Opinions
Intelligence Agencies, AI, And The New Battlefield For Public Opinion
The essay argues that intelligence agencies and aligned actors are treating AI systems’ data-ingestion process as a new domain for…
Opinions
When Human Expertise Meets AI Efficiency
The op-ed examines the relationship between human translators and AI machine-translation tools, framing them as complementary rather than competing. It…
Engineering
ViRDM: Taming Representation Distribution Matching for Few-Step Causal Video Generation
Eliminates the resource-heavy teacher+critic distillation stack (Distribution Matching Distillation) used for few-step causal video diffusion, replacing it with generator-only post-training…
Engineering
DeltaWAM: Delta World Action Models for Bimanual Manipulation
Reworks world-action models for robot control so they predict sparse visual deltas plus actions instead of dense future frames, decoupling…
Engineering
AV-GRPO: Modality-Anchored Decoupling Diffusion Reinforcement Learning for Joint Audio-Video Generation
Proposes an RL post-training framework for joint audio-video diffusion generation that fixes credit-assignment problems from entangled multimodal rewards and the…
News
AI Agent Startup Instinct Raises $1 Billion Series C at $10 Billion Valuation
Instinct, a startup building a personal AI agent that completes real-world tasks such as booking travel, paying bills, canceling subscriptions…
News
Meta Launches Enterprise AI Platform Built Around Muse
Meta announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business division that packages its AI stack — including the Muse personal…
News
xAI Plans to More Than Double Colossus 2’s Nvidia Chip Count by Year-End
Elon Musk said xAI’s Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee, currently running roughly 110,000 Nvidia GB200 and 440,000 GB300…
Opinions
Jefferies Analyst Vents Frustration as AI Dominates CO2 Talks
Aniket Shah, Jefferies’ head of sustainability and energy-transition strategy, argues that Wall Street’s growing fixation on AI data centers’ carbon…
Opinions
An invisible AI watermark is coming to your messages. Your relationships may pay the price
Med Kharbach and Johanathan Woodworth of Mount Saint Vincent University examine the EU AI Act’s Article 50 requirement, taking full…
Opinions
Sharing non-consensual ‘deepfake’ porn in Canada is now a crime. The law still fails the victims
Emma Kondrup, Anne Imouza, Catherine Regis and Reihaneh Rabbany analyze Canada’s newly passed Bill C-16 (Protecting Victims Act), which for…
Engineering
Disaggregated Quantization: Specializing LLM Prefill and Decode
Researchers propose ‘disaggregated quantization,’ which applies distinct quantization schemes to the prefill and decode phases of LLM inference instead of…