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Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cisco-talks-buy-ai-security-s…

Cisco in Talks to Buy AI Security Startup Astrix for at Least $250 Million
Cisco Systems is in talks to acquire Astrix Security, a five-year-old Israeli cybersecurity startup that sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250 million and $350 million, according to people with knowledge of the deal. That would represent at least a 25% premium to the ...

In a DOD press conference, Pete Hegseth says "the sooner David Ellison takes over [CNN], the better" as he complains about media coverage of the war in Iran (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/hegseth-cnn-…

Pete Hegseth Says 'The Sooner David Ellison Takes Over' CNN 'the Better'
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is rooting for David Ellison's Paramount Skydance to close its $111 billion deal to acquire CNN parent Warner Bros. Discovery, as Hegseth lashed out at the news network over a report about the Iran war.

»Netzpolitik — Cybersicherheitschef der USA lädt vertrauliche Dokumente bei ChatGPT hoch:
Offenbar hatte sich ausgerechnet der Boss eine Ausnahmegenehmigung für die Nutzung des Tools geholt und agierte damit umgehend fahrlässig«
Ich habe diesbezüglich kein Kommentar ausser dass dies uns das Nutzen der KI wirklich in Frage stellen soll.
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Cybersicherheitschef der USA lädt vertrauliche Dokumente bei ChatGPT hoch
Offenbar hatte sich ausgerechnet der Boss eine Ausnahmegenehmigung für die Nutzung des Tools geholt und agierte damit umgehend fahrlässig

Rams agree to sign former Chiefs CB Jaylen Watson: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7088038/2026/03/09/jaylen-watson-rams-nfl-free-agency-2026/

Cybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire AllTrue, which develops specialized tools for AI trust, risk, and security management, for $125M in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/varonis-to-acquire-alltrue-a…

Sony Music Group and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC announce a joint venture to acquire music copyrights; sources say the JV plans to invest $2B to $3B (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
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- Can Small Language Models Handle Context-Summarized Multi-Turn Customer-Service QA? A Synthetic D...
Lakshan Cooray, Deshan Sumanathilaka, Pattigadapa Venkatesh Raju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00665 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116006686092324902
- SEAD: Self-Evolving Agent for Multi-Turn Service Dialogue
Dai, Gao, Zhang, Wang, Luo, Wang, Wang, Wu, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03548
- OmniRAG-Agent: Agentic Omnimodal Reasoning for Low-Resource Long Audio-Video Question Answering
Yifan Zhu, Xinyu Mu, Tao Feng, Zhonghong Ou, Yuning Gong, Haoran Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03707
- GreekMMLU: A Native-Sourced Multitask Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models in Greek
Zhang, Konomi, Xypolopoulos, Divriotis, Skianis, Nikolentzos, Stamou, Shang, Vazirgiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05150
- Using LLMs for Knowledge Component-level Correctness Labeling in Open-ended Coding Problems
Zhangqi Duan, Arnav Kankaria, Dhruv Kartik, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17542 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116102514058414603
- MetaState: Persistent Working Memory Enhances Reasoning in Discrete Diffusion Language Models
Kejing Xia, Mingzhe Li, Lixuan Wei, Zhenbang Du, Xiangchi Yuan, Dachuan Shi, Qirui Jin, Wenke Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01331 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116165314672421581
- A Browser-based Open Source Assistant for Multimodal Content Verification
Milner, Foster, Karmakharm, Razuvayevskaya, Roberts, Porcellini, Teyssou, Bontcheva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02842 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116170368271004704
- Nw\=ach\=a Mun\=a: A Devanagari Speech Corpus and Proximal Transfer Benchmark for Nepal Bhasha ASR
Sharma, Shrestha, Poudel, Tiwari, Shrestha, Ghimire, Bal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116204797995674104
- Model Merging in the Era of Large Language Models: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions
Mingyang Song, Mao Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09938 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116210189810004206
- AgentDrift: Unsafe Recommendation Drift Under Tool Corruption Hidden by Ranking Metrics in LLM Ag...
Zekun Wu, Adriano Koshiyama, Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12564 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116237800898328349
- GhanaNLP Parallel Corpora: Comprehensive Multilingual Resources for Low-Resource Ghanaian Languages
Gyamfi, Azunre, Moore, Budu, Asare, Owusu, Asiamah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13793 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243544688031749
- sebis at ArchEHR-QA 2026: How Much Can You Do Locally? Evaluating Grounded EHR QA on a Single Not...
Ibrahim Ebrar Yurt, Fabian Karl, Tejaswi Choppa, Florian Matthes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13962 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243646346563497
- ExPosST: Explicit Positioning with Adaptive Masking for LLM-Based Simultaneous Machine Translation
Yuzhe Shang, Pengzhi Gao, Yazheng Yang, Jiayao Ma, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Jinsong Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14903 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243711232778054
- BanglaSocialBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Sociopragmatic and Cultural Alignment of LLMs in Ba...
Tanvir Ahmed Sijan, S. M Golam Rifat, Pankaj Chowdhury Partha, Md. Tanjeed Islam, Md. Musfique Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15949 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116249122231759766
- EngGPT2: Sovereign, Efficient and Open Intelligence
G. Ciarfaglia, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16430 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116249228411487178
- HypeLoRA: Hyper-Network-Generated LoRA Adapters for Calibrated Language Model Fine-Tuning
Bartosz Trojan, Filip G\k{e}bala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19278 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116277612915482857
- Automatic Analysis of Collaboration Through Human Conversational Data Resources: A Review
Yi Yu, Maria Boritchev, Chlo\'e Clavel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116277620779254916
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Langu...
Xinyue Liu, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Jane C. Ginsburg, Tuhin Chakrabarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283538317671552
- KG-Hopper: Empowering Compact Open LLMs with Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
Shuai Wang, Yinan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21440 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283595007808076
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