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US Congress moves to deepen military ties with Israel: Why it matters

Al Jazeera

Why Iran won't give up Hormuz Could Israel sabotage US-Iran deal? Lawmakers in the United States are quietly advancing a proposal that could deepen military ties between the US and Israel in unprecedented ways, at a time when public support for Israel among Americans is increasingly fractured. Among the provisions included in the 2027 National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) released this week is Section 224, the "United States-Israel Defence Technology Cooperation Initiative". Some legislators have already signalled opposition, with Representative Thomas Massie saying he would seek to remove the provision if it reaches the House floor. The measure remains at an early stage, but analysts say if passed, it would limit political oversight over the defence relationship.


Flowing with Confidence

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Generative models can produce nonsensical text, unrealistic images, and unstable materials faster than simulation or human review can absorb; without per-sample confidence, trust erodes. Existing fixes run $k$ ensembles or stochastic trajectories at $k\times$ compute, measuring variability between models, not model confidence. We propose Flow Matching with Confidence (FMwC). FMwC injects input-dependent multiplicative noise at selected layers, propagates its variance through the network in closed form, and integrates it along the ODE trajectory, yielding a per-sample confidence score at standard sampling cost. The score supports multiple uses: filtering improves image quality and thermodynamic stability of crystals; editing rewinds trajectories to the points where the model commits and redirects them; and adaptive stepping concentrates ODE compute where the flow is ambiguous. We find that the confidence score correlates with the magnitude of the divergence of the learned velocity field, which gives us a window to understand the generative process, opening up surgical forms of guidance that target the moments that matter, new sampling algorithms and interpretability of generative models.


ChatGPT can access your bank accounts now. Here's why I'm not ready

PCWorld

ChatGPT Pro users can now connect banking and investment accounts from over 12,000 financial institutions through Plaid integration for personalized financial insights. PCWorld highlights that while the feature offers read-only access and 30-day data deletion, it raises significant privacy and security concerns for users. The AI-powered dashboard provides financial summaries and answers queries, but users must weigh convenience against potential data risks. If there's one area where LLMs excel, it's plowing through reams of data and teasing out patterns, trends, and insights. So it's not surprising that OpenAI is zeroing in on personal finance, with ChatGPT now capable of delving into our banking, checking, and investment accounts .


Implementing advanced AI technologies in finance

MIT Technology Review

Successful AI implementation requires shifts in workplace culture as well as use cases that can scale across the enterprise. In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strategy after the fact. The result is a paradox: one of the most tightly regulated functions in the enterprise is now among the most experimentally transformed. What's emerging is a layered shift in how work gets done. From variance commentary and fraud detection to contract review and close narrative drafting, AI is embedding itself across workflows, particularly where unstructured data once slowed down everything.


Entropy-dissipation Informed Neural Network for McKean-Vlasov Type PDEs

Neural Information Processing Systems

The McKean-Vlasov equation (MVE) describes the collective behavior of particles subject to drift, diffusion, and mean-field interaction. In physical systems, the interaction term can be singular, i.e. it diverges when two particles collide. Notable examples of such interactions include the Coulomb interaction, fundamental in plasma physics, and the Biot-Savart interaction, present in the vorticity formulation of the 2DNavier-Stokes equation (NSE) in fluid dynamics. Solving MVEs that involve singular interaction kernels presents a significant challenge, especially when aiming to provide rigorous theoretical guarantees. In this work, we propose a novel approach based on the concept of entropy dissipation in the underlying system.


I asked AI to book dinner. It made me want to use the app instead

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. I asked AI to book dinner. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini may be aces at coding, but they're less than magical when it comes to booking a table for three. I can clearly see the day when we'll be able to summon ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini on our phones, say something like "Hey ChatGPT, book a table for two at Outback Steakhouse tonight at 8," and ChatGPT will simply take care of it. All of the big AI providers are busy unveiling integrations for everyday services ranging from Spotify and DoorDash to AllTrails and the dinner reservation app Resy, with varying degrees of success.


Deep Neural Networks as Point Estimates for Deep Gaussian Processes

Neural Information Processing Systems

This section gives a brief overview of some of the useful properties of spherical harmonics. We refer the interested reader to Dai and Xu [55] and Efthimiou and Frye [56] for an in-depth overview. Spherical harmonics are special functions defined on a hypersphere and originate from solving Laplace's equation. They form a complete set of orthogonal functions, and any sufficiently regular function defined on the sphere can be written as a sum of these spherical harmonics, similar to the Fourier series with sines and cosines. Spherical harmonics have a natural ordering by increasing angular frequency.


Supplementary Material AProof of Proposition 2

Neural Information Processing Systems

Proposition 2. (From main text) The Bayes error of flow models is monotonically increasing in . That is, for 0 < 0, we have that EBayes(ˆp) EBayes(ˆp 0). B.1 Hardness of Classes In addition to measuring the difficulty of classification tasks relative to one another, it also may be of interest to evaluate the relative difficulty of individual classes within a particular task. A natural way to do this is by looking at the error of one-vs-all classification tasks. The optimal Bayes classifier in this task is CBayes(x)= 0 if logpj(x) logp j(x), 1 otherwise .


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Neural Information Processing Systems

Current operator library with quantized operators is not feasible for vision transformer inference because of the specific operators including the GeLU activation and layer normalization. Layer normalization (LayerNorm) normalizes the activations of each layer in a neural network independently, reducing internal covariate shift and improving training stability as follows: LayerNorm(x) = γ p Var(x)+ϵ (x µ)+β, (1) where x is the input tensor. We construct surrogate equations with fixed-point interactive methods to calculate the output of the square root operators inspired by I-BERT[3]. We provide the details of how to approximate the square root operators in Algorithm.1. GeLU requires the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of Gaussian distribution, we approximate the activation function by Equation.2[1].


Robots can't replace guide dogs

Popular Science

Technology AI Robots can't replace guide dogs Man's best friend shares an'invisible care world' with humans that AI can't beat--yet. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Guide dogs are highly trained and can help people with vision loss navigate the world, open doors, and more. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. On paper, few physical jobs seem as ripe for AI takeover as that of the loyal service dog .