Tuesday 20 October 2026
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World158
- France Deploys Troops, Secures Gulf Diesel as Fuel Protests Fuel Far-Right Surge
- Rubio to tour Reliance's Jamnagar refinery, presses India on refining more Venezuelan crude
- Trump pledges $400m to Republican midterm push, says $300m already spent
- Zelensky meets Trump envoy in Oslo as U.S.-Ukraine ties fray
- Teacher struck off over 'low-cut crop top' comment to pupil
- ‘Aberfan will always be in our hearts’: King leads tributes on 60th anniversary of disaster
- Second Labour MP suspended over Covid Bounce Back Loan repayments
- Trump tells Zelenskyy to 'make a deal' with Russia, says US has got 'nothing back' from Ukraine
- Italy approves 500-troop deployment, new security crackdown after Milan violence
- Bavuma grinds Australia into the dirt as South Africa declare on 9/425
- Lula challenges Bolsonaro to release personal records as corruption dominates Brazil election runoff
- Gardner scores 84 as Australia retain Rose Bowl against New Zealand
- Bavuma's batting masterclass takes control from Australia
- Zelensky says US early warning restored after Rubio call as Russian strikes kill nine
- Bonta calls federal lawsuit 'absurd' as California fights order to set aside 20,000 ballots
- France to deploy troops after violent riots, promises massive security for new protests
- Zelensky says US intelligence sharing on Russian strikes has resumed after Oslo talks
- US offers Putin direct talks with Trump and Zelenskyy in push for Ukraine ceasefire
- Reform UK official doubted legality of £72m donations, undercover footage shows
- Judge dismisses sister’s sexual abuse lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
- Forgot to pay: Carroll admits petrol drive-off as election battle lines drawn
- Friend of Russell Brand accuser tells court she said alleged rape 'really, really hurt'
- Troubles legacy bill passes Commons by 330 votes to 178
- US and Ukraine hold crisis talks, Australian outlets report
- Cornell student says president doubted her gang-rape allegation ahead of no-confidence vote
- Trump rallies full house in Kansas as tight Senate race pushes state toward 'purple'
- NATO Bolsters Black Sea Presence After Wave of Deadly Attacks on Merchant Vessels
- Turkey submits Mecca defence pact to parliament for ratification
- Aberfan disaster: Man who made first emergency call recalls 'saddest day' 60 years on
- Calls to pause GCSE Maths changes in Northern Ireland as staggered exams to end
- Scottish school absence spikes after hoax bomb threats as experts warn of copycats
- UK government expected to approve Jackdaw gas field as Rosebank decision deferred
- Prince Harry says he 'wants it to work out' with family as King Charles lauds William at state banquet
- Ukraine intelligence says it killed 108 Russian soldiers in Sumy
- Ukraine reports nearly 46,000 foreign recruits in Russian army since 2022
- Father of triple murder accused died of 44 stab wounds, court hears
- Nigeria arrests over 'Tinubu Must Go' T-shirts stoke fears of dissent crackdown
- Russian occupation official charged with war crimes over church persecution in Melitopol
- France to deploy military forces for weekend protests after cost-of-living unrest
- EU's Kallas Accuses US of Pushing Ukraine to Surrender on Putin's Terms
- Jane Dodds steps down as Welsh Liberal Democrat leader
- Oil tops $110 as IRGC mines set tankers ablaze in Strait of Hormuz
- Two men re-arrested on suspicion of assisting Iranian intelligence in RAF Fairford probe
- Eastern Libya parliament approves 2019 maritime deal with Turkiye, reversing six-year rejection
- UN warns of catastrophe as Houthi siege on Yemen's Taiz tightens, Shabwa death toll reaches 73
- Swimmer, 65, killed in rare shark attack off South Africa's east coast
- Nearly half of voters cast Republicans as party of Big Tech tax breaks as data center backlash reaches Senate races
- Flávio Bolsonaro's 'corrupto' palm stunt backfires into viral meme before Brazil runoff
- Trump and Vance seize on French unrest as midterm campaign focus
- Gellert Global Group sues Trump over 50% Canadian tariffs in fourth major trade challenge
- WA merger panel's UWA ties draw accusations of bias
