Daily AI Recap: Feb 02, 2026

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The Autonomy Trap: Why AI "Doing the Work for Us" is a Step Backward: Explore why the shift to autonomous AI agents in 2026 might be a "Cognitive Debt" trap. A critical look at OpenAI’s Prism, the fallacy of self-verification, and how delegating inquiry to AI erodes hum...
Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features: Starting with Firefox 148 arriving later this month, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings....
The Statistical Cost of Zero Padding in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs): What is Zero Padding Zero padding is a technique used in convolutional neural networks where additional pixels with a value of zero are added around the borders of an image. This allows convolutional ...
What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis: This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. What would it take to convince you that the era of truth decay...
Working with Billion-Row Datasets in Python (Using Vaex): Analyze billion-row datasets in Python using Vaex. Learn how out-of-core processing, lazy evaluation, and memory mapping enable fast analytics at scale....
Advancing AI benchmarking with Game Arena: An illustration of a King and Ace playing card, a wolf's head, two chess pieces, a poker chip, and other abstract shapes on a white background.1...
Ring brings its ‘Search Party’ feature for finding lost dogs to non-Ring camera owners: Ring's Search Party feature for finding lost dogs is now available across the U.S. — even if you don't own a Ring camera....
Tricentis Expands Leadership to Scale AI-Powered Software Quality: Jason Bliss joins as EVP and President, Business Operations; Todd Horst joins as Chief Growth Officer Tricentis, a global leader in AI-augmented software quality, today announced the appointment of tw...
From Signal magazine: Rishi Sunak on why leaders must drive AI from the top: The post From Signal magazine: Rishi Sunak on why leaders must drive AI from the top appeared first on Source....
DXC Names Rob Le Busque as Asia Pacific & Japan Leader: DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced the appointment of Rob Le Busque as President of Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), effective immediately. ...
The crucial first step for designing a successful enterprise AI system: Many organizations rushed into generative AI, only to see pilots fail to deliver value. Now, companies want measurable outcomes—but how do you design for success? At Mistral AI, we partner with global...
Lyric Health Appoints Bill Schmitt as Chief Growth Officer: Lyric Health, a leader in AI-powered virtual care and integrated health navigation, today announced the appointment of Bill Schmitt as Chief Growth Officer (CGO). In this newly created role, Schmitt w...
Prompt Injection Attack: What They Are and How to Prevent Them: Large language models like ChatGPT, Claude are made to follow user instructions. But following user instructions indiscriminately creates a serious weakness. Attackers can slip in hidden commands to m...
Silicon Darwinism: Why Scarcity Is the Source of True Intelligence: We are confusing “size” with “smart.” The next leap in artificial intelligence will not come from a larger data center, but from a more constrained environment. The post Silicon Darwinism: Why Scarcit...
Druva Launches Threat Watch to Deliver Proactive, Continuous Threat Detection: New cloud-native capability reduces threat dwell time, accelerates incident response and cyber-recovery Druva, the leading provider of data security, today announced the launch of Threat Watch, a zero...
Coder Launches AI Maturity Self-Assessment: The free assessment gives engineering teams a clear view of AI maturity so they can align leadership, manage risk and plan the next phase of software innovation Coder, the leader in self-hosted AI dev...
ACTFORE Secures Patent for Template Identification and Matching Technology: ACTFORE’s latest patented technology redefines how organizations interpret and organize complex document sets following a cyber breach ACTFORE, a leading provider of AI-powered breach response and dat...
NordVPN’s Threat Protection Pro™ ranks fourth in anti-phishing test: Threat Protection Pro™ achieves 92% detection rate with zero false positives AV-Comparatives, a leading independent organisation in cybersecurity evaluation, has released its 2026 Anti-Phishing Compar...
These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings: These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some even offer live translation....
A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers: A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing man...
Causal Imitation Learning Under Measurement Error and Distribution Shift: arXiv:2601.22206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study offline imitation learning (IL) when part of the decision-relevant state is observed only through noisy measurements and the distribution may ...
Why Reasoning Fails to Plan: A Planning-Centric Analysis of Long-Horizon Decision Making in LLM Agents: arXiv:2601.22311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents exhibit strong step-by-step reasoning capabilities over short horizons, yet often fail to sustain coherent beha...
How to Build Memory-Driven AI Agents with Short-Term, Long-Term, and Episodic Memory: In this tutorial, we build a memory-engineering layer for an AI agent that separates short-term working context from long-term vector memory and episodic traces. We implement semantic storage using em...
Smart Enough to Do Math, Dumb Enough to Fail: The Hunt for a Better AI Test: A Stanford HAI workshop brought together experts to develop new evaluation methods that assess AI's hidden capabilities, not just its test-taking performance....

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A Coding and Experimental Analysis of Decentralized Federated Learning with Gossip Protocols and Differential Privacy: In this tutorial, we explore how federated learning behaves when the traditional centralized aggregation server is removed and replaced with a fully d...
Attention Isn't All You Need for Emotion Recognition:Domain Features Outperform Transformers on the EAV Dataset: arXiv:2601.22161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a systematic study of multimodal emotion recognition using the EAV dataset, investigating ...
Multitask Learning for Earth Observation Data Classification with Hybrid Quantum Network: arXiv:2601.22195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum machine learning (QML) has gained increasing attention as a potential solution to address the...
Neural Signals Generate Clinical Notes in the Wild: arXiv:2601.22197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating clinical reports that summarize abnormal patterns, diagnostic findings, and clinical inter...
FedAdaVR: Adaptive Variance Reduction for Robust Federated Learning under Limited Client Participation: arXiv:2601.22204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) encounters substantial challenges due to heterogeneity, leading to gradient n...
JAF: Judge Agent Forest: arXiv:2601.22269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Judge agents are fundamental to agentic AI frameworks: they provide automated evaluation, and enable ...

Daily AI Recap: February 2, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Feb 02, 2026

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