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arXiv cs.AI

37 articles

Latest: Aug 20, 2026

arXiv cs.LG

20 articles

Latest: Aug 20, 2026

arXiv cs.CL

10 articles

Latest: Aug 20, 2026

OpenAI

4 articles

Latest: Aug 19, 2026

AI News

4 articles

Latest: Aug 18, 2026

TechCrunch

3 articles

Latest: Aug 19, 2026

The Decoder

3 articles

Latest: Aug 19, 2026

Hugging Face

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Aug 20, 2026

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arXiv cs.AI

Large Language Models in Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Applications, Innovations, and Ethical Challenges

arXiv:2608.18080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a review on the applications of large language models (LLMs) in health, e.g., social media analysis, clinical conversational agents, therapy support tools, prom…

arXiv cs.AI

A Metamorphic Artificial Age Score Decision-Support Prototype for Flight-Log-Based Drone Propeller Health Monitoring

arXiv:2608.18088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drone propeller faults can create safety and reliability risks when their effects are distributed across multiple flight-log channels rather than appearing as a single dia…

arXiv cs.AI

FinSkillBench: Evaluating AI Agents and Domain Skills for Investment Management

arXiv:2608.18099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Investment management is a high-stakes domain in which agentic AI systems must do more than generate plausible text. They must retrieve point-in-time data, assemble correc…

arXiv cs.AI

Safety Alignment Illusion: The Cross-Lingual Safety Gap in LLMs

arXiv:2608.18131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current safety alignment training for Large Language Models (LLMs) are heavily English-centric. When such safety filters fail for non-English languages, the consequences a…

arXiv cs.AI

Efficient Adaptation of LLMs for Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Languages: A Comparative Study on Roman Urdu

arXiv:2608.18142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is challenging to detect hate speech in Low Resource Languages (LRLs) because of the absence of annotated data, the informality of its language structure, and the lack…

arXiv cs.AI

Redakto - The Incognito Tab for LLMs

arXiv:2608.18260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in everyday applications. A major challenge in the context of LLMs or Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general is t…

arXiv cs.AI

The Lifecycle of LLM-as-a-Judge for Large-Scale Recommendation Explanations

arXiv:2608.18300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-a-Judge, which leverages a large language model to evaluate natural language generated by another AI application or model, has become a standard, scalable approach…

arXiv cs.AI

Can a Lightweight Multimodal Model Estimate LLM Reasoning Performance? A Study for Compute-Optimal Document Inference

arXiv:2608.18591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uniformly allocating inference reasoning budgets to LLMs is expensive and prone to over-thinking penalties; especially in document tasks where visual layouts drive complex…

arXiv cs.AI

DeepTCM1.0: A Multi-Expert AI Agent for Deciphering Mechanisms of Chinese Herbal Formulae Based on General Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.18103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Mechanistic elucidation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) compound formulas remains a central challenge in the modernization of TCM. Conventional approac…

arXiv cs.AI

Same Facts, Different Updates: Inference Setup Shapes LLM Behavior in Medical Allocation

arXiv:2608.18108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are being incorporated into sensitive and important decision-making processes across nearly all fields. While prior work studies model bias around…

arXiv cs.AI

TokenPowerSandbox: Evidence-Gated CPU-First Screening for Energy-Aware LLM Serving

arXiv:2608.18149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy-aware LLM serving requires comparing configurations under realistic request shapes, yet exhaustive target-GPU profiling is costly and a cheap predictor can be dan…

arXiv cs.AI

Low-Power, Neuromorphic, Acoustic Anomaly Detection for Persistent Machine Monitoring

arXiv:2608.18341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persistent acoustic monitoring can detect machine faults without physical contact, but always-on inference is constrained by power, latency, and deployment complexity. W…

arXiv cs.AI

LEDGER: Claim-to-Evidence Trace Graphs for Auditing LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.18398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can now carry out long-horizon technical workflows involving complex tool use, code execution, file edits, and generated artifacts. As…

arXiv cs.AI

Mechanistic Interpretability of Structure-Aware Numerical Reasoning in LLaMA 3.1 8B

arXiv:2608.18419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong numerical sequence modeling capabilities and show promise in time-series prediction. While LLMs di…

arXiv cs.AI

Pedagogical AI in Mental Health: A Tri-Stream Fine-Tuned LLM Framework for Automated Clinical Supervision and Risk Triage

arXiv:2608.18438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern mental healthcare faces a critical shortage of senior supervisory oversight, leading to a "supervision gap" where novice therapists manage high-stakes risks with…

arXiv cs.AI

Science Done on a Machine by a Machine: AI Agents in Computational Chemistry

arXiv:2608.18508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We are witnessing an explosion of agentic systems for computational chemistry simulations: from half a dozen in 2024 to a dozen in 2025, and the current number approache…

arXiv cs.AI

Evaluating and Explaining Prompt Sensitivity of LLMs Using Interactions

arXiv:2608.18539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The remarkable capabilities of large language models (LLMs) are often undermined by their instability. Even subtle and semantically irrelevant changes in prompts can cau…

arXiv cs.AI

CentaurBench: Benchmarking LLM Capabilities on Augmenting vs. Automating Real-World Work Tasks

arXiv:2608.18554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most LLM benchmarks rank models on their ability to automate work tasks. In practice, however, models are often used to assist other (human or LLM) agents. The question…

arXiv cs.AI

From Storage to Access: Verifiable Activation of Parametric Knowledge in LLMs via Explicit Priming and Implicit Reasoning

arXiv:2608.18581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) encode rich factual knowledge in their parameters, reliably recalling and verifying such knowledge remains a key bottleneck in fact…

arXiv cs.AI

OmniHandwritingOCR: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal LLMs in Handwritten OCR Scenarios

arXiv:2608.18586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used as OCR systems in document and knowledge-processing pipelines, but their ability to faithfully read real h…

arXiv cs.AI

Flama: a Python framework for development and deployment of production-ready APIs, machine learning, and LLM services

arXiv:2608.18733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Flama, an open-source Python framework for developing and deploying production-ready web APIs, machine learning services, and large-language-model (LLM) appli…

arXiv cs.AI

Beyond Predictive Fairness: Quantifying Attribution Consistency Across Demographic Groups in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

arXiv:2608.18759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fairness in medical imaging is commonly evaluated through subgroup performance metrics, yet it remains unclear whether models rely on consistent visual evidence across d…

arXiv cs.AI

Decomposing Wrong-Consensus Agreement in LLM Self-Consistency: A GPT-4.1 Case Study

arXiv:2608.18795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Majority voting over multiple LLM samples is widely used to raise answer accuracy, yet its gain varies erratically: on hard questions it can even backfire. This paper gi…

arXiv cs.AI

Graphical Design of Interpretable Architectures

arXiv:2608.18936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing, implementing, and comparing interpretable architectures requires a formal language to represent them. The most common representations fall short in one of two…

arXiv cs.AI

Pre-Compiled Pipeline Shards for Distributed LLM Inference on Intel AI PC Fleets

arXiv:2608.19147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Intel AI PCs ship capable integrated GPUs and NPUs with 16+ GB of unified memory, and they spend considerable time idle. That is not enough memory to fit a large…

arXiv cs.AI

MBABench: Evaluating LLM Agents on End-to-End Spreadsheet Tasks in Finance

arXiv:2605.22664v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly expected to carry out end-to-end workflows, producing complete artifacts from high-level user instructions. To meet enterprise needs, front…

arXiv cs.AI

Hybrid LLM-Augmented Reinforcement Learning Agents for Complex Sequential Decision Tasks

arXiv:2608.03502v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong capabilities in reasoning, planning, and tool-use, enabling new forms of autonomous agents. However, LLM-based…

arXiv cs.AI

Admission Without Answers: Label-Free Certification and Experience Learning for LLM-Based Optimization Modeling

arXiv:2608.15565v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Experience-learning agents for optimization modeling improve by storing verified skills, but existing learners admit knowledge by checking against known answers, which…

arXiv cs.AI

Reconstruction: A Blind Benchmark for Recovering Research Ideas from Pre-Publication Bibliographies

arXiv:2608.16645v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Can a language model recover the true research idea of a published paper when given only that paper's pre-publication bibliography? We introduce Reconstruction, a blin…

arXiv cs.AI

`From Prompt to Perturbation': An Adaptive Framework for Voice-Based Jailbreaks on Audio LLMs

arXiv:2502.00735v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into audio-based applications, growing concerns have emerged regarding their vulnerability to audio-b…

arXiv cs.AI

Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025

arXiv:2512.14012v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rise of AI agents is transforming how software can be built. The promise of agents is that developers might write code quicker, delegate multiple tasks to di…

arXiv cs.AI

TrojanGYM: A Detector-in-the-Loop LLM for Adaptive RTL Hardware Trojan Insertion

arXiv:2601.17178v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hardware Trojans (HTs) remain a critical threat because learning-based detectors often overfit to narrow trigger/payload patterns and small, stylized benchmarks.…

arXiv cs.AI

AutoOR: Scalably Post-training LLMs to Autoformalize Operations Research Problems

arXiv:2604.16804v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimization problems are central to decision-making in manufacturing, logistics, scheduling, and other industrial settings. Translating complicated descriptions…

arXiv cs.AI

LLM-Driven AutoML for Cross-Lingual Handwritten OCR: Closed-Loop Neural Architecture Search with GPT-5, GPT-4o, and Claude Sonnet 4

arXiv:2607.15509v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a fully automated closed-loop AutoML framework that uses GPT-5, GPT-4o, and Claude Sonnet 4 as autonomous neural architecture designers for cross-ling…

arXiv cs.AI

SLAI T-Rex: Full-Parameter Post-training of the DeepSeek-V4 Family on Ascend SuperPOD

arXiv:2607.20145v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Full-parameter post-training of trillion-parameter-scale MoE models introduces substantial system-level challenges for large-scale distributed training, includin…

arXiv cs.AI

The Epistemic Politics of AI Anthropomorphism

arXiv:2608.00961v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI anthropomorphism is typically treated as a problem of user misperception requiring institutional correction. Users who engage in sustained or relational inter…

arXiv cs.AI

From Sequence to Structure: Relational Uncertainty Propagation for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.16002v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying large language model (LLM) agents in complex interactive environments. Existing UQ methods la…

arXiv cs.CL

Persona-Guided LLM Agents for Task-Oriented Dialogue

arXiv:2608.18085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can express diverse personality traits in open-ended text generation. However, it remains unclear whether they can d…

arXiv cs.CL

Figurative and Cultural Knowledge in LLMs: Investigating Cross-Domain Transfer through Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.18361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Figurative language is deeply culturally embedded; fluent use requires not just linguistic competence but cultural immersion. We ask whether LLMs can learn this link: does…

arXiv cs.CL

Beyond LLM-Based Reasoning: Lightweight GNNs for Agent Failure Attribution

arXiv:2608.18575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) often exhibit complex failure modes, which frequently cause agents to produce incorrect outcomes. This motivates…

arXiv cs.CL

Compress and Forget: bitsandbytes Quantization Amplifies Proactive Interference in LLMs

arXiv:2608.18578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive interference (PI) is a documented failure mode in large language models in which retrieval of a repeatedly overwritten value degrades as prior overwrites accumul…

arXiv cs.CL

Readable, Faithful, Used: Three Dissociable Properties of Demographic Identity in a Language Model

arXiv:2608.18768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are widely used to simulate survey respondents, yet their answers are homogeneous and unfaithful to real inter-group differences. We ask where demogr…

arXiv cs.CL

Introducing the Privacy-HSD Trade-off: Hate Speech Detection, but not at the Cost of Privacy

arXiv:2608.19006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hate speech is a real and timely threat that affects a large portion of online users, especially youth and minority groups. While building reliable and robust automatic ha…

arXiv cs.CL

Grading the Graders: Verification Autonomy Levels (L0-L5) for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2608.19009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly paired with verifiers (step checkers, self-consistency filters, tool-based fact checkers, formal proof assistants) that claim…