- Trump administration says it has revoked more than 300,000 US visas
- Alberta separatist movement dealt huge blow as voters reject independence referendum
- Alberta votes overwhelmingly to stay in Canada, separatist referendum rejected
- Trump and Vance to announce $25 million federal fraud whistleblower program
- Zelenskyy meets Trump envoys as US-Ukraine relations hit new low over missile delays
- France marks sixth anniversary of teacher Samuel Paty's murder
- Strike destroys data center in occupied Donetsk
- Three additional arrests in Waterford arson attack that killed four family members
- Rubio acknowledges Patriot missile delay to Ukraine but denies deliberate withholding
- Senior judge to review trial of the facts framework in Northern Ireland
- EU warns Russia escalating Black Sea drone attacks to cut off Ukrainian food exports
- Social Security recipients to get 3.6% raise, outpacing job stayers' wage growth
- EU Arctic strategy puts security first, unveils maritime hub and Greenland cable link
- Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro tied at 50 percent ahead of Brazil runoff
- Hackers release 281 gigabytes of AfD emails as Germany announces €225 billion in investment pledges
- California state workers to strike Wednesday, potentially disrupting DMV and other services
- Poland demands explanation from Ukraine over drone that exploded in Lithuania
- Zelensky declares readiness for negotiations as Witkoff carries peace proposals to St Petersburg
- Dundee siblings at centre of viral knife-video case to appeal sentences
- Marseille braces for further unrest after 'apocalyptic' weekend of looting
- Europe's Gen Z takes to the streets as economies fail to deliver jobs, schools fail to deliver education
- Student jailed for life for murdering housemate in masked ambush
- Charlotte police officers resign over racist texts, prompting FBI probe and review of arrests
- Tommy Robinson says he hired detectives to track Daily Mail reporters
- Qatar ramps up LNG exports as prices surge and winter inventories dwindle
- German court rules Google must get consent for aerial property images
- Yemen marks ten years of war as government launches Operation Dawn
- Trump-Ukraine rift deepens as US holds back intelligence and Patriot interceptor transfers
- Youth-led ‘horizontal revolt’ shakes Albania as protests enter second week
- Killer jailed for attacking ex-partner while on prison home leave
- Russian satellite shadows US-registered radar satellite in unusually close pass
- France concedes failures, deploys troops to quell worst riots in years
- Yemen displacement crisis deepens as 250,000 flee renewed fighting: UN
- Airlines shun reopened Riyadh airport after last week's attacks
- Israeli attacks kill at least four Palestinians in Gaza
- Zelensky trust rating rises 14 points after Trump pressure campaign, poll finds
- Political risk and funding doubts cloud Trump's $8 billion farm aid
- Column 8: Readers share memories of Edward Loong, Paul Hogan and moth songs
- Armed police arrest man, 61, on murder charge after woman dies in Bridgend car crash
- Woman describes 'frenzied' and 'violent' alleged assault by Russell Brand at radio studio
- Aboriginal mother shackled to bed after caesarean, hospital staff raise alarm
- Arizona governor race puts two Latter-day Saints at the centre of a faith divided
- US reassessing Middle East role, envoy says, as Iran war negotiations continue
- Federal crackdown on alleged noncitizen voting escalates with California arrests
- Israel's first-time voters lean far right as Ben Gvir courts Gen Z ahead of tight election
- Covid inquiry finds care homes were 'an afterthought' as failures led to 43,000 deaths
- UK Typhoon deployment to defend Saudi Arabia approved as Houthi attacks intensify
- U.S. budget deficit hits $2 trillion as debt service costs soar
- British Airways flight intercepted by German Air Force after radio loss
- Three children taken to hospital after school bus and railway bridge incident in Newport
- Polish Military Reservist Detained on Suspicion of Espionage
- Russian drone strikes kill 14 across Ukraine, including two children in park
- Man to stand trial for 1994 murder of Shona Stevens
- Ukraine hails drone rescue of wounded soldier as start of new system for battlefield evacuation
