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The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.77.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.77.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don’t have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website. What’s in 1.77.1 Cargo enabled stripping of debuginfo in release builds by default […]

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arXiv:2602.18455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search engines increasingly display LLM-generated answers shown above organic links, shifting search from link lists to answer-first summaries. Publishers contend these summaries substitute for source pages and cannibalize traffic, while platforms argue they are complementary by directing users through included links. We estimate the causal impact of Google’s AI Overview (AIO) on Wikipedia traffic by leveraging the feature’s staggered geographic rollout and Wikipedia’s multilingual structure. Using a difference-in-differences design, we compare English Wikipedia […]

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arXiv:2602.02525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modelling the complex dynamics of online social platforms is critical for addressing challenges such as hate speech and misinformation. While Discussion Transformers, which model conversations as graph structures, have emerged as a promising architecture, their potential is severely constrained by reliance on high-quality, human-labelled datasets. In this paper, we advocate a paradigm shift from task-specific fine-tuning to unsupervised pretraining, grounded in an entirely novel consideration of community norms. We posit that this framework […]

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Autonomous driving policies should be able to improve continually as deployment exposes them to increasingly diverse and long-tail traffic situations. However, most learning-based policies are trained or fine-tuned on expert demonstrations and then rely largely on generalization to handle challenging closed-loop scenarios, lacking an explicit mechanism to correct and retain the mistakes exposed in these scenarios. This paper studies autonomous driving policy improvement from a lifelong learning perspective: Can a pretrained policy improve continually by accumulating corrective knowledge […]

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New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

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arXiv:2505.11602v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep selective State-Space Models (SSMs), whose state-space parameters are modulated online by a selection signal, offer significant expressive power but pose challenges for stability analysis, especially under discontinuous gating. We study continuous-time selective SSMs through the lenses of passivity and Input-to-State Stability (ISS), explicitly distinguishing the selection schedule $x(cdot)$ from the driving (port) input $u(cdot)$. First, we show that state-strict dissipativity ($beta>0$) together with quadratic bounds on a storage functional implies exponential decay […]

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In an environment of perpetual digital noise, geopolitical friction, and algorithmic manipulation, many users have lost faith in the integrity of the information they see. The information landscape is saturated, blurring the lines between ordinary discourse and strategic misinformation by companies or states. If high-stakes decisions (from investment strategies to international security choices) are based on data that can be fabricated or perpetually disputed, the global system will face a crisis of integrity and legitimacy. One way to […]

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