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A bandit framework cuts LLM calls for automated essay-scoring prompt selection
A new arXiv paper reports that a multi-armed bandit controller selected prompting strategies for LLM essay scoring with comparable accuracy to exhaustive search while reducing calls by 78.4%.arxiv.orgIndustry
Seoul Economic Daily reports global AI firms courting Korean startups with models and credits
Seoul Economic Daily reports that Alibaba, Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic are increasing outreach to South Korean startups through developer events, AI tools and Claude credits, seeking to anchor their ecosystems in the country’s young technology companies.en.sedaily.comProduct
TechCrunch reports Z.ai confirmed as maker of Ox Alpha and plans weight release
TechCrunch reports that Bloomberg identified China’s Z.ai as the lab behind the anonymously released Ox Alpha open-weight model. Z.ai reportedly confirmed the model belongs to its GLM series and said its weights would be released Wednesday.techcrunch.comInnovation
Preprint adds frequency-domain evidence to LLM time-series anomaly detection
A new arXiv preprint proposes giving large language models compact frequency-domain evidence, alongside indexed observations, to help detect anomalies in recurring time-series patterns.arxiv.orgInnovation
Study finds LLMs often overconfident when identifying direct causal links
An evaluation of 12 open-weight language models finds that they frequently mistake indirect or reversed relationships for direct causal connections, while expressing high confidence in many incorrect judgments.arxiv.orgInnovation
Preprint proposes continuous difficulty estimates to reduce LLM self-consistency costs
A new arXiv preprint proposes Flexible Self-Consistency, a method that estimates how uncertain a language model is about a question and adjusts the number of sampled reasoning paths. The authors report token savings of up to 76% while maintaining accuracy comparable to standard self-consistency across various…arxiv.orgInnovation
FireRedAudio proposes a unified AI model for understanding and generating speech
A new preprint describes FireRedAudio, a 9-billion-parameter audio language model that combines audio understanding, multilingual speech recognition, speech synthesis and speech editing through separate continuous representations.arxiv.orgProduct
Shopify CEO threatens to ban Claude Code over AGENTS.md support
The New Stack reports that Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke threatened to ban Claude Code because it does not natively read AGENTS.md, creating extra synchronization work for teams using multiple coding agents.thenewstack.ioInnovation
Quantization can sharply reduce Bangla reasoning accuracy in one LLM family, preprint finds
A new arXiv preprint reports that quantizing large language models can affect Bangla understanding unevenly: GPT-OSS lost up to 57.35% accuracy on reasoning-heavy tasks in one format, while Qwen and LLaMA were generally more stable.arxiv.org
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