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OpenAI officially closes its ~$6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products, after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-inte…

OpenAI closes deal with Jony Ive’s io.

ArtifactsBench: Bridging the Visual-Interactive Gap in LLM Code Generation Evaluation
Chenchen Zhang, Yuhang Li, Can Xu, Jiaheng Liu, Ao Liu, Shihui Hu, Dengpeng Wu, Guanhua Huang, Kejiao Li, Qi Yi, Ruibin Xiong, Haotian Zhu, Yuanxing Zhang, Yuhao Jiang, Yue Zhang, Zenan Xu, Bohui Zhai, Guoxiang He, Hebin Li, Jie Zhao, Le Zhang, Lingyun Tan, Pengyu Guo, Xianshu Pang, Yang Ruan, Zhifeng Zhang, Zhonghu Wang, Ziyan Xu, Zuopu Yin, Wiggin Zhou, Chayse Zhou, Fengzong Lian

ArtifactsBench: Bridging the Visual-Interactive Gap in LLM Code Generation Evaluation
The generative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly expanding from static code to dynamic, interactive visual artifacts. This progress is bottlenecked by a critical evaluation gap: established benchmarks focus on algorithmic correctness and are blind to the visual fidelity and interactive integrity that define modern user experiences. To bridge this gap, we introduce ArtifactsBench, a new benchmark and paradigm for the automated, multimodal evaluation of visual code generati…

#MyPillow CEO's legal counsel Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster were excortiated by a Federal Judge and fined by court after violating court rules turning in #ArtificialIntelligence generated legal motions with nearly 30 defective citations, including bogus cites of non existent case law. …

MyPillow CEO’s lawyers fined for AI-generated court filing in Denver defamation case
The error-filled motion was filed in defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell, which ended last month with a jury finding him liable for false claims about the 2020 election

Bittensor Protocol: The Bitcoin in Decentralized Artificial Intelligence? A Critical and Empirical Analysis
Elizabeth Lui, Jiahao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02951

Bittensor Protocol: The Bitcoin in Decentralized Artificial Intelligence? A Critical and Empirical Analysis
This paper investigates whether Bittensor can be considered the Bitcoin of decentralized Artificial Intelligence by directly comparing its tokenomics, decentralization properties, consensus mechanism, and incentive structure against those of Bitcoin. Leveraging on-chain data from all 64 active Bittensor subnets, we first document considerable concentration in both stake and rewards. We further show that rewards are overwhelmingly driven by stake, highlighting a clear misalignment between qualit…

FDC-Net: Rethinking the association between EEG artifact removal and multi-dimensional affective computing
Wenjia Dong, Xueyuan Xu, Tianze Yu, Junming Zhang, Li Zhuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05231

FDC-Net: Rethinking the association between EEG artifact removal and multi-dimensional affective computing
Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based emotion recognition holds significant value in affective computing and brain-computer interfaces. However, in practical applications, EEG recordings are susceptible to the effects of various physiological artifacts. Current approaches typically treat denoising and emotion recognition as independent tasks using cascaded architectures, which not only leads to error accumulation, but also fails to exploit potential synergies between these tasks. Moreover, conventio…

A Intelig\^encia Artificial Generativa no Ecossistema Acad\^emico: Uma An\'alise de Aplica\c{c}\~oes, Desafios e Oportunidades para a Pesquisa, o Ensino e a Divulga\c{c}\~ao Cient\'ifica
Raphael Machado, Rodrigo David, Rodolfo Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03106

A Inteligência Artificial Generativa no Ecossistema Acadêmico: Uma Análise de Aplicações, Desafios e Oportunidades para a Pesquisa, o Ensino e a Divulgação Científica
The rapid and disruptive integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in higher education is reshaping fundamental academic practices. This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of GenAI across three core academic domains: research, teaching, and scientific dissemination. Through a systematic review of recent literature indexed in the Scopus, Web of Science, and IEEEXplore databases, the main applications, benefits, and the profound ethical and governance challeng…

The Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection with Outliers and Overlapping Communities (ABCD $o^2$)
Jordan Barrett, Ryan DeWolfe, Bogumi{\l} Kami\'nski, Pawe{\l} Pra{\l}at, Aaron Smith, Fran\c{c}ois Th\'eberge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05486

The Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection with Outliers and Overlapping Communities (ABCD+$o^2$)
The Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection (ABCD) graph is a random graph model with community structure and power-law distribution for both degrees and community sizes. The model generates graphs similar to the well-known LFR model but it is faster, more interpretable, and can be investigated analytically. In this paper, we use the underlying ingredients of the ABCD model, and its generalization to include outliers (ABCD+$o$), and introduce another variant that allows for overlapping com…

Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, has become a hub for Chinese AI startups, with the suburb Liangzhu emerging as a hotspot for coders in their 20s and 30s (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.n…

The Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s A.I. Frenzy
As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is where its aspiring tech titans mingle and share ideas.

Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65f79839-d637-48a7-a0f2-3fab8952b315

Europe’s Mistral benefits from search for artificial intelligence alternatives
Start-up has embarked on expansion of its own infrastructure and secured significant contracts

At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician (Lyndie Chiou/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs