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Predicting Task Difficulty Without Rollouts

arXiv:2608.05797v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A fundamental challenge in evaluating and training autonomous agents is measuring the intrinsic difficulty of the tasks they attempt. Estimating this quantity can be useful for environment designers creating…

Veil-Then-Reveal: Protecting PII Privacy via Reversible Pseudo-Anonymization in Zero-Trust User–LLM Interaction

arXiv:2610.22800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly process sensitive documents and personal information, yet sending prompts containing personally identifiable information (PII) to remote providers exposes data subjects and organizations to risks…

NVIDIA Open Sources Run:ai Under Apache 2.0 for Kubernetes GPU Orchestration

NVIDIA has released the full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform as open source under Apache 2.0. The release includes KAI Scheduler, CUDA 13.4 GPU fractioning, quota management, and a local Kind dev environment. The post…

Mistral AI Releases Timestral: A 209M Forecasting Model Family That Outperforms Google’s TimesFM-3

Mistral released Timestral, a time series foundation model family from 5M to 209M parameters. The 209M model leads GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench among zero-shot models and runs on CPU. The post Mistral AI Releases…

TorchNeuron: running HF models on AWS Trainium is easier than ever

llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those…

llm-echo 0.5

Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all -…

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot

Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking…

TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web

An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a search or fetch API bills per request. The second is model processing: content passed…

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce

The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a…

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access

The outside watchdog can publish its findings without Anthropic's approval.