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americanbazaaronline.com · Oct 28

Indian AI startups weigh costs of moving to US

Indian AI startups seek US capital and customers but face high hiring costs, visa hurdles and challenges securing their first clients.

Pulse · msn.com

msn.com · Oct 28

New York enacts ban on unsafe chatbot behavior with kids as states push AI regulation boundaries

New York is enacting farther-reaching restrictions on companion chatbot behavior, as states increasingly move to protect children who use artificial intelligence, regulate how employers deploy AI systems and push developers to prevent an AI-caused catastrophe.

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finance.yahoo.com · Oct 28

Kong Joins ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance Aimed At Helping Enterprises Safely Adopt AI

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, today announced it is a founding member of the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance, a new ecosystem of leading companies in AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance,

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Oct 27

Honeycomb-Surfels: Compact Hexagonal Primitives for Efficient Scene Rendering and Reconstruction

Novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction have advanced rapidly with radiance fields and splatting, yet their memory and computational demands limit their use in resource-constrained settings. We introduce Hexels: novel planar hexagonal surface elements with a first-order spatial color field for efficient 3D scene and 2D image representation. Hexels exploit locally planar regions with smoothly varying appearance using fewer, larger primitives. Their hexagonal support provides an area- and boundary-efficient domain, while the local color field captures appearance variation within each primitive. Across 34 scenes, Hexels improve PSNR over memory-matched 2DGS by 4.53-7.38 dB across datasets while requiring lower training VRAM. We further ablate Hexels by showing that per primitive, Hexels outperform 2DGS by upto 4.74 dB while using lower training VRAM and having 2.31 times faster FPS. Even in unconstrained settings, Hexels offers complementary quality-memory trade-offs. For efficient 3D surface reconstruction, Hexels reduce error by 28.9% compared with memory-matched 2DGS across 15 DTU scans. On 6 Tanks and Temples surface scenes, Hexels achieves the highest mean F1 among compared…

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Sep 18

Edit-VAR: Taming Visual Autoregressive Model for Precise Video Editing

Text-guided video editing modifies target content while preserving the appearance and temporal coherence of unedited regions. Training-based approaches provide strong control but demand substantial data and computation. Training-free methods fall into inversion-free and…

arXiv

Sep 18

Efficient Benchmarking in Production: A Study of an Evolving LLM Agent

Production LLM agents are evaluated repeatedly as they evolve, but full agent benchmarks are costly to rerun. We study efficient recurring evaluation for a production analytics agent serving tens of thousands of monthly active users and report first-hand deployment experience.…

arXiv

Sep 18

Active Spatial Inspection for Effective and Efficient Embodied Exploration

Achieving high task success and efficiency remains a central pursuit in embodied exploration. Existing frameworks typically guide agent behavior through a spatially coarse and indirect assessment of suggestive cues and directions, yet such designs may struggle to judge cue…

arXiv

Sep 18

Programming AMD XDNA NPUs with Open-source Compiler Tools: A FlashAttention Case Study

Spatial NPUs such as AMD XDNA place compute tiles beside small local memories and leave data movement between them to software. Mapping a multi-stage workload onto such a device is largely a question of where the intermediate tensors live. We report what we learned making those…

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