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PUBLISHED01 Oct, 07:00

MOBA-VL: Event-Localized Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time MOBA Commentary

preprint; not peer reviewed

arXiv:2609.38428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time commentary for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) esports requires a vision-language model (VLM) to narrate a live match second by second, both fluently and accurately. Existing streaming VLMs sound natural but often miss key events such as kills and…

Why you may careCould matter to agent workflows if the reported task success, human handoff, cost, and operating limits hold up.
PUBLISHED01 Oct, 07:00

VAmoS Part Deux: Harder, More Realistic Voice-Agent Simulation

preprint; not peer reviewed

arXiv:2609.38512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice agents in production must handle several requests, background speech, and customers who lose patience. We introduce VAmoS Energy, a benchmark that combines these challenges in 100 calls about utility billing and payment assistance. Each caller makes two to four…

Why you may careCould matter to agent workflows if the reported task success, human handoff, cost, and operating limits hold up.
PUBLISHED01 Oct, 07:00

RoboAssist: Interactive Human-Humanoid Planning for Long-Horizon Surgical Assistance

preprint; not peer reviewed

arXiv:2609.39384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon surgical assistance requires humanoid robots to coordinate with evolving human activities while maintaining safety across planning and execution. We present RoboAssist, an agent-based framework for interactive human-humanoid planning that integrates…

Why you may careCould matter to agent workflows if the reported task success, human handoff, cost, and operating limits hold up.
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Watch VAmoS as a preprint benchmark lead; do not change production routing or infer real-world voice-agent reliability from its reported simulations.

The authors report completion from 17.3% to 44.7% across 14 voice stacks and a large drop with background TV in a 100-call simulated utility-billing benchmark. These claims highlight a testable reliability constraint but remain unreviewed and unreplicated.

Say this to MJ agent workflows and voice-agent deployment adviceUse the benchmark as a prompt to test multi-request completion, background speech, action correctness and caller verification on a fixed representative task set. The preprint alone does not establish production failure rates.
What would change this judgment?

Independent reproduction shows materially higher completion under comparable multi-request and background-speech conditions, or the simulation fails to transfer to relevant real-call tasks.

arXiv publication verified; benchmark claims are author-reported, no independent reproduction reviewedVoice-agent reliability evaluationDue: 2026-10-08Source ↗
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Grok / X precursor scoutLatest attempt 24 Sep, 10:53 Beirut

9 promoted signals

16/16 accounts · 10/10 searches checked (reported by scout).
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OpenAI official news30 min01 Oct, 14:4101 Oct, 15:11ok
Anthropic official news30 min01 Oct, 14:4101 Oct, 15:11ok
Google DeepMind official blog30 min01 Oct, 14:4101 Oct, 15:11ok
Google Research blog30 min01 Oct, 14:4101 Oct, 15:11ok
Hugging Face blog120 min01 Oct, 13:4101 Oct, 15:41unchanged
NVIDIA technical blog120 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 16:11unchanged
arXiv AI preprints360 min01 Oct, 13:4101 Oct, 19:41unchanged
arXiv robotics preprints360 min01 Oct, 13:4101 Oct, 19:41unchanged
arXiv machine learning preprints360 min01 Oct, 13:4101 Oct, 19:41unchanged
vLLM releases60 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 15:11unchanged
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Transformers releases60 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 15:11ok
SGLang releases60 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 15:11unchanged
Qwen model repositories60 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 15:11ok
deepseek-ai model repositories60 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 15:11ok
meta-llama model repositories60 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 15:11ok
Epoch AI — Gradient Updates120 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 16:11ok
METR research120 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 16:11unchanged
The Innermost Loop30 min01 Oct, 14:4101 Oct, 15:11ok
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis30 min01 Oct, 14:4101 Oct, 15:11unchanged
Jack Clark — Import AI180 min01 Oct, 13:1101 Oct, 16:11ok
arXiv computational linguistics preprints360 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 20:11unchanged
arXiv computer vision preprints360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
arXiv quantitative biology preprints360 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 20:11unchanged
Hugging Face papers360 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 20:11ok
Hugging Face recent model repositories60 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 15:11ok
Hugging Face recent dataset repositories120 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 16:11ok
GitHub trending repositories360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
GitHub trending Python repositories360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
GitHub trending Jupyter repositories360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
OpenRouter newest model listings360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
SWE-bench leaderboard360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41unchanged
Product Hunt AI launches360 min30 Sep, 07:0101 Oct, 16:41error · stale
SEC latest EDGAR filings360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
ARPA-E funding opportunities360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
ARPA-H funding opportunities360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
DARPA opportunities360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
FDA press announcements360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
NIST AI publications360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
LessWrong latest posts360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Hacker News newest360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Alignment Forum latest posts360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Anthropic careers360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Google DeepMind careers360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
GitHub topic artificial intelligence360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
GitHub topic agents360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
GitHub topic robotics360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Hugging Face trending Spaces360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
OpenRouter monthly rankings360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Artificial Analysis models360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
FDA AI/ML-enabled medical devices360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
NIST AI Resource Center360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
EU AI Office360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Defense Innovation Unit open solicitations360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41unchanged
DOE EERE funding opportunities360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41unchanged
AI Engineer events360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Foresight Institute events360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41unchanged
SynBioBeta360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41unchanged
NeurIPS program site360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
ICML program site360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
ICLR program site360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
bioRxiv AI-relevant biology preprints360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
medRxiv computational and clinical preprints360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
ClinicalTrials.gov AI studies360 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 20:11unchanged
GitHub trending developers360 min01 Oct, 08:4101 Oct, 14:41ok
Federal Register — artificial intelligence30 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 14:41ok
Federal Register — compute, data centers and energy30 min01 Oct, 14:1101 Oct, 14:41ok
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Early observations

