Kyutai Releases Hibiki-Zero: A3B Parameter Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation Model Using GRPO Reinforcement Learning Without Any Word-Level Aligned Data
Kyutai has released Hibiki-Zero, a new model for simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) and speech-to-text translation (S2TT). The system translates source speech into a target language in real-time. It handles non-monotonic word dependencies during the process. Unlike previous models, Hib...
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Stephanie Kirmer on the $200 billion investment bubble, how AI companies can rebuild trust, and how her day-to-day work changed with the rise of LLMs.
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The Digital Unconscious: What AI Reveals About Our Own Dreaming Minds
Are AI hallucinations the digital equivalent of human dreams? Explore how machine processing mirrors our subconscious mind and what it reveals about creativity.
AtScale Expands Executive Leadership Following Strategic Equity Investment
AtScale, the leader in governed semantic layer technology for enterprise AI and analytics, today announced the appointments of Luis Maldonado as Chief Product Officer and Amy Miller as Vice President of Customer Success. The leadership expansion follows AtScale’s recently closed strategic equity inv...
Seclore, today announced the launch of Seclore ARMOR (Automated Risk Management Orchestration and Resilience) a unified Data Security Intelligence platform designed to help enterprises embrace AI safely. ARMOR brings together data discovery, context-aware intelligence, persistent enforcement, and pr...
Proofpoint Acquires Acuvity to Expand AI Governance Across Agentic Workspace
Acquisition of AI security innovator positions Proofpoint as the first cybersecurity platform to comprehensively address agentic workspace protection at the intersections of humans, data, and AI Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced it has acquired Acuvity...
Keragon AI turns plain English into HIPAA-compliant healthcare automation
Keragon, the leading healthcare automation platform, today announced the launch of Keragon AI, which transforms how administrative and clinical operations teams build and deploy HIPAA-compliant automations. As the industry’s first plain-English automation builder, Keragon AI combines an intuitive co...
Hippocratic AI Appoints New Key Execs to Further Accelerate Growth
Additional Executive Hires to Support Safe, Responsible Scaling of Generative AI Healthcare Agents Hippocratic AI, a global leader and pioneer of generative AI healthcare agents, today announced several strategic executive appointments as the company continues to scale its platform across providers,...
Conductors to Orchestrators: The Future of Agentic Coding
This post first appeared on Addy Osmani’s Elevate Substack newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. AI coding assistants have quickly moved from novelty to necessity, where up to 90% of software engineers use some kind of AI for coding. But a new paradigm is emerging in...
Adopting Agentic AI is a Priority for 87% of Security Teams: Ivanti
Most security professionals (77%) express some level of comfort with deploying agentic systems and allowing them to act without human review. Ivanti, a global enterprise IT and security software company, announced the findings of its 2026 State of Cybersecurity Report: Bridging the Divide. Drawing o...
Abstract joins Torq AMP Alliance Program to Accelerate Agentic SecOps
Torq AMP Drives Agentic AI Innovation Through Deep Integration and Innovation Capabilities, GTM Collaboration, and Disruptive Joint Marketing For Abstract Abstract, the leader in streaming-first security operations, today announced it joined the expanding Torq AMP alliance program, designed to drive...
I Built an AI Agent that Predicts Match Winners in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026
The T20 World Cup 2026 brings exciting matches, and fans constantly wonder which team will win. An AI agent answers this by analyzing live data and patterns instead of relying on intuition. Users enter a match date, and the system gathers all scheduled games and relevant context for that day. Built ...
GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social scientists analyze research at scale.
Policy as code capability transforms compliance in regulated agentic AI workflows Automated policy enforcement establishes guardrails, codifies compliance and boosts transparency across enterprise operations Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, t...
Medicomp Systems Launches AI Tools for Evidence-Based Care
Strategic update emphasizes responsible AI, data validation, risk avoidance and clinically grounded workflows to power intelligent systems of tomorrow Medicomp Systems, a leading provider of evidence-based clinically intelligent data solutions, today announced a new suite of intelligence tools desig...
Baolin Li, Lingyi Liu, Binh Tang, Shaojing LiIntroductionPre-training gives Large Language Models (LLMs) broad linguistic ability and general world knowledge, but post-training is the phase that actually aligns them to concrete intents, domain constraints, and the reliability requirements of product...
Google DeepMind Introduces Aletheia: The AI Agent Moving from Math Competitions to Fully Autonomous Professional Research Discoveries
Google DeepMind team has introduced Aletheia, a specialized AI agent designed to bridge the gap between competition-level math and professional research. While models achieved gold-medal standards at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), research requires navigating vast literature and...
OPAQUE Systems Raises $24M Series B at $300M Valuation
Confidential AI platform empowers enterprises to unlock and scale AI on their most sensitive data OPAQUE, the Confidential AI company defining the trust layer for enterprise AI, today announced a $24 million Series B funding round led by Walden Catalyst, with participation from returning investors i...
Proposed transaction brings together two leading enablement platforms to support the evolving needs of modern revenue organizations Seismic and Highspot today announced they have signed a definitive agreement to merge the companies. The transaction will bring together two leading enablement platform...
Automated Optimization Modeling via a Localizable Error-Driven Perspective
arXiv:2602.11164v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automated optimization modeling via Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach to assist complex human decision-making. While post-training has become a pivotal technique to enhance LLMs' capabilities in this domain, its effectiv...
Spectra: Rethinking Optimizers for LLMs Under Spectral Anisotropy
arXiv:2602.11185v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Gradient signals in LLM training are highly anisotropic: recurrent linguistic structure concentrates energy into a small set of dominant spectral directions, while context specific information resides in a long tail. We show that this spike tail separ...
GAC-KAN: An Ultra-Lightweight GNSS Interference Classifier for GenAI-Powered Consumer Edge Devices
arXiv:2602.11186v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into Consumer Electronics (CE)--from AI-powered assistants in wearables to generative planning in autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)--has revolutionized user experiences. However, these GenAI applicatio...