The 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is not trapped in amber: a reflection on oral argument
While I have written multiple posts for SCOTUSblog on birthright citizenship, a substantial part of my practice is litigating Second Amendment claims. In light of that experience, I was struck […]The postThe 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is not trapped in...
SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, April 7
President Donald Trump is not done complaining about the Supreme Court’s tariffs ruling. Keep reading to learn more about his latest message for the justices.The postSCOTUStoday for Tuesday, April 7appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?
New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry.
SCOTUS overturns 5th Circuit ruling that told ISP to kick pirates off Internet
Supreme Court's precedent-setting Cox ruling helps Grande beat music piracy claims.
Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation
Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.
Intel signs on to Elon Musk’s Terafab chips project
Intel will join SpaceX and Tesla in an effort to build a new U.S. semiconductor factory in Texas, although the scope of its contributions are unclear.
Anthropic debuts preview of powerful new AI model Mythos in new cybersecurity initiative
The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.
Uber is the latest to be won over by Amazon’s AI chips
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
Anthropic ups compute deal with Google and Broadcom amid skyrocketing demand
Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.
Google Maps can now write captions for your photos using AI
Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place.
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The AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets
On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors into active participants.
Rethinking the Key Role of Private Antitrust Enforcement
Agile Governance Approach for Generative Artificial Intelligence in China
Solar-VLM: Multimodal Vision-Language Models for Augmented Solar Power Forecasting
arXiv:2604.04145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) power forecasting plays a critical role in power system dispatch and market participation. Because PV generation is highly sensitive to weather conditions and cloud motion, accurate forecasting requires effective modeling of complex spatiotemporal...
Rethinking Token Prediction: Tree-Structured Diffusion Language Model
arXiv:2604.03537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models have emerged as a competitive alternative to auto-regressive language models, but training them efficiently under limited parameter and memory budgets remains challenging. Modern architectures are predominantly based on a full-vocabulary token...
CAGMamba: Context-Aware Gated Cross-Modal Mamba Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
arXiv:2604.03650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) requires effective modeling of cross-modal interactions and contextual dependencies while remaining computationally efficient. Existing fusion approaches predominantly rely on Transformer-based cross-modal attention, which incurs quadratic complexity with respect to sequence length...
Noise Steering for Controlled Text Generation: Improving Diversity and Reading-Level Fidelity in Arabic Educational Story Generation
arXiv:2604.03380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating diverse, pedagogically valid stories for Arabic early-grade reading assessments requires balancing tight constraints on vocabulary, reading level, and narrative structure against the need to avoid repetitive plots that undermine assessment validity. We investigate noise...
Towards the AI Historian: Agentic Information Extraction from Primary Sources
arXiv:2604.03553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI is supporting, accelerating, and automating scientific discovery across a diverse set of fields. However, AI adoption in historical research remains limited due to the lack of solutions designed for historians. In this technical progress...
Improving Model Performance by Adapting the KGE Metric to Account for System Non-Stationarity
arXiv:2604.03906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geoscientific systems tend to be characterized by pronounced temporal non-stationarity, arising from seasonal and climatic variability in hydrometeorological drivers, and from natural and anthropogenic changes to land use and cover. As has been pointed out,...
Align Your Structures: Generating Trajectories with Structure Pretraining for Molecular Dynamics
arXiv:2604.03911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories using deep generative models has attracted increasing attention, yet remains inherently challenging due to the limited availability of MD data and the complexities involved in modeling high-dimensional MD distributions. To...
Hume's Representational Conditions for Causal Judgment: What Bayesian Formalization Abstracted Away
arXiv:2604.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hume's account of causal judgment presupposes three representational conditions: experiential grounding (ideas must trace to impressions), structured retrieval (association must operate through organized networks exceeding pairwise connection), and vivacity transfer (inference must produce felt conviction,...
To Throw a Stone with Six Birds: On Agents and Agenthood
arXiv:2604.03239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Six Birds Theory (SBT) treats macroscopic objects as induced closures rather than primitives. Empirical discussions of agency often conflate persistence (being an object) with control (making a counterfactual difference), which makes agency claims difficult to...
TABQAWORLD: Optimizing Multimodal Reasoning for Multi-Turn Table Question Answering
arXiv:2604.03393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal reasoning has emerged as a powerful framework for enhancing reasoning capabilities of reasoning models. While multi-turn table reasoning methods have improved reasoning accuracy through tool use and reward modeling, they rely on fixed text...
Supervised Dimensionality Reduction Revisited: Why LDA on Frozen CNN Features Deserves a Second Look
arXiv:2604.03928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective ride-hailing dispatch requires anticipating demand patterns that vary substantially across time-of-day, day-of-week, season, and special events. We propose a regime-calibrated approach that (i) segments historical trip data into demand regimes, (ii) matches the current...
LPC-SM: Local Predictive Coding and Sparse Memory for Long-Context Language Modeling
arXiv:2604.03263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most current long-context language models still rely on attention to handle both local interaction and long-range state, which leaves relatively little room to test alternative decompositions of sequence modeling. We propose LPC-SM, a hybrid autoregressive...
Why Attend to Everything? Focus is the Key
arXiv:2604.03260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Focus, a method that learns which token pairs matter rather than approximating all of them. Learnable centroids assign tokens to groups; distant attention is restricted to same-group pairs while local attention operates at...
The Tool Illusion: Rethinking Tool Use in Web Agents
arXiv:2604.03465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As web agents rapidly evolve, an increasing body of work has moved beyond conventional atomic browser interactions and explored tool use as a higher-level action paradigm. Although prior studies have shown the promise of tools,...
Entropy and Attention Dynamics in Small Language Models: A Trace-Level Structural Analysis on the TruthfulQA Benchmark
arXiv:2604.03589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) have been increasingly deployed in edge devices and other resource-constrained settings. However, these models make confident mispredictions and produce unstable output, making them risky for factual and decision-critical tasks. Current evaluation...