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ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.

There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the...

The Download: an exclusive chat with Jim O’Neill, and the surprising truth about heists

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. US deputy health secretary: Vaccine guidelines are still subject to change Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people...

The myth of the high-tech heist

Making a movie is a lot like pulling off a heist. That’s what Steven Soderbergh—director of the Ocean’s franchise, among other heist-y classics—said a few years ago. You come up with a creative angle, put together a team of specialists, figure out how to beat the technological challenges, rehearse,...

US deputy health secretary: Vaccine guidelines are still subject to change

Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people in public health. As the US deputy health secretary, he holds two roles at the top of the country’s federal health and science agencies. He oversees a department with a budget of over a trillion dollars. And he signed the...

RFK Jr. follows a carnivore diet. That doesn’t mean you should.

Americans have a new set of diet guidelines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken an old-fashioned food pyramid, turned it upside down, and plonked a steak and a stick of butter in prime positions. Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again mates have long been extolling the virtues of meat and...

Explaining AI Without Code: A User Study on Explainable AI

arXiv:2602.11159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing use of Machine Learning (ML) in sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and public policy has raised concerns about the transparency of automated decisions. Explainable AI (XAI) addresses this by clarifying how models generate...

Latent Generative Solvers for Generalizable Long-Term Physics Simulation

arXiv:2602.11229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study long-horizon surrogate simulation across heterogeneous PDE systems. We introduce Latent Generative Solvers (LGS), a two-stage framework that (i) maps diverse PDE states into a shared latent physics space with a pretrained VAE, and (ii) learns...

On Decision-Valued Maps and Representational Dependence

arXiv:2602.11295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A computational engine applied to different representations of the same data can produce different discrete outcomes, with some representations preserving the result and others changing it entirely. A decision-valued map records which representations...

Voxtral Realtime

arXiv:2602.11298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Voxtral Realtime, a natively streaming automatic speech recognition model that matches offline transcription quality at sub-second latency. Unlike approaches that adapt offline models through chunking or sliding windows, Voxtral Realtime...

The PBSAI Governance Ecosystem: A Multi-Agent AI Reference Architecture for Securing Enterprise AI Estates

arXiv:2602.11301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprises are rapidly deploying large language models, retrieval augmented generation pipelines, and tool using agents into production, often on shared high performance computing clusters and cloud accelerator platforms that also support defensive...

Automated Optimization Modeling via a Localizable Error-Driven Perspective

arXiv:2602.11164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated optimization modeling via Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach to assist complex human decision-making. While post-training has become a pivotal technique to enhance LLMs' capabilities in this domain, its...

KBVQ-MoE: KLT-guided SVD with Bias-Corrected Vector Quantization for MoE Large Language Models

arXiv:2602.11184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture of Experts (MoE) models have achieved great success by significantly improving performance while maintaining computational efficiency through sparse expert activation. However, their enormous parameter sizes and memory demands pose major...

Spectra: Rethinking Optimizers for LLMs Under Spectral Anisotropy

arXiv:2602.11185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient signals in LLM training are highly anisotropic: recurrent linguistic structure concentrates energy into a small set of dominant spectral directions, while context specific information resides in a long tail. We show that this spike tail...

GAC-KAN: An Ultra-Lightweight GNSS Interference Classifier for GenAI-Powered Consumer Edge Devices

arXiv:2602.11186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into Consumer Electronics (CE)--from AI-powered assistants in wearables to generative planning in autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)--has revolutionized user experiences. However, these GenAI...

TDPNavigator-Placer: Thermal- and Wirelength-Aware Chiplet Placement in 2.5D Systems Through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2602.11187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of electronics has accelerated the adoption of 2.5D integrated circuits, where effective automated chiplet placement is essential as systems scale to larger and more heterogeneous chiplet assemblies. Existing placement methods...

HybridRAG: A Practical LLM-based ChatBot Framework based on Pre-Generated Q&A over Raw Unstructured Documents

arXiv:2602.11156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for grounding Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot responses on external knowledge. However, existing RAG studies typically assume well-structured textual sources (e.g....

Response-Based Knowledge Distillation for Multilingual Jailbreak Prevention Unwittingly Compromises Safety

arXiv:2602.11157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed worldwide, yet their safety alignment remains predominantly English-centric. This allows for vulnerabilities in non-English contexts, especially with low-resource languages. We introduce a novel...

Retrieval Heads are Dynamic

arXiv:2602.11162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies have identified "retrieval heads" in Large Language Models (LLMs) responsible for extracting information from input contexts. However, prior works largely rely on static statistics aggregated across datasets, identifying heads that...

Nested Named Entity Recognition in Plasma Physics Research Articles

arXiv:2602.11163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in natural language processing that aims to identify and extract key entities from unstructured text. We present a novel application of NER in plasma physics research articles and address the...

Assessing LLM Reliability on Temporally Recent Open-Domain Questions

arXiv:2602.11165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for open-domain question answering, yet their alignment with human perspectives on temporally recent information remains underexplored. We introduce RECOM (Reddit Evaluation for Correspondence of...

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering

Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.

Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think

Research papers point to the growing impact of Deep Think across fields