- Russian strikes cause power outages in 12 Ukrainian regions as winter approaches
- Three children injured after school bus roof ripped off in Newport bridge crash
- Boy charged after shots fired at Perth home
- Myanmar military-backed administration releases new photos of Aung San Suu Kyi
- Esther Rantzen laid to rest as final note urges assisted dying reform
- Court Hears Cumulative Impacts of Data Centre Gas Plants Overlooked at Moss Vale
- Iran appoints sanctioned missile official as defence minister
- Russian drone strike kills at least one, injures six during Kyiv rush hour
- Zelensky and Rubio discuss aid tensions as Kyiv accuses Washington of using leverage
- Serbian prosecutor investigating Trump tower project targeted with spyware
- New Bradford railway station set to transform Northern England travel connections
- Storm Adam: families rescued from rooftops as Spanish emergency services deploy helicopter armada
- Albertans overwhelmingly vote to stay in Canada as 76 per cent reject separation path
- UEFA demands FIFA release key documents on World Cup sell-off plan
- Coroner rules gambling addiction 'direct and paramount cause' of young man's suicide, rejects Sportsbet defence
- BBC Fact-Check Finds Mixed Picture as Trump Touts US Economy Ahead of Midterms
- Perth man jailed 4½ years over Midland tobacco shop ram raid and arson
- Democrats on track to win US House majority, analysts say
- Myanmar Junta Shows Detained Suu Kyi Receiving King Charles's Gifts, Critics Allege Legitimacy Stunt
- Russia 'ready in principle' to resume Ukraine peace talks after Witkoff-Putin meeting
- Vance refuses to endorse Netanyahu for re-election, diverging from Trump
- Nawaqanitawase's NRL reign proves Wallabies still produce world-class talent, says O'Connor
- China's export boom is becoming its 'Achilles heel', business columnist warns
- NT child protection review finds extensive failings in five-year-old child's case
- Biologist David Sabatini wins $6m defamation suit against accuser
- UK to strip hospital-detained criminals of benefits as regulations laid
- Healey rules out Capital Gains Tax rise, to hit banks with higher levy in Budget
- Threats against New Zealand MPs rise 'astronomically', Speaker warns
- Police watchdog finds investigation of woman's death was inadequate
- Trump confirms Musk's SpaceX giveaway to children will run through Trump Accounts
- Republican candidates distance themselves from Trump as ad spending on president plummets to 2.4%
- El Niño closes Iguazu Falls, starves cattle and threatens reefs as record event persists
- Spelling mistakes and sincerity: How a rogue email won AFL prospect a scholarship
- Shooting at Kyiv military draft office wounds six
- Driver pleads not guilty to culpable driving charges over fatal Canberra cycling crash
- Colombia illegal gold mine collapse death toll rises to 14; search ends
- Morocco appoints first female prime minister as conservative and feminist tensions surface
- Italy to send 500 troops to Milan after weekend of looting and clashes
- Trump says US hits Iran hard economically and militarily; China condemns attacks
- Soaring gas prices test Republican promises as voters demand action
- Trainer Chris Waller opens up on Caulfield Cup death of stable star Ohope Wins
- Mahmoud Khalil asks Supreme Court to hear his deportation case
- Social media vitriol intensifies as Helen Haines attack highlights safety concerns
- EU looks to strengthen hand in trade talks with China as analysts debate its resolve
- ACT Legislative Assembly contracts armed guards as threats against politicians escalate
- Scalise Defies Gloom as GOP Faces House Wipeout Fears
- Qatar Offers to Build Two Power Plants in Lebanon, Supply LNG for 20 Years via Syria
- Stormont inquiry urges ban on websites advertising prostitution
- Elina Svitolina announces separation from Gael Monfils, cites toll of Ukraine war
- Hegseth met Netanyahu at air base hosting US warplanes, sources say, as Trump endorses Israeli PM
- Woman tells court Russell Brand dragged her into bar toilet and raped her
- Zelensky accuses Hegseth, US military of blocking Patriot missiles as ties fray
- Collingwood AFLW captain Ruby Schleicher leaves club to return to Western Australia
Business54
