Deploying a Multistage Multimodal Recommender System on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
A practical walkthrough of building and deploying a multistage, multimodal recommender system on Amazon EKS, covering data pipelines, model training, Bloom filters, feature caching, and real-time ranking.
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Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View
Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.
With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.
Grounding LLMs with Fresh Web Data to Reduce Hallucinations
Why production LLM systems need live web search to overcome knowledge cutoffs and stale training data
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Another day, another example of an AI Agent “running rogue” and doing something the human operator didn’t want it to do. The tl;dr is that Jeremy (Jer) Crane, founder of PocketOS, was using Claude to perform some routine DB maintenance. Claude then proceeded to delete the production database and all...
The Rise of the Micro Executive: How AI Turns Individuals Into Teams
Discover how AI copilots are creating a new class of micro-executives—individuals who operate with the leverage, speed, and output of entire departments.
What if the model you've been evaluating has been evaluating you right back? New research finds that LLMs systematically alter their output depending on whether, and by whom, they believe they are being observed. It might have serious implications - are you ready?
AI Artifact Catalogs: Durable Standards Worth Institutional Investment
Companies everywhere are trying to leverage AI to boost internal productivity metrics. Some, like Ramp and Intercom, are succeeding. Many are failing. To make matters more complicated, the narrative around what tooling enables these gains is constantly shifting. For software engineers, auto-complete...
Systematic Optimization of Real-Time Diffusion Model Inference on Apple M3 Ultra
arXiv:2605.16259v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While real-time image generation using diffusion models has advanced rapidly on NVIDIA GPUs, systematic optimization research on non-CUDA platforms such as Apple Silicon remains extremely limited. In this study, we conducted comprehensive optimization...
Mirror Descent-Type Algorithms for the Variational Inequality Problem with Functional Constraints
arXiv:2605.16262v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Variational inequalities play a key role in machine learning research, such as generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, adversarial training, and generative models. This paper is devoted to the constrained variational inequality proble...
Reducing Credit Assignment Variance via Counterfactual Reasoning Paths
arXiv:2605.16302v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning for multi-step reasoning with large language models (LLMs) often relies on sparse terminal rewards, leading to poor credit assignment conditions where the final feedback is evenly propagated across all intermediate decisions. Th...
arXiv:2605.16311v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Distributed training of large neural networks is bottlenecked by full-precision gradient communication and by coordinatewise optimizers that ignore the matrix structure of weight tensors. We propose Sign-Muon, a 1-bit, matrix-aware optimizer that comb...
When Actions Disappear: Adversarial Action Removal in Self-Play Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2605.16312v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study adversarial action masking in self-play reinforcement learning: an attacker selectively removes legal actions from a victim's action set. Unlike observation or action perturbations, removal eliminates decision options before the agent acts. A...
AgentWall: A Runtime Safety Layer for Local AI Agents
arXiv:2605.16265v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The safety of autonomous AI agents is increasingly recognized as a critical open problem. As agents transition from passive text generators to active actors capable of executing shell commands, modifying files, calling APIs, and browsing the web, the ...
ANNEAL: Adapting LLM Agents via Governed Symbolic Patch Learning
arXiv:2605.16309v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: LLM-based agents can recover from individual execution errors, yet they repeatedly fail on the same fault when the underlying process knowledge--operator schemas, preconditions, and constraints--remains unrepaired. Existing self-evolving approaches ad...
From Prompts to Protocols: An AI Agent for Laboratory Automation
arXiv:2605.16552v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automating science laboratories enables faster, safer, more accurate, and more reproducible execution of protocols, accelerating the discovery and testing of new materials, drugs, and more. However, setting up and running autonomous labs requires coor...
Skim: Speculative Execution for Fast and Efficient Web Agents
arXiv:2605.16565v2 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Skim is a speculative execution framework for web agents that exploits the predictable structure of purpose-built websites. Today's web-agent expense is not intrinsic to the tasks but a property of how agents are composed: frontier-model inference, br...