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Attention is also needed for form design
B. Sankar, Dibakar Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19708 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19708

Attention is also needed for form design
Conventional product design is a cognitively demanding process, limited by its time-consuming nature, reliance on subjective expertise, and the opaque translation of inspiration into tangible concepts. This research introduces a novel, attention-aware framework that integrates two synergistic systems: EUPHORIA, an immersive Virtual Reality environment using eye-tracking to implicitly capture a designer's aesthetic preferences, and RETINA, an agentic AI pipeline that translates these implicit pr…

Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as chief AI officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/cohe

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer | TechCrunch
Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product and policy teams.

Designing across domains with declarative thinking: Insights from the 96-Eyes ptychographic imager project
Antony C Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18512 https://

Designing across domains with declarative thinking: Insights from the 96-Eyes ptychographic imager project
This article presents a practitioner's reflection on applying declarative, 5th generation, problem formulation language (5GL) to de novo imaging system design, informed by experiences across the interdisciplinary research in academia and cross-functional product development within the private sector. Using the 96-Eyes project: 96-camera parallel multi-modal imager for high-throughput drug discovery as a representative case, I illustrate how project requirements, ranging from hardware constraint…

"Accessibility people, you go work on that thing of yours over there": Addressing Disability Inclusion in AI Product Organizations
Sanika Moharana, Cynthia L. Bennett, Erin Buehler, Michael Madaio, Vinita Tibdewal, Shaun K. Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16607

"Accessibility people, you go work on that thing of yours over there": Addressing Disability Inclusion in AI Product Organizations
The rapid emergence of generative AI has changed the way that technology is designed, constructed, maintained, and evaluated. Decisions made when creating AI-powered systems may impact some users disproportionately, such as people with disabilities. In this paper, we report on an interview study with 25 AI practitioners across multiple roles (engineering, research, UX, and responsible AI) about how their work processes and artifacts may impact end users with disabilities. We found that practiti…

TL;DR: spending money to find the cause of autism is a eugenics project, and those resources could have been spent improving accommodations for Autistic people instead.
To preface this, I'm not Autistic but I'm neurodivergent with some overlap.
We need to be absolutely clear right now: the main purpose is *all* research into the causes of autism is eugenics: a cause is sought because non-autistic people want to *eliminate* autistic people via some kind of "cure." It should be obvious, but a "cured autistic person" who did not get a say in the decision to administer that "cure" has been subjected to non-consensual medical intervention at an extremely unethical level. Many autistic people have been exceptionally clear that they don't want to be "cured," including some people with "severe autism" such as people who are nonverbal.
When we think things like "but autism makes life so hard for some people," we're saying that the difficulties in their life are a result of their neurotype, rather than blaming the society that punished & devalues the behaviors that result from that neurotype at every turn. To the extent that an individual autistic person wants to modify their neurotype and/or otherwise use aids to modify themselves to reduce difficulties in their life, they should be free to pursue that. But we should always ask the question: "what if we changed their social or physical environment instead, so that they didn't have to change themselves?" The point is that difficulties are always the product of person x environment, and many of the difficulties we attribute to autism should instead be attributed to anti-autistic social & physical spaces, and resources spent trying to "find the cause of autism" would be *much* better spent trying to develop & promote better accommodations for autism. Or at least, that's the case if you care about the quality of life of autistic people and/or recognize their enormous contributions to society (e.g., Wikipedia could not exist in anything near its current form without autistic input). If instead you think of Autistic people as gross burdens that you'd rather be rid of, then it makes sense to investigate the causes of autism so that you can eventually find a "cure."
All of that to say: the best response to lies about the causes of autism is to ask "What is the end goal of identifying the cause?" instead of saying "That's not true, here's better info about the causes."
#autism #trump
P.S. yes, I do think about the plight of parents of autistic kids, particularly those that have huge struggles fitting into the expectations of our society. They've been put in a position where society constantly bullies and devalues their kid, and makes it mostly impossible for their kid to exist without constant parental support, which is a lot of work and which is unfair when your peers get the school system to do a massive amount of childcare. But in that situation, your kid is in an even worse position than you as the direct victim of all of that, and you have a choice: are you going to be their ally against the unfair world, or are you going to blame them and try to get them to confirm enough that you can let the school system take care of them, despite the immense pain that that will provoke? Please don't come crying for sympathy if you choose the later option (and yes, helping them be able to independently navigate society is a good thing for them, but there's a difference between helping them as their ally, at their pace, and trying to force them to conform to reduce the burden society has placed on you).

Feature Request Analysis and Processing: Tasks, Techniques, and Trends
Feifei Niu, Chuanyi Li, Haosheng Zuo, Jionghan Wu, Xin Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12436 https://

Feature Request Analysis and Processing: Tasks, Techniques, and Trends
Feature requests are proposed by users to request new features or enhancements of existing features of software products, which represent users' wishes and demands. Satisfying users' demands can benefit the product from both competitiveness and user satisfaction. Feature requests have seen a rise in interest in the past few years and the amount of research has been growing. However, the diversity in the research topics suggests the need for their collective analysis to identify the challenges a…

In June the U.S. Army commissioned four high-level tech executives into the army reserve as lieutenant colonels:
Palantir’s CTO,
Meta’s CTO,
OpenAI’s chief product officer,
and an adviser at Thinking Machines Lab who was formerly OpenAI’s chief research officer
https://infosec.exchange/@…

Toronto-based Blue J, which provides AI-powered tax research software, raised a $122M Series D led by Oak HC/FT and Sapphire Ventures at a $300M valuation (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/blue-j-series-d-after-doubling-revenue/

Blue J raises $167.4-million CAD Series D after AI tax research platform more than doubles its revenue
Funding to bolster Toronto startup’s team expansion, product development, and market reach.

Examining the sentiment and emotional differences in product and service reviews: The moderating role of culture
Vinh Truong (RMIT University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21057 h…

Examining the sentiment and emotional differences in product and service reviews: The moderating role of culture
This study explores how emotions and sentiments differ in customer reviews of products and services on e-commerce platforms. Unlike earlier research that treats all reviews uniformly, this study distinguishes between reviews of products, typically fulfilling basic, functional needs, and services, which often cater to experiential and emotional desires. The findings reveal clear differences in emotional expression and sentiment between the two. Product reviews frequently focus on practicality, s…

This seems kind of BAD, am I right? 😬
I am afraid for Canada, sharing the world's longest common border with these tech terrorists.

Forall-Exists Relational Verification by Filtering to Forall-Forall
Ramana Nagasamudram, Anindya Banerjee, David A. Naumann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04777 https://

Forall-Exists Relational Verification by Filtering to Forall-Forall
Relational verification encompasses research directions such as reasoning about data abstraction, reasoning about security and privacy, secure compilation, and functional specificaton of tensor programs, among others. Several relational Hoare logics exist, with accompanying tool support for compositional reasoning of $\forall\forall$ (2-safety) properties and, generally, k-safety properties of product programs. In contrast, few logics and tools exist for reasoning about $\forall\exists$ propert…

Product Manager Practices for Delegating Work to Generative AI: "Accountability must not be delegated to non-human actors"
Mara Ulloa, Jenna L. Butler, Sankeerti Haniyur, Courtney Miller, Barrett Amos, Advait Sarkar, Margaret-Anne Storey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02504

Product Manager Practices for Delegating Work to Generative AI: "Accountability must not be delegated to non-human actors"
Generative AI (GenAI) is changing the nature of knowledge work, particularly for Product Managers (PMs) in software development teams. While much software engineering research has focused on developers' interactions with GenAI, there is less understanding of how the work of PMs is evolving due to GenAI. To address this gap, we conducted a mixed-methods study at Microsoft, a large, multinational software company: surveying 885 PMs, analyzing telemetry data for a subset of PMs (N=731), and interv…

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an "agentic OS" (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce makes its Agentforce 360 case to be your AI agent platform
Salesforce announced a series of product updates, a process intelligence acquisition and an Agentforce 360 architecture designed to make the case that it should orchestrate first and third party AI agents. At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce looked to differentiate itself from what's becoming a crowded agentic AI platform space. The cloud giants are looking to go horizontal with stacks to build, deploy and optimize AI agents. SaaS vendors are expanding into managing AI agents beyond their verticals.…

Physical implications of four dimensional braided noncommutative gravity
Milorad Be\v{z}ani\'c, Marija Dimitrijevi\'c \'Ciri\'c, Biljana Nikoli\'c, Voja Radovanovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02205

Physical implications of four dimensional braided noncommutative gravity
The formulation of gravity theories on noncommutative (NC) spacetimes has been an active area of research for some time. Various models and methods have been proposed in the literature. Even within the star-product formalism, there are several distinct approaches to constructing NC deformations of General Relativity (GR) and Einstein-Cartan-Palatini (ECP) gravity. Some models are based on the NC local Lorentz symmetry, while others rely on NC deformations of the diffeomorphism symmetry of GR. I…

The Probability of Food Security: A new longitudinal data set using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Seungmin Lee, John Hoddinott, Christopher B. Barrett, Matthew P. Rabbitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06144

The Probability of Food Security: A new longitudinal data set using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
The study of food security dynamics in the U.S. has long been impeded by the lack of extended longitudinal observations of the same households or individuals. This paper applies a newly-introduced household-level food security measure, the probability of food security (PFS), to 26 waves of Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, spanning 1979-2019, to generate a data product we describe and make newly available to the research community. We detail the construction of this unprecedentedly lo…

A live blog of OpenAI DevDay 2025, where the company is expected to announce a visual agent builder and other developer updates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/open-ai-devday-live-updates-altman-jony-ive.html

OpenAI DevDay live: Sam Altman set to give opening keynote
Fresh off an AI chip deal with AMD, OpenAI makes its case to developers about the latest in research, product and engineering.

Towards fairer public transit: Real-time tensor-based multimodal fare evasion and fraud detection
Peter Wauyo, Dalia Bwiza, Alain Murara, Edwin Mugume, Eric Umuhoza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02165

Towards fairer public transit: Real-time tensor-based multimodal fare evasion and fraud detection
This research introduces a multimodal system designed to detect fraud and fare evasion in public transportation by analyzing closed circuit television (CCTV) and audio data. The proposed solution uses the Vision Transformer for Video (ViViT) model for video feature extraction and the Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) for audio analysis. The system implements a Tensor Fusion Network (TFN) architecture that explicitly models unimodal and bimodal interactions through a 2-fold Cartesian product. …