proposes Scientific Overhaul
- Employees using personal ChatGPT at work: IT admins get a step-by-step response guide
- White House AI audit framework criticized for limiting auditor independence
- Deutsche Bank wins German approval for crypto custody, targets Asia in 2027
- AI espionage a 'reality' companies must be wary of, US intelligence chief warns
- Israeli Spyware Firm Behind First Known 'Zero-Click' Ad Attacks, Targeting Al Jazeera Journalists
- Cloudflare open-sources Void to bring vibe-coded employee apps under IT control
- Cody Wilson claims first 'AI-made' gun with vibe-coded 3D-printed WASP
- Ripple Prime opens round-the-clock Wall Street trading via Hyperliquid-backed swaps
- Helidon 27 Released with Restructured Programming Models and New Modules
- AWS releases open-source Strands Decider 2B model and Strands Box agent sandbox
- Burger King Japan data breach exposes 11 million customer records
- Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo sells out instantly as pre-order delays slip into 2027
- Chainguard launches secure workspaces and in-loop checks for AI coding agents
- London robotaxi rollout faces mounting opposition as report urges tighter TfL powers
- Googlebook Review: Android on a Laptop Still Feels Like a Giant Phone
- Nine crypto firms form Quantum Alliance to brace bitcoin for quantum threat
- Scammer Loses Nearly $5 Million in Ledger Hardware Exploit
- Judge denies joint motion to void Gemini's $5 million CFTC settlement
- Linus Torvalds posts first AI-assisted Linux kernel patch, claims 23x performance boost in synthetic test
- October Windows update blocks Smart App Control and enforces NTLMv1 ban
- Cyberattack on BAE Systems halts US bankruptcy court system for a week
- Microsoft Commits Azure Maia AI Chips to Multi-Gigawatt Inference Deployments From 2027
- BeyondTrust warns of zero-day attacks on Remote Support appliances, patches critical flaw
- AFP warns AI chatbots no substitute for human support as study reveals children's reliance
- OpenAI agent ran out of funds and spent from a wallet it did not own
- Silicon Quantum Computing to build 'world-first' atomic-scale chip plant in Sydney
- FTC opens investigation into Anthropic and OpenAI over AI safety incidents
- KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8 release and final goodbye to X11
- French supermarket cyberattack exploited known vulnerabilities in refrigeration controllers, researchers had warned
- Prompt injection attempts found hidden in website HTTP headers
Business47
- Construction-hit Canberra businesses need stronger relief, nightlife review finds
- Apple tightens App Store rules against AI nudification apps and bait-and-switch scams
- 360 Capital acquires $31.2m Bathla debt from La Trobe Financial in private credit reshuffle
- Tesla driver asleep on FSD crashes into California Highway Patrol cars, two officers injured
- VIX spikes above 22 as traders bet on further turmoil; AI sell-off deepens
- Brent crude touches $110 as Iran, Houthi attacks and Ukraine strikes rattle markets
- Point Piper mansion Akuna listed with $55 million price guide as owner sells surplus harbour property
- Angel Station faces possible year-long closure over crumbling escalators
- Netflix names former Disney executive Peter Rice as chief content officer amid engagement slump
- Smaller regional towns post steepest rent rises in NSW and Victoria
- High court weighs injunction bid to block Guardian and ITN over allegations
- Tressfecta builds Plait Pilot tool to ease the physical toll of hair braiding
- Waymo gets approval to bring robotaxis to Toronto, its first Canadian city
- Judi Dench joins Archers cast in plea to keep BBC drama in Birmingham
- IMF tells UK to pursue pension and welfare cuts instead of bank tax in budget
- UK watchdog proposes strategic market status for Microsoft's business software
- MSCI freezes Turkey index changes, threatens emerging market exit over manipulation scandal
- Airbus chief warns UK could lose European space role over £2.4bn satellite contract
- Used electric vehicles defy depreciation fears as fuel prices surge
- Nike bets on India with new Bengaluru campus as China revenue slides
- Tesla reveals flying Roadster 2 as rival mocks showmanship of Texas stunt
- UK bank shares slide on reports of tax surcharge rise ahead of first budget
- China extends gold-buying streak to 23 months as it moves away from dollar assets
- Taiwan raises $4 billion for Texas industrial park to support US chipmaking supply chain
- Eutelsat shares surge 19% after Ukraine says SpaceX restricted Starshield access
- British food and drink exports to EU down by more than a third since Brexit, NFU analysis finds
- Norway's $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund could soon invest in major defence companies
- Employment Court rules Calendar Girls dancers were employees, not contractors
- No buyer yet for Spirit of Tasmania's old ferries as final voyage nears
- Carnival Cruises to halve Australian fleet, citing operating conditions
- Norway wealth fund urged to ease ethics rules and lift nuclear arms ban
- Ofgem proposes charge on energy suppliers who lure customers with cheaper deals
- Qantas admits bed bugs survived seat cover removal before Perth to Rome flight
- China Shock 2.0: Export surge defies US tariffs, economist warns
- IPO drought pushes private equity firms to load portfolio companies with new debt
- Hybe shares jump 10% on BTS tour earnings outlook
- 3M signals aggressive defence against Commonwealth's $2 billion PFAS lawsuit
- Forrestania Resources on track for December gold production restart at Edna May
- Aurum Resources reports further high-grade gold hits ahead of Boundiali resource update
- NRL wins first round in court battle with NZ Rugby over PNG Chiefs name
- Pilbara miner PLS commits $1.9b to Pilgangoora expansion, aiming to become world's largest hard-rock lithium mine
- Auckland biotech start-up Daisy Lab acquired by UK firm Mycofeast
- Catalano free to travel to Bali as lawyers seek to resolve domestic violence charges
- Tech debt insurance costs hit record highs as CoreWeave leads surge in AI financing fears
- Lindian on track for December rare earths production at Kangankunde
- Intero Biosystems wins Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
- MSCI adopts exclusion rules for non-operating companies, threatening removal of Strategy and Metaplanet from indexes
Australia24
- Man who threatened residents with shotgun still on the run after Dulwich Hill lockdown
- The Age's weekly photo galleries capture October moments from poultry exhibitor to stilt marathoner
- Police boost patrols after six women report e-bike rider sexually touching them on Sydney trails
- New book revisits classic Melbourne eateries, from kitsch decor to extinct chains
- Cindy the cockatoo: the bird that inspired Brisbane 2032’s Olympic emblem
- Brisbane City Council approves 51-storey hotel tower above Victory Hotel
- Brisbane runner reunited with strangers who saved her life after cardiac arrest
- Victoria's fire truck fleet aging as funding gap looms before 'horror' fire season
- One Nation pledges $2,000 baby subsidy in Victoria, says state abortion laws safe
- Elizabeth Struhs child safety case 'not prioritised' because officer was busy, inquest hears
- Widower denied bail despite execution threat in Bangladesh
- Surprise wording in HSC modern history exam prompts teacher disbelief
- TAB faces 'wipeout' of up to $5m at Everest Day, senior trader warns
- Jury set to deliberate in cold case murder trial of landlord Steven Johnson
- Kelvin Grove formal cut short after contraband found at City Hall
- From yum cha to ping-pong: Opening date set for $5 million venue at former King of Kings site
- Artist Harrie Fasher becomes fourth woman in 30 years to win Sculpture by the Sea
- Labor to back LNP's 'breach bail, go to jail' crackdown despite widespread criticism
- Dulwich Hill in lockdown as police hunt shotgun-armed suspect
- Family of man who died waiting for ambulance learned of death through media, minister apologises
- Police hunt man armed with shotgun after Dulwich Hill car fire
- Scotch College principal admits procedural failures over anti-abortion presentation to year 11 boys
- Raymond Denning: the cult criminal whose confession exposed Melbourne's deadly underworld
- Five-year-old boy found dead in Grafton home was duct-taped into sleeping bag, police say
Science10
- NASA Names Stephen Cash as Director of Marshall Space Flight Center
- Sickle cell gene therapies offer hope but access remains a major challenge
- Reflect Orbital buys two Skyroot launches; Japan's MMX Mars moons mission set for Monday
