The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting

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. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs Nine years after Google researchers introduced the transformer, this family of…

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Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

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Carnot: Interpretable, Interactive, and Optimized Execution of Deep Research Queries

arXiv:2608.09532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprises increasingly seek to query data lakes using natural language via AI-driven tools like semantic operators or deep research agents. However, the latter operates as an opaque black box, hiding its intermediate reasoning and data retrieval steps, and failing to…

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Sci-VBench: Evaluating Knowledge- and Reasoning-Intensive Video Generation in Science Domains

arXiv:2608.09873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Sci-VBench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating knowledge- and reasoning-intensive video generation across scientific domains. It contains 1,253 expert-annotated examples spanning 60 subjects across four core disciplines: Natural Science, Healthcare, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Engineering. Each example requires…

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Guardian Crawler: Retrieval-First Knowledge Discovery with Bounded LLM Augmentation for Noisy Web Intelligence

arXiv:2608.08994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieving relevant evidence from noisy web data is challenging, particularly in sensitive domains containing incomplete reports, heterogeneous language, and irrelevant content. We present Guardian Crawler, a reproducible retrieval-first testbed for controlled experiments on knowledge discovery and evidence-grounded summarization over synthetic…

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AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research

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 week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of…

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