malaysia's respond.io raises $62.5m for ai messaging
malaysian startup respond.io secures series b funding to expand its ai agent-powered customer messaging platform into north america and europe.
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policy regret for embedding model routing
a new algorithm tackles dynamic routing of queries to multiple embedding models under adversarial conditions and bandit feedback.
audited conformal prediction for classification under distribution shift
a new method uses a small target dataset to train an audit model that improves prediction set coverage for pretrained classifiers facing unknown distribution shifts.
what makes a good explanation for ai outputs
a new definition of good explanations considers the listener's prior beliefs, highlighting why explaining large language model outputs is especially hard.
dr-dci: scaling direct corpus interaction with dynamic workspace expansion
a new framework combines retrieval with direct corpus interaction, letting agents pull relevant documents into a local workspace for flexible search and verification without full-corpus slowdowns.
personality clashes sent anthropic's models offline
axios reports internal friction and export control issues at anthropic, with key staff meeting the commerce department amid model safety concerns.
measuring trust between ai agents
researchers propose a behavioral measure of trust between ai agents using costly verification in a survival game, finding that larger models reduce verification with reliable teammates but differ in recovery after failures.
gpu workflow for hypersonic flow emulators
a fully gpu-based method speeds up building neural emulators for hypersonic flows with physics-aware refinement and uncertainty quantification.
stanford students protest google ceo over military ai ties
about 200 stanford graduates walked out and booed sundar pichai during his commencement speech, protesting google's cloud and ai contracts with israel's military and u.s. immigration enforcement.
us anthropic ban was never about ai jailbreak
the us government forced anthropic to pull its latest ai models offline using an export control directive, raising concerns about political interference in ai.
meta adds ai search to facebook using public posts
meta launches ai mode on facebook to answer questions by summarizing public posts, groups, and reels, alongside new editing tools and photo presets.
salesforce buys fin for $3.6b to boost ai agents
salesforce acquires ai customer service platform fin for $3.6 billion to enhance its agentforce platform with advanced agent technology.
sarvam becomes india's newest ai unicorn with $234m round
bengaluru-based sarvam raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by hcltech, to build sovereign ai models and enterprise applications for indian languages and sectors.
cybersecurity experts protest us ban on anthropic models
dozens of cybersecurity veterans signed an open letter urging the us government to lift export controls on anthropic's fable and mythos models, arguing the ban harms defenders.
newcore raises $66m to manage ai agent identities
cybersecurity startup newcore emerges from stealth with $66 million in funding to authenticate, govern, and control ai agents at scale.
recursive diffusion training converges to a smoothed limit
even with perfect learning, early stopping in diffusion models causes geometric drift toward a unique limiting distribution that acts as a low-pass filter on the data.
satellite uses ai to find things on its own in orbit
a satellite ran a vision-language model in space for the first time, letting it answer natural language queries about earth imagery without human help.
localized multidirectional correction for refusal suppression in moe models
a new method called lomc suppresses refusals in mixture-of-experts models using compact, support-gated edits that preserve general performance.