arXiv:2609.20004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward-based reinforcement learning for language models, exemplified by Group Relative Policy…
Past, Future, All at Once: Mitigating Stability-Plasticity Dilemma via Post-hoc JANUS Rectification
arXiv:2609.19985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning foundation models on new tasks inevitably suffer from catastrophic forgetting. While…
Adecco Group rolls out Agentforce Coworker to 27,000 staff in 40-plus countries
The Adecco Group is rolling out Salesforce’s Agentforce Coworker across more than 40 countries following a pilot in the UK and France, the staffing group…
Efficiently Distributed Federated Learning
arXiv:2609.19972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is experiencing a substantial research interest, with many frameworks being…
PrismML Releases Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A 5.9 GB Apache 2.0 Model Retaining 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B Performance
PrismML has released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-weight version of Qwen3.8 27B. The language model occupies 5.93 GB, against 53.80 GB in FP16. PrismML…
AVTrace: Diagnosing Audio-Visual Temporal Reasoning in Omni Models
arXiv:2609.19991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Omni models can describe video content, but can they locate events in time, preserve event order, and…
Newsom Executive Order Advances AI Kill Switch for Frontier Models
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-9-26 on September 18, 2026, directing state agencies to accelerate implementation of…
California Governor Newsom signs executive order demanding “kill switch” for AI models
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order seeking independent auditors inside AI labs and a “kill switch” for AI models. An expert panel…
Zarya: A Hybrid Autoregressive–Masked Diffusion Language Model with Flexible Training and Dual-Mode Inference
arXiv:2609.19868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive language models (ARMs) are constrained by sequential, left-to-right generation, while…
Lidl deploys driverless truck for store deliveries in Germany
Lidl has started using a cab-less autonomous electric truck for regular store deliveries in Germany, assigning it a daily replenishment route between its…
Learning and Transferring Closed-Loop Robot Software
arXiv:2609.19906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Closed-loop robot policies require observation processing, state management, and situation-dependent…
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company’s first-ever chief technology officer.
KoNeoBench: A Curated Evaluation Dataset for LLM Understanding of Korean Neologisms
arXiv:2609.19916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are typically evaluated on static benchmarks, even though natural language…
xAI Releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 Speech-to-Text Model
xAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its latest speech-to-text model, on September 18, 2026, holding batch pricing at $0.10 per hour of audio while…
PetriBench: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning over Dynamic State Spaces
arXiv:2609.19883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Characterizing LLM reasoning remains an open challenge, as many existing benchmarks isolate specific…
Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill…
ClashBench: Conflicts Leading Agents to Seize and Harm
arXiv:2609.19892v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As agent systems become more widely used, multiple agent sessions increasingly run alongside…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-09-18 20h : 19 posts
19 posts published in the last hour 17:33Improving Cross-embodiment Transfer in Latent Action Models with Action-Similarity Supervision 17:33Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how? 17:33PACE: Precise AI Cinematic Expression: A Typed Specification for Script-Grounded Previsualization…