Software Engineering Hacker News

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

A technical discussion on implementing case-folding source code at memory speed, focusing on low-level optimization.

AI/ML Hacker News

Waymo Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short

Waymo's CEO discusses the technical deficiencies of Tesla's camera-only approach to autonomous driving compared to a multi-sensor approach.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX reports significant revenue growth driven by compute deals with Anthropic and Google, alongside Starlink's expansion.

Cybersecurity TechCrunch

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

The EFF warns Android developers that third-party libraries may be unintentionally leaking user location data to advertisers.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

EA is now a private company

Electronic Arts (EA) has officially transitioned to a private company following a $55 billion leveraged buyout.

Other Ars Technica

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

Texas has paused data center grid connections due to overwhelming power demand, despite the state's push to be an AI hub.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Monotone and Separable Set Functions: Characterizations and Neural Models

Researchers introduce MASNET, a neural model designed to preserve partial orders on sets for set containment problems.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Pay for The Second-Best Service: A Game-Theoretic Approach Against Dishonest LLM Providers

A game-theoretic framework is proposed to protect users from dishonest LLM providers who might swap models or inflate tokens.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Robust Bidirectional Associative Memory via Regularization Inspired by the Subspace Rotation Algorithm

A new gradient-free training algorithm, B-SRA, is proposed to improve the robustness of Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM) against noise and attacks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

AREA3D: Active Reconstruction Agent with Unified Feed-Forward 3D Perception and Vision-Language Guidance

AREA3D is introduced as an active reconstruction agent that uses feed-forward 3D perception and vision-language guidance for scene geometry.

AI/ML TechCrunch

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

A report indicates that open-weight AI models like GLM-5.2 are nearing frontier capabilities but still lack critical safety mitigations.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has entered into a reported $10 billion cloud partnership deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

StaQ: a Finite Memory Approach to Discrete Action Policy Mirror Descent

Researchers propose StaQ, a finite memory approach to Discrete Action Policy Mirror Descent in RL to reduce memory requirements while maintaining performance.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Towards White-Box Deep Wireless Sensing

RF-CRATE is introduced as a white-box deep wireless sensing model that uses complex-valued transformers for better interpretability and reliability.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Patch-Based 3D Variational Autoencoder for Super-Resolution of Turbulent Channel Flow

A patch-based 3D Variational Autoencoder is proposed for the super-resolution of turbulent channel flow, outperforming traditional interpolation methods.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

RePaCA: Leveraging Reasoning Large Language Models for Static Automated Patch Correctness Assessment

RePaCA is a new static automated patch correctness assessment technique using reasoning LLMs and RL to identify overfitting patches in software repair.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

"Not in My Backyard": LLMs Uncover Online and Offline Social Biases Against Homelessness

Researchers use LLMs to analyze social biases against homelessness, releasing a multi-domain PEH bias corpus and an audit protocol.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Adaptive Policy Backbone via Shared Network

The Adaptive Policy Backbone (APB) method is proposed for meta-transfer RL to improve sample efficiency and adaptation to out-of-distribution tasks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Fast Feature Field ($\text{F}^3$): A Predictive Representation of Events

Fast Feature Field (F3) is a new predictive representation for event-based cameras that achieves state-of-the-art performance in robotic vision tasks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Epistemic-aware Vision-Language Foundation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Interpretation

FetalMind is a medical AI system for fetal ultrasound interpretation that utilizes a large-scale report corpus and an epistemic-aware design.