Nvidia announced an open enterprise AI agent platform, called NemoClaw, that is built off of viral OpenClaw.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he expects $1 trillion worth of orders for the chips.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren noted that Grok, xAI's controversial chatbot, has created harmful outputs for users and poses a potential national security risk.

Memories.ai is building a large visual memory model that can index and retrieve video-recorded memories for physical AI.

The three plaintiffs are seeking to represent anyone who had real images of them as a minor altered into sexual content by Grok.

Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 uses generative AI and structured graphics data to make video games more realistic. CEO Jensen Huang says the approach could eventually spread to other industries.

At Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's urging, Frore developed liquid-cooling tech for chips. That shift helped it raise $143 million.

The startup also announced a $5 million "rescue fund" to help credit unions ditch legacy software for its AI-native platform.

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.

arXiv:2603.12286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern neuroscience has accumulated extensive evidence on perception, memory, prediction, valuation, and consciousness, yet still lacks an explicit operational architecture capable of integrating these phenomena within a unified computational framework. Existing theories address specific aspects of neural function: predictive coding and active inference emphasize hierarchical inference and prediction error minimization; engram theories explain memory through distributed cell assemblies; neuromodulatory accounts focus on value-dependent regulation of plasticity and behaviour; and global workspace or large-scale network models investigate mechanisms underlying conscious access. Despite their explanatory power, these approaches remain only partially integrated at the architectural level. This work introduces DIME (Detect-Integrate-Mark-Execute), a neural architecture organizing perception, memory, valuation, and conscious access within a common operational cycle. The framework includes four interacting components: engrams, distributed recurrent neural structures supporting multiple activation trajectories; execution threads, spatiotemporal trajectories implementing neural processes; marker systems, neuromodulatory and limbic mechanisms regulating gain, plasticity, and trajectory selection; and hyperengrams, large-scale integrative states associated with operational conscious access. The framework is consistent with empirical evidence from hippocampal indexing, recurrent cortical processing, replay phenomena, large-scale network integration, and neuromodulatory regulation. Formulated at an abstract computational level, DIME may also inform artificial intelligence and robotics by providing an architectural template in which representation, valuation, and temporal sequencing emerge from a unified mechanism. An extended theoretical exposition is available in a companion monograph on Zenodo.

arXiv:2603.12287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the problem of transforming raw vessel trajectory data collected from AIS into structured and semantically enriched representations interpretable by humans and directly usable by machine reasoning systems. We propose a context-aware trajectory abstraction framework that segments noisy AIS sequences into distinct trips each consisting of clean, mobility-annotated episodes. Each episode is further enriched with multi-source contextual information, such as nearby geographic entities, offshore navigation features, and weather conditions. Crucially, such representations can support generation of controlled natural language descriptions using LLMs. We empirically examine the quality of such descriptions generated using several LLMs over AIS data along with open contextual features. By increasing semantic density and reducing spatiotemporal complexity, this abstraction can facilitate downstream analytics and enable integration with LLMs for higher-level maritime reasoning tasks.

arXiv:2603.12372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from overthinking, expending redundant computational steps on simple problems, or underthinking, failing to explore sufficient reasoning paths despite inherent capabilities. These issues lead to inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies, limiting practical deployment in resource-constrained settings. Existing methods to mitigate overthinking, such as suppressing reflective keywords or adjusting reasoning length, may inadvertently induce underthinking, compromising accuracy. Therefore, we propose ReBalance, a training-free framework that achieves efficient reasoning with balanced thinking. ReBalance leverages confidence as a continuous indicator of reasoning dynamics, identifying overthinking through high confidence variance and underthinking via consistent overconfidence. By aggregating hidden states from a small-scale dataset into reasoning mode prototypes, we compute a steering vector to guide LRMs' reasoning trajectories. A dynamic control function modulates this vector's strength and direction based on real-time confidence, pruning redundancy during overthinking, and promoting exploration during underthinking. Extensive experiments conducted on four models ranging from 0.5B to 32B, and across nine benchmarks in math reasoning, general question answering, and coding tasks demonstrate that ReBalance effectively reduces output redundancy while improving accuracy, offering a general, training-free, and plug-and-play strategy for efficient and robust LRM deployment. Code is available at https://github.com/yu-lin-li/ReBalance .

