Travelers built an AI-powered Claim Assistant with OpenAI to guide customers through filing claims, provide 24/7 support, and scale operations during peak demand.
arXiv:2602.09029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the Jensen–Shannon divergence (JSD) between transcript distributions induced by neighboring datasets in the shuffle model when each user applies a fixed local randomizer and a trusted shuffler releases the output histogram. Under a mild positivity assumption, we prove an explicit two-term asymptotic expansion where the leading term is chi-squared divergence divided by 8n. Binary randomized response and k-ary randomized response follow as corollaries. For multi-message protocols based on independent repetition, the […]
It took Bernardo Quintero more than three decades to track down the ghost in the machine—the anonymous architect of a computer virus that inadvertently transformed the Spanish city of Málaga into a global cybersecurity capital. For Quintero, the founder of VirusTotal, the journey began not in a Google boardroom, but in a university computer lab in 1992. A benign piece of malware, known simply as the “Málaga Virus,” had swept through the Polytechnic School’s systems. When a professor […]
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python’s Format Mini-Language for Tidy Strings. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how format specifiers work inside f-strings and str.format(), including alignment and width fields, decimal precision, type representations, thousand separators, sign handling, dynamic specifiers, and percentage formatting. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more […]
Tropical cyclones (TCs) rank among the most destructive natural hazards, yet their forecasting faces fundamental trade-offs: numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are computationally prohibitive and struggle to leverage historical data, while existing deep learning (DL)-based intelligent models are variable-specific and deterministic, which fail to generalize across different forecasting variables. Here we present CycloneMAE, a scalable multi-task forecasting model that learns transferable TC representations from multi-modal data using a TC structure-aware masked autoencoder. By coupling a discrete probabilistic gridding […]
arXiv:2602.12422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cache replacement remains a challenging problem in CPU microarchitecture, often addressed using hand-crafted heuristics, limiting cache performance. Cache data analysis requires parsing millions of trace entries with manual filtering, making the process slow and non-interactive. To address this, we introduce CacheMind, a conversational tool that uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable semantic reasoning over cache traces. Architects can now ask natural language questions like, “Why is the memory […]
This Image was generated by Gemini We are living in a time when AI systems are introduced with the kind of language people used to reserve for moon missions. Agents that browse.Agents that code.Agents that research.Agents that apparently do everything except file your taxes and explain your life choices to your parents ( Maybe by the time this blog gets published, there will be a micro-SaaS for that too ) The words keep getting bigger. But last week, while debugging something […]
arXiv:2602.09254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bystander privacy in smart homes has been widely studied in Western contexts, yet it remains underexplored in non-Western countries such as China. In this study, we analyze 49 Chinese smart home apps using a mixed-methods approach, including privacy policy review, UX/UI evaluation, and assessment of Apple App Store privacy labels. While most apps nominally comply with national regulations, we identify significant gaps between written policies and actual implementation. Our traceability analysis highlights inconsistencies […]
Author(s): Wahidur Rahman Originally published on Towards AI. Is Generative AI Becoming a Big Tech Oligopoly? An In-Depth 2024–2026 Analysis The promise of artificial intelligence was supposed to democratize innovation. Instead, we’re witnessing the construction of the most capital-intensive moat in tech history — and most people aren’t even aware it’s happening. Source: The author generated this image using an AI tool to visually illustrate the concept.While the generative AI industry appears to have many players, a closer […]
arXiv:2510.10968v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Derivative-free Bayesian inversion is an important task in many science and engineering applications, particularly when computing the forward model derivative is computationally and practically challenging. In this paper, we introduce Blade, which can produce accurate and well-calibrated posteriors for Bayesian inversion using an ensemble of interacting particles. Blade leverages powerful data-driven priors based on diffusion models, and can handle nonlinear forward models that permit only black-box access (i.e., derivative-free). Theoretically, we establish a […]