- Bushfire smoke now hits Queensland cities three times more often, QUT study finds
- Leap second to be retired on May 20, 2027 as BIPM votes to avoid 'negative leap second' risk
- Blue Origin Doubles Down on New Glenn with Major Florida Expansion
- Melbourne scientists develop RNA therapy to save children's sight from Usher syndrome
- 75,000-Year-Old Wound in Neanderthal Shoulder Blade Points to Lethal Spear Attack
- Same-day metagenomic test detects hidden infections in critically ill children at Great Ormond Street Hospital
- Rocket Lab pushes Neutron's first launch to 2027 after carbon composite manufacturing issue
AI research109
- Unified world action model jointly learns perception, prediction, and planning
- Grounding 3D texture generation in surface-aligned material observations improves fidelity
- View-decoupled geometry states improve predictive 3D world modeling
- KnowGPO aligns trajectories by knowledge for better credit assignment in search agents
- Restricting weight updates to non-principal subspace preserves old skills while learning new ones
- Stochastic attention routing enables efficient RL alignment for diffusion models
- Refined Questions and Teacher Guidance Improve Long-Horizon Multimodal Search
- Decoupling skills from expert policies improves multi-capability vision-language model training
- Imperfect competition can sustain decentralized markets for multi-step LLM tasks
- Specialized memory writer improves persistent state across multiple LLM frameworks
- Privileged motion and gravity cues improve feedforward 3D reconstruction without extra test-time cost.
- Alternating context edits and logit steering boosts frozen LLM accuracy
- Feature-trained image tokens improve generation quality at lower sampling cost
- KV-cache eviction method is provably near-optimal, not just heuristic
- Multimodal decision models output structured choices in a single pass
- KV cache substitution between frozen LLMs fails; augmentation succeeds
- LLM agents degrade reliably under controlled interaction perturbations
- Muon optimizer wins on data but lags on time for small models
- Correcting classifier-free guidance in early steps improves image editing fidelity
- Localized Context Distillation resolves the learning dilemma in interaction experience
- Small decision models can safely handle routine agent decisions with little loss of success
- History-aware tool retrieval cuts LLM agent token costs by 80 percent while boosting accuracy
- Token-level teacher selection improves on-policy distillation for LLMs
- Latent chain-of-thought often lacks genuine reasoning in logical tasks
- A few clean labels can fix sample-wise noise in reward model training
- Adversarial rubric repair improves self-training on open-ended expert tasks
- 8B model learns to construct and refine GPU optimization scripts, beating larger LLMs
- Selecting ViT tokens cuts labels needed for semantic segmentation
- New benchmark exposes indirect prompt injection risks in multi-step agent tasks
- Purifying alignment targets improves diffusion generation, especially for reconstructive encoders
- Differentiable soft pruning makes transformers elastic across computational budgets without retraining
- On-policy residual training helps diffusion language models decode faster
- Synthetic experience improves AI game control beyond supervised training
- First-price auctions can be near-efficient for prompt allocation in agentic markets
- Cortex folds context benefits into model weights without degrading other skills
- Outcome verification reveals failures in social agent plans that conversation ratings miss
- Two denoising experts make video diffusion distillation far more efficient
- Scaling executable training data for software engineering agents with progressive construction and elastic streaming
- StreamErase enables real-time streaming video object removal at 26 FPS
- Web agents can skip text generation and read action choices from hidden states
- Recovered design docs guide agents to rebuild original module structure, not test results.
- Asymmetric compute allocation improves looped Mixture-of-Experts models
- Native 4K image editing works better as an agent system than a single model
- Transcripts from saturated benchmarks still predict model capability
- A verifiable runtime for agents that extend themselves with safe, reversible tools.
