The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The…

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Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

This article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics has no such recipe. Robotics systems have long been assembled from separate perception, planning, and…

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Semantic Pareto-DQN: A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Framework for Financial Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2607.09641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial anomaly detection suffers from extreme class imbalance, causing traditional single-objective algorithms to exhibit “fraud collapse'', defaulting to the majority class and failing to balance anomaly interdiction with customer friction. To overcome this without distortive data resampling, we propose the…

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QAgent: An LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Autonomous OpenQASM programming

arXiv:2508.20134v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Programming quantum circuits at the OpenQASM level is essential for achieving hardware-aware optimization and reliable execution on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, yet it remains challenging due to the need for domain-specific planning, iterative code synthesis, and low-level calibration. In…

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Test-Time Scaling for Small VLMs on Multilingual Visual MCQ

arXiv:2607.09438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) reliably improves reasoning in large language models, but whether it transfers to small open vision-language models remains unclear. We examine this on EXAMS-V, a multilingual visual multiple-choice benchmark, comparing self-consistency, describe-then-reason with PRM-guided beam search, and two…

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The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at…

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Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group

Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic in the Netherlands using sperm provided by an anonymous donor. After the Netherlands banned anonymous donation in 2004, the doctor who ran the clinic destroyed…

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CriterAlign: Criterion-Centric Rationale Alignment for Code Preference Judging

arXiv:2605.19665v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pairwise human preference prediction is central to evaluating code-generation systems, where quality often depends on task-specific trade-offs beyond functional correctness. While rubric-based LLM judges improve interpretability by decomposing evaluation into explicit criteria, most existing pipelines remain pointwise: they score each…

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