Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

SpaceX stock price declines as market expectations cool following its IPO.

Cybersecurity Ars Technica

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

A critical Windows 0-day vulnerability, identified as HiveLegacy, was discovered on the same day Microsoft released a massive patch update.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Diversity-Enriched Option-Critic

Introduction of a Diversity-Enriched Option-Critic framework that uses information-theoretic intrinsic rewards to improve behavioral diversity in reinforcement learning agents.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Seeing Through Uncertainty: Free-Energy-Inspired Real-Time Adaptation for Robust Visual Navigation

FEP-Nav is a biologically inspired framework that uses the Free Energy Principle to enable real-time perceptual adaptation for robust visual navigation in robots.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Enabling Energy-Efficient Simultaneous Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning through Spiking Neural Networks with Active Dendrites for Bio-inspired Generalist Agents

MTSpark is a novel methodology combining Spiking Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning to create energy-efficient, multi-task generalist agents.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Modeling Story Expectations: A Generative Framework using LLMs

A generative framework using LLMs to model and predict consumer story expectations based on narrative content.

Other Hacker News

Voxatron

A discussion regarding Voxatron, though content is limited to comments.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M

Daniel Ek's Neko Health startup has raised $700M to develop proprietary body-scanning technology for health assessment.

Software Engineering The Verge

Roblox is shutting down its video chat service

Roblox is discontinuing its Roblox Connect video chat service and its developer APIs due to low usage.

AI/ML The Verge

AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

Film studio Fountain 0 is utilizing AI to generate a reimagining of The Odyssey, reflecting a trend of AI-generated 'slop' movies.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Measurement Risk in Supervised Financial NLP: Rubric and Metric Sensitivity on JF-ICR

Researchers analyze measurement risk in supervised financial NLP, highlighting how rubric wording and metric choice significantly affect LLM evaluation.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Attractor Geometry of Transformer Memory: From Conflict Arbitration to Confident Hallucination

A study on the attractor geometry of Transformer memory reveals that 'conflict' and 'hallucination' share a unified geometric account in hidden-state space.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

From Controlled to the Wild: Evaluation of Pentesting Agents for the Real-World

The paper introduces a practical evaluation protocol for AI pentesting agents to move beyond CTF benchmarks toward real-world vulnerability discovery.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Brain Vascular Age Prediction Using Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity and Machine Learning Algorithms

A study uses TCD and machine learning to predict brain vascular age, identifying accelerated aging in subjects with neurological diseases.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Matilda: Engine-Agnostic Search with Human Policy Guidance

Matilda is introduced as a set transformer that re-ranks legal-move distributions from Maia-3 to improve high-Elo chess play and individual style modeling.

Software Engineering arXiv cs.AI

Propheticus: Machine Learning Framework for the Development of Predictive Models for Reliable and Secure Software

Propheticus is presented as a machine learning framework designed to simplify the creation of predictive models for software reliability and security.

Other Hacker News

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

The command-line based horror game Duskers is receiving a sequel, continuing its unique gameplay mechanic of controlling ships via a terminal.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice

Capn-hook is introduced as a tool for coding agents to avoid redundant grep operations by remembering previous search results.

Hardware/Chips TechCrunch

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI has released a specialized light-up keyboard designed for its Codex agentic coding application amid an ongoing legal dispute with Apple.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Mobility-Aware Cache Framework for Scalable LLM-Based Human Mobility Simulation

The MobCache framework is proposed to enable efficient large-scale human mobility simulations by using reconstructible caches to reduce LLM computational costs.