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Towards High Fidelity Face Swapping: A Comprehensive Survey and New Benchmark
arXiv:2605.00883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Face swapping has witnessed significant progress in recent years, largely driven by advances in deep generative models such as GANs and diffusion models.Despite these advances, existing methods remain fragmented across different paradigms, and their evaluation is highly inconsistent due to the lack of standardized datasets and protocols. Moreover, prior surveys primarily focus on broader deepfake generation or detection, leaving face swapping insufficiently studied as a standalone problem. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey and benchmark for face swapping. We provide a structured review of existing methods, organizing them into five major paradigms and systematically analyzing their design principles, strengths, and limitations. To enable fair and controlled evaluation, we introduce CASIA FaceSwapping, a high-quality benchmark with balanced demographic distributions and explicit attribute variations, and establish standardi
Can AI Debias the News? LLM Interventions Improve Cross-Partisan Receptivity but LLMs Overestimate Their Own Effectiveness
Addressing Data Scarcity in Bangla Fake News Detection: An LLM-Based Dataset Augmentation Approach
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Article URL: https://8veda.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016552 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
White House may vet new AI models before public release
Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/05/04/white-house-may-review-new-ai-models-before-public-release-report-says/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016672 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Pentagon announces deal with seven AI companies for classified systems
Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/1/pentagon-announces-deal-with-seven-ai-companies-for-classified-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013603 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
AI startup JuliaHub raises $65M to rival Simulink
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/30/bob-muglia-ai-hardware-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014510 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’
The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI's job-killing potential have been greatly exaggerated.
Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious
The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.
Stock Market Today, May 4: Intel Pulls Back After Rally as AI PC Push Tests New Client Leadership
Intel’s new client-computing leadership adds focus to its push beyond traditional PCs, with upcoming results needing clearer evidence that AI PC demand and data center CPU sales can support the stock’s post-rally valuation.
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[AINews] The Other vs The Utility
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Palantir Stock Investors Just Got Incredible News From CEO Alex Karp
The AI and data mining specialist reported U.S. revenue that more than doubled and raised its full-year guidance.
Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?
Besides Hacker News, I'm wondering where people are finding good sources of AI progression and news. Of course I can read arxiv and such, but wondering what folks have going for them! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016031 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Sierra raises $950M at $15.8B valuation, led by Tiger and GV
The customer service AI startup reached $150 million in annual recurring revenue in its first eight quarters
Panthalassa Raises $140 Million to Power AI at Sea
PORTLAND, Ore., May 04, 2026--Panthalassa, a renewable energy and ocean technology company, today announced $140 million in Series B financing led by Peter Thiel, with participation from new investors John Doerr, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Max Levchin’s SciFi Ventures, Susquehanna Sustainable Investments, Hanwha Group, Anthony Pratt, Fortescue Ventures, Future Positive, WTI, Nimble Partners, Super Micro Computer, Sozo Ventures, Dylan Field, Planetary VC, Leblon Capital, Resilience Reserve, Po
AI’s Hottest Private Companies Have Booming Crypto Shadow Market
(Bloomberg) -- The race to sell retail investors a piece of the AI boom has gone mainstream — closed-end funds, interval funds, special-purpose vehicles. Now, crypto platforms are offering trades tied to the most valuable private AI companies on earth — ones ordinary investors have almost no other way to access.Most Read from BloombergChina’s Unprecedented Defiance of US Sanctions Triggers ShowdownUS and Iran Trade Fire in Gulf, Jolting Four-Week-Old TruceFormer NYC Mayor Giuliani in Critical Co
Greg Brockman Defends $30B OpenAI Stake: ‘Blood, Sweat, and Tears’
OpenAI’s cofounder and president revealed in federal court on Monday that he’s one of the largest individual stakeholders in the AI lab.
OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO
AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. It's relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.
Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades
Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads — but most don’t convert that spike into revenue.
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
When the bromance sours, we all end up in court. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way - he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination - and he had some serious high school debate club energy. There was a lot of "I wouldn't characterize it that way," "I wouldn't say it that way," and "That sounds like something I wrote. Can I see it in context?" When Musk's attorney, Steven Molo, read some of the evidence aloud, Brockman would pedantically correct him if he skipped a word, even if that word was "a" or "the." Wh … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI raises over $4 billion for new enterprise deployment venture
OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion for a new joint venture called "The Deployment Company," according to Bloomberg. The article OpenAI raises over $4 billion for new enterprise deployment venture appeared first on The Decoder.