arXiv:2603.12483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across many domains (e.g., IoT, observability, telecommunications, cybersecurity), there is an emerging adoption of conversational data analysis agents that enable users to "talk to your data" to extract insights. Such data analysis agents operate on timeseries data models; e.g., measurements from sensors or events monitoring user clicks and actions in product analytics. We evaluate 6 popular data analysis agents (both open-source and proprietary) on domain-specific data and query types, and find that they fail on stateful and incident-specific queries. We observe two key expressivity gaps in existing evals: domain-customized datasets and domain-specific query types. To enable practitioners in such domains to generate customized and expressive evals for such timeseries data agents, we present AgentFuel. AgentFuel helps domain experts quickly create customized evals to perform end-to-end functional tests. We show that AgentFuel's benchmarks expose key directions for improvement in existing data agent frameworks. We also present anecdotal evidence that using AgentFuel can improve agent performance (e.g., with GEPA). AgentFuel benchmarks are available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/RockfishData/TimeSeriesAgentEvals.

arXiv:2603.12628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech production and perception are the main ways humans communicate daily. Prior brain-to-text decoding studies have largely focused on a single modality and alphabetic languages. Here, we present a unified brain-to-sentence decoding framework for both speech production and perception in Mandarin Chinese. The framework exhibits strong generalization ability, enabling sentence-level decoding when trained only on single-character data and supporting characters and syllables unseen during training. In addition, it allows direct and controlled comparison of neural dynamics across modalities. Mandarin speech is decoded by first classifying syllable components in Hanyu Pinyin, namely initials and finals, from neural signals, followed by a post-trained large language model (LLM) that maps sequences of toneless Pinyin syllables to Chinese sentences. To enhance LLM decoding, we designed a three-stage post-training and two-stage inference framework based on a 7-billion-parameter LLM, achieving overall performance that exceeds larger commercial LLMs with hundreds of billions of parameters or more. In addition, several characteristics were observed in Mandarin speech production and perception: speech production involved neural responses across broader cortical regions than auditory perception; channels responsive to both modalities exhibited similar activity patterns, with speech perception showing a temporal delay relative to production; and decoding performance was broadly comparable across hemispheres. Our work not only establishes the feasibility of a unified decoding framework but also provides insights into the neural characteristics of Mandarin speech production and perception. These advances contribute to brain-to-text decoding in logosyllabic languages and pave the way toward neural language decoding systems supporting multiple modalities.

arXiv:2603.12710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing autonomous agents for web-based tasks is a core challenge in AI. While Large Language Model (LLM) agents can interpret complex user requests, they often operate as black boxes, making it difficult to diagnose why they fail or how they plan. This paper addresses this gap by formally treating web tasks as sequential decision-making processes. We introduce a taxonomy that maps modern agent architectures to traditional planning paradigms: Step-by-Step agents to Breadth-First Search (BFS), Tree Search agents to Best-First Tree Search, and Full-Plan-in-Advance agents to Depth-First Search (DFS). This framework allows for a principled diagnosis of system failures like context drift and incoherent task decomposition. To evaluate these behaviors, we propose five novel evaluation metrics that assess trajectory quality beyond simple success rates. We support this analysis with a new dataset of 794 human-labeled trajectories from the WebArena benchmark. Finally, we validate our evaluation framework by comparing a baseline Step-by-Step agent against a novel Full-Plan-in-Advance implementation. Our results reveal that while the Step-by-Step agent aligns more closely with human gold trajectories (38% overall success), the Full-Plan-in-Advance agent excels in technical measures such as element accuracy (89%), demonstrating the necessity of our proposed metrics for selecting appropriate agent architectures based on specific application constraints.

arXiv:2603.12733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Catastrophic failures of marine engines imply severe loss of functionality and destroy or damage the systems irreversibly. Being sudden and often unpredictable events, they pose a severe threat to navigation, crew, and passengers. The abrupt nature makes early detection the only effective countermeasure. However, research has concentrated on modeling the gradual degradation of components, with limited attention to sudden and anomalous phenomena. This work proposes a new method for early detection of catastrophic failures. Based on real data from a failed engine, the approach evaluates the derivatives of the deviation between actual sensor readings and expected values of engine variables. Predictions are obtained by a Random Forest, which is the most suitable Machine Learning algorithm among the tested ones. Traditional methods focus on deviations of monitored signals, whereas the proposed approach employs the derivatives of the deviations to provide earlier indications of abnormal dynamics, and to alert that a rapid and dangerous event is breaking out within the system. The method allows the detection of anomalies before measurements reach critical thresholds and alarms are triggered, which is the common method in industry. Consequently, operators can be warned in advance and shut down the engine, then prevent damage and unexpected power loss. Moreover, they have the time to safely change the ship route and avoid potential obstacles. Simulation results conf irm the effectiveness of the proposed approach in anticipating occurrence of catastrophic failures. Validation on real-world data further reinforces the robustness and practical applicability of the method. It is worth noting that data acquisition to train the predictive algorithm is not a problem, since a Deep Learning-based data augmentation procedure is used.