Unverified candidates for review. Ranking is a heuristic, not confidence or probability.

PRECURSOR30 Sep, 14:18

The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule III for Model Years 2022 to 2031 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks

{ "abstract": "NHTSA, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), is substantially recalibrating the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program to bring the program into compliance with the law and to remove previous regulatory distortions which have induced manufacturers to make design decisions that have…

capabilityconstraintspolicy
Federal Register document metadata and abstract; underlying action requires review
PRECURSOR30 Sep, 14:18

The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule III for Model Years 2022 to 2031 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks

{ "abstract": "NHTSA, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), is substantially recalibrating the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program to bring the program into compliance with the law and to remove previous regulatory distortions which have induced manufacturers to make design decisions that have…

capabilityconstraintspolicy
Federal Register document metadata and abstract; underlying action requires review
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 08:41

MOBA-VL: Event-Localized Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time MOBA Commentary

arXiv:2609.38428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time commentary for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) esports requires a vision-language model (VLM) to narrate a live match second by second, both fluently and accurately. Existing streaming VLMs sound natural but often miss key events such as kills and objectives.…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 07:11

VAmoS Part Deux: Harder, More Realistic Voice-Agent Simulation

arXiv:2609.38512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice agents in production must handle several requests, background speech, and customers who lose patience. We introduce VAmoS Energy, a benchmark that combines these challenges in 100 calls about utility billing and payment assistance. Each caller makes two to four requests.…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 07:11

RoboAssist: Interactive Human-Humanoid Planning for Long-Horizon Surgical Assistance

arXiv:2609.39384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon surgical assistance requires humanoid robots to coordinate with evolving human activities while maintaining safety across planning and execution. We present RoboAssist, an agent-based framework for interactive human-humanoid planning that integrates workflow…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR30 Sep, 13:19

Exponentially weighted ensemble deep learning for histologic growth pattern classification in lung adenocarcinoma

Accurate classification of lung adenocarcinoma growth patterns from hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained whole-slide images is essential for treatment planning and prognosis. We develop and evaluate an exponentially weighted ensemble deep learning approach that combines five architectures (EfficientNet-B3, DeiT3, Swin…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
medRxiv preprint; not peer reviewed and not clinical advice
PRECURSOR29 Sep, 13:08

OMP-MoE: Efficient Expert Pruning for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs via Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

arXiv:2609.31631v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable efficient scaling of large language models but face critical deployment challenges due to massive memory requirements. Existing pruning methods either incur prohibitive search costs or neglect the dynamic interdependencies between experts.…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR29 Sep, 13:08

What Next-Event Accuracy Cannot See: Closed-Loop Evaluation of Emergency Department Trajectory Simulators

arXiv:2609.31635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical trajectory models are usually evaluated by next-event accuracy on observed histories. Simulation is different: models must condition on their own generated events, allowing errors to compound. Although this problem is well known in sequence modelling, it has not been…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR29 Sep, 13:08

NanoForecast v0.5: Competitive Time Series Forecasting Through Training Pipeline Optimization

arXiv:2609.31669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present NanoForecast v0.5, a 6.5M-parameter forecaster that competes with models 31x its size (TimesFM, 200M parameters) after training pipeline fixes and no architecture change. Retraining the v0.3 architecture with corrected loss-scope handling, tensor shape alignment, and…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR29 Sep, 13:08

When Should a Human Take Back Control? Optimal Delegation under Turbulent AI Risk

arXiv:2609.32083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying AI systems requires deciding when to delegate tasks and when humans should intervene to monitor and mitigate risk induced by AI operations. These decisions are challenging when failures cluster: a hallucination or harmful output can trigger further errors, creating…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR29 Sep, 13:08

When Can Old Evaluations Certify a New Model? Label-Efficient Release Decisions under Evaluator Drift

arXiv:2609.32267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Releasing a model update requires certifying that its current-population risk stays below a threshold. Trusted labels are expensive, while a cheap evaluator, such as an LLM judge, scores every example. Reusing evaluator errors from earlier audits is tempting, but when may such…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR29 Sep, 13:08

On the Capability and Limitation of Hard Prompt

arXiv:2609.32302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt engineering has become an indispensable tool for using large language models (LLMs), turning LLMs into task-specific experts without changing their weights. Despite notable theoretical advances in prompt engineering, the theory for the more practical hard or discrete…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed

Reviewed developments

Proposed decisions, not executed actions. Breakthrough verification is not yet established.

DECISION PROPOSED · 17 Sep, 08:20

Upgrade llama.cpp before the next Apple Silicon MoE evaluation.

Decision rationale; primary evidence not yet reviewed.

Recorded rationaleThe release fixes a Metal path that can turn large activations into NaNs. Any earlier MoE result on that path may be unreliable.
DECISION PROPOSED · 17 Sep, 08:20

Do not adopt Mimir 1B from parameter count alone.

Decision rationale; primary evidence not yet reviewed.

Recorded rationalellama.cpp reports roughly four times the decode work of an equal-width dense model and about 3 GB of F16 KV cache at 4K context.
DECISION PROPOSED · 17 Sep, 08:20

Treat Groq 3 LPX power-efficiency claims as a future infrastructure signal, not available GCC capacity.

Decision rationale; primary evidence not yet reviewed.

Recorded rationaleThe vendor framing strengthens the case that power per useful token is the bottleneck, but it provides no dated GCC commissioning or customer-access evidence.

Decision queue

Every item has a next move and a condition that can overturn it.

DO NOWDECISION PROPOSED

Upgrade llama.cpp before the next Apple Silicon MoE evaluation.

The release fixes a Metal path that can turn large activations into NaNs. Any earlier MoE result on that path may be unreliable.

Say this to AI implementation teams running local modelsPause comparisons made on the affected Apple Silicon path. Re-run one representative task on the fixed build before treating earlier quality or latency results as decision-grade.
What would change this judgment?

The affected mul_mm_id path was not used by our model or backend configuration.

Maintainer release · reproducible locallyProduction-impacting patchDue: 2026-09-19Source ↗
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Do not adopt Mimir 1B from parameter count alone.

llama.cpp reports roughly four times the decode work of an equal-width dense model and about 3 GB of F16 KV cache at 4K context.

Say this to CIOs and private-AI operatorsA small parameter count is not a low operating cost. Require cost per successful task, memory use and supervision time before choosing this model for private workflows.
What would change this judgment?

A reproducible task test shows enough accuracy gain to offset the reported memory and decode costs.

