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Can Multi-modal (reasoning) LLMs work as deepfake detectors? (arxiv.org)

Do Deepfake Detectors Work in Reality? (arxiv.org)

EF-LLM: A Continual Learning-Based Framework for AI-Assisted Automation, Enhanced Sparse Prediction, and Hallucination Detection (arxiv.org)

One Scan is Enough: Demonstration-Free Adaptation for Language-Guided Navigation (arxiv.org)

RoboReason: Boosting Robotics-Relevant VLM Reasoning Through Scalable Data Generation (arxiv.org)

FlowHOI: Flow-based Semantics-Grounded Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Dexterous Robot Manipulation (arxiv.org)

BatMIL: Geometry-Embedding State Space Model for Whole-Slide Image Representation (arxiv.org)

Why Geometric Continuity Emerges in Deep Neural Networks: Residual Connections and Rotational Symmetry Breaking (arxiv.org)

GPT-Image-2 in the Wild: A Twitter Dataset of Self-Reported AI-Generated Images from the First Week of Deployment (arxiv.org)

RoboGene: Diversity-Driven Agentic Task Generation Framework for VLA Pre-training (arxiv.org)

EpiFlow: Bridging Safety and Performance in Offline Reinforcement Learning via Epigraph-Guided Flow Matching (arxiv.org)

How well are open sourced AI-generated image detection models out-of-the-box: A comprehensive benchmark study (arxiv.org)

Multi-Agentic AI for Fairness-Aware and Accelerated Multi-modal Large Model Inference in Real-world Mobile Edge Networks (arxiv.org)

DeALOG: Decentralized Multi-Agents Log-Mediated Reasoning Framework (arxiv.org)

NoiseFormer -- Noise Diffused Symmetric Attention Transformer (arxiv.org)

Navigating Ideation Space: Decomposed Conceptual Representations for Positioning Scientific Ideas (arxiv.org)

Do Latent Tokens Think? A Causal and Adversarial Analysis of Chain-of-Continuous-Thought (arxiv.org)

LLM-Generated Counterfactual Stress Scenarios for Portfolio Risk Simulation via Hybrid Prompt-RAG Pipeline (arxiv.org)

A Causal Perspective on the Role of Training Dynamics for Interpreting Privacy Risks in Code Models (arxiv.org)

CRAFT-E: An Interpretable and Editable Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Affordance-Grounded Active Object Retrieval (arxiv.org)

Diff-Feat: Diffusion-Based Cross-Modal Feature Extraction for Multi-Label Classification (arxiv.org)

Benchmarking Classification Tasks of Chest X-ray AI Across Multinational Public and Private Datasets: a retrospective diagnostic accuracy study (arxiv.org)

Simple yet Effective Semi-supervised Knowledge Distillation from Vision-Language Models via Dual-Head Optimization (arxiv.org)

Subspace Crystallization in Grokking: Rank Compression Tracks the Phase Transition (arxiv.org)

Folding Pooled Usage Examples into the Tool Index Lowers Retrieval of Unused Tools (arxiv.org)

Direct Forcing: Single-Stage Training with Representation-Space Supervision for Few-Step Autoregressive Video Generation (arxiv.org)

US Designates Helium As a Critical Material (news.slashdot.org)

Incremental rust builds up to 92x faster than cargo/rustc (github.com)

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OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Halving GPT-6.1 Sol’s API Price for Agent Work (www.marktechpost.com)

Crops Are Drying Up—So Why Are AI Data Centers Getting All the Water? Rep ... - Facebook (www.facebook.com)

France 2030 : plusieurs dispositifs clôturés avant terme et des vagues d'AAP futures annulées (SGPI) (education.newstank.fr)

I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0 (eliasfarhan.ch)

Lincoln Square (@lincolnsquare): "Crops Are Drying Up—So Why Are AI Data Centers Getting All ... (substack.com)

16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows (github.com)

Why Data Centers Use 2M+ Gallons of Water a Day [2026] - Tech Insider (tech-insider.org)

So Many AI Security Benchmarks, But None Tell the Whole Story (www.darkreading.com)

Show HN: Live speech-to-text on an ESP32-P4 microcontroller, no cloud (github.com)

Experts temper emergency-level alarms over critical Brotli defect (cyberscoop.com)

Southern Africa's first known stenciled rock art found hiding in plain sight (phys.org)

Across Connecticut, anxiety fuels data center backlash | KAMR - MyHighPlains.com (www.myhighplains.com)

Never let a request decide who pays (medium.com)

Modernizing Databases Without Live Cloud Connectivity via DMS (medium.com)

ADK2.0 101 (#3c): Memory Service and Semantic search (medium.com)

ADK2.0 101 (#3b): Session Service (medium.com)

3 Tools That Make Google Cloud Easier with Codex (medium.com)

OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics (www.theverge.com)

Aspen drought might improve over next 3 months | AspenTimes.com (www.aspentimes.com)

Lake Maumelle's low water disrupts fishing trips; no restrictions in place - KATV (katv.com)

City councilor's Toronto water utility plan draws fire: 'Water is not a commodity' - Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)