Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

StrictlyVC returns to New York City September 10 to celebrate a huge year for the city’s startup community 

StrictlyVC is returning to New York City for a startup community event on September 10.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

PASs-MoE: Mitigating Misaligned Co-drift among Router and Experts via Pathway Activation Subspaces for Continual Learning

Introduces PASs-MoE, a method to mitigate misaligned co-drift in MoE-LoRA for continual learning in multimodal LLMs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Hide and Seek in Embedding Space: Geometry-based Steganography and Detection in Large Language Models

Explores geometry-based steganography in LLM embedding spaces and proposes detection via mechanistic interpretability.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Inelastic Constitutive Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: A generalized framework for automated discovery of interpretable inelastic material models

Introduces iCKANs, a generalized framework for the automated discovery of interpretable inelastic material models using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

Jailbreak Foundry: From Papers to Runnable Attacks for Reproducible Benchmarking

Presents Jailbreak Foundry (JBF), a multi-agent workflow to translate LLM jailbreak papers into executable modules for benchmarking.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

KDFlow: A User-Friendly and Efficient Knowledge Distillation Framework for Large Language Models

Introduces KDFlow, an efficient knowledge distillation framework for LLMs that decouples teacher inference and student training.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Interaction-Aware Whole-Body Control for Compliant Object Transport

Proposes IO-WBC, a bio-inspired interaction-oriented whole-body control system for compliant object transport in humanoid robots.

Other Hacker News

Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?

A Hacker News discussion regarding the geopolitical and strategic difficulties the United States faces in winning wars.

Other Hacker News

The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research

A Hacker News discussion on the potential negative impacts of the Trump administration's policies on scientific research.

Other Hacker News

Moist Towelette Museum

A lighthearted Hacker News post about a museum dedicated to moist towelettes.

AI/ML Ars Technica

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

Vinay Perneti of Augment Code discusses the necessity of context-rich AI harnesses to improve coding assistants beyond simple pattern matching.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Are Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks Truly Effective for Node Classification? A Causal Perspective

This research evaluates Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs), finding that performance gains are primarily driven by heterogeneous information increasing homophily rather than model architecture complexity.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Analysing Moral Bias in Finetuned LLMs through Mechanistic Interpretability

Researchers use mechanistic interpretability and layer-patching to localize and eliminate moral biases (specifically the Knobe effect) in finetuned LLMs without retraining.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Human-Inspired Neuro-Symbolic World Modeling and Logic Reasoning for Interpretable Safe UAV Landing Site Assessment

NeuroSymLand is introduced as a neuro-symbolic framework that separates perception-driven world modeling from logic-based reasoning for safer UAV landing site assessment.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

DiffuMamba: High-Throughput Diffusion LMs with Mamba Backbone

DiffuMamba introduces a masked diffusion language model using a Mamba backbone to achieve linear-time sequence modeling and significantly higher inference throughput than Transformers.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

3D Motion Perception of Binocular Vision Target with PID-CNN

A study on using a small PID-based Convolutional Neural Network (PID-CNN) for real-time 3D motion perception and target tracking in binocular vision systems.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Latency-Response Theory Model: Evaluating Large Language Models via Response Accuracy and Chain-of-Thought Length

The Latency-Response Theory (LaRT) model is proposed to evaluate LLMs by jointly modeling response accuracy and Chain-of-Thought length for better latent ability estimation.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026

GitHub is making two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for all users by September 2, 2026.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

AliExpress fined almost $630 million over illegal product sales

AliExpress was fined approximately $630 million by the European Commission for violating the Digital Services Act by failing to block illegal and unsafe products.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

A Scaffolded GenAI Lab in Early Undergraduate CS: A Mixed-Methods, Multi-Course Evaluation

A study evaluates 'AI-Lab', a literacy intervention for early undergraduate CS students to promote responsible and learning-oriented use of Generative AI.