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The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

arXiv:2610.03934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing analog integrated circuit design benchmarks make two questions hard to answer: whether a model has learned transferable circuit skills rather than recalled familiar examples, and whether its output works under defined process and test conditions. We introduce a benchmark built from human-designed, open-source circuits associated with Tiny Tapeout manufacturing shuttles. The collection contains 273 topologically distinct top-level designs. Every source is retrieved at the revision recorded for its shuttle submission and processed in a fixed containerized environment. The pipeline exports each eligible schematic image and its SPICE netlist from the same source file, giving transcription an exact structural reference. Commit dates support model-specific training-cutoff analysis, while author testbenches provide the simulation context for sizing. The benchmark evaluates schematic-to-netlist transcription and device sizing. Across seven models on a fixed set of 66 transcription tasks, the strongest model reaches 56.1% exact graph isomorphism, and six of seven models drop sharply from the small to the medium tier. For one frontier

arXiv:2610.03938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently pushed the frontier of visual reasoning by calling tools such as zooming and tagging. Despite the recent strong success of agentic MLLMs, this work uncovers a critical safety failure in the tool-use paradigm: agentic tool-using MLLMs become less capable of refusing harmful requests. Our experiments confirm that, across three popular safety benchmarks, all the top open- and closed-weight MLLMs we test exhibit significantly lower safety in tool-using settings than in non-tool settings, with a relative refusal failure rate increase of up to 68.7%. Based on analysis of 100,000+ responses, including extended experiments, we also propose two possible reasons for this safety degradation.

arXiv:2610.03948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving decision systems must balance safety, efficiency, and social norms in complex traffic interactions. Philosophical and ethical considerations have received limited attention in existing autonomous driving decision-making approaches based on numerical optimization, sequence prediction, and large language models (LLMs). We propose Chinese Philosophical Wisdom-Guided Driving (CPW-Drive), a closed-loop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework that incorporates value guidance derived from Chinese philosophy into autonomous driving decision-making. Using Chinese Confucian thought as its knowledge source, CPW-Drive consolidates LLM-extracted keywords from relevant classical texts into driving-relevant value principles through manual screening and validation. It then contextualizes these principles through scenario-specific cases to form retrievable and reusable value guidance. We further propose Physics-aware Spatial Similarity Retrieval (PSSR), which compares vehicle layouts and velocity-extrapolated states to retrieve physically relevant historical cases. On Highway-env's multilane highway-driving task, CPW-Drive ac

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, which can add visuals and interactive tools to answers. The post ChatGPT Gets GPT-6 And Intelligent UI For Interactive Answers appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google opened its SynthID Detector to everyone, allowing users to check images, video, and audio for watermarks from Google and partner AI tools. The post Google Opens Its SynthID Watermark Detector To The Public appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Sachin Puri explains why AI discovery makes accurate business information, customer trust, and measurement beyond clicks more important for small businesses. The post AI Search Is Changing Your Website’s Job, Here’s How To Adapt appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

As it challenges Apple.