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Meetily is the bees knees for transcribing online meetings where you cannot use the native transcription
https://meetily.ai/

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[14/14]:
- Local MAP Sampling for Diffusion Models
Shaorong Zhang, Rob Brekelmans, Greg Ver Steeg

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/8]:
- Centering Emotion Hotspots: Multimodal Local-Global Fusion and Cross-Modal Alignment for Emotion ...
Yu Liu, Hanlei Shi, Haoxun Li, Yuqing Sun, Yuxuan Ding, Linlin Gong, Leyuan Qu, Taihao Li

Evolutionary Computation as Natural Generative AI
Yaxin Shi, Abhishek Gupta, Ying Wu, Melvin Wong, Ivor Tsang, Thiago Rios, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Yaqing Hou, Yew-Soon Ong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08590

Evolutionary Computation as Natural Generative AI
Generative AI (GenAI) has achieved remarkable success across a range of domains, but its capabilities remain constrained to statistical models of finite training sets and learning based on local gradient signals. This often results in artifacts that are more derivative than genuinely generative. In contrast, Evolutionary Computation (EC) offers a search-driven pathway to greater diversity and creativity, expanding generative capabilities by exploring uncharted solution spaces beyond the limits …

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

I think there’s a real possibility that local, running on consumer electronic devices, generative AI without the need for expensive processors, data centers, massive amounts of water and electricity may well be the actual long term way forward for generative AIs like LLM, image and video generators.
#tech #ai

Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/mistral-ai-surfs-vibe-coding-t…

Mistral AI surfs vibe-coding tailwinds with new coding models | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks to catch up to bigger AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-focused LLMs.

DirecTV launches DirecTV Elect, an AI-driven political ad platform offering access to CTV ad inventory across DirecTV and US cable networks (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/directv-elect-political-ad-ctv-launch/

DIRECTV takes on local TV with political advertising product
November 11, 2025 - DIRECTV is launching a new product called DIRECTV Elect that gives political ad buyers greater reach through connected TV platforms.

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings.
CBS News is gone;
CNN seems about to follow.
The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers against taking some of what they read in the paper’s columns at face value.
And all across the country, local news is on a ventilator;
the right-wing Sinclair network is taking…

The Washington Post Has Become Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought
It’s not going to happen. It’s happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. What are wealthy liberals going to do about it?

SIMPLETON: Yes, this will crash the economy because wrong math = lost money
EXPERT: No, this won’t crash the economy because people screw up even without AI, business operations are already riddled with ridiculous errors, and human systems have grown resilient to pervasive local failure
WISE SAGE: Yes, this will crash the economy because the economy is currently propped up by gullible investors •believing• this BS is real actual magic, and if they find out it it sucks like normal, the bubble pops
From @…: https://social.coop/@eb/115328355039744280

Open WebUI: An Open, Extensible, and Usable Interface for AI Interaction
Jaeryang Baek, Ayana Hussain, Danny Liu, Nicholas Vincent, Lawrence H. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02546

Open WebUI: An Open, Extensible, and Usable Interface for AI Interaction
While LLMs enable a range of AI applications, interacting with multiple models and customizing workflows can be challenging, and existing LLM interfaces offer limited support for collaborative extension or real-world evaluation. In this work, we present an interface toolkit for LLMs designed to be open (open-source and local), extensible (plugin support and users can interact with multiple models), and usable. The extensibility is enabled through a two-pronged plugin architecture and a communit…

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT run on expensive chips in data centers, consuming lots of electricity and generating lots of heat.
I just tested an LLM on my iPhone, totally offline, running on its battery with room air cooling it.
Surprisingly, results were good, despite iPhone processors not being designed for LLMs.
This local AI approach has promise for certain things, without the boiling the ocean and using a city’s worth of power.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[6/6]:
- Autonomy-Aware Clustering: When Local Decisions Supersede Global Prescriptions
Amber Srivastava, Salar Basiri, Srinivasa Salapaka

How developers are using Apple's local AI models in iOS 26: Lil Artist story generation, MoneyCoach's spending insights, F1 race summaries in Lights Out, more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/26/how-developers-are-u…

How developers are using Apple's local AI models with iOS 26 | TechCrunch
As iOS 26 is rolling out to all users, developers have been updating their apps to include features powered by Apple's local AI models.

