8+ hour, 37+ min ago (318+ words) Over a fifth of the peer reviews submitted to the world's largest AI conference were allegedly fully AI-generated, while more than half showed signs of AI use. The world's largest machine-learning and AI conference has been flooded with examples of academics using AI-generated content for their peer reviews, while many papers submitted were also partially'or even fully'AI-generated, Nature reports. Graham Neubig, an AI researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, grew suspicious after receiving what appeared to be an AI-generated peer review, prompting him to bring in the startup to investigate by reaching out on social media. Desmond Elliott, a computer scientist at the University of Copenhagen, told Nature that one peer review on his student's work had "missed the point of the paper." His student suspected it was generated by an LLM. Panagram's analysis flagged the review as fully AI-generated, confirming his…...

12+ hour, 47+ min ago (444+ words) Traditional agent frameworks keep workflow state and control logic inside a central orchestrator. Every agent call, tool call and retry goes through that controller. This model is easy to reason about, but it does not scale well when you need tens of thousands of concurrent synthetic dialogues or tool trajectories. This design reduces idle time when different trajectories have very different lengths. It also makes fault handling local to a task. If one orchestrator fails it does not stall a batch. Matrix runs on a Ray cluster that is usually launched on SLURM. Ray provides distributed actors and queues. Ray Serve exposes LLM endpoints behind vLLM and SGLang, and can also route to external APIs such as Azure OpenAI or Gemini through proxy servers. Tool calls and other complex services run inside Apptainer containers. This isolates the agent runtime from…...

15+ hour, 33+ min ago (122+ words) Fox News Channel offers its audiences in-depth news reporting, along with opinion and analysis encompassing the principles of free people, free markets and diversity of thought, as an alternative to the left-of-center offerings of the news marketplace. Concerns mount surrounding risks of AI innovation Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., joined 'Fox News Sunday' to examine the rapid growth of AI, the growing pressure to stay ahead of China, the growing military tension between US and Venezuela and more. Concerns mount surrounding risks of AI innovation Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., joined 'Fox News Sunday' to examine the rapid growth of AI, the growing pressure to stay ahead of China, the growing military tension between US and Venezuela and more....

19+ hour, 33+ min ago (236+ words) Flights were delayed and cancelled globally after Airbus ordered fixes to 6,000 of its A320 series planes, according to The Guardian. The company said it's taking action because "analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls." Citing [] Airbus orders software fix to thousands of planes due to solar radiation risk Flights were delayed and cancelled globally after Airbus ordered fixes to 6,000 of its A320 series planes, according to The Guardian. The company said it's taking action because "analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls." Citing industry sources, Reuters reports that the event in question was an October 30 JetBlue flight from Cancun, Mexico to Newark, New Jersey, in which…...

19+ hour, 56+ min ago (416+ words) American consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, according to data from Adobe Analytics, which says it tracks more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail websites. That's a new record, and up from $10.8 billion spent on Black Friday last year, Adobe says. Between 10am and 2pm, online shoppers were supposedly spending $12.5 million every minute. Forbes reports that Adobe said in a statement that the numbers show Black Friday has become "a major e-commerce moment, as more shoppers opt to stay home and take advantage of deals." The company projects that Cyber Monday (coming in two days, on December 1) will be even bigger, with $14.2 billion spent online, according to Reuters. Black Friday data from companies like Adobe and Salesforce can provide an early indicator of broader holiday shopping trends. Adobe is projecting a total of $253.4 billion in holiday spending this year, compared to $241.1 billion…...

20+ hour, 34+ min ago (249+ words) Driving the Next Generation of Intelligent Apps AsthaAI Engine enables businesses to embed AI-powered features into both new and existing applications, including: Smart Chatbots & Voice Assistants Predictive Analytics & User Behavior Mapping Advanced Fraud & Anomaly Detection Systems The framework is built with modern technologies such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Node.js, and Python, optimized for both mobile and web deployment, making it highly adaptable for enterprise-scale applications. "With AsthaAI Engine, we've combined our 8+ years of experience in mobile and web development with advanced AI architecture to create a solution that accelerates product development while enhancing automation, intelligence, and user experience,"said Rajeev Ranjan, Director of Astha Technologies. Built for Startups, Enterprises, and Everything in Between During its beta phase, AsthaAI Engine has already powered AI-driven applications across multiple sectors: Early adopters reported up to 40% faster development cycles, improved app performance, and higher…...

23+ hour, 26+ min ago (191+ words) New York's latest state budget includes new disclosure requirements for businesses that use personal data to set different prices for different shoppers " for example, charging you more if you have a history of splurging. Businesses that use personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, "This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data," according to The New York Times. It's not clear how widespread this practice actually is among online retailers. An Uber spokesperson told the NYT that the company is now showing this disclosure to New Yorkers, although they described the law as "poorly drafted and ambiguous" and insisted that Uber only uses geography and customer demand to calculate its dynamic pricing. The National Retail Federation filed a lawsuit to stop the law, but a federal judge allowed it to move forward. Lina Khan, former chair…...

1+ day, 33+ min ago (359+ words) Most current audio models inherit their reasoning behavior from text training. They learn to reason as if they read transcripts, not as if they listen. The StepFun team calls this Textual Surrogate Reasoning. The model uses imagined words and descriptions instead of acoustic cues such as pitch contour, rhythm, timbre or background noise patterns. The architecture stays close to the previous Step Audio systems: The decoder always produces an explicit reasoning block inside and tags, followed by the final answer. This separation lets training objectives shape the structure and content of reasoning without losing focus on task accuracy. The model is released as a 33B parameter audio text to text model on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. The pipeline has a supervised cold start stage and a reinforcement learning stage that both mix text and audio tasks. Supervised learning trains Step-Audio-R1 to…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago (715+ words) The effects mirrored key aspects of surgical deep brain stimulation but without implants or incisions. The findings suggest ultrasound could become a safer, personalized tool for reshaping faulty reward circuits in mental health disorders. Source: University of Plymouth The nucleus accumbens is a tiny element of the human brain triggered when we experience something enjoyable, and used to help us learn behaviours that lead to rewards. A new study has shown for the first time that its influence on human behaviour can be altered using transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS). Applying the technique for just over a minute at a time, researchers were able to influence how people learned the links between certain cues and rewards. The result was that they were more likely to repeat a choice that had previously paid off, their learning rates following positive outcomes increased and…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1476+ words) A Christmas art poster contest in Bozeman exploded into controversy after the winning design was accused of being generated by artificial intelligence. The Downtown Bozeman Partnership pulled the winning design entirely citing safety concerns. BOZEMAN, Mont. " What began as a small-town art contest to create a poster for a beloved holiday tradition has snowballed into an avalanche of controversy and media attention for the contest's winner." The 45th Annual Christmas Stroll poster competition in Bozeman offered a modest $200 prize. It ended with accusations, investigations, online harassment, and a decision by the Downtown Bozeman Partnership to pull the winning design entirely citing safety concerns. The winner, artist Ghassane Moutaoukil, has steadfastly denied using AI to generate his illustration of revelers beneath Christmas lights on a wintry Bozeman street. At the same time, local artists claim they could replicate his style using ChatGPT....