- Residual corrections let low-rank subspace optimizers match full-space convergence rates
- Calibrated rewards curb answer degradation during verifiable instruction training
- Language-only hyperbolic contrastive learning improves 3D shape understanding over image-based triplets
- Signed LLM weights do not certify the quantized files users actually run
- Semantic reconstruction game makes jailbreak evaluation more reliable across judges
- Adaptive distillation triggers teacher takeover when student diverges
- Imagined goals from geometric horizon models boost behavior cloning generalization
- Open dataset and distillation-to-reinforcement pipeline sharpen GUI grounding in 8B model
- Backpropagating verifier rewards improves reasoning in continuous flow language models
- Allocating human feedback by social welfare improves pluralistic alignment
- WorldRoPE encodes patch tokens as 3D Gaussians to ground multi-view attention
- Agentic RL framework keeps asynchronous training stable with bounded staleness
- A modular abstention method separates accuracy training from abstention decisions
- Protected LLMs are far less vulnerable to multi-turn jailbreaks than benchmarks suggest
- Distribution-aware Gaussian labels enable training-free open-vocabulary 3D segmentation
- Training-free framework turns single photos into interactive, movable 3D scenes
- Observational discovery of sparse autoencoder features does not predict their causal effects
- Hierarchical skill-based framework achieves high precision in robotic surgery by separating semantic decisions from low-level control
- AI models can state physics laws but rarely infer them from video
- Row-aligned corpus links all 22 Indian languages via pivots
- One-step generative policy matches Boltzmann target for online MaxEnt RL
- Recursive synthetic data can cause screening to discard relevant variables before model fitting
- Predicting synthesis conditions enables resource-aware materials planning
- Top-k distillation's renormalized gradient ignores tail mass
- PathFM generates complete forecast trajectories without sacrificing marginal accuracy
- Reinforcement-trained steering agent corrects goal drift in LLM agents and multi-agent systems
- New RL method trains AI agents to handle multiple sessions effectively
- AI models excel at cyclone track prediction but struggle with intensity and uncertainty
- For internal-state sharing between language models, augment the cache and replace the activations
- Dual-frame interleaving lets holistic 3D priors produce part-decomposed assets
- Experience replay boosts RL training efficiency for large language models by reusing trajectories
- Anchor-based 3D Gaussians cut primitives tenfold without losing quality
- Tool graph memory rarely improves multi-turn agents by itself
- MetaExp trains a transferable experience-learning capability in language model agents
- Hybrid drafters split depth and breadth to cut mobile-cloud GPU costs
- Gradient norm ranks attention heads for efficient sparse and continual RL fine-tuning
- Condition-aware distillation reduces invalid reasoning in smaller language models
- Execution traces enable precise localized repair of agent memory architectures
- Stronger LLM judges accept more tampered outputs, not fewer
- Steering input noise aligns few-step generators without retraining them
- Video AI models trust misleading on-screen claims over what the footage shows
- Turning failed reasoning attempts into training signal improves GRPO on hard problems
- Text proxies can replace paired multimodal data for cross-modal reasoning
- Unified platform enables GUI agent training across mobile and computer environments
- Autoregressive model generates road and building vectors in one pipeline
- Frontier models struggle when correct actions must arrive on time
- Different inference prompts recover rare classes suppressed during VLM finetuning
- Corpus-guided sampling makes generative outputs more diverse and representative
- Evidence graphs produce synthetic research tasks with controllable difficulty
- Learned memory assembly helps LLM agents succeed with fewer context tokens
- Compositional structure appears when wholes reveal patterns their parts cannot
- Co-evolved agents lose gains when their skill banks change
- Translating answer-guided reasoning cuts the cost of model distillation
- Live clocks reverse which language-model agents perform best in games
- Minutes of supervised play bootstrap hours of autonomous robot practice
- LLM agents learn to organize document collections before questions arrive
- Humanoid repositions bulky objects using its arms and torso
- Compact robot policy uses lightweight memory to stabilize action generation
- A dialogue model coordinates speech, gestures and expressions continuously
- Equal reward weighting can steer language models toward easier shortcuts
- High-fidelity latent priors improve efficient high-resolution image generation
- Joint calibration makes 2-bit latent attention caches more accurate and faster
- Long-context midtraining improves coding agents after identical supervised tuning
- Multiple visual codes let one diffusion model understand and generate images