Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.
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Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.
Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.
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Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now…
Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements, you can now use these models at scale while Amazon Bedrock keeps inference requests and data within India.
Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements, you can now use these models at scale while Amazon Bedrock keeps inference requests and data within India.
Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new…
Industrial sites contain large volumes of read-only telemetry, but few benchmarks specify how to compile these records into executable multi-turn agent tasks. We present a telemetry-to-episode construction method instantiated as BTS-AgentBench. The pipeline normalizes BTS metadata and raw histories into a read-only tool store, compiles static tasks with tool-derived gold answers and evidence, and lifts retained tasks into typed, bounded operator-facing episodes. The 532-row release adds clarification, goal revision, timestamp policy, quality-gated reporting, and evidence attribution while preserving the source computation and split. Coded contract preflight reports zero findings, and the construction-exclusion controller completes 0/532 rows. Two independent raw-to-episode builds match all 11 logical tool-store exports and reproduce the released 356/87/89 train/dev/test artifact exactly. Applying the shared construction path to XAI4HEAT produces 204 episodes; on its 41-row held-out test split, the controller completes 0 rows and the retained GPT-5.5 execution completes all 41. Code, artifacts, and replay reports are available at https://github.com/kjy7567/BTS-AgentBench.
On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its…
Serving automatic speech recognition (ASR) models at scale is costly when each request uses only a fraction of a GPU. Learn how NVIDIA CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS) with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon EC2 GPU instances cuts GPU infrastructure by 75% while holding sub-second latency at 92.1 requests per second per GPU.
We ask whether large language models (LLMs) can design effective algorithms for well-specified operations research (OR) problems. We study inventory control, queueing network control, and assortment optimization. We evaluate two levels of LLM use: at level 1, the model receives one problem instance and returns a solution for that instance; at level 2, it receives only the problem class description and broad parameter ranges, and returns an algorithm that maps instance parameters to solutions. Human input is minimal: we give one untuned prompt that describes the problem, and the model has access to a Python sandbox tool with a fixed compute budget. The strongest model we test, gpt-5.6-sol, matches or outperforms the best existing method on almost all evaluated instances. This holds even at level 2, where the returned algorithm is fixed before seeing the evaluation instances. Performance also improves sharply across models released less than eight months apart, suggesting that this capability is moving quickly. Thus, for the well-specified operations problems we study, a single untuned LLM query can already produce algorithms competitive with specialized methods. These results suggest that frontier LLMs can be a serious empirical baseline for algorithm design in well-specified OR problems.
Latent chain-of-thought models move intermediate reasoning from emitted text into continuous states, improving compactness but hiding the causal object. We introduce SCIT, the Suffix Cache Interchange Test, a causal protocol that constructs exact source-recipient counterfactuals, patches declared cache segments, and identifies which transformer object carries the counterfactual computation. SCIT combines sufficiency tests with K/V component splits, hidden-state controls, semantic source controls, decoded validation, and matched corruption. On CODI-GPT2 and a Sim-CoT-style GPT-2 reproduction, counterfactual arithmetic transfers primarily through value-cache suffix trajectories rather than hidden states, keys, reusable answer slots, or single-token triggers. Complete sufficiency-and-necessity evidence for the late-value-suffix mechanism holds for the main CODI-GPT2 checkpoint; the Sim-CoT-style checkpoint shows the same sufficiency and decoded-control pattern but insufficient matched-corruption evidence for a necessity call. Beyond these local arithmetic cells, SCIT reveals carrier-regime shifts: arithmetic-like GPT-2/1B cells preserve latent-tail value/KV transfer, whereas competent 8B and repaired non-arithmetic cells route through prompt-prefix or full-cache K/V; boundary cells receive no mechanism call. SCIT therefore contributes a cache-level diagnostic, a checkpoint-specific GPT-2 arithmetic mechanism, and a competence-gated carrier map rather than a universal latent-tail claim.
Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled a shift from sentence-level to document-to-document (Doc2Doc) machine translation, promising improved global coherence. However, document-to-document generation in a single pass frequently suffers from structural misalignment, manifesting as sentence omissions or hallucinations that violate the core requirement of source-target correspondence. To address this, we introduce Sentence Translation Alignment Rate (STAR), an auxiliary metric that explicitly quantifies sentence-level structural fidelity. Building on this, we propose STAR-masked Preference Optimization (StarPO), a framework that ranks document-level hypotheses by structural quality and utilizes a dynamic alignment mask to focus optimization on misaligned segments. Experimental results across news and literary domains demonstrate that StarPO significantly enhances translation quality and structural integrity. Notably, StarPO allows compact models to surpass the performance of massive proprietary systems like GPT-4o while maintaining superior token efficiency.
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the…
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and…