arXiv:2609.37458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial standards often encode the same engineering concept through incompatible hierarchies,…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-09-30 21h : 17 posts
17 posts published in the last hour 18:33Demistifying Data and Simulator Assumptions in Supervised Causal Discovery 18:33The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support 18:33Beyond Prompt Count: How Data Shapes Transfer in On-Policy Distillation 18:33Reddit is killing RSS…
Demistifying Data and Simulator Assumptions in Supervised Causal Discovery
arXiv:2609.37446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised causal discovery learns to infer causal structure for a new dataset from training datasets…
The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and…
Beyond Prompt Count: How Data Shapes Transfer in On-Policy Distillation
arXiv:2609.37377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains students using teacher feedback on their own sampled responses, yet…
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
Pretrain Once, Route Anywhere: Towards a Foundation Model for LLM Routing
arXiv:2609.37362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) routing aims to assign each query to the most suitable model from a…
Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats
Google is replacing Gems with “Skills” in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed, reusable prompts that users invoke by typing “/” or that Gemini runs…
Direct Experience World-Model Optimization: Learning the World Beyond Action Imitation
arXiv:2609.37398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) couple action generation with predictions of how physical interactions unfold.…
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
Routing Should Pay for Itself: Sparse Supervision for Economical LLM Routing
arXiv:2609.37402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) routing reduces serving cost by assigning each query to an appropriate model…
VISTA: Value-Informed Event Appraisal for Multimodal Emotion Conflict
arXiv:2609.37324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conflicting emotional cues can be individually valid: a subdued voice may reflect a blocked goal while a…
Solving Without Stopping: On-Policy Distillation at Small Scale
arXiv:2609.37326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation, where a student learns from a stronger teacher’s feedback on its own outputs, is a…
Mubric: Mutation Testing-Guided Rubric Generation for LLM Evaluation
arXiv:2609.37322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rubric-based evaluation is widely used to assess LLM-based systems by decomposing response quality into…
Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.
Teaching LLMs to Generate Challenging MILP Instances via Solver Feedback
arXiv:2609.37356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating optimization instances that are both feasible and computationally challenging is crucial for…
When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday,…
Seek Before You Move: Evidence Seeking for Progress Grounding in Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2609.37353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to continuously ground task progress from long-horizon…