Maintainer measurement · independent test missingArchitecture economicsDue: 2026-09-24Source ↗
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Treat Groq 3 LPX power-efficiency claims as a future infrastructure signal, not available GCC capacity.

The vendor framing strengthens the case that power per useful token is the bottleneck, but it provides no dated GCC commissioning or customer-access evidence.

Say this to GCC sovereign, infrastructure and data-center leadersPlan around power per useful AI outcome and verified access dates. Do not count announced silicon as sovereign capacity until an operating deployment exposes customer access and independent performance data.
What would change this judgment?

A dated operational deployment exposes customer access and independently measured performance per watt.

Vendor claim · deployment unverifiedInfrastructure precursorDue: 2026-10-01Source ↗
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Watch Anthropic ART as a research-automation case; do not treat as a validated application.

The described pipeline links parallel genomic search to candidate triage and human lab testing, but ART function remains unknown and independent validation is absent.

Say this to USEK research and AI workflow advisorsTreat this as a workflow signal: agents can search and rank candidates, while human scientists retain experimental validation. Do not infer a usable biological tool or general autonomous discovery from this case.
What would change this judgment?

The technical report or independent replication fails to confirm the reported RNA expression or novelty, or comparable searches fail to reproduce the candidate workflow.

Company announcement verified; underlying result not independently validatedAI-assisted scientific workflowDue: 2026-10-08Source ↗
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Watch Ringg's production pattern; do not treat the customer-story performance figures as independently validated.

OpenAI describes task-based model routing, specialist agents, offline evaluation, staged rollout, live endpoint monitoring and human escalation in a deployed multi-channel service workflow.

Say this to MJ's agent workflows, USEK applied research, and GCC service deploymentsFor an agent deployment, pair task routing and specialist steps with offline evaluation, gradual release, endpoint health checks and clear human handoff. Treat the reported resolution, CSAT and savings figures as vendor/customer claims until independently reproduced.
What would change this judgment?

Independent customer or auditor data shows that completion rates, quality, or cost improvements do not generalize beyond selected workloads or fail to include human handling costs.

Primary company publication verified; underlying operational metrics unverifiedProduction agent operationsDue: 2026-10-08Source ↗
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Track AnewDDE as a research-automation signal; do not recommend adoption from the preprint claim alone.

A bioRxiv preprint describes an agentic closed-loop drug-discovery workflow connecting structure, affinity, design and experiment selection. It reports 10.7% success for single-digit-nanomolar binders in one nanobody campaign; this remains author-reported evidence.

Say this to USEK research automation and MJ agent workflowsPotentially relevant to a bounded literature or lab-workflow review if methods and data substantiate the claim; no deployment decision yet.
What would change this judgment?

Full methods fail to support the reported binder yield, the result is not reproducible, or performance depends on a selected campaign that does not generalize.

bioRxiv feed confirms preprint text; not peer reviewed or independently reproducedAgentic scientific workflowDue: 2026-09-29Source ↗
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Use claude-opus-5-5 for approved premium Claude work after confirming the exact provider model ID; evaluate task-level quality, time, and spend before broadening its role.

Anthropic announced Opus 5.5 on Sep 22 and claims 40% lower typical token-billed running cost than Opus 5. The official model page gives the API identifier claude-opus-5-5. Its quality and cost claims remain vendor-reported.

Say this to MJ agent workflows and Claude routingPin claude-opus-5-5 for eligible premium tasks only after checking the active provider supports that exact ID; record outcome and measured usage against a fixed task baseline.
What would change this judgment?

Provider does not expose the exact model ID, or a task-matched comparison shows worse quality or no worthwhile end-to-end cost/time benefit.

Official vendor announcement confirmed; comparative performance and savings independently unmeasuredModel release and routingDue: 2026-10-04Source ↗
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Treat OpenRouter's DeepSeek Latest price/catalog revision as a route-specific cost signal; verify an exact pinned model/version before updating any cost assumption or routing decision.

OpenRouter's current pages map Pro Latest to V4 Pro 0813 at $3.78/M output tokens and Flash Latest to V4.1 Flash at $0.60/M. The prior catalog snapshot differs materially, but latest aliases and slight page/API discrepancies prevent a like-for-like tariff conclusion.

