Creators
YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud, and other online platforms are changing the way people create and consume media. The Verge’s Creators section covers the people using these platforms, what they’re making, and how those platforms are changing (for better and worse) in...
Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator
Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for “blatant” copyright infringement.
Airbnb plans to bake in AI features for search, discovery and support
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company wants to increase its use of large language models for customer discovery, support and engineering.
Understanding the Regulation of the Use of Artificial Intelligence Under International Law
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various aspects of human life, from the economic sector to the government system. While it brings significant benefits, AI also poses legal and ethical risks that have not been fully addressed in...
NL2LOGIC: AST-Guided Translation of Natural Language into First-Order Logic with Large Language Models
arXiv:2602.13237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated reasoning is critical in domains such as law and governance, where verifying claims against facts in documents requires both accuracy and interpretability. Recent work adopts structured reasoning pipelines that translate natural language into first-order...
X-Blocks: Linguistic Building Blocks of Natural Language Explanations for Automated Vehicles
arXiv:2602.13248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural language explanations play a critical role in establishing trust and acceptance of automated vehicles (AVs), yet existing approaches lack systematic frameworks for analysing how humans linguistically construct driving rationales across diverse scenarios. This paper...
TemporalBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Based Agents on Contextual and Event-Informed Time Series Tasks
arXiv:2602.13272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is unclear whether strong forecasting performance reflects genuine temporal understanding or the ability to reason under contextual and event-driven conditions. We introduce TemporalBench, a multi-domain benchmark designed to evaluate temporal reasoning behavior under progressively...
Accuracy Standards for AI at Work vs. Personal Life: Evidence from an Online Survey
arXiv:2602.13283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how people trade off accuracy when using AI-powered tools in professional versus personal contexts for adoption purposes, the determinants of those trade-offs, and how users cope when AI/apps are unavailable. Because modern AI...
Mirror: A Multi-Agent System for AI-Assisted Ethics Review
arXiv:2602.13292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ethics review is a foundational mechanism of modern research governance, yet contemporary systems face increasing strain as ethical risks arise as structural consequences of large-scale, interdisciplinary scientific practice. The demand for consistent and defensible decisions...
DiffusionRollout: Uncertainty-Aware Rollout Planning in Long-Horizon PDE Solving
arXiv:2602.13616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose DiffusionRollout, a novel selective rollout planning strategy for autoregressive diffusion models, aimed at mitigating error accumulation in long-horizon predictions of physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Building on the recently validated...
Guided Collaboration in Heterogeneous LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems via Entropy-Based Understanding Assessment and Experience Retrieval
arXiv:2602.13639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) for reasoning, planning, and complex task generation, artificial intelligence systems are transitioning from isolated single-agent architectures to multi-agent systems with collaborative intelligence. However, in heterogeneous multi-agent systems...
From Perceptions To Evidence: Detecting AI-Generated Content In Turkish News Media With A Fine-Tuned Bert Classifier
arXiv:2602.13504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid integration of large language models into newsroom workflows has raised urgent questions about the prevalence of AI-generated content in online media. While computational studies have begun to quantify this phenomenon in English-language outlets,...
On Theoretically-Driven LLM Agents for Multi-Dimensional Discourse Analysis
arXiv:2602.13713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying the strategic uses of reformulation in discourse remains a key challenge for computational argumentation. While LLMs can detect surface-level similarity, they often fail to capture the pragmatic functions of rephrasing, such as its role...
Bridging the Multilingual Safety Divide: Efficient, Culturally-Aware Alignment for Global South Languages
arXiv:2602.13867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are being deployed across the Global South, where everyday use involves low-resource languages, code-mixing, and culturally specific norms. Yet safety pipelines, benchmarks, and alignment still largely target English and a handful...
Context Shapes LLMs Retrieval-Augmented Fact-Checking Effectiveness
arXiv:2602.14044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show strong reasoning abilities across diverse tasks, yet their performance on extended contexts remains inconsistent. While prior research has emphasized mid-context degradation in question answering, this study examines the impact of...
Mind the (DH) Gap! A Contrast in Risky Choices Between Reasoning and Conversational LLMs
arXiv:2602.15173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of large language models either as decision support systems, or in agentic workflows, is rapidly transforming the digital ecosystem. However, the understanding of LLM decision-making under uncertainty remains limited. We initiate a comparative...