AI didn't create skewed workplace incentives. They were already aligned towards churning out artifacts to create the illusion of productivity.
Of course, if there is one thing AI is good at, it's making plausible-looking artifacts. Then those artifacts get passed on and become your problem.
HBR is calling this the workslop era.
We must kill the logic underlying workslop: that anything going wrong after a handoff can be blamed on execution problems.

"Workslop" was the logical outcome of productivity maxxing
Local throughput optimization always externalizes costs onto downstream colleagues.

A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/new-st…

New streaming channel launches to give viewers a peek into city council meetings | TechCrunch
Hamlet TV is a way to help keep citizens informed of what's happening inside local governments.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[3/6]:
- MM-PoisonRAG: Disrupting Multimodal RAG with Local and Global Poisoning Attacks
Ha, Zhan, Kim, Bralios, Sanniboina, Peng, Chang, Kang, Ji

Alibaba says its mapping app Amap's destination ranking feature hit 400M users since its launch in September; Amap had a record 360M daily users on October 1 (Xinmei Shen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…

Alibaba’s Amap AI feature an instant hit with 400 million users since launch
As of June, Amap had 895.5 million monthly active users, making it the fourth biggest mobile app in China by that measure.

The American Journalism Project, known mostly for providing grants to US local news outlets, is offering a "field guide" to AI tools for local reporting (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-amer

The American Journalism Project’s new “field guide” vets AI vendors for local newsrooms
For many newsrooms, figuring out whether or not they want to bring generative AI tools into their editorial work is only the beginning of a conversation. For those that do, there are a litany of follow-up questions. One of those is: Which tool exactly should we use? AI products targeting journal…

Image Realness Assessment and Localization with Multimodal Features
Lovish Kaushik, Agnij Biswas, Somdyuti Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13289 https://ar…

Image Realness Assessment and Localization with Multimodal Features
A reliable method of quantifying the perceptual realness of AI-generated images and identifying visually inconsistent regions is crucial for practical use of AI-generated images and for improving photorealism of generative AI via realness feedback during training. This paper introduces a framework that accomplishes both overall objective realness assessment and local inconsistency identification of AI-generated images using textual descriptions of visual inconsistencies generated by vision-lang…

Derrick Ross from Shakespeare reckons there open web is in trouble because you got to be a dev to build a website.
He seems to think his app Shakespeare can make it easier to make a web app by using ai 😕
"Build me a Twitter like website" is the kind of instruction he thinks it will handle.
A local app running on your own machine, though calling the big ai model apis. Including if you have the power at home to run deep seek or open models.
I find myself suspecting it'd be hard for vibe coders who aren't devs to tell if they had vibe coded buggy insecure software or not.
#vibeCoding #nostershire

Just so you can guess where the "AI" thing is headed, look at this listing from a local community college
"AI made simple for everyday life"
... And look at what comes next:
"Flaggers certification"
The exciting thing (for bosses) is the idea that knowledge workers will be as interchangeable (and precarious) as DOT flaggers
#YouDeserveAUnion

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[9/17]:
- Distilling Reasoning into Student LLMs: Local Naturalness for Selecting Teacher Data
Hoang Anh Just, Myeongseob Ko, Ruoxi Jia

"Researchers Use Al to Predict Beavers' Impact on Local Habitats-and Show How Humans Can Help"
#Beavers #Animals

Researchers Use AI to Predict Beavers’ Impact on Local Habitats—and Show How Humans Can Help - Inside Climate News
By linking pond size to dam length, vegetation and stream power, researchers give land managers more precise tools to anticipate water storage, biodiversity and climate resilience.