Say this to MJ agent workflows, USEK research, and GCC deployment cost planningBefore relying on a DeepSeek Latest route for cost estimates, pin the exact model version and check the current provider/router tariff against the earlier catalog snapshot. No routing change is proposed from this listing alone.
What would change this judgment?

The apparent increase disappears when comparing the same pinned model version, or direct provider pricing and a fixed-task cost-per-success measurement show no meaningful change for MJ's workload.

OpenRouter first-party pricing pages checked; route prices verified as displayed, but same-version price change and model quality are not independently established.Open-model route pricing and alias transitionDue: 2026-10-01Source ↗
WATCHDECISION PROPOSED

Watch VAmoS as a preprint benchmark lead; do not change production routing or infer real-world voice-agent reliability from its reported simulations.

The authors report completion from 17.3% to 44.7% across 14 voice stacks and a large drop with background TV in a 100-call simulated utility-billing benchmark. These claims highlight a testable reliability constraint but remain unreviewed and unreplicated.

Say this to MJ agent workflows and voice-agent deployment adviceUse the benchmark as a prompt to test multi-request completion, background speech, action correctness and caller verification on a fixed representative task set. The preprint alone does not establish production failure rates.
What would change this judgment?

Independent reproduction shows materially higher completion under comparable multi-request and background-speech conditions, or the simulation fails to transfer to relevant real-call tasks.

arXiv publication verified; benchmark claims are author-reported, no independent reproduction reviewedVoice-agent reliability evaluationDue: 2026-10-08Source ↗

Lead / lag scoreboard

63 matched items. Baseline discoveries are shown but never claimed as wins.

VERIFIED LEAD105h ahead

Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data

Compared with Welcome to September 29, 2026. Prospective timing is measurable.

VERIFIED LEAD80h ahead

Introducing MentalHealthBench

Compared with Welcome to September 27, 2026. Prospective timing is measurable.

VERIFIED LEAD80h ahead

Contrastive Language Models

Compared with Welcome to September 27, 2026. Prospective timing is measurable.

VERIFIED LEAD59h ahead

Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

Compared with Welcome to September 29, 2026. Prospective timing is measurable.

VERIFIED LEAD43h ahead

Introducing Astra for Law

Compared with Welcome to September 20, 2026. Prospective timing is measurable.

VERIFIED LEAD43h ahead

Sep 18, 2026 Announcements Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation

Compared with Welcome to September 20, 2026. Prospective timing is measurable.

Signal stream

0 repository-metadata pings suppressed; visible items require substantive evidence.

PRECURSOR01 Oct, 08:41

MOBA-VL: Event-Localized Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time MOBA Commentary

arXiv:2609.38428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time commentary for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) esports requires a vision-language model (VLM) to narrate a live match second by second, both fluently and accurately. Existing streaming VLMs sound natural but often miss key events such as kills and objectives.…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 07:11

VAmoS Part Deux: Harder, More Realistic Voice-Agent Simulation

arXiv:2609.38512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice agents in production must handle several requests, background speech, and customers who lose patience. We introduce VAmoS Energy, a benchmark that combines these challenges in 100 calls about utility billing and payment assistance. Each caller makes two to four requests.…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 07:11

RoboAssist: Interactive Human-Humanoid Planning for Long-Horizon Surgical Assistance

arXiv:2609.39384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon surgical assistance requires humanoid robots to coordinate with evolving human activities while maintaining safety across planning and execution. We present RoboAssist, an agent-based framework for interactive human-humanoid planning that integrates workflow…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR30 Sep, 12:48

GenomeOcean Anywhere: Private WebGPU Inference for Genome MoEs

arXiv:2609.35882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Genome foundation models are most useful where sequences are generated, yet the largest models need datacenter accelerators and a place to send private DNA. We ask whether a 15-billion-parameter genome mixture-of-experts (MoE) model can instead run on volunteers' web…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR30 Sep, 12:48

Contact-Adaptive Robotic Ultrasound Probe Control for Tissue Exploration and Continuous Task-Relevant Visualization Using Robot-Free Image-Motion Demonstration

arXiv:2609.37456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic ultrasound commonly targets standardized views, predefined scanning protocols, or expert-scan reproduction. We target a different role: while a clinician performs the primary procedure, a robotic assistant maintains a clinician-selected view so that changing tissue…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR29 Sep, 19:37