arXiv cs.CL

Future Policy Approximation for Offline Reinforcement Learning in LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2509.19893v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a key driver of post-training for complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs), yet online RL introduces substantial in…

arXiv cs.CL

KA2L: A Knowledge-Aware Active Learning Framework for LLMs

arXiv:2603.17566v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with high-quality knowledge has been shown to enhance their performance effectively. However, there is a paucity of research o…

arXiv cs.CL

Trace, Verify, and Correct: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2608.04759v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made substantial progress, their spatial reasoning may still produce intermediate judgments inconsistent w…

arXiv cs.LG

Hierarchical Data Selection via Manifold Coverage and Sparse Feature Coverage in LLM Post-training

arXiv:2608.16927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As supervised fine-tuning data continues to scale, selecting high-value subsets from large candidate pools is crucial for reducing training cost and improving model perfor…

arXiv cs.LG

OraclePhys: A Systematic Framework for LLM Fine-Tuning on Structural Mechanics

arXiv:2608.17162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What a language model internalizes from fine-tuning is usually diagnosed after the fact. We make it an experimental variable. OraclePhys is a systematic fine-tuning framew…

arXiv cs.LG

Agentic ESOpt: Fine-Tuning Long-Horizon LLM Agents with Minimal GPU Requirements

arXiv:2608.17310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been promising in single-turn LLM fine-tuning. However, long-horizon agentic reasoning introduces increasingly branching interactions and s…

arXiv cs.LG

An Empirical Study of Reward Specification and Benchmark Reliability in GRPO-based LLM Unlearning

arXiv:2608.17804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Practical LLM unlearning is usually evaluated through two objectives: suppress target-specific knowledge and preserve non-target utility. In generative QA, this leaves a t…

arXiv cs.LG

SIGMA: SHAP-Guided Implicit-Trajectory Generation for Metadata-Free LLM-Based AutoFE

arXiv:2608.17948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research has leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance Automated Feature Engineering (AutoFE) through semantic descriptions and trajectory-based prompting.…

arXiv cs.LG

Policy-Invariant Reward Shaping from LLM Feedback: A Framework for Hybrid RL Agents

arXiv:2608.18008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combining large language models with reinforcement learning is increasingly explored, yet the theoretical status of LLM-derived reward signals is often left implicit. We f…

arXiv cs.LG

Why GPT-Style Models Do Not Directly Transfer to Symbolic Music: Compression in the Wrong Coordinate System

arXiv:2608.18025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GPT-style models achieve strong performance by representing language with finite vocabularies of reusable discrete tokens. This success has motivated symbolic music tokeni…

arXiv cs.LG

When AI Designs AI: Innovation or Imitation?

arXiv:2608.17471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in LLM agents have made them increasingly capable of designing methods for complex AI tasks. This raises two central questions about agent-designed metho…

arXiv cs.LG

Reflex-Guard: A Low-Latency Guardrail for LLM Prompt Safety Using Dense Semantic Embeddings

arXiv:2608.17556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) in real-world applications often face the risks of specially crafted prompts designed to bypass the safety controls. Existing guardrail meth…

arXiv cs.LG

Self-Distillation as a Performance Recovery Mechanism for LLMs: Counteracting Compression and Catastrophic Forgetting

arXiv:2604.15794v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, underpinning diverse AI applications. However, they often suffer from performance degradation due to fac…

arXiv cs.LG

How Transparent is DiffusionGemma?

arXiv:2606.20560v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM reasoning transparency is a critical affordance for understanding model decisions, mitigating misuse and misalignment, and debugging surprising model behaviors. Ho…

arXiv cs.LG

A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels, and a Native Blackwell Backward for the Gated-Linear-Recurrence Family

arXiv:2608.12700v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Systems that generate GPU kernels with language models report high correctness rates. Those rates come from a single loose test: run the kernel on a few random inputs…

arXiv cs.LG

The Integer Alibi: Localizing Cross-Kernel Divergence in INT8-Quantized LLM Inference

arXiv:2608.13756v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Two GPU kernels implementing the same scaled INT8 GEMM interface are usually treated as interchangeable. We test that assumption: holding the checkpoint, prompts, hard…

arXiv cs.LG

SimulRAG: Simulator-based RAG for Grounding LLMs in Long-form Scientific QA

arXiv:2509.25459v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in generating long-form scientific explanations that synthesize evidence and connect multiple factors. However, in long…

arXiv cs.LG

Why Does Self-Distillation (Sometimes) Degrade the Reasoning Capability of LLMs?

