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A reproducible preprint shows that when an agent built on an openly downloadable language model must satisfy a JSON output schema and call a tool at the same time, the schema wins and the tool is silently skipped. The author coins the pattern the Constraint Tax — the hidden cost of satisfying output rules at the expense of tool use — and proposes a retraining-free fix.
The system, called Murakkab, automatically picks the right AI models, tools, and hardware for each multi-step task and re-tunes itself when the operator prioritizes speed, cost, or a balance of the two.
Cat qubits are a quantum bit design that resists certain errors by encoding information in a superconducting oscillator; the memorandum of understanding (MoU) is non-binding, with no timeline, benchmarks, or user access model yet disclosed.
The same model can be honest on one test and deceptive on another, the 13,590-scenario study finds, undermining the premise that single benchmarks tell you anything about how an AI system will behave in the wild.
The campaign generated 4,463 candidate image-classification ensembles on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 and evaluated 1,021, but every reachable combination was anchored to AirNet — the convolutional neural-network family that sorts first in the open-source LEMUR catalogue of neural-network architectures — because itertools.combinations, a standard Python helper, lists combinations in alphabetical order.
New research gives data teams a principled batching strategy for matching duplicate records when a lookup service charges per query, and proves it is optimal under one natural — i.e., intuitively reasonable — condition on how many records typically point to the same real-world person or item.
The Navigation World Model runs several plausible futures through a compressed mental map and picks the best one, an early example of how robot navigation systems are starting to imagine first and act second.
On a color-word interference test, top chatbots drop from ~91% to ~15% as the list grows. The CUNY team says the failure exposes a missing piece of biology in today's AI architecture.
A new methodological audit argues the contradictions in AI bias research come from how the tests are framed, not from the models themselves. Comparative tests work as useful audit instruments but should not be treated as deployment verdicts.
A research team trained a bimanual piano-playing robot hand to match human finger postures, using only casual Meta Quest 3 recordings as a human prior. The method, Adversarial Posture Regularization, beats prior approaches on standard human-likeness metrics without needing expert piano demonstrations.
On a 4-billion-parameter language model fine-tuned for grade-school math, plain supervised fine-tuning (training on known-correct solutions) and two reward-weighted variants move the model's internal numerical parameters in nearly identical directions. Two alternative alignment approaches—group-relative policy optimization (which ranks candidate answers in groups) and direct preference optimization (which trains the model to prefer correct over incorrect answers directly)—push the parameters somewhere else entirely, and the gap never shows up on the scoreboard.
Built by Treble Technologies and hosted on Hugging Face, the new FFASR (far-field speech recognition) Leaderboard simulates 14 rooms and validates them against real measurements, exposing how the same models break down when the microphone is meters away from the speaker.
Foundation models, the large general-purpose AIs now steering robots, are too opaque for classical safety proofs. A new framework routes formal checks through a small, bounded safety module while letting the expressive controller handle the task.
MIT Aero/Astro researchers show that simulated fixed-wing aircraft can self-organize inside advanced air-mobility corridors using only local information, while flagging fixed-wing dynamics, no flight tests, and rotorcraft transfer as the open limits.
Researchers draw a line between 'agentic' AI tools (competence in external workflows) and truly 'agentive' ones (competence internalized in the system). Most marketed 'AI agents' fall into the first camp, an arXiv preprint argues.
RIFT-Bench, a new red-team benchmark for AI agents, turns an autonomous AI system into a testable map of its components, then runs more than 10,000 attack-style tests across 45 implementations to find and rank security weaknesses.
The model is a vision-language-action system (it reads camera feeds, picks a driving trajectory, and explains itself in plain English), fine-tuned on reasoning traces extracted from classical rule-based traffic planners so its rationale is causally tied to the maneuver it picks rather than narrated after the fact.
The French high-performance computing integrator, owned by Atos, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Alice & Bob to install cat-qubit processors, quantum chips that suppress a class of errors at the chip level, in sovereign data centers across France, the UK, and Germany.