- RBA deputy warns inflation outlook 'materially worse' as November rate hike odds climb
- Anthropic faces cloud capacity crunch ahead of November IPO
- Netflix shares drop on weak outlook despite Q3 earnings beat
- Fireworks AI seeks new funding at up to $40 billion valuation
- Musk steps aside from Tesla-SpaceX merger talks as SpaceX posts first profit on AI surge
- Dairy prices rise for second consecutive Global Dairy Trade auction
- SpaceX AI revenue surpasses Starlink as earnings beat estimates, capex set to double
- FRC launches preliminary enquiries into Manchester City accounting, chair calls for stronger regulatory powers
- Xbox CEO reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs
- United Airlines CEO faces backlash after calling for national wealth tax
- UnitedHealthcare and Humana to end Medicare Advantage plans for nearly one million seniors
- Pending home sales hit all-time low, housing starts miss estimates as Fed weighs rate hikes
- OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, folds drug-development AI agents into Rosalind suite
- Boeing wins FAA approval for 737 Max 10, completing Max family certification
- ASIC investigates MGF Capital's oversight of authorised representatives
- Tasmanian government loaned $20m to smelter despite high risk, documents reveal
- Eric Schmidt holds nearly 1% of Anthropic ahead of IPO, report says
- Secret culture review reveals 'diabolical' workplace at Seven West Media
- Homebuilder sentiment hits 14-year low as high rates and capital demand squeeze housing
- Apple Corps to open vast Beatles museum in Liverpool in 2028
- Canadian man sentenced to 50 years for ISIS-inspired attack on US prison officers
- Ryanair boss warns of record European fare rises as fuel hedges expire
- Unite attacks NatWest plan to cut remote working rights for 30,000 staff
- Germany secures €225 billion in investment pledges at Berlin summit
- Salesforce to Acquire Braze in $5.66 Billion Deal
- Scottish government vows to fight 'wholly unacceptable' BBC Scotland channel closure
- Salesforce agrees to acquire Braze in $5.66 billion deal
- SpaceX poised to report quarterly results with Starlink, AI revenue in focus
- Former OpenAI research chief raises $230 million for AI manufacturing startup Arda
- TikTok employees warned executives about child safety risks, court records show
- French debt costs surge as political and fiscal crises deepen
- UK watchdog proposes forcing Apple to open iPhone contactless payments to rivals
- Reliable Robotics lands $115M, tops $1B valuation as autonomous flight certification advances
- BBC to close BBC Three, BBC Scotland linear channels in cost-cutting drive
- Chinese tech giants place $35bn in orders for Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs, far exceeding supply
- Qualcomm announces global 'performance-focused' job cuts
- Oil hits $111, France curfews spread, Saudi cancels summit as global sell-off deepens
- Flutter cuts 1,400 jobs, blames tax rises as gambling sector awaits new budget
- Elice rebounds 30% after 32% debut plunge as investors scrutinize AI data center debt
- Apple adds US titanium supplier for iPhone Duo as foldable faces supply crunch
- Walmart and Sam's Club launch joint membership at $120 a year
- Bitcoin slips as equity weakness threatens demand despite record ETF inflows
- JPMorgan projects Bitcoin returns will beat stocks and gold over the next decade
- Otter.AI raises $320 million from General Catalyst for meeting AI expansion
- Thames Water creditor group picks former Labour minister John Hutton as chair designate
- Bitcoin ETFs pull in $526M as BlackRock IBIT accounts for entire net inflow
- Mukesh Ambani launches India's biggest-ever IPO with Jio Platforms
- Revolut outage leaves users unable to make payments, fintech says money safe
- Unemployment Falls to 4.7%, but UK Job Vacancies Hit Five-Year Low Ahead of Budget
- Big Oil returns to Iraq as US-Iran war rages, drawn by better contract terms
- UK unemployment falls unexpectedly to 4.7% ahead of budget
- Nasdaq rallies as investors rotate back into AI chip stocks ahead of Meta earnings
- Anthropic IPO doubts grow as AI market chill spreads
- Waymo plans to grow fleet from 4,000 to 20,000 cars after $5bn debt raise
Tech52