Goldman: AI will save the economy someday. First, it has to stop inflating it
The AI productivity boom hasn't quite arrived yet, but the inflation from building it has. Maybe Gen Z is onto something with their AI rebellion.
From data lake to AI-ready analytics: Introducing new data source with S3 Tables in Amazon Quick
Amazon Quick introduces Amazon S3 Tables (Apache Iceberg tables) as a new data source. With this feature, customers can directly query and visualize Apache Iceberg tables stored in an Amazon S3 table bucket without the need for intermediate data layers. In this post, we explored how Amazon Quick’s new Amazon S3 Tables data source enables near real-time analytics while streamlining modern data architectures.
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Abu Dhabi sees returns from major tech investments
The UAE capital's Technology Innovation Institute sold a data privacy product to San Francisco-based AI firm OPAQUE in the "multi-million-dollar range."
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The RAG era is ending for agentic AI — a new compilation-stage knowledge layer is what comes next
The vector database category is undergoing a shift in response to the needs of agentic AI. The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-to-vector database pipeline doesn't cut it anymore; agentic AI requires a different approach that incorporates context. VentureBeat's Q1 2026 Pulse survey underscores this trend: Every standalone vector database is losing adoption share, while hybrid retrieval intent has tripled to 33.3%, the fastest-growing strategic position in the dataset. Vector database pioneer Pinecone recognizes this and is pivoting to meet the specific needs of agentic AI. The company today announced Nexus, which it positions as a knowledge engine rather than an improvement on retrieval. Nexus introduces a context compiler that converts raw enterprise data into persistent, task-specific knowledge artifacts before agents query them, and a composable retriever that serves those artifacts with field-level citations and deterministic conflict resolution. Alongside Nexus, Pinecone is
LLM-enabled Social Agents
arXiv:2605.02335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed agent-agent and human-agent interaction by enabling software, physical, and simulation agents to communicate and deliberate through natural language. Yet fluent language use does not by itself yield socially intelligible behaviour. Most current systems remain weakly grounded in roles, norms, intentions, and contextual constraints, limiting their capacity for meaningful participation in social environments. This paper develops a conceptual baseline for LLM-enabled social agents by arguing that they should be grounded in role definitions operationalized through persona descriptions. On this basis, we outline research directions for representation, hybrid control, and evaluation. The paper concludes that persona-based role definitions are a necessary foundation for turning language competence into social behaviour.
A Theoretical Game of Attacks via Compositional Skills
arXiv:2605.01034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models grow increasingly capable, concerns about their safe deployment have intensified. While numerous alignment strategies aim to restrict harmful behavior, these defenses can still be circumvented through carefully designed adversarial prompts. In this work, we introduce a theoretical framework that formalizes a game between an attacker and a defender. Within this framework, we design a theoretical best-response attack strategy and show that it is closely related to many existing adversarial prompting methods. We further analyze the resulting game, characterize its equilibria, and reveal inherent advantages for the attacker. Drawing on our theoretical analysis, we also derive a provably optimal defense strategy. Empirically, we evaluate a practical instantiation of the theoretically optimal attack and observe stronger performance relative to existing adversarial prompting approaches in diverse settings encompassing d
Inside AMEX’s agentic commerce stack: How intent contracts and single-use tokens enforce AI transactions
American Express (Amex) is building a system that lets AI agents shop and pay on behalf of users — but right now it’s only within its own payment network, and still involves a black box that could hinder trust and auditability. Amex already participates in agentic commerce protocol projects, especially Google’s Agent Pay Protocol (AP2), which focuses on interoperability. Amex’s Agentic Commerce Experiences (ACE) developer kit, on the other hand, touches on something most protocols currently lack: Full transaction control in the payment layer. But it still isn't completely transparent in how it handles validation. ACE uses a closed-loop system — serving as both the card issuer and the payment network — to validate agent-led transactions. Luke Gebb, Amex's EVP and global head of innovation, told VentureBeat that the company believes this model is the missing piece in agentic commerce. “Some of what is missing so far is the perspective of a company like ours: We feel that trust and s
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New Intelic Platform Lets European Militaries Find and Deploy Drones Faster
New hub aims to speed deployment and improve interoperability across European defense systems A European defense technology company has introduced a new platform designed to help governments find and deploy unmanned systems more quickly. Amsterdam-based Intelic announced the launch of Intelic BASE on May 4, 2026. The platform serves as a procurement hub for Ministries […] The post New Intelic Platform Lets European Militaries Find and Deploy Drones Faster appeared first on DRONELIFE.