Neurosymbolic Language Reasoning as Satisfiability Modulo Theory
arXiv:2602.18095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural language understanding requires interleaving textual and logical reasoning, yet large language models often fail to perform such reasoning reliably. Existing neurosymbolic systems combine LLMs with solvers but remain limited to fully formalizable tasks such...
AI Hallucination from Students' Perspective: A Thematic Analysis
arXiv:2602.17671v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As students increasingly rely on large language models, hallucinations pose a growing threat to learning. To mitigate this, AI literacy must expand beyond prompt engineering to address how students should detect and respond to LLM...
Curriculum Learning for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Distillation via Structure-Aware Masking and GRPO
arXiv:2602.17686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distilling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning from large language models into compact student models presents a fundamental challenge: teacher rationales are often too verbose for smaller models to faithfully reproduce. Existing approaches either compress reasoning into single-step,...
UBio-MolFM: A Universal Molecular Foundation Model for Bio-Systems
arXiv:2602.17709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: All-atom molecular simulation serves as a quintessential ``computational microscope'' for understanding the machinery of life, yet it remains fundamentally limited by the trade-off between quantum-mechanical (QM) accuracy and biological scale. We present UBio-MolFM, a universal...
Five Fatal Assumptions: Why T-Shirt Sizing Systematically Fails for AI Projects
arXiv:2602.17734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agile estimation techniques, particularly T-shirt sizing, are widely used in software development for their simplicity and utility in scoping work. However, when we apply these methods to artificial intelligence initiatives -- especially those involving large...
Inelastic Constitutive Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: A generalized framework for automated discovery of interpretable inelastic material models
arXiv:2602.17750v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A key problem of solid mechanics is the identification of the constitutive law of a material, that is, the relation between strain and stress. Machine learning has lead to considerable advances in this field lately....
On the Dynamics of Observation and Semantics
arXiv:2602.18494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A dominant paradigm in visual intelligence treats semantics as a static property of latent representations, assuming that meaning can be discovered through geometric proximity in high dimensional embedding spaces. In this work, we argue that...
Decoding ML Decision: An Agentic Reasoning Framework for Large-Scale Ranking System
arXiv:2602.18640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large-scale ranking systems operate within a sophisticated landscape of competing objectives, operational constraints, and evolving product requirements. Progress in this domain is increasingly bottlenecked by the engineering context constraint: the arduous process of translating...
The Convergence of Schema-Guided Dialogue Systems and the Model Context Protocol
arXiv:2602.18764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper establishes a fundamental convergence: Schema-Guided Dialogue (SGD) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) represent two manifestations of a unified paradigm for deterministic, auditable LLM-agent interaction. SGD, designed for dialogue-based API discovery (2019), and...
GenPlanner: From Noise to Plans -- Emergent Reasoning in Flow Matching and Diffusion Models
arXiv:2602.18812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Path planning in complex environments is one of the key problems of artificial intelligence because it requires simultaneous understanding of the geometry of space and the global structure of the problem. In this paper, we...
TPRU: Advancing Temporal and Procedural Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
arXiv:2602.18884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), particularly smaller, deployable variants, exhibit a critical deficiency in understanding temporal and procedural visual data, a bottleneck hindering their application in real-world embodied AI. This gap is largely caused by...
Early Evidence of Vibe-Proving with Consumer LLMs: A Case Study on Spectral Region Characterization with ChatGPT-5.2 (Thinking)
arXiv:2602.18918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as scientific copilots, but evidence on their role in research-level mathematics remains limited, especially for workflows accessible to individual researchers. We present early evidence for vibe-proving with a...
When Do LLM Preferences Predict Downstream Behavior?
arXiv:2602.18971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference-driven behavior in LLMs may be a necessary precondition for AI misalignment such as sandbagging: models cannot strategically pursue misaligned goals unless their behavior is influenced by their preferences. Yet prior work has typically prompted...
How Far Can We Go with Pixels Alone? A Pilot Study on Screen-Only Navigation in Commercial 3D ARPGs
arXiv:2602.18981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern 3D game levels rely heavily on visual guidance, yet the navigability of level layouts remains difficult to quantify. Prior work either simulates play in simplified environments or analyzes static screenshots for visual affordances, but...