AI Digest — 2025-08-28

• Honor’s Magic V5 is the thinnest foldable yet, but that’s not why it matters (14:39Z)
• Honor launches the world’s thinnest foldable in Europe (14:30Z)
• Graph Coloring for Data Science: A Comprehensive Guide (14:17Z)
• Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru plan gets caught up on trolls and glitches (14:17Z)
• Elehear Beyond Pro Review: Big Hearing Aids (14:11Z)
• The Outer Worlds 2 wants you to join the space police (14:11Z)
• PopSockets PopCase Kindle Hands-On (2025): Easy Reading (14:11Z)
• Bluesky now platform of choice for science community (14:11Z)
• 2025 VW Jetta GLI: Save the manuals, but not like this (14:11Z)
• SpaceX Starship Finally Pulls Off a Successful Test Flight (14:11Z)
• 7 Best OLED TVs (2025): Sony, LG, Samsung, and More (14:11Z)
• Corsair’s PC-dockable screen helped me monitor my PC components and news feeds (14:11Z)
• A Brief History of GPT Through Papers (14:11Z)
• OpenAI’s restructuring stalls as talks with Microsoft over API access and IP rights drag on (14:11Z)
• The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as we thought (14:11Z)
• Anthropic settles with authors who sued over use of more than seven million books to train its AI (14:09Z)
• OpenAI adds new safeguards to ChatGPT after a lawsuit over a teen suicide (14:09Z)
• Anthropic’s new Claude extension runs in Google Chrome and acts as a browser agent (14:09Z)
• Under pressure after setbacks, SpaceX’s huge rocket finally goes the distance (14:09Z)
• The Magic Phrase Behind Donald Trump’s Power Grab (14:09Z)
• Best Window Air Conditioners 2025: 11 Picks to Cool You for Years (14:09Z)
• Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First – Meet the 2025 Brazilian cohort (14:09Z)
• Chris Roberts hopes Squadron 42 will be “almost as big” as GTA VI next year (14:09Z)
• Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake (14:09Z)
• Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL Review (14:09Z)
• Storage Insights datasets: How to optimize storage spend with deep visibility (14:09Z)
• Google Translate adds live conversation and language learning features (14:09Z)
• This Is the Group That’s Been Swatting US Universities (14:09Z)
• Save 20 Percent on Our Favorite Android Earbuds (14:09Z)
• Everything I Studied to Become a Machine Learning Engineer (No CS Background) (14:09Z)
• Google Vids adds free AI video editing and new features (14:09Z)
• Get AI-Ready: How to Prepare for a World of Agentic AI as Tech Professionals (14:09Z)
• New method could monitor corrosion and cracking in a nuclear reactor (14:09Z)
• AGENTS.md Emerges as Open Standard for AI Coding Agents (14:09Z)
• Locally produced proteins help mitochondria function (14:09Z)
• 4Chan and Kiwi Farms file joint lawsuit against the UK (14:09Z)
• Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out (14:09Z)
• Fractal Flow: Hierarchical and Interpretable Normalizing Flow via Topic Modeling and Recursive Strategy (14:09Z)
• Bayes-Optimal Fair Classification with Linear Disparity Constraints via Pre-, In-, and Post-processing (14:09Z)
• BinConv: A Neural Architecture for Ordinal Encoding in Time-Series Forecasting (14:09Z)
• Deep Learning of Semi-Competing Risk Data via a New Neural Expectation-Maximization Algorithm (14:09Z)
• Benchmarking Diffusion Annealing-Based Bayesian Inverse Problem Solvers (14:09Z)
• Neural Conditional Simulation for Complex Spatial Processes (14:09Z)
• Robust Detection of Watermarks for Large Language Models Under Human Edits (14:09Z)
• Eigenvalue distribution of the Neural Tangent Kernel in the quadratic scaling (14:09Z)
• A Statistical Framework of Watermarks for Large Language Models: Pivot, Detection Efficiency and Optimal Rules (14:09Z)
• The Next Layer: Augmenting Foundation Models with Structure-Preserving and Attention-Guided Learning for Local Patches to Global Context Awareness in Computational Pathology (14:09Z)
• The Bayesian Context Trees State Space Model for time series modelling and forecasting (14:09Z)
• Interestingness First Classifiers (14:09Z)
• CP4SBI: Local Conformal Calibration of Credible Sets in Simulation-Based Inference (14:09Z)
• Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should: LLMs for Data Fitting (14:09Z)
• Weighted Levenberg-Marquardt methods for fitting multichannel nuclear cross section data (14:09Z)
• Conditional Normalizing Flow Surrogate for Monte Carlo Prediction of Radiative Properties in Nanoparticle-Embedded Layers (14:09Z)
