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True Positive Weekly #181

The most important artificial intelligence and machine learning news and articles

😸 WATCH: Can AI Help Cure Genetic Disease?

Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement

Three moves to decode the hype The post Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Google Wants a Bigger Role in How Work Gets Done

Google wants Gemini to take on more responsibility at work. The practical test is how much attention teams save after reviewing and correcting its output.

AI Agents Beat PyTorch: Writing Faster CUDA Kernels

AI agents can now write CUDA kernels that outperform PyTorch—but proving those speedups are real is the harder problem. I put them to the test on an NVIDIA DGX Spark and found that benchmark design matters just as much…

Your Model's MSE Is Lying to You III: Time Series Diffusion

A diffusion head for probabilistic time series forecasting: why a forecast can get the mean and the variance right and still describe a future that never happens, and how to fix it. The post Your Model's MSE Is Lying to…

Why Meta, DeepMind and the U.S. Government Are Backing Virtual Cells

Meta, Google DeepMind and U.S. agencies are backing Biohub’s effort to build the experimental data AI needs to predict cellular behavior. The promise is faster discovery; the test is whether those predictions hold up in…

Haiku 5.5 Could Be Claude’s Most Practical Launch Yet

Claude’s smaller model has a timely opening: agents need affordable intelligence they can call repeatedly. Haiku 5.5 delivers lower rates, but reasoning effort, growing context, and completion quality determine the real…

AI Engineers, Applied Scientists, Forward Deployed Engineers: Let's Unpack.

An exploration of the new data science roles emerging after the Large Language Model explosion. The post AI Engineers, Applied Scientists, Forward Deployed Engineers: Let's Unpack. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Google Wants SynthID to Become the Web’s AI Watermark Checker

Google’s SynthID Detector can now check AI watermarks from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Kakao, and Google itself. The expansion could make AI content verification easier, but an undetected watermark does not prove authenticity. As…

😺 ChatGPT's GPT-6 now builds calculators

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Turns ChatGPT Answers Into Interactive Tools

GPT-6’s Intelligent UI lets ChatGPT assemble interactive tools as it responds. The rollout could change how people use AI and whether they open a separate app to complete a task.

Algorithmic Scratchpads and Curriculum Staging for Arithmetic Reasoning in Tiny Transformers

arXiv:2610.09003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently struggle with deterministic multi-step algorithmic tasks such as multi-digit multiplication and long division. In…

Continuous-Utility Direct Preference Optimization

arXiv:2602.00931v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model reasoning is often treated as a monolithic capability, relying on binary preference supervision that fails to capture partial progress or…

Just for FUNS: LLM-Guided Spatio-Temporal Graph Node Generation for Forecasting Unobserved Node States

arXiv:2610.08818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatio-temporal forecasting is a cornerstone of logistics, urban planning, and intelligent transportation systems. However, constrained by deployment costs and maintenance…

Multi-Label Topic Assignment via LLM Distillation: A Comparative Analysis of Generative vs. Discriminative Student Models

arXiv:2610.09063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-label topic assignment for user-generated content (UGC) -- including product reviews and buyer-seller conversations -- poses unique scalability challenges in…

Control-Geometry Straightening for Sampling-Based Latent Planning

arXiv:2609.35603v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures enable planning with latent world models, but accurate transition prediction alone does not ensure that the planning objective…

Hidden in Plain Sight: Benchmarking Agent Safety Against Decomposition Attacks with DECOMPBENCH

arXiv:2606.13994v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based Agents are becoming increasingly capable and widely deployed, creating growing incentives for adversarial misuse in the real-world. A key emerging…

Sparse Feature Policy Unlearning Mitigates State Hallucination in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2610.09496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization in robotic manipulation by leveraging rich representations from pretrained vision-language models.…

Gradient-based optimization of nuclear criticality experiments using neural surrogate eigenvalue sensitivities

arXiv:2606.04033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The validation of advanced nuclear reactor designs and fuel concepts will require the design of new critical experiments with high neutronic similarity to the target…