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A new arXiv preprint proposes an intent-driven framework that strips sensitive details from prompts before they reach a language model, using a distilled model called Veilmind-4B. The authors say it preserves more response utility than existing privacy baselines.
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A new preprint argues that update admission for continually learning AI agents should be judged by both error control and retained learning. In a…
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A preprint tests whether language models do clinical arithmetic better by writing Python for a restricted executor to run instead of calculating directly. It…
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An arXiv preprint introduces Probabilistic Focal Search, a variant of Focal Search that sometimes expands a minimum-f node instead of the heuristic-guided choice. In…
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A distant star that astronomers thought would soon explode as a supernova may instead be flaring because of a previously unseen companion, new research…
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A team from Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has built MemBrain v2, an AI…
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A large real-world study linked semaglutide, the drug in Ozempic and Wegovy, to nearly 40% fewer asthma attacks and about 20% fewer COPD flare-ups.…
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A decades-long study of more than 112,000 U.S. adults found that those who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had roughly 2.45…
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A new arXiv paper proposes releasing model turns only when tail risk is low, instead of the moment they are ready. On real software-engineering…