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Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

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The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and…

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An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way, too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what…

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Improving OCR Faithfulness via Gated and Attenuated On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.38282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models may rewrite anomalous text in images into linguistically plausible expressions, compromising OCR transcription faithfulness. Sequence-level task rewards and local teacher guidance are complementary, but guidance from the same teacher may not remain equally effective as the student improves. Offline analysis shows that supervision from a fixed teacher becomes progressively less favorable as the student improves, both across training checkpoints and across response groups with different task rewards. Motivated by this observation, we introduce GAD-RL, which adaptively regulates teacher supervision during joint post-training according to the student's current task performance and local distributions. A frozen teacher conditions on reference transcriptions and student-generated prefixes. GAD-RL disables distillation for response groups containing an output with task reward at least 0.95 and continuously attenuates distillation strength as group-mean reward increases. It also weights forward KL by the student's probability of the teacher's Top-1 token, moderating local auxiliary updates when student support for that

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