London-based "neocloud" startup Nscale closed a $433M pre-Series C SAFE round from Nvidia, Nokia, Dell, and others, after raising a $1.1B Series B on Sept. 25 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/01/nscale-closes-433m-round-days-after…

Nscale closes $433M round, days after bagging $1.1BN funding
Nscale, the UK-based AI data centre startup, has closed a $433 million funding round, just days after bagging a $1.1 billion funding round, as the vast investment in AI infrastructure shows no signs of abating.Nscale, which pitches itself as a "hyperscaler engineered for AI", was named as a key local AI infrastructure partner for OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia, which announced significant investments into the UK AI ecosystem last week, coinciding with the visit of President Trump.The latest $433m…

I made the familiar point yesterday during a panel discussion that even if AI were approaching human intelligence, we're nowhere near human power efficiency (in "intelligence per watt")
But is that actually true anymore? We need huge power to train models, but once we have them trained, distilled and quantized, what do we have?
The human brain draws abt 20 Watts. An M4 doing local inference on a heavily quantized LLM won't draw more than 40 Watts.

MaskSQL: Safeguarding Privacy for LLM-Based Text-to-SQL via Abstraction
Sepideh Abedini (University of Waterloo, Vector Institute), Shubhankar Mohapatra (University of Waterloo), D. B. Emerson (Vector Institute), Masoumeh Shafieinejad (Vector Institute), Jesse C. Cresswell (Layer 6 AI), Xi He (University of Waterloo, Vector Institute)
https://

MaskSQL: Safeguarding Privacy for LLM-Based Text-to-SQL via Abstraction
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance on tasks that require reasoning, such as text-to-SQL, code generation, and debugging. However, regulatory frameworks with strict privacy requirements constrain their integration into sensitive systems. State-of-the-art LLMs are also proprietary, costly, and resource-intensive, making local deployment impractical. Consequently, utilizing such LLMs often requires sharing data with third-party providers, raising privacy concerns and ris…

More AI slop coming to FB. Any local advertisers will get a polite note, and if they still use it, I walk away to their competitors.

I’ve been using Telex to build #WordPress plugins right in the browser, and it makes the whole process surprisingly simple.
https://josvelasco.com/simplifying-wor

The AI bots at #bunq and #TradeRepublic are about to drive me back to opening an account with the local VR-bank. It's insane how you can ruin your own product like that.

An AI-powered gun detection system hooked up to a Baltimore County high school’s cameras mistook a bag of Doritos chips as a weapon
— and called the cops on a 16-year-old student.
As local news station WBAL-TV 11 News reports, Taki Allen was enjoying the snack while sitting outside of Kenwood High School after football practice.
Twenty minutes later, he was visited by a small army of heavily-armed police officers.
“They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my ba…

PyramidStyler: Transformer-Based Neural Style Transfer with Pyramidal Positional Encoding and Reinforcement Learning
Raahul Krishna Durairaju (California State University, Fullerton), K. Saruladha (Puducherry Technological University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01715

PyramidStyler: Transformer-Based Neural Style Transfer with Pyramidal Positional Encoding and Reinforcement Learning
Neural Style Transfer (NST) has evolved from Gatys et al.'s (2015) CNN-based algorithm, enabling AI-driven artistic image synthesis. However, existing CNN and transformer-based models struggle to scale efficiently to complex styles and high-resolution inputs. We introduce PyramidStyler, a transformer framework with Pyramidal Positional Encoding (PPE): a hierarchical, multi-scale encoding that captures both local details and global context while reducing computational load. We further incorporat…

An analysis of 30 US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details (Natalie Kainz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/dat

How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans
A review of over 30 data center proposals across 14 states found that in most cases, officials signed NDAs and worked with what appeared to be shell companies.

How a freelancer's suspicious pitch led an editor to dig into past work, finding inconsistencies and falsehoods, as tech makes falsifying writing trivially easy (Nicholas Hune-Brown/The Local)
https://thelocal.to/investigating-scam-journalism-ai/

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[13/17]:
- CoSteer: Collaborative Decoding-Time Personalization via Local Delta Steering
Hang Lv, Sheng Liang, Hao Wang, Hongchao Gu, Yaxiong Wu, Wei Guo, Defu Lian, Yong Liu, Enhong Chen