Once intelligence is too cheap to meter, the world will be unrecognizable

"Intelligence too cheap to meter" is a dream peddled by AI companies and accelerationists. In a narrow sense it is already true: if intelligence means solving coding and mathematics problems, AI is cheap today. But anyone who has spent much time with current models knows they cannot yet replicate human remote work. They are…

capabilitydeploymentconstraintspolicy
community post; claims unverified
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 08:41

Evaluation Awareness in Small(ish) Models

TL;DR We seek to identify open source reasoning models which are both small enough for white-box interpretability and display evaluation-gaming behavior. We find that how often models verbalize their awareness varies from very rarely to a third of the time, and appears largely unrelated to model size. Within the same…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
community post; claims unverified
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 08:41

Beyond Layers: Position-Resolved Gradient Conflict and Position-Aware Modulation for Unified Multimodal Models

arXiv:2609.38485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) train image understanding and autoregressive image generation on shared parameters, and the two objectives are known to interfere. Existing diagnoses and remedies operate at the resolution of layers or experts, measuring conflict per layer and…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 08:41

Event-Driven Refresh and Recurrence Memory to Reduce Stale Grounding in Referring Video Object Segmentation

arXiv:2609.38758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to produce a pixel-accurate mask sequence for an object specified by natural language. Sa2VA combines a multimodal large language model with SAM2 for grounded segmentation; however, its inference typically grounds the query from a…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 08:41

DCM-SAM: Defect-Conditioned Mixture of LoRA Experts for NPU-Deployed AM Defect Segmentation

arXiv:2609.38811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metal additive manufacturing parts are inspected by X-ray computed tomography, where labelled data is scarce, the pores and inclusions that matter span a few pixels, and inspection must happen at the machine. We present DCM-SAM, a defect-conditioned adaptive mixture of LoRA…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 07:41

Sieve and Sage: Efficient Distraction Filtering for Reliable RALM Abstention

arXiv:2609.35794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Just as Socrates recognized the limits of his own knowledge, Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (RALMs) should learn to abstain when the retrieved evidence cannot support a reliable response. Existing approaches largely rely on monolithic LLMs to handle heterogeneous retrieval…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed
PRECURSOR01 Oct, 07:41

How to Run Statistics over LLM Judges and Trust the Results: Calibrated Inference for Small-Sample AI Evaluation with evalstats

arXiv:2609.35815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers across academia increasingly base significance claims on LLM judge scores and small-sample AI evaluations. Yet without well-calibrated confidence intervals (CIs), hypothesis tests, and judge-bias corrections, such claims are unreliable. We address these issues in…

capabilitydeploymentconstraints
preprint; not peer reviewed

Hypothesis register

Amber means the prerequisite still lacks reviewed evidence.

agent-reliability11 days overdue

When can agents complete our multi-step work with fewer interventions?

  • Reliable extended task completion5 reviewed
  • Lower human correction time1 reviewed
  • Independent task reproduction0 reviewed
open-model-economics11 days overdue

When do deployable open models become viable for our private workflows?

  • Usable license and released weights1 reviewed
  • Fits available memory1 reviewed
  • Acceptable quality at fully loaded cost1 reviewed
gcc-compute-bottlenecks11 days overdue

Does announced sovereign compute translate into usable capacity?

  • Delivered equipment0 reviewed
  • Commissioned power1 reviewed
  • Accessible operational service0 reviewed
research-automation11 days overdue

Which scientific workflows now produce independently validated results?

  • Reliable execution0 reviewed
  • Affordable validated result0 reviewed
  • Experimental access2 reviewed
  • Independent scientific validation0 reviewed
  • Repeat adoption0 reviewed
eval-credibility11 days overdue

Which frontier capability claims survive independent evaluation and provenance scrutiny?

  • Evaluator independence disclosed0 reviewed
  • Task and harness equivalence established0 reviewed
  • Independent reproduction0 reviewed
  • Contamination and privileged-access risks addressed0 reviewed

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