Artificial Intelligence in Society, Medicine, Security & Automotive

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R0:6c8a4ce33496b8be6ac636aa4dfd0fef-Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

Can a compact text encoder learn representations that agree with vision more closely than those of a much larger language model? This preprint investigates that question through a conditional mathematical theorem and experiments comparing Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) with next-token prediction. Its central proposal is to train on different descriptions of the same scene, encouraging models to preserve shared information. A 109-million-parameter text JEPA achieves stronger visual alignment than the evaluated language models, including models with up to 72 billion parameters. The reported gains concern representation geometry, retrieval and selected classification tasks. The paper also combines a JEPA with an LLM decoder to generate image descriptions. This publication examines those contributions alongside the assumptions of the theorem, the meaning of the reported sample-efficiency advantage, the role of generated training captions and the limits of comparisons with general-purpose language models. The findings suggest a practical direction for representation learning while leaving broader claims about reasoning, planning and autonomous world models open.
R0:36cbb300eb0fca3fc0ffa717d93011b5-Explainable deep learning improves human mental models of self-driving cars

Explainable deep learning improves human mental models of self-driving cars

How can a passenger understand why a self-driving car behaves unexpectedly? This study introduces the Concept-Wrapper Network (CW-Net), which connects a learned planner to human-readable concepts and examines whether explanations improve understanding of vehicle behaviour. Its evaluation combines private-track experiments with a real autonomous vehicle, expert and non-expert studies, and an online study using public-road recordings collected while a human drove. Participants receiving concept explanations performed better on selected questions about surprising situations. The accompanying critique distinguishes the architecture in which concepts determine the planning reward from an alternative that provides diagnostic explanations without determining trajectory selection. It also examines concept-recognition errors, the inclusion of caution questions in a prediction measure, and uncertainty about effects during ordinary situations. The publication offers evidence about interpretable planning and human understanding, while explaining why these results do not establish safer autonomous operation on public roads or unrestricted replication of the complete vehicle system.
R0:d8e45fda6267d330d183ccaffd9b1502-LLM-Based Agents for Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of Architectures, Applications, and Open Challenges

LLM-Based Agents for Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of Architectures, Applications, and Open Challenges

This systematic review examines how language-model agents are being used in cybersecurity, from penetration testing and threat intelligence to incident response. It classifies 59 studies published between January 2022 and April 2026 by security function, agent architecture, knowledge augmentation, human oversight and evaluation rigor. The taxonomy helps readers compare single-agent tools with coordinated multi-agent systems and identify where evidence remains limited. Penetration testing accounts for just over half of the selected studies; none is classified as a production-grade evaluation. That finding describes this corpus, rather than proving an absence of production evidence across the field. The accompanying editorial critique checks the review’s counts and supporting records, distinguishes architectural prevalence from demonstrated superiority, and examines the subsequent withdrawal of a prominent incident-response result cited by the review. The publication offers a useful map of approaches and open challenges, while showing why laboratory performance, incomplete screening records and inconsistent supplementary versions require careful interpretation.
R0:46da84dd896e47151a6ab7d4d611099c-Large language models detect methodological errors that human peer review misses in clinical trials

Large language models detect methodological errors that human peer review misses in clinical trials

Can language models help reviewers find methodological weaknesses in clinical-trial reports? This preprint tests fifteen models on documents containing deliberately inserted errors, first using reports from an earlier human-review experiment and then extending the task to 58 trials published in 2026. It examines detection scores, concerns raised about control reports and the time required to produce reviews. The results suggest potential value for AI-assisted methodological screening, but the comparisons require care: the human benchmark is historical, model coverage differs across trials, and other language models score the reviews against a predefined answer key. The accompanying critique explains why the highest major-error score is not sensitivity across every error type or evidence of superiority over contemporary reviewers on all recent trials. It also distinguishes agreement between evaluators from independent validation. Readers can examine both the reported gains and the limits of a task that does not inspect underlying trial data, analysis code or the complete peer-review process.
R0:10f953633b3db3b4dc07e63a493e9b66-Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science

Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science

How useful are AI-generated scientific ideas to the researchers who understand the underlying work? This study asks authors of recent preprints to evaluate model-generated hypotheses for novelty, feasibility, plausibility and willingness to adopt them. Its source corpus spans 121,640 preprints, predominantly in biology and medicine, with smaller chemistry and social-science contributions. The reported results compare the diversity of ideas from different model classes, show how scientific preferences vary, and examine whether automated evaluators can reproduce expert ratings. A reward model trained on those ratings is also evaluated. The accompanying editorial critique separates these findings from broader claims about scientific imagination. It examines the restricted disciplinary coverage, self-selected participation and the distinction between a relative shortage of explicit null hypotheses and their complete absence. It also asks what is lost when numerical judgments are retained without the reasons behind them. The publication offers a substantial case study of AI-assisted hypothesis generation and of the evidence needed to assess it.
R0:b621309bd8d28cda43682baaeb45707f-An Embarrassingly Simple Graph Heuristic Reveals Shortcut-Solvable Benchmarks for Sequential Recommendation

An Embarrassingly Simple Graph Heuristic Reveals Shortcut-Solvable Benchmarks for Sequential Recommendation

Do standard recommendation benchmarks genuinely require sophisticated models, or can their structure reward simpler shortcuts? This study investigates that question with a graph heuristic that starts from a user’s last one or two interactions, retrieves nearby candidate items and ranks them by feature similarity. Across fourteen datasets, the authors report that the heuristic remains competitive on ten, with model rankings changing as dataset properties change. They examine local transition patterns, similarity between successive items and the value of longer interaction histories as possible explanations. The accompanying critique distinguishes those observed associations from causal evidence: the study compares datasets rather than removing a shortcut within a fixed benchmark. It also notes that the apparently simple method uses representations from a pretrained text encoder and that comparisons depend on the authors’ implementations and chosen settings. The paper is useful for understanding why a strong leaderboard result does not, by itself, establish the advanced capability a benchmark is intended to test.
R0:21222df107462b80fde54a74d060bc7e-When silence is safer: a review and decision-theoretic framework for LLM abstention in healthcare

When silence is safer: a review and decision-theoretic framework for LLM abstention in healthcare

In healthcare, a fluent answer can be less useful than a justified decision not to answer. This review examines how language models abstain when information is uncertain or when a response could be harmful. It distinguishes uncertainty-driven abstention from safety-driven refusal and finds that many existing approaches depend on additional tools rather than the model alone. The authors report limited evaluation in realistic medical settings and continuing difficulty with prompts that should not receive an unrestricted answer. They then formalize the choice between answering and withholding a response in terms of uncertainty and possible harm. This leads to MedSAFE, a framework for evaluating abstention in clinical dialogue, illustrated through a proof-of-concept pilot based on scenarios drawn from the review. The publication helps readers examine when an answer should be deferred, how abstention can be assessed, and why a pilot framework should be distinguished from evidence of reliable deployment across clinical practice.
R0:e8a2060e33594781594577f87d876bb1-Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome

Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome

AlphaGenome addresses a central problem in genomics: predicting how changes in DNA affect the regulation of biological activity. The model processes DNA sequences one million bases long and produces thousands of functional predictions, with resolution reaching individual base pairs for supported outputs. Its scope includes gene expression, transcription initiation, chromatin accessibility, histone modifications, transcription-factor binding, chromatin contacts and splicing. Trained on human and mouse genomes, it is reported to match or exceed leading external models in 25 of 26 evaluations of variant-effect prediction. The study also examines variants near the TAL1 oncogene to illustrate how predictions across several biological modalities can help interpret regulatory mechanisms. Tools are provided for generating sequence-based predictions and comparing variants. The contribution is a unified research model that combines a long sequence context with detailed outputs; the benchmark results concern defined prediction tasks and should not be read as proof that every variant can be interpreted correctly or used independently for clinical diagnosis.

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Deterministic Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Research on visual reasoning, evidence from model evaluations, measured hardware behaviour and controlled cybersecurity trials: these four resources document how claims are examined within the Sistema Vectorial (SV). Readers can consult methods, results and limitations, with ongoing work distinguished from demonstrated findings.

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Semiconductor market

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AI infrastructure — bond market

CoreWeave specialises in GPU cloud infrastructure for training and running AI models. Oracle combines GPU computing with a broader enterprise business in databases, cloud services and applications. Amazon (AWS), Alphabet (Google Cloud) and Microsoft (Azure) also operate extensive cloud platforms within diversified groups. The bonds below represent debt of the named issuer as a whole; they do not isolate the performance of its AI activities.

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IssuerAnnual couponMaturity
Microsoft1.350%15 Sep 2030
CoreWeave9.625%15 Jul 2032
Oracle4.800%26 Sep 2032
Alphabet4.375%15 Nov 2032
Amazon4.700%1 Dec 2032

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CoreWeave · USD senior unsecured notes · Fixed annual coupon: 9.625% · Maturity: 15 July 2032 · ISIN: USU2069EAE06 (Reg S).

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