arXiv:2603.24472v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-distillation has emerged as an effective post-training paradigm for LLMs, often improving performance while shortening reasoning traces. However, in mathema…

arXiv cs.LG

From Diffusion to Flow: Efficient Motion Generation in MotionGPT3

arXiv:2603.26747v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent text-driven motion generation methods span both discrete token-based approaches and continuous-latent formulations. MotionGPT3 exemplifies the latter para…

arXiv cs.LG

Attention Flows: Tracing LLM Conceptual Engagement via Story Summaries

arXiv:2604.06416v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although LLM context lengths have grown, there is evidence that their ability to integrate information across long-form texts has not kept pace. We evaluate one…

arXiv cs.LG

Turning Off-Policy Tokens On-Policy: A Plug-in Approach for Improving LLM Alignment

arXiv:2607.04728v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for large language models (LLMs) follows a efficient paradigm of "rollout then update", which inevitably results in off…

arXiv cs.LG

Belayer: Efficient Fault Tolerance for LLM Agentic RL Training

arXiv:2608.14635v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly trained with reinforcement learning in long-horizon, sandboxed environments. Unlike conventional RL, agentic R…

arXiv cs.LG

RecurrentGPT: Expressive Depth through Recurrent Modulation in Transformers

arXiv:2608.15062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling transformer language models creates an inherent tension between expressivity and memory efficiency. While unique weights across layers preserve functiona…

Towards AI

DeepSeek Harness Makes a Serious Promise. I Would Audit It Before Letting It Touch a Repository

An agent that can explain its actions is more useful than one that merely sounds confident. DeepSeek Harness puts that idea near the centre of its design. The interesting question is what a developer should demand befor…

Towards AI

DeepSeek Harness Launches, DeepSeek Harness vs. Grok Build, Are they the Claude Code Killer?

Claude Code Set the Stage with MCP, Agent Skills, Plugins. DeepSeek Might Be Writing a new chapter in Harness Engineering. Continue reading on Towards AI »

Aug 19, 2026

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TechCrunch

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

The Decoder

OpenAI fixes Codex bug that deleted real user files without permission

OpenAI patched Codex after GPT-5.6 Sol started deleting real user files on its own. A cleanup command meant for temporary folders was wiping home directories instead. Codex now verifies deletion targets first, and full-…

Wired AI

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks

Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.

Hacker News

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

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The Decoder

GLM-5.3 tops the open-model rankings and undercuts rivals on price, but its release is delayed

GLM-5.3, the AI model from Chinese startup Z.ai, scores 60 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That ties it with Kimi K3 for the top spot among open models, and it's seven points ahead of the previous…

Hugging Face

LFM2.5 Q4\_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware Distillation

OpenAI

Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna

Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.

Aug 18, 2026

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TechCrunch

Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.

The Decoder

New benchmark ranks search APIs for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed

Artificial Analysis has released the "Search Index," a benchmark that rates search API providers for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed. Of seven providers tested with GPT-5.6 Luna, Parallel, Exa, and Firecrawl score…

TechCrunch

OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it

ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.

AI News

Alvys launches AI agents for freight TMS workflows

Freight software provider Alvys has launched an agentic AI platform that allows carriers and brokers to automate operational tasks directly within its transportation management system (TMS). Called Alvys Foundry, the pl…

The Verge

ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens

OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger u…

OpenAI

Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.

AI News

Reading Zhipu’s GLM-5.3 results past the headline number

Zhipu’s release note for GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own cybersecurity results, the Beijing company writes that capability “is growing fastest exactly where…

Wired AI

The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here

Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.

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