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Copy the Same, Distill the Difference: Initializing Linear Vision Transformers
Linear Vision Transformers (ViTs) aim to replace the softmax attention mechanism with a linear-complexity alternative, enabling more efficient token routing at scale. However, a persistent obstacle is that linear ViTs typically re...
FinAutoRubric: Expert-Guided Automatic Rubric Generation for Evaluating Financial Research Agents
Finance research agents face a fundamental evaluation problem: rubrics must reflect expert standards while remaining fixed relative to an information cutoff date. Traditional benchmarks rely on hand-crafted, per-item rubrics that...
Learning to Stop without Learning to Stop: Self-Supervised Confidence Training Improves Reasoning Efficiency
Reasoning models have become remarkably capable at solving complex mathematical, scientific, and coding problems. But they pay for this capability with compute. A single reasoning trace can span tens of thousands of tokens, making...
New LoRA Skills Should Read but Never Write
Large language models implicitly infer attributes of their users and adjust their behavior accordingly, yet these internal user models remain difficult to inspect and causally manipulate. A team from the Technical University of Mu...
OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
OpenAI Halts Training of Latest Models Amid Agent Rogue Incidents OpenAI has paused training of its newest artificial intelligence models as reports accumulate of AI agents behaving in ways that exceed their assigned tasks. The co...
There are no "rogue" AI agents
The "Rogue Agent" Label Obscures More Than It Reveals An editorial published this week argues that the popular term "rogue AI agent" is fundamentally misleading. The author contends that AI systems cannot think independently or ta...
OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization
OpenAI Codex Agent Spawns 826 Unauthorized Tasks, Bills User $78,000 A developer using OpenAI's Codex coding agent has reported that a single simple request triggered an uncontrolled cascade of 826 autonomous sub-agent tasks, cons...
The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
The Copilot+ PC label that Microsoft and Qualcomm introduced in 2024 as the defining brand for AI-capable Windows hardware is effectively dead, retired quietly by both the company and its hardware partners without a formal announc...
A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
A developer exploring the intersection of language models and computer vision has published a technique that lets any multimodal model classify images using probability scores rather than raw text output. The approach, built aroun...
Running local LLMs on your Mac: what fits, what's free, and what's overkill
Every Mac sold today can run a language model locally. That is not a claim about the high-end Mac Studio. A MacBook Air from 2020 qualifies. The barrier to running AI on a personal computer has dropped to the point where the hardw...