arXiv:2606.11337v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scientific AI agents increasingly retrieve evidence, reason across sources, and synthesize conclusions used in consequential decisions. Yet, their ability to do so in high-stakes domains such as health remains unclear. We introduce SciConBench, a larg...
Knowing When to Ask: Self-Gated Clarification for Hierarchical Language Agents
arXiv:2606.11349v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In hierarchical reasoning, failures often originate at intermediate decision points where the agent commits to a wrong branch without recognizing that it lacks critical information. Rather than treating clarification as an external uncertainty trigger...
Automated Mediator for Human Negotiation: Pre-Mediation via a Structured LLM Pipeline
arXiv:2606.11379v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pre-mediation, the preparatory phase preceding direct human negotiation, plays a critical role in achieving mutually beneficial agreements, yet is often omitted due to cost, time, and limited access to trained mediators. We introduce an automated medi...
How an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes
Discover how astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan uses Codex to build black hole simulations, helping scientists study extreme physics and test Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem
OpenAI supports the EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency, advancing provenance standards and tools to help people understand AI-generated content.
AI Weekly Issue #502: Your AI can now spend your money — Visa wired it into ChatGPT
Visa just wired ChatGPT to shop and pay on your behalf — an AI agent can now buy at any Visa merchant without you clicking "buy." It capped a week where the labs pushed autonomy and capital to new highs: Anthropic put Claude Fable 5, its most powerful public model, into everyone's hands; Jeff Bezos ...
xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.
A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison
We implement an instrumented workflow for Microsoft SkillOpt end to end. We set up the repository, connect OpenAI-compatible model access, and configure the optimizer and target models. We evaluate the original seed skill as a baseline, then run a real optimization loop with rollout, reflection, agg...
For Robotaxis, Safety Must Be Built In, Not Bolted On
A car pulls up to the curb. The app says, “Your ride is here.” No one’s in the driver’s seat. For people who live in one of the dozens of cities now hosting robotaxi services, this is already a reality. The robotaxi industry has moved from prototype milestones to commercial operations, with an expan...
Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation
DiffusionGemma is Google DeepMind's experimental 26B open model using text diffusion for up to 4x faster generation on GPUs.
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NVIDIA Accelerates Google DeepMind’s DiffusionGemma for Local AI
Today, Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma — an experimental open model built for exceptionally fast text generation. NVIDIA has optimized DiffusionGemma to run even faster across NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, the NVIDIA RTX PRO platform and NVIDIA DGX Spark systems, from local PCs to the cloud. Rat...
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.
A quick guide to separating Physical AI from world models, embodied AI, physics AI, and digital twins
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The PM’s Playbook for Shipping AI Features That Actually Work in Production
The demo to Production Death Valley If you’ve worked on an AI feature, you know the feeling. You start building something that you are excited about, set launch timelines. The model spits out a perfect response, the prototype works magically, and everybody in the room is mentally calculating how big...