With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI
The fundraise includes $1 billion for investing in early-stage startups, and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth businesses.
OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down
Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.
Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop from being attributed to real artists
The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on Spotify.
Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product
With an overflowing war chest from its recent $5 billion raise, Databricks is buying startups and looking for more. It acquired Antimatter and SiftD.ai.
Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip's first customer.
Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more
Three Gemini-powered features are coming to your Google TV. This includes visual responses, deep dives, and sports briefs.
Talat’s AI meeting notes stay on your machine, not in the cloud
The subscription-free AI meeting notes app is a local-first twist on notetaking tools like Granola.
Doss raises $55M for AI inventory management that plugs into ERP
Doss's AI-powered inventory management system integrates with existing ERP systems. The Series B round was co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest.
Meet the former Apple designer building a new AI interface at Hark
The company said it would design models, hardware, and interfaces in tandem to deliver a "seamless end-to-end personal intelligence product."
Mirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video-editing app Captions
Mirage, the maker of video-editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF).
Levers of Default: Can the President Unilaterally Alter the Terms of the National Debt?
The inviolability of America’s $30 trillion debt is a cornerstone of global markets and the U.S. economy. This Essay identifies a critical loophole: the President’s underappreciated power to dramatically change its legal structure—and argues that Congress should act to prevent...
gUFO: A Gentle Foundational Ontology for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs
arXiv:2603.20948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: gUFO is a lightweight implementation of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) suitable for Semantic Web OWL 2 DL applications. UFO is a mature foundational ontology with a rich axiomatization and that has been employed in...
Does AI Homogenize Student Thinking? A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Structural Convergence in AI-Augmented Essays
arXiv:2603.21228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While AI-assisted writing has been widely reported to improve essay quality, its impact on the structural diversity of student thinking remains unexplored. Analyzing 6,875 essays across five conditions (Human-only, AI-only, and three Human+AI prompt strategies),...
Efficient Counterfactual Reasoning in ProbLog via Single World Intervention Programs
arXiv:2603.20505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP) languages, like ProbLog, naturally support reasoning under uncertainty, while maintaining a declarative and interpretable framework. Meanwhile, counterfactual reasoning (i.e., answering ``what if'' questions) is critical for ensuring AI systems are robust...
Introducing the Evaluations & Datasets Track at NeurIPS 2026
Compression is all you need: Modeling Mathematics
arXiv:2603.20396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mathematics (HM), the mathematics humans discover and value, is a vanishingly small subset of formal mathematics (FM), the totality of all valid deductions. We argue that HM is distinguished by its compressibility through hierarchically...
Locally Coherent Parallel Decoding in Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2603.20216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) models, offering sub-linear generation latency and bidirectional capabilities that are particularly appealing for code generation and editing. Achieving sub-linear latency in discrete...
DiffGraph: An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image Generation
arXiv:2603.20470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of the text-to-image (T2I) community has fostered a thriving online ecosystem of expert models, which are variants of pretrained diffusion models specialized for diverse generative abilities. Yet, existing model merging methods remain...
Attention in Space: Functional Roles of VLM Heads for Spatial Reasoning
arXiv:2603.20662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite remarkable advances in large Vision-Language Models (VLMs), spatial reasoning remains a persistent challenge. In this work, we investigate how attention heads within VLMs contribute to spatial reasoning by analyzing their functional roles through a...
Linguistic Signatures for Enhanced Emotion Detection
arXiv:2603.20222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotion detection is a central problem in NLP, with recent progress driven by transformer-based models trained on established datasets. However, little is known about the linguistic regularities that characterize how emotions are expressed across different...
Refining the Review Cycle: NeurIPS 2026 Area Chair Pilot
The AI Scientific Community: Agentic Virtual Lab Swarms
arXiv:2603.21344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this short note we propose using agentic swarms of virtual labs as a model of an AI Science Community. In this paradigm, each particle in the swarm represents a complete virtual laboratory instance, enabling...
Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
arXiv:2603.20639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The "AI singularity" is often miscast as a monolithic, godlike mind. Evolution suggests a different path: intelligence is fundamentally plural, social, and relational. Recent advances in agentic AI reveal that frontier reasoning models, such as...
An experimental study of KV cache reuse strategies in chunk-level caching systems
arXiv:2603.20218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation improves large language models' accuracy by adding relevant retrieved text to the prompt. Chunk level caching (CLC) accelerates inference by precomputing KV caches for these retrieved chunks and reusing them. However, these caches...
Thinking into the Future: Latent Lookahead Training for Transformers
arXiv:2603.20219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive language models trained with next-token prediction generate text by sampling one discrete token at a time. Although very scalable, this objective forces the model to commit at every step, preventing it from exploring or...
RedacBench: Can AI Erase Your Secrets?
arXiv:2603.20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language models can readily extract sensitive information from unstructured text, making redaction -- the selective removal of such information -- critical for data security. However, existing benchmarks for redaction typically focus on predefined categories...