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Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents

At AI Engineer New York, frontier labs and financial firms explored how to give agents useful autonomy while keeping consequential decisions under control.

Lab-in-the-Loop at Compute Speed — Ian Quigley, Leash Bio

How Leash Bio tamed DELs, the assay that traumatizes everyone, and used the data to catch cheating models. And why that same data is perfect for AI agents learning to think like chemists.

HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost

What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds

Effective social interaction requires more than fluent responses: agents must reach plans that fit the participants' needs and circumstances. Existing evaluations of social agents mainly rely on LLM judges that rate the conversation, without checking the resulting plan. We introduce HICO-Bench, a...

StreamErase: Towards Ultra-Fast Streaming Video Erasing

Current video object removal methods suffer from prohibitive latency (minutes per video) and non-causal processing that prevents real-time interaction. We present StreamErase, enabling sub-second latency with up to 26 FPS streaming generation on a single GPU. Our approach first augments a...

Efficient contextual partial monitoring with general function approximation

We study finite stochastic partial monitoring (PM) games with side information, a paradigm of sequential learning with partial feedback. On each round $t \in [T]$, both player and environment observe a context and player chooses an action and environment simultaneously chooses an outcome. The...

[AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks

Gemini 4 Argon went GA today, but we already gave it title story 2 weeks ago and most benchmarks, like CursorBench, simply independently confirm their claims.

Integrated Novelty Detection Systems: From Sensor Networks to Multi-Novelty Computer Vision

Novelty detection is crucial in various technological and scientific domains. Its importance spans from ensuring the reliability of sensor networks to enhancing the adaptability of computer vision systems. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated and complex, effective anomaly detection is...

SonoWorld: Towards Interactive Pose-Controllable Ultrasound World Models

Robotic ultrasound can standardize image acquisition and reduce operator workload and variability, but policy learning remains limited by the lack of realistic, controllable simulation environments. While controllable world models have advanced rapidly in natural-image domains, ultrasound world...

Dyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy — Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics

Our first robotics pod with Dyna’s Chief Scientist on their big bet on World Action Models & the Next Frontier of Physical AI

Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B

[AINews] Meta Muse Wonder & Wonder Full: MSL’s Claude 5.5-tier Frontier Model

MSL’s emergence as a frontier lab is finally complete.

I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence

I’ve often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn’t really know why I doubted it.

Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters

The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself

Multimodal open d1 decision models for the edge

The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken

Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs.