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A viral documentary has everyone talking about Elizabeth Holmes’s fraudulent blood testing start-up again—but scientists never stopped

“I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”

In 2024, a collaborative Penn venture introduced a more objective way for people to examine how different outlets cover the same events and ultimately decide how they perceive and use information shared in the media. The Media Bias Detector, conceived in Penn's Computational Social Science (CSS) Lab, a joint venture of Penn Engineering, the Annenberg School for Communication and the Wharton School, uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles for characteristics including topic, tone, political lean, and the facts and people included in coverage.

Germany Ties Fusion Money to Milestones Germany will pay fusion startups only as they prove progress, and it

The CEO of Pioneer Labs, a biotech startup developing Mars-adapted microbes, is on a quest to make alien worlds nice places to live

The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

Anduril has been a major winner of the growing U.S. defense tech boom and President Donald Trump's plans to reindustrialize the U.S. military

Anduril has been a major winner of the growing U.S. defense tech boom and President Donald Trump's plans to reindustrialize the U.S. military

Doug Field will take his EV experience at Ford and Tesla to help Rivian build semi-humanoid manufacturing robots.

For centuries, dogs have helped people travel across the Arctic, hauling supplies, equipment and other goods through snowy landscapes where other domesticated animals struggled to venture. Now, a new study publishing Oct. 14 in the journal iScience finds that sled dogs might have evolved shorter legs that helped them pull loads more efficiently.

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The company said the platform became "costly to develop and grow," in Monday filings to the Delaware District bankruptcy court.

The company said the platform became "costly to develop and grow," in Monday filings to the Delaware District bankruptcy court.

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount (likely around…

Beyond a handful of big names, most venture capitalists are relatively unknown. Who are they, and what distinguishes the superstars from the rest?

arXiv:2610.13318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The efficiency of serverless computing fundamentally depends on rapid function startup, a challenge increasingly addressed by restoring from virtual machine snapshots. However, because content deduplication techniques can open timing-channel attacks that leak sensitive tenant data, production platforms like AWS Lambda instead enforce strict, zero-sharing isolation between snapshots of different tenants. While secure, this isolation precludes the deduplication of common infrastructure components, wasting per-worker cache capacity and exacerbating cold-start latency through inefficient remote fetching. Our characterization reveals that non-sensitive, shareable infrastructure accounts for roughly 70% of a typical snapshot's contents and, on average, about 50% of its working set. We present SnapShare, a cluster-wide snapshot management system that co-designs storage and caching to exploit this commonality without compromising sensitive

arXiv:2610.11788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-washing is the use of 'AI' as a marketing term where products' claims are exaggerated, likely to capture the hype from investors and consumers. In this paper, we examine how startups market AI and how people perceive those claims. We audited the German startup market, applying an annotation codebook of seven dimensions to 100 startups and conducting 63 expert interviews. Startups exaggerated AI capability in three forms: claims without inspectable evidence, performance numbers without methodology, and claims without acknowledged limits. The capabilities they claimed rarely matched the underlying system, and consumers who had encountered exaggerated claims before withdrew trust from later AI marketing. AI-washing has also been linked to the marketing of unethical products: 38% of the sample were flagged for moderate or serious ethical concern, in domains such as surveillance and automated decisions in regulated fields. Together these

Research published in the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (IJBIR) suggests that African economies need to move beyond fragmented development strategies. This might be done by uniting digital technology, startup networks, resource processing and cross-sector partnerships into a single societal innovation ecosystem, the researchers explain.

Simulated Patients Before Real Trials A Copenhagen startup has gone on record predicting that drug trials from Biogen

A tech start-up’s stunt in San Francisco tested the boundaries of combat sport safety and regulations.

arXiv:2610.10441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social media systems typically display conversations among already familiar contributors, which can be predictable and one-sided. In civic discourse, this design narrows discussion, reinforces divides, and distorts the perception of public opinion. To encourage cross-community engagement, we present CrossWeave, an AI-powered bridging system that augments the standard social media feed. As the user reads a post, CrossWeave surfaces diverse relevant posts from other threads in a side pane and highlights the connections. Users are invited to venture out of their echo chamber, explore a broader range of views and arguments, and ``click across'' to engage with their authors. When they do, CrossWeave facilitates constructive posting, not only by showcasing relevant past content but also by simulating possible reactions as the user drafts a post.

The deal is handing the AI agent developer fresh capital after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition.

The deal is handing the AI agent developer fresh capital after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition.