Bridging Cultural Distance Between Models Default and Local Classroom Demands: How Global Teachers Adopt GenAI to Support Everyday Teaching Practices
Ruiwei Xiao, Qing Xiao, Xinying Hou, Hanqi Jane Li, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, Hong Shen, John Stamper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10780

Bridging Cultural Distance Between Models Default and Local Classroom Demands: How Global Teachers Adopt GenAI to Support Everyday Teaching Practices
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly entering K-12 classrooms, offering teachers new ways for teaching practices. Yet GenAI models are often trained on culturally uneven datasets, embedding a "default culture" that often misaligns with local classrooms. To understand how teachers navigate this gap, we defined the new concept Cultural Distance (the gap between GenAI's default cultural repertoire and the situated demands of teaching practice) and conducted in-depth interviews with 30 K-12 teachers, 1…

The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed "first customer" payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d4d9d091-5fd7-4c20-a3ca-f68f580f7d6b

UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in £100mn growth push
Liz Kendall unveils plan to offer guaranteed payments for British start-ups making AI hardware

Quantization Errors, Human--AI Interaction, and Approximate Fixed Points in $L^1(\mu)$
Faruk Alpay, Hamdi Alakkad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11700 https://…

Quantization Errors, Human--AI Interaction, and Approximate Fixed Points in $L^1(μ)$
We develop a rigorous measure-theoretic framework for the analysis of fixed points of nonexpansive maps in the space $L^1(μ)$, with explicit consideration of quantization errors arising in fixed-point arithmetic. Our central result shows that every bounded, closed, convex subset of $L^1(μ)$ that is compact in the topology of local convergence in measure (a property we refer to as measure-compactness) enjoys the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings. The proof relies on techniques fro…

How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/22/2025/kenya-us-china-tech-war-ai-data-center

Africa’s forgotten battleground in the US-China tech war
A Kenyan data center stalls, raising questions about the ability of the US to compete with China in Africa.

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/

ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[3/11]:
- AVEC: Bootstrapping Privacy for Local LLMs
Madhava Gaikwad
https://

Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country for Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on both the App Store and Google Play in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/india-leads-the…

India leads the way on Google's Nano Banana with a local creative twist | TechCrunch
Indian users turning Google’s Nano Banana into a viral trend engine, from retro AI portraits to figurine-style selfies.

In much the same way we want useful #privacy focused, secure software, but the techbros keep delivering insecure #AI focused insecure nightmares, I wish the food industry would stop trying to sell us #ultraprocessed #overpackaged and mostly marketing driven guff and start turning their brilliant minds to real problems.
Why can't I have a delicious #vegan #plantbased cheese that doesn't cost the earth available at my local supermarket?
It's as if the brightest minds of each generation get turned to the wrong things - like ever more sophisticated ways to keep scrolling, or physics graduates who became quants and helped cause the financial crisis...

Chinese robotaxi operators WeRide and Pony AI are partnering with local companies like Grab to expand into Singapore, one of the world's best-mapped cities (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-…

Prompt-Guided Spatial Understanding with RGB-D Transformers for Fine-Grained Object Relation Reasoning
Tanner Muturi, Blessing Agyei Kyem, Joshua Kofi Asamoah, Neema Jakisa Owor, Richard Dyzinela, Andrews Danyo, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, Armstrong Aboah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11996

Prompt-Guided Spatial Understanding with RGB-D Transformers for Fine-Grained Object Relation Reasoning
Spatial reasoning in large-scale 3D environments such as warehouses remains a significant challenge for vision-language systems due to scene clutter, occlusions, and the need for precise spatial understanding. Existing models often struggle with generalization in such settings, as they rely heavily on local appearance and lack explicit spatial grounding. In this work, we introduce a dedicated spatial reasoning framework for the Physical AI Spatial Intelligence Warehouse dataset introduced in th…

Microsoft to bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete certain tasks on local files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/microsoft-test-copilot-manus-windows-11.html

Microsoft will test a Copilot AI feature that performs work on local files in Windows 11
Early adopters will be able to tell Microsoft's Copilot assistant to take action on files stored on their Windows 11 PCs.

Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500% in the past year and its stock jumped 765% in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-16/us-san…