- Google brings Personal Intelligence to Gemini in your car
- BNB Token Burn Analysis: Quantity Up 1.9%, Dollar Value Jumps 28.5%
- Chinese tech giants order $35 billion in Nvidia chips
- eMudhra used 4 as a private key: Eight certificate keys cracked in under a second
- Zeabur to shut down after second security breach leaks millions of user records
- Amazon Phasing Out Fire HD Tablets, Discounts Model to $72.99
- Wallets Tied to Drift Exploit Move $61 Million to Tornado Cash, Still Hold $198 Million in Ethereum
- ChatGPT introduces locked chats for sensitive conversations
- Meta's AI companion Muse hits 10 million US downloads in 40 days
- iOS 27.2 arrives next week with new features across six iPhone apps
- Electric Plant raises $11.2m to build AI that decodes plants' electrical signals
- Google and Amazon challenge Nvidia's AI dominance with dedicated PyTorch tools
- OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol scores 86.6% in translating COBOL
- Curl maintainers overwhelmed by vulnerability flood, shift low-severity bugs to public disclosure
- Tuesday Labs opens reservations for $20,000 Voxel home robot
- Chrome adds suspicious site warnings to protect users from phishing and scams
- AMD Brings FSR 4.1 Upscaling to Xbox Consoles and Older GPUs
- Google datacentre outage draws warning that cloud reliance is a 'concentrated risk'
- Ransomware groups spent months exploiting Palo Alto firewall bug, Unit 42 warns
- Datadog bets AI agents can write the tests that AI-written code needs
- Stablecoin transfers quadruple to $891B as US banks expand adoption: report
- Court records show federal agents gave conflicting reasons before activist's phone was wiped at Atlanta airport
- NGRAVE users lose $2.65 million in phishing attack exploiting app notifications
- Mastercard opens early access to AI agent payment system after live demo
- DeepSeek open-sources production inference engine DeepInfer, with Huawei Ascend support from day one
- ICO reprimands ONL and Data Cymru over weak password that left children's data exposed
- Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs join objections to OKX-ICE tokenised stock trading
- Meta's Muse AI agent found to expose private data through predictable share links
- Leaked documents detail US Army plan for self-replicating AI agents to destroy targets in enemy networks
- Anthropic in talks with neocloud Nscale for second $45bn data center deal
- Nigerian National Sentenced to 8 Years for Spearphishing Attacks on US Tax Preparers
- Beijing rebukes US ban on DeepSeek as 'overstretching' of national security
- Name and date set for Switzerland's first Bitcoin ETF: BIT Asset Management confirms BBIT launch in November
- Goodfire researcher says AI models may be easier to control
- UK finance watchdog calls for firms to report AI failures and near-misses
- New ACTU president warns AI is automating entire jobs, pledges worker protections
- US restarts three nuclear reactors to power AI data centers
- Google Home speakers hit by data download glitch, fix underway
- Crypto exchange Bitget targets Thai market with acquisition weeks after $388M hack
- Bitcoin dips to $81,400 as Asian chip stocks slide, options traders hedge downside
- French Parliament Votes to End Stablecoin Tax Deferral
- Kazakhstan court prohibits six crypto platforms including Coinbase and BingX
- Ahold Delhaize files Dutch police report, says no evidence yet of data theft in cyberattack
- OVHcloud CLI backdoored on GitHub in attack targeting developer secrets
- Google Cloud outage resolved after power failure knocks UK banks and services offline
- Draft AI safety bill from Anthropic sparks backlash
- Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon agents defeat Minecraft's Ender Dragon in 27-hour autonomous run
- BlackRock files for third Bitcoin ETF with downside protection
- Agentic commerce: the AI assistant that shops for you while you sleep
- Nscale and Anthropic Reportedly in Talks for Second $45 Billion Compute Deal
- Fed up of swiping: singles trade dating apps for in-person events
- Judge Orders Ex-OpenAI Engineer to Stay in Jail as Saudi-Backed Bond Questioned, New Evidence Surfaces
Science41
- SpaceX shifts to AI compute business, aims to catch Starship next month
