Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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BusinessOil falls as renewed diplomatic efforts to end Mideast conflict ease supply concernsRenewed diplomatic efforts to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil prices lowerNewest right now
Oil falls as renewed diplomatic efforts to end Mideast conflict ease supply concernsRenewed diplomatic efforts to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil prices lower
Q&A: Why does the right side of the brain control the left side of the body?Dr. Martin Wessendorf is a neuroscientist and an associate professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. His work focuses on how the brainstem controls the function of neurons in the spinal cord. Daniel Wang also researches…HSBC reports third-quarter pretax profit in line with estimates on net interest income boostHSBC announced its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday.
What gave this city its ‘best place to retire’ crown? You can actually afford to live there.Low cost of living, high quality of life and favorable taxes for retirees, for the win.
AdaptTok-Indic: Script-Aware Adaptive Tokenization for Indic LanguagesarXiv:2610.33017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual tokenizers trained on English-dominated corpora often over-segment Indic languages, resulting in longer token sequences and increased tokenization disparity across…Conceptizer: Next-Token Prediction Is Not All You NeedarXiv:2610.33027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Next-token prediction (NTP) rewards only the token that occurs next, penalizing every alternative. But natural language often offers many ways to express the same meaning. We…Entity-Aware Evaluation of OCR Systems for Historical Document TranscriptionarXiv:2610.33004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is essential for digitizing historical archives, yet standard evaluation metrics such as Character Error Rate (CER) do not necessarily reflect…From Writing Advice to Manuscript Governance: A Constrained-Transformation Framework for Academic RevisionarXiv:2610.33001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Academic revision presents a governance problem when legitimate writing objectives conflict. Writing-process and social-science research show that revision is recursive and that…Knowledge-Guided LLM for Intent-Driven Service Orchestration in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial 6G NetworksarXiv:2610.33007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural-language service intents in integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial (TN/NTN) 6G networks can be incomplete, ambiguous, or inconsistent, making unconstrained LLM…Linear-Time Context Compression with State-Space EncodingarXiv:2610.33006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) impose substantial computation and memory costs as context sizes increase, motivating methods that compress a context into a shorter…Merge-Based Vocabulary Extension Stalls at the Pre-Tokenizer: An English-Preserving Repair for Nepali, Tested in Continued PretrainingarXiv:2610.33016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Llama-3, Qwen3 and many other open LLMs pre-tokenize text with a regular expression whose word class admits only Unicode letters. Devanagari vowel signs are combining marks, so this…Mine or Yours? Mind-Bridged Language Models Take Each Other's Memories as Their OwnarXiv:2610.33020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: If your brain were connected directly to someone else's, would you still know which thoughts were yours? We build a functional version with two copies of one language model: each…OpenESM: Energy-Steered Models Are Scalable Foundation LearnersarXiv:2610.33005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Energy-based models have shown promising properties for domain-specific tasks but remain challenging in modeling general-purpose scenarios. To bridge this gap, we design…Recursive Semantic Divergence for LLM Agent ConsistencyarXiv:2610.33012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents with tool use exhibit inconsistent behavior across independent runs from identical states, calling different tools, producing contradictory…U.S.
Thieves Are Making a Fortune Heisting AI Data Center Equipment"It's so much easier to steal this than to rob a bank." The post Thieves Are Making a Fortune Heisting AI Data Center Equipment appeared first on Futurism .“Prediction” Markets Were Comically Wrong About the Brazilian ElectionFlávio Bolsonaro was the overwhelming favorite, right up until the moment he unceremoniously lost. The post “Prediction” Markets Were Comically Wrong About the Brazilian Election appeared first on Futurism .New Analysis Finds Signs the AI Bubble Is About to Blow"The odds of a deep and severe AI crash are rapidly increasing." The post New Analysis Finds Signs the AI Bubble Is About to Blow appeared first on Futurism .Leaked Video Shows China Taking Apart Thousands of RTX 5090s and Turning Them Into Zombie AI ServersConsumer prices have soared well past $10,000 in the US. The post Leaked Video Shows China Taking Apart Thousands of RTX 5090s and Turning Them Into Zombie AI Servers appeared first on Futurism .Health
'What does it say if a woman can't give birth in her own city?'The Southern Health Trust plans to temporarily transfer inpatient maternity services from Daisy Hill to Craigavon.
STAT+: Roche gets a lung cancer win with its KRAS drug divarasibOne of the more impressive data sets at this year’s ESMO came from a Roche study of its drug divarasib, which treats lung cancer.STAT+: Nonprofit Bon Secours Mercy Health strikes $5.7 billion deal for surgery center chainThe deal would make the Catholic system one of the largest operators of outpatient surgery centers.STAT+: HHS relaxes security, transparency rules for health record software used by hospitalsThe Trump administration removed several security, privacy and transparency requirements for vendors of EHR software.Business
Oil falls as renewed diplomatic efforts to end Mideast conflict ease supply concernsRenewed diplomatic efforts to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil prices lowerHSBC reports third-quarter pretax profit in line with estimates on net interest income boostHSBC announced its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday.What gave this city its ‘best place to retire’ crown? You can actually afford to live there.Low cost of living, high quality of life and favorable taxes for retirees, for the win.China industrial profits post strongest growth in three months, rising 14.4%The global AI boom and higher commodity prices stemming from the war in Iran have lifted earnings at miners, chipmakers and raw-material suppliers.Science
Q&A: Why does the right side of the brain control the left side of the body?Dr. Martin Wessendorf is a neuroscientist and an associate professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. His work focuses on how the brainstem controls the function of neurons in the spinal cord. Daniel Wang also researches…
Agent-guided epitope excision enables economical de novo binder designarXiv:2610.33195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: De novo protein design campaigns remain bottlenecked by the inference compute time required to generate and rank candidates, limiting wider functional exploration. Here, we…Coder as Editor: Code-driven Interpretable Molecular EditingarXiv:2510.14455v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular design is a central task in drug discovery that requires precise structural reasoning and domain knowledge. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise…MechGate: combining mechanism-derived measures of permeation and efflux to screen small molecule drugs targeting Escherichia coliarXiv:2610.33809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most antibiotic molecules must cross the cell membrane and escape efflux pumps before hitting their targets. For de novo antibiotic design, very few of the in-silico-generated drug…Tech
AdaptTok-Indic: Script-Aware Adaptive Tokenization for Indic LanguagesarXiv:2610.33017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual tokenizers trained on English-dominated corpora often over-segment Indic languages, resulting in longer token sequences and increased tokenization disparity across…Conceptizer: Next-Token Prediction Is Not All You NeedarXiv:2610.33027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Next-token prediction (NTP) rewards only the token that occurs next, penalizing every alternative. But natural language often offers many ways to express the same meaning. We…Entity-Aware Evaluation of OCR Systems for Historical Document TranscriptionarXiv:2610.33004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is essential for digitizing historical archives, yet standard evaluation metrics such as Character Error Rate (CER) do not necessarily reflect…From Writing Advice to Manuscript Governance: A Constrained-Transformation Framework for Academic RevisionarXiv:2610.33001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Academic revision presents a governance problem when legitimate writing objectives conflict. Writing-process and social-science research show that revision is recursive and that…Rebuilt just now. 21 of 23 sources answered; 3239 stories from the last 21 days. Live status.