arXiv:2603.12740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly applied to complex, multi-step tasks that require interaction with diverse external tools across various domains. However, current LLM agent tool planning methods typically rely on greedy, reactive tool selection strategies that lack foresight and fail to account for inter-tool dependencies. In this paper, we present ToolTree, a novel Monte Carlo tree search-inspired planning paradigm for tool planning. ToolTree explores possible tool usage trajectories using a dual-stage LLM evaluation and bidirectional pruning mechanism that enables the agent to make informed, adaptive decisions over extended tool-use sequences while pruning less promising branches before and after the tool execution. Empirical evaluations across both open-set and closed-set tool planning tasks on 4 benchmarks demonstrate that ToolTree consistently improves performance while keeping the highest efficiency, achieving an average gain of around 10\% compared to the state-of-the-art planning paradigm.

arXiv:2603.12755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale models are typically adapted to meet the diverse requirements of model owners and users. However, maintaining multiple specialized versions of the model is inefficient. In response, we propose AIM, a novel model modulation paradigm that enables a single model to exhibit diverse behaviors to meet the specific end requirements. AIM enables two key modulation modes: utility and focus modulations. The former provides model owners with dynamic control over output quality to deliver varying utility levels, and the latter offers users precise control to shift model's focused input features. AIM introduces a logits redistribution strategy that operates in a training data-agnostic and retraining-free manner. We establish a formal foundation to ensure AIM's regulation capability, based on the statistical properties of logits ordering via joint probability distributions. Our evaluation confirms AIM's practicality and versatility for Al model modulation, with tasks spanning image classification, semantic segmentation and text generation, and prevalent architectures including ResNet, SegFormer and Llama.

arXiv:2603.12813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems integrating large language models (LLMs) with reasoning and tooluse capabilities are transforming various domains - in particular, software development. In contrast, their application in chemical process flowsheet modelling remains largely unexplored. In this work, we present an agentic AI framework that delivers assistance in an industrial flowsheet simulation environment. To this end, we show the capabilities of GitHub Copilot (GitHub, Inc., 2026), when using state-of-the-art LLMs, such as Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic, PBC, 2026), to generate valid syntax for our in-house process modelling tool Chemasim using the technical documentation and a few commented examples as context. Based on this, we develop a multi-agent system that decomposes process development tasks with one agent solving the abstract problem using engineering knowledge and another agent implementing the solution as Chemasim code. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework for typical flowsheet modelling examples, including (i) a reaction/separation process, (ii) a pressure-swing distillation, and (iii) a heteroazeotropic distillation including entrainer selection. Along these lines, we discuss current limitations of the framework and outline future research directions to further enhance its capabilities.

arXiv:2603.12926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ODRL language has become the standard for representing policies and regulations for digital rights. However its complexity is a barrier to its usage, which has caused many related theoretical and practical works to focus on different, and not interoperable, fragments of ODRL. Moreover, semantically equivalent policies can be expressed in numerous different ways, which makes comparing them and processing them harder. Building on top of a recently defined semantics, we tackle these problems by proposing an approach that involves a parametrised normalisation of ODRL policies into its minimal components which reformulates policies with permissions and prohibitions into policies with permissions exclusively, and simplifies complex logic constraints into simple ones. We provide algorithms to compute a normal form for ODRL policies and simplifying numerical and symbolic constraints. We prove that these algorithms preserve the semantics of policies, and analyse the size complexity of the result, which is exponential on the number of attributes and linear on the number of unique values for these attributes. We show how this makes complex policies representable in more basic fragments of ODRL, and how it reduces the problem of policy comparison to the simpler problem of checking if two rules are identical.