- Phoenix Tailings develops cleaner process for rare earth metals extraction
- AI-driven robotic therapy aims to extend stroke rehab amid therapist shortage
- RSPCA facing capacity crisis as unwanted and homeless cats hit all-time high
- Lost Schrödinger manuscript challenges view of quantum pioneer
- Judge limits Oregon wild horse roundup, citing genetic diversity concerns
- JAXA launches Martian Moons eXploration mission to retrieve first samples from Mars system
- Christina Applegate says she was misdiagnosed with MS, symptoms remain
- Quantinuum reports quantum error correction scaling beyond breakeven
- Bronx residents may get automatic reprieve from new Medicaid work requirements
- Nigeria confirms first Ebola case in current outbreak as virus spreads beyond DRC
- CDC reports third US measles death in largest outbreak in decades
- Baby died from meningitis after staff attributed symptoms to Covid, inquest finds
- NASA advances development of fission-powered SR-1 Freedom spacecraft for Mars mission
- REDs In Male Athletes: 'Suffering In Silence' As Stigma Hides Widespread Condition
- Heavy rain triggers flooding in Marseille region, seven departments on orange alert
- Families urge ban on Oxevision cameras in England's mental health wards
- Magnetar birth from neutron star mergers seen in supercomputer simulations
- Webb telescope captures one of the most distant supernovas ever observed
- Nottingham NHS trust declares critical incident amid record A&E attendances
- James Webb Space Telescope unveils over 130 hidden newborn stars in stellar nursery NGC 7129
- HPE's Spaceborne Computer 4 to Run AI on the Moon Aboard Astrolab Rover
- NASA solves mystery of asteroid Bennu's rapid heat loss: boulders are riddled with cracks
- Ultrasound brain stimulation eases schizophrenia delusions, small trial finds
- Scientists identify how statins trigger muscle pain, paving way for safer cholesterol drugs
- Aging brain may trade memory for wisdom, scientists propose
- Blocking immune cells preserves brain tissue in Alzheimer’s mouse model, study finds
- Overlooked neutrino particle may solve mystery of why matter dominates the universe
- Novo's CagriSema delivers 25% weight loss in women, raising hopes for menopause market
- JWST confirms water ice clouds on coldest known brown dwarf
- Scientists uncover how Candida auris resists antifungal drugs
- Hundreds, mostly children under four, fall ill from contaminated water near Pretoria
- Storm Austen: First Named Storm of Season Brings Strong Wind Warning for Wales and South West England
- First Neanderthal remains found in Navarre fill gap in western Pyrenees
- Isle of Man assisted dying law receives Royal Assent
- Peregrine’s legacy: digitising the notebooks of Australia’s original birder
- Japan launches mission to retrieve samples from Mars moon Phobos
- NHS trust prosecuted over deaths of two children from sepsis at Essex hospital
- Pennsylvania health alert warns of congenital measles resurgence tied to falling vaccination rates
- Old blood cells transformed into brain stem cells that grow younger with age
- Welsh rehab referrals for ketamine surge from two to 112 as young users seek help
Australia11
- Western Sydney Airport's Terminal Rooted in a Walk Among Gum Trees
- Half of Queensland e-bikes and e-scooters illegal, UQ study finds
- Retired judge condemns NSW plan to legislate for Hunter Valley coalmine after High Court defeat
- NSW Liberal elder Damien Tudehope faces preselection challenge as factional tensions simmer
- Stanwell chief executive Michael O'Rourke removed in quietly announced board decision
- Victorian government social media rules outdated, auditor-general finds
- Sam Walker puts contract talks on hold ahead of Kangaroos debut
- NSW Liberal MP Ray Williams to retire at 2027 election after triggering ICAC inquiry
- Uber driver ordered to pay $20,000 for discriminatory tirade against passenger
- Chermside park body identified as homeless man Andy Parker; police probe link to dogs
- Ex-NGV IT chief accused of $8m theft appears in court
AI research110
- Sparse probes improve credit assignment for language model reasoning
- Dense perceptual training improves reasoning in large audio-language models
- LookAhead Defense uses the model's own safe behavior to block dormant poisoning.
