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The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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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. How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers On September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its…

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Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT

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Judges around the world have made headlines for illicitly using generative AI in their work. But in Pakistan, a large-scale trial of a specially designed AI tool for judges found the technology–together with appropriate training–boosted the number of cases resolved by 6.3% with no obvious…

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How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers

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Next month, on September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building clever technical fixes for sticky problems.  By finding the top young innovators…

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DiffImaginE: Imagine to Verify Entity Types with Diffusio

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arXiv:2608.03025v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) determines whether each candidate span and entity-type hypothesis is supported by joint textual and visual evidence. Existing imagine-and-compare verifiers map each (span, type) pair to one predicted visual feature, compressing diverse visual realisations into a…

Source: cs.AI updates on arXiv.org

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Test-Time Self-Evolving GUI Visual Grounding via Reflection-Guided On-Policy Self-Distillation

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arXiv:2608.11191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI Visual Grounding is a fundamental capability for GUI agents. Existing models typically freeze their parameters after deployment, limiting their ability to adapt to unseen interfaces. Although recent methods attempt to adapt models via test-time reinforcement learning, they cannot reflect…

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Memory-Augmented Reinforcement Learning Agent for CAD Generation

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arXiv:2605.19748v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automatic generation of computer-aided design (CAD) models is a core technology for enabling intelligence in advanced manufacturing. Existing generation methods based on large language models (LLMs) often fall short when handling complex CAD models characterized by long operation sequences, diverse…

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How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the Internet and US policy

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I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025.  That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent…

Source: MIT Technology Review

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