Opinions
AI Slop Is Eating the World, and Trust Is the First Casualty
Emma McGrattan writes in TechRadar that the proliferation of AI-generated content, or AI slop, is eroding trust in professional and…
Opinions
Inside the AI Protections Unions Are Winning at the Bargaining Table
Axios reports that labor unions are increasingly securing enforceable contract protections against AI-driven workplace disruption rather than waiting on legislation.…
Opinions
Global Leaders Must Wake Up to the Threat of Unbridled AI Adoption
Anthony Rowley writes in the South China Morning Post that global leaders are failing to adequately confront the risks of…
Opinions
AI for Science Needs Reasoning, Not Just Data
Eric Schmidt and Suhas Mahesh argue that while narrow AI systems like AlphaFold have achieved breakthroughs, they depend on massive…
Engineering
Beyond Final Scores: A Systematic Evaluation of Agents for Long-Horizon AI Research and Development
Researchers from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Meituan introduced an evaluation framework that assesses AI research agents…
Opinions
How Kids Feel About AI, in Their Own Words
MIT Technology Review interviewed young people aged 10 to 18 about their attitudes toward artificial intelligence and found more nuanced…
Engineering
Second Thought: Reasoning in Parallel as LLM Agents Act and Observe
A new paper introduces Second Thought, a training-free inference framework that has LLM agents spawn auxiliary reasoning branches during the…
News
Stripe Finalizes $7 Billion Acquisition of AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter
Stripe has finalized its acquisition of AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. OpenRouter operates a platform connecting developers…
Engineering
Agents Catching Agents: Shortcut Cascades and Benchmark Gaming in Clinical Multi-Agent Systems
A study tested whether committees of LLM agents used for clinical decision support can be manipulated through benchmark shortcuts that…
Engineering
Self-Supervised Visual On-Policy Distillation
Researchers proposed S²VOPD, a self-supervised on-policy distillation method that creates teacher-student asymmetry by degrading the student’s input rather than augmenting…
Engineering
SimpleOPD: Simple Tokenizer-Agnostic On-Policy Distillation for Long-Context Reasoning
SimpleOPD is a new on-policy distillation method for transferring long-context reasoning ability from large teacher models to smaller, shorter-context student…
Engineering
Latent On-Policy Self-Distillation
A paper introduces LOPD, a method that makes an agent’s own privileged context end-to-end learnable from experience rather than relying…