- Predicted GUI screens add little beyond direct action ranking
- Black-box RL method finds large performance gaps in LLM network control
- Multi-agent LLM safety requires separate evaluations of communication, authorization, and execution
- Adaptive replay preserves reasoning diversity in RL fine-tuning
- Modeling multi-agent LLM systems as dynamic systems for root-cause analysis
- Learned attention adaptation improves language-guided video object segmentation
- Only 5.3% of LLM call sites in agentic systems enforce all expected constraints
- Real-valued function classes achieve sharp uniform convergence at optimal scale
- Koi learns from deployments to plan heterogeneous LLM inference fleets
- LLM optimizers often stall within narrow families of design principles
- 3D diffusion model generates body CT masks with controllable anatomy, tumors, demographics
- Sparse RL-Guided Token Choices Recover Most Math Reasoning Gains
- Compact reusable memory improves question answering over hour-long videos
- Documents with long-range dependencies improve language models’ context training
- Offline experience can reveal where agents have greater future control
- Shared language-model layers make multi-token prediction cheaper and more direct
- Fine-grained flow controls block browser-agent attacks without restoring origin walls
- Selective high-precision layers close the accuracy gap in four-bit training
- Many learned transcoder features closely reproduce individual transformer neurons
- Accessibility profiles reveal hidden tradeoffs in LLM reliability
- Over-defense in coding agents starts at outcome-settled forks
- Tensorizing Muon with t-SVD lowers LLM pretraining perplexity
- Some LLM graders collapse jailbreak compliance into evasion, skewing attack success rates
- Direct distribution rewards preserve diversity during diffusion model fine-tuning
- Co-evolving code attackers and defenders improves executable vulnerability detection
- Careful system design makes asynchronous coding-agent training substantially stronger
- Transformers learn to detect invalid planning steps and abort to retry
- Vision and language representations may never fully align regardless of model scale
- New dataset aligns Arabic LLMs with country-specific cultural norms
- Gold-conditioned teacher softens targets for language model fine-tuning
- Probabilistic AI forecasts retain skill for record-breaking weather extremes
- Noise-rejuvenated SMC enables test-time scaling for flow matching image generation
- Patch-token decoding does not reliably explain vision transformer decisions
- Per-layer KV-cache budgets learned via multi-objective search improve LLM inference efficiency
- Geometry-aware test-time scaling improves camera control in video diffusion without retraining
- BEV maps enable human-friendly control for embodied navigation video generation
- New preference optimization curbs LLMs' wasteful thought switching, cuts tokens by 63%
- Planning Along Latent Manifolds Avoids False Shortcuts to Distant Goals
- Checklist rubric content dominates LLM judge strictness, not the model
- Benign fine-tuning can teach aligned models to answer harmful requests
- Vision-language alignment fails to improve text-only spatial reasoning
- Multi-hop retrieval from a shared KV cache gives hybrid models strictly deeper composition power
- Safety benchmark scores reflect training policy more than model capability
- Agent memory narrows LLM response diversity, limiting user access to information
- Distillation overshoot lets smaller agents surpass teachers, and a new method preserves those gains.
