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This could be our best look yet at Samsung’s new wide foldable

Leaked case designs suggest a new wide-style foldable design for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8.

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Clarus: Coordinating Autonomous Research Agents toward Web-Scale Scientific Collaboration

Clarus is introduced as a collaboration infrastructure designed to coordinate autonomous research agents for web-scale scientific collaboration.

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Inoculation Adapters: Improved Selective Generalization of Capabilities with Fewer Surprising Backdoors

The paper proposes Inoculation Adapters (IA), using LoRAs to suppress undesired traits in AI models more effectively than inoculation prompting.

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EMPATH: A Multilingual Auditor-Judge Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Emotional-Support Chatbots

EMPATH is a new multilingual auditor-judge benchmark for evaluating the safety of emotional-support chatbots.

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PromptGNN-sim: Deep Fusion and Alignment of GNN and LLMs for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

PromptGNN-sim is a bi-directional fusion framework that integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and LLMs for improved text-attributed graph learning.

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Rehearsed Multi-Agent Live Product Demonstrations with Real-Time Voice Question Answering

Rhetor is a multi-agent system that automates live product demonstrations by analyzing a web app and its source code to produce synchronized narration and Q&A.

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ManimAgent: Self-Evolving Multimodal Agents for Visual Education

ManimAgent is a self-evolving multimodal agent that uses an episodic memory bank to improve its ability to generate mathematical animations using the Manim library.

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BayesEvolve: Explicit Belief States for Autonomous Scientific Discovery

BayesEvolve introduces a belief-guided discovery framework that uses explicit uncertainty-aware belief states to improve autonomous scientific discovery.

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Sequential Fairness Auditing with Limited Output Access

A new sequential generalized likelihood-ratio framework is proposed for auditing AI fairness under limited model output access.

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Using Large Language Models as Low-Cost Statistical Estimators for Human-Response Data

Researchers provide a provable statement that well-calibrated LLMs can serve as low-cost statistical estimators for human-response data in social and behavioral sciences.

Other Hacker News

The operating cost starts after the demo

A Hacker News discussion focusing on the hidden operational costs that emerge after the initial successful demonstration of a technology.

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Does Verbose Chain-of-Thought Really Help? In-Distribution Evidence that Content, Not Length, Matters

Research indicating that the effectiveness of Chain-of-Thought prompting in LLMs depends on the actual reasoning content and validation steps rather than mere verbosity.

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Relevance Is Not Permission: Warranted Attention for Value Contributions

Introduction of 'Warrant', a path-localized interface that improves model prediction by ensuring attention relevance is translated into actual evidence.

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FacePlex: Full-Duplex Joint Speech-Facial Motion Generation for Conversational Avatars

FacePlex is a unified streaming framework for joint real-time speech and facial motion generation for conversational avatars.

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MirrorCode: AI can rebuild entire programs from behavior alone

MirrorCode introduces a long-horizon benchmark where AI agents must reimplement entire software projects based solely on observed behavior.

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Dynamo: Dynamic Skill-Tool Evolution for Vision-Language Agents

Dynamo is a training-free framework that enables Vision-Language Models to evolve reusable reasoning skills and executable visual tools without weight updates.

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From Detecting Agency to Doing Work: Self-Caused Credit Builds a Durable Behavioral Self in a Minimal Spiking Agent

Research on spiking agents showing that 'self-caused credit' allows for the development of a durable behavioral self and prevents forgetting during task learning.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Domain Adaptation with Adaptive Imagination for Visual Reinforcement Learning under Limited Target Data

AIDA is a domain adaptation framework for visual RL that uses 'adaptive imagination' to augment scarce target data for better sim-to-real transfer.

Other arXiv cs.AI

The Many-Body Problem of the Data Centre

A philosophical exploration of the data center as the 'body' of AI and its relationship with human desire and capital.

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EvalSafetyGap: A Hybrid Survey and Conceptual Framework for LLM Evaluation-Safety Failures

EvalSafetyGap provides a conceptual framework and audit to address failures in LLM evaluation and AI safety measurement.