• The Information Dynamics of Generative Diffusion (14:09Z)
• Track Component Failure Detection Using Data Analytics over existing STDS Track Circuit data (14:09Z)
• Physics-Informed Regression: Parameter Estimation in Parameter-Linear Nonlinear Dynamic Models (14:09Z)
• Reduced-Order Modeling of Cyclo-Stationary Time Series Using Score-Based Generative Methods (14:09Z)
• Scalable Bayesian Structure Learning for Gaussian Graphical Models Using Marginal Pseudo-likelihood (14:09Z)
• Multilevel neural simulation-based inference (14:09Z)
• Variational Bayes image restoration with compressive autoencoders (14:09Z)
• Graphical Transformation Models (14:09Z)
• MultiPL-MoE: Multi-Programming-Lingual Extension of Large Language Models through Hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (14:09Z)
• The Aegis Protocol: A Foundational Security Framework for Autonomous AI Agents (14:09Z)
• DreamActor-H1: High-Fidelity Human-Product Demonstration Video Generation via Motion-designed Diffusion Transformers (14:09Z)
• A Theory of Information, Variation, and Artificial Intelligence (14:09Z)
• Multi-Type Context-Aware Conversational Recommender Systems via Mixture-of-Experts (14:09Z)
• Lossless Compression of Neural Network Components: Weights, Checkpoints, and K/V Caches in Low-Precision Formats (14:09Z)
• Statistical learning does not always entail knowledge (14:09Z)
• Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions (14:09Z)
• TTF-VLA: Temporal Token Fusion via Pixel-Attention Integration for Vision-Language-Action Models (14:09Z)
• Real-Time Intuitive AI Drawing System for Collaboration: Enhancing Human Creativity through Formal and Contextual Intent Integration (14:09Z)
• Think Smart, Act SMARL! Analyzing Probabilistic Logic Shields for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (14:09Z)
• MuSpike: A Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for Symbolic Music Generation with Spiking Neural Networks (14:09Z)
• HPC Digital Twins for Evaluating Scheduling Policies, Incentive Structures and their Impact on Power and Cooling (14:09Z)
• Federated Fine-Tuning of Sparsely-Activated Large Language Models on Resource-Constrained Devices (14:09Z)
• WaveHiT-SR: Hierarchical Wavelet Network for Efficient Image Super-Resolution (14:09Z)
• MovieCORE: COgnitive REasoning in Movies (14:09Z)
• PSO-Merging: Merging Models Based on Particle Swarm Optimization (14:09Z)
• Model Science: getting serious about verification, explanation and control of AI systems (14:09Z)
• Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just A Few Attention Heads (14:09Z)
• SWIRL: A Staged Workflow for Interleaved Reinforcement Learning in Mobile GUI Control (14:09Z)
• PediatricsMQA: a Multi-modal Pediatrics Question Answering Benchmark (14:09Z)
• Flocking Behavior: An Innovative Inspiration for the Optimization of Production Plants (14:09Z)
• CASE: An Agentic AI Framework for Enhancing Scam Intelligence in Digital Payments (14:09Z)
• EnvInjection: Environmental Prompt Injection Attack to Multi-modal Web Agents (14:09Z)
• Tracking World States with Language Models: State-Based Evaluation Using Chess (14:09Z)
• Understanding Fairness-Accuracy Trade-offs in Machine Learning Models: Does Promoting Fairness Undermine Performance? (14:09Z)
• Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? (14:09Z)
• InquireMobile: Teaching VLM-based Mobile Agent to Request Human Assistance via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (14:09Z)
• MathBuddy: A Multimodal System for Affective Math Tutoring (14:09Z)
• Instructional Agents: LLM Agents on Automated Course Material Generation for Teaching Faculties (14:09Z)
• AI-Powered Detection of Inappropriate Language in Medical School Curricula (14:09Z)
• Quantized but Deceptive? A Multi-Dimensional Truthfulness Evaluation of Quantized LLMs (14:09Z)
• Reliable Weak-to-Strong Monitoring of LLM Agents (14:09Z)
• SLIM: Subtrajectory-Level Elimination for More Effective Reasoning (14:09Z)
• Democracy-in-Silico: Institutional Design as Alignment in AI-Governed Polities (14:09Z)
• Caught in the Act: a mechanistic approach to detecting deception (14:09Z)
• ReST-RL: Achieving Accurate Code Reasoning of LLMs with Optimized Self-Training and Decoding (14:09Z)
• Skill-based Explanations for Serendipitous Course Recommendation (14:09Z)
• AniME: Adaptive Multi-Agent Planning for Long Animation Generation (14:09Z)