- Jointly co-compiling draft and target models boosts speculative decoding speed
- Upcycling pretrained LLMs with layer-wise loops breaks the two-loop saturation limit
- Speculative decoding throughput gains are conditional on workload and serving conditions
- State media articles now dominate English web crawl content
- Fixed-size basis tokens make high-resolution 3D reconstruction faster and sharper
- BiDex-100 tests robot policies across 106 coordinated two-handed tasks
- Adaptive rubrics improve reinforcement learning for open-ended text generation
- Evidence annotations improve step-level credit for deep search agents
- Robust prediction principle yields better latent spaces for diffusion models
- Video sampling needs both model likelihood and external physics guidance
- Combining compression and adaptive inference for diffusion transformers without quality loss
- KV-Surgeon optimizes LLM cache compaction by jointly selecting and compensating for deletions
- Utility metric reveals that accuracy doesn't guarantee responsible AI decisions
- Global coordination of proof agents beats local repair in formal theorem proving
- Interventional step credit prunes redundant chain-of-thought while preserving accuracy
- World coordinates replace learned features for game model control
- An agentic framework that diagnoses and verifiably repairs foundation model failures
- Security skills guide coding agents to only 11% fully correct vulnerability detection
- Predicting velocity fields helps video models generate more realistic fluids
- Revising skipped diffusion steps with later feedback improves caching efficiency and quality.
- Southeast Asian language models still rely heavily on English representations
- CUA-Lite standardises computer use agent development across environments and models
- Visual skill representations reduce exposure-driven action bias in language model agents
- Financial multi-hop benchmark exposes sharp agent performance drop beyond four hops
- Large-scale dataset and world-model RL improve embodied navigation in open worlds
- Benchmark reveals long-context models falter on state tracking and pattern learning
- Self-evolving agents trade plasticity for stability in continual learning streams.
- Biased training targets help diffusion models learn stronger denoisers
- Language model RL failures can guide targeted pretraining repairs
- Spherical geometry simplifies adaptive-loop reasoning and improves halting efficiency
- Varying sampled video frames strengthens reinforcement learning for temporal reasoning
- Synthetic translated data improves language models across twelve Indian languages
- Teacher training determines whether on-policy distillation preserves prior language skills
- Small frozen-model corrector curbs drift in long autoregressive video generation
- Coding agents falter when inheriting plausible but incomplete work
- Mined tool-call constraints help agents avoid errors and finish tasks
- Compressed latent packets let different language models reuse context efficiently
- Targeted memory updates improve stable linear attention over long contexts
- Synthetic computer worlds improve agents on unseen computer-use tasks
- Simulation priors speed adaptation of model-based autonomous racing controllers
- New benchmark quantifies physical plausibility in AI-generated videos
- Parallel language models match autoregressive quality while decoding several tokens per pass
- Sycophancy predates post-training but its specifics form during fine-tuning
- Value Disaggregation trains policies without inference-time goal conditioning
- Jailbreak success rates flip with evaluator and sampling choices
- Even top forecasters fail when future events set covariates to unseen values
- AfriGuard safety dataset for 10 African languages shows guardrails lag general LLMs
- Learned sparse expansions match dense ReLU layers across 121 tasks
- Benchmark tests AI agents' ability to jointly improve training data, trainer, and inference harness
- Strong text-to-image generation is possible without any language pretraining
- Frontier text-to-image models score as low as 23.9 on hardest benchmark
- Benchmark reveals AI agents struggle with visual-reference web development
- Mid-training stage internalizes safety without sacrificing general capability
- Balancing hidden quality dimensions reduces reward hacking in rubric-trained models
- Step ordering is the hardest planning skill for AI agents, benchmark shows
- Coding agents fully deliver enterprise PRD requirements only 14 percent of the time
- New benchmark shows LLM routers ignore latency when feedback is incomplete
- Visual agents improve when tool evidence persists across reasoning steps
- Frequency-aware forecasting cuts diffusion transformer evaluations while preserving fidelity
- RL Training Can Amplify Compliance That Disappears Without Oversight
- Adaptive training harness keeps rubric rewards useful as policies improve
- One video model jointly tracks 3D hands and camera motion