An Ebike Company Was Sued Over Alleged Safety Misinformation. Several Chinese businesses associated with the ebike brand Aipas settled a lawsuit with Amazon and the safety certification company UL in July. Amazon and UL, a company that tests and certifies that products meet safety standards, settled a lawsuit in July with several Chinese companies that manufacture ebikes under the Aipas brand name. The US companies accused the Chinese firms in January of claiming in Amazon listings and on Aipas' website that the ebikes had been certified by UL, giving recognizable, brand-name assurance to online shoppers worried about risks like ebike lithium-ion battery fires . On July 15, a federal judge signed off on a permanent injunction in which the companies agreed that they would no longer use the UL mark.

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Sen. Josh Hawley alleges Plan C serves as a referral hub for shipping abortion pills into states where they're banned and asks the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation.

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Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) break the rigid left-to-right constraint of traditional LLMs, enabling token generation in arbitrary orders. Intuitively, this flexibility implies a solution space that strictly supersets the fixed autoregressive trajectory, theoretically unlocking superior reasoning potential. Indeed, for specific constraint satisfaction tasks (e.g., sudoku puzzles), this capability has proven to be highly advantageous. However, in this paper, we reveal that for general reasoning tasks (e.g., mathematics and coding), arbitrary order generation may in fact limit the reasoning potential of dLLMs. We find that dLLMs tend to exploit this order flexibility to bypass high-uncertainty tokens that are crucial for exploration, leading to a premature collapse of solution coverage. This observation motivates a rethink of RL approaches for dLLMs, where considerable complexities, such as handling combinatorial trajectories and intractable likelihoods, are often devoted to preserving this flexibility. We demonstrate that effective reasoning can be better elicited by simply forgoing arbitrary order and applying standard Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) instead. Our approach, JustGRPO, is minimalist yet surprisingly effective (e.g., 89.1% accuracy on GSM8K) while fully retaining the parallel decoding ability of dLLMs.

The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there's good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests that LLMs can also develop their own biases from experience--and stereotype job applicants more than humans do. As AI companies race to build agentic models that remember the tiniest details about users, they may be handing them ammunition for forming those biases.

What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain? A US service member has been killed in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of an explosive device from a downed Iranian drone. The fatality comes a day after two US soldiers were killed and another is missing from an Iranian attack in Jordan. Palestinians celebrate Spain's World Cup victory A bird's-eye view as Donald Trump arrives for the World Cup final

A mass shooting in downtown Tucson's nightlife district left 10 people wounded early Sunday. The suspect was shot by a police officer while allegedly fleeing the scene.

A 1-year-old English bulldog drowned at Camp Canine, a Santa Barbara dog daycare, prompting a police investigation. The facility says it failed to keep the pet safe.

ISIS is quietly rebuilding as the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq nears its Sept. 30 deadline, with a counterterrorism expert warning of a dangerous security vacuum.