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A look at the lack of consensus in the tech industry on what AGI is, whether LLMs are the best path to it, and what AGI might look like if or when it arrives (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence
It has been tipped as the next big breakthrough out of Silicon Valley, but is it a scientific goal — or a marketing buzzword?

Public Evaluation on Potential Social Impacts of Fully Autonomous Cybernetic Avatars for Physical Support in Daily-Life Environments: Large-Scale Demonstration and Survey at Avatar Land
Lotfi El Hafi, Kazuma Onishi, Shoichi Hasegawa, Akira Oyama, Tomochika Ishikawa, Masashi Osada, Carl Tornberg, Ryoma Kado, Kento Murata, Saki Hashimoto, Sebastian Carrera Villalobos, Akira Taniguchi, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tatsuya Aoki, Kensuke Iwata, Takato Horii, Yukiko H…

Public Evaluation on Potential Social Impacts of Fully Autonomous Cybernetic Avatars for Physical Support in Daily-Life Environments: Large-Scale Demonstration and Survey at Avatar Land
Cybernetic avatars (CAs) are key components of an avatar-symbiotic society, enabling individuals to overcome physical limitations through virtual agents and robotic assistants. While semi-autonomous CAs intermittently require human teleoperation and supervision, the deployment of fully autonomous CAs remains a challenge. This study evaluates public perception and potential social impacts of fully autonomous CAs for physical support in daily life. To this end, we conducted a large-scale demonstr…

Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Proceedings 18th Interaction and Concurrency Experience
Cl\'ement Aubert (Augusta University), Cinzia Di Giusto (Universit\'e C\^ote d'Azur, CNRS, I3SSophia Antipolis), Simon Fowler (University of Glasgow School of Computing Science), Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.123…

Proceedings 18th Interaction and Concurrency Experience
This volume contains the proceedings of ICE'25, the 18th Interaction and Concurrency Experience, which was held on Friday 20th June 2025 at the École National Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in Lille, France, as a satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2025. The ICE workshop series features a distinguishing review and selection procedure: PC members are encouraged to interact, anonymously, with authors. The 2025 edition of ICE received 7 submissions, each reviewed by three PC members, and about 75 co…

ATLANTIS: AI-driven Threat Localization, Analysis, and Triage Intelligence System
Taesoo Kim, HyungSeok Han, Soyeon Park, Dae R. Jeong, Dohyeok Kim, Dongkwan Kim, Eunsoo Kim, Jiho Kim, Joshua Wang, Kangsu Kim, Sangwoo Ji, Woosun Song, Hanqing Zhao, Andrew Chin, Gyejin Lee, Kevin Stevens, Mansour Alharthi, Yizhuo Zhai, Cen Zhang, Joonun Jang, Yeongjin Jang, Ammar Askar, Dongju Kim, Fabian Fleischer, Jeongin Cho, Junsik Kim, Kyungjoon Ko, Insu Yun, Sangdon Park, Dowoo Baik, Haein Lee, Hy…

ATLANTIS: AI-driven Threat Localization, Analysis, and Triage Intelligence System
We present ATLANTIS, the cyber reasoning system developed by Team Atlanta that won 1st place in the Final Competition of DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) at DEF CON 33 (August 2025). AIxCC (2023-2025) challenged teams to build autonomous cyber reasoning systems capable of discovering and patching vulnerabilities at the speed and scale of modern software. ATLANTIS integrates large language models (LLMs) with program analysis -- combining symbolic execution, directed fuzzing, and static analysi…

Multi-Channel Differential ASR for Robust Wearer Speech Recognition on Smart Glasses
Yufeng Yang, Yiteng Huang, Yong Xu, Li Wan, Suwon Shon, Yang Liu, Yifeng Fan, Zhaojun Yang, Olivier Siohan, Yue Liu, Ming Sun, Florian Metze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14430

Multi-Channel Differential ASR for Robust Wearer Speech Recognition on Smart Glasses
With the growing adoption of wearable devices such as smart glasses for AI assistants, wearer speech recognition (WSR) is becoming increasingly critical to next-generation human-computer interfaces. However, in real environments, interference from side-talk speech remains a significant challenge to WSR and may cause accumulated errors for downstream tasks such as natural language processing. In this work, we introduce a novel multi-channel differential automatic speech recognition (ASR) method …

https://cyberscoop.com/nozomi-networks-mitsubishi-electric-acquisition-ot-ics-cybersecurity/
Mitsubishi Electric to acquire Nozomi Networks in $1 billion deal

Mitsubishi Electric to acquire Nozomi Networks in $1 billion deal
Industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to acquire OT and IoT cybersecurity specialist Nozomi Networks in a transaction that values the firm near the $1 billion mark.

Chip design software maker Cadence agrees to acquire Stockholm-based Hexagon's design and simulation software business for ~$3.18B in cash and stock (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/cad

Cadence Design Systems to spend $3.2B on Hexagon’s simulations tech
The acquisition would bolster the industrial software maker’s position in the growing structural analysis market used widely by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Toyota and other suppliers.

The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired, which means that Windsurf is free to explore other options (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/11/the-exc

The exclusivity on OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition for AI coding startup Windsurf has expired
Windsurf is now free to explore other options.