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AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap
AWS re:Invent 2025 was all about making AI a first-class primitive in the cloud, with new Nova models, Bedrock enhancements, and S3 Vectors enabling richer agents, multimodal experiences, and massive vector search—backed by Graviton5 and Trainium3 silicon, AI-powered modernization via AWS Transform, and new DevOps/Security agents that automate incident response and risk management.
A Look at ARM-Thinker, an Agentic Multimodal Reward Model
ARM-Thinker is a 7B-parameter agentic multimodal reward model that uses a think–act–verify loop with image, document, and instruction-checking tools to act as a tool-using judge rather than a static critic. By zooming into images, retrieving pages from long PDFs, and checking instruction compliance before scoring, it achieves large gains in reward accuracy and visual grounding over strong LVLM baselines and in some cases rivals GPT-4o, making it a practical foundation for safer, more interpretable multimodal evaluation.
OpenAI Reprioritizing as Altman Issues “Code Red”
OpenAI spread itself too thin, so Altman has ordered a reset. Sam Altman is shelving ads and side projects to make ChatGPT irresistibly good, protecting the feedback loop of user data that could become as defensible as Google’s Search moat, even if it means delaying billions in ad revenue for now.
AI Agents Exploiting Smart Contracts
Using the new SCONE-Bench framework, evaluating models on 405 real-world DeFi hacks and thousands of recent BSC contracts, researchers show that state‑of‑the‑art AI agents can reproduce over half of known smart contract exploits and discover new vulnerabilities from scratch, translating abstract “cyber capability” into concrete exploit dollars and a clear warning for the Web3 ecosystem.
The Best Papers from NeurlPS 2025
From proof that most major LLMs converge on the same answers, to a plug‑and‑play attention gate now shipping in Qwen, to Google’s Titans models that selectively store “surprising” information across millions of tokens, NeurIPS 2025’s best papers sketch a roadmap toward more diverse, scalable, and truly long‑memory AI systems.
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ADP Releases Latest National Employment Report
November’s ADP data reveal a choppy labor backdrop: private-sector jobs fell by 32,000, led by losses at small businesses and in information, construction, and professional services, while pay growth continued to slow but remained solid at 4.4% year-over-year for job-stayers.
Genetically Engineered Pig Liver Extends Patient Life
Scientists in China kept a man with end-stage liver disease alive using a genetically engineered pig liver for more than a month, a proof of concept that pig organs can temporarily take over vital liver functions in humans despite significant immune and clotting risks.
Google Antitrust Remedies Finalized
A U.S. judge has finalized remedies in the Google search antitrust case, forcing the company to loosen its grip on search data, cap default-search deals like its Apple agreement at one year, and submit to oversight by a technical committee with access to its source code and algorithms, while avoiding a breakup of its core products.
Cheese Recall Hits 45 Brands
A wide recall of shredded mozzarella cheeses produced by Great Lakes Cheese and sold under store brands like Good & Gather, Great Value, Happy Farms, and others has been issued over the risk of metal fragments, with regulators classifying it as a Class II recall and advising consumers to stop using the affected products.
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