A study of almost 1,000 research papers in the field of digital finance has mapped out how technology, investor behavior and financial market risk are connected. The work identified three distinct foundations rather than a single framework, with implications for understanding how psychological factors influence financial decisions and how to develop viable algorithms that provide automated investment guidance.

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arXiv:2610.06890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an industry experience report on three years of operating an event-driven cloud infrastructure for continuous machine learning training in automotive manufacturing. Our system orchestrates GPU-accelerated training of product-specialized model pairs, a physics prediction model and a reinforcement-learning control policy, across multiple plants, coordinating long-running GPU workloads triggered by manufacturing events. The architecture combines Amazon ECS with EC2 GPU capacity providers, SQS-based messaging with dead-letter queues, and an admission-controlled Lambda dispatcher that enforces cluster concurrency limits. A Conductor orchestrator on ECS Fargate initiates dependency-aware retraining chains on a weekly schedule. The entire infrastructure is codified in modular Terraform with multi-account separation. From 40000+ production training jobs we report a 72-78% cost reduction versus always-on GPU infrastructure. A

Atomic Machines is training artificial intelligence on materials and designs — and then using it to build tiny physical devices.

Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots.

Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots.

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union are currently debating EU Inc., draft legislation seeking to establish a single set of rules for starting, operating and growing a business across EU member states. The proposed framework is designed to make business registration and operation within the EU faster, easier and more harmonized.

The expansion marks the AI company's latest push to deepen its ties to founders and fast-growing companies.

The expansion marks the AI company's latest push to deepen its ties to founders and fast-growing companies.

Edge Markets' new infrastructure aims to support institutional trading for markets that operate around the clock.

The American startup delivered fewer than 4,000 EVs in the third quarter, while production remains capped at a single shift.

The case alleges that the licensing deal "squeezed out" stockholders by giving them a "lowball price."

The case alleges that the licensing deal "squeezed out" stockholders by giving them a "lowball price."

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? —Will Douglas Heaven Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM designed to come…

Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…

SolComms, a New York City-based PR firm, says letting employees work from anywhere in the world boosted revenue, productivity and happiness.

The nonprofit start-up Pioneer Labs claims to have made the first-ever “microbe for Mars.” Other experts aren’t so sure

As companies fight harder for consumers' attention, marketing is becoming an increasingly important tool for driving growth.

arXiv:2610.00124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Granular slip forecasting can conflate material state, loading progress, and the geometry of event-centered sampling. We separated these contributions in slowly sheared two-dimensional frictional disks using a compact neural score of stress, pressure, coordination, non-affine motion, and force-network observables. The model was developed on 36 trajectories and frozen efore testing on 18 new trajectories under two nested stress-drop definitions. Inspection of held-out results revealed post-event sampling asymmetry; recovery-aware analyses are therefore descriptive. With trajectories weighted equally, the compact score ranked near-slip windows above both prevalence and within-trajectory circular-phase controls under both definitions (representative average precision 0.310 versus prevalence 0.173; phase-null upper bound 0.257). Loading-history coordinates ranked more strongly, reaching 0.534 for causal elapsed strain. The recovery-aware

Orbital data centers and factories will need a lot of energy. A Florida startup hopes to deliver it with lasers. The post Star Catcher Is About to Beam Power Between Two Satellites for the First Time appeared first on SingularityHub.

Corporate uniforms, advertising banners and industrial technical fabrics almost always end up in landfills at the end of their "life cycles," even when they are still in good condition. To address this issue, Ciclou, a startup based in São Paulo, Brazil, has developed a system that transforms environmental liabilities into economic opportunities. The system connects major waste generators, such as industries and corporations in sectors like events and infrastructure, with artisans from the outskirts of the city.

Powerus Goes Public A drone startup incorporated only last October expects to complete its merger with Florida golf

If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it difficult to get large energy storage projects on the grid. Faced with those obstacles, some startups are getting creative, finding ways to use relatively small batteries in unexpected places,…

arXiv:2609.38280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A comparison between adaptive and fixed-time traffic signals can change when only their timing settings change. We examine this sensitivity in 240 simulation runs on one OpenStreetMap-derived urban network, using eight configurations, three arrival rates and ten paired demand seeds. The experiment varies the maximum green of presence-based actuation, retimes the fixed baseline, and includes a discharge-based phase-termination rule. The endpoint is finite-window time spent per offered trip, including entry waiting and penalties for removed or abandoned trips. At the highest tested load, actuation with a maximum green of twice the planned split has a mean endpoint 57.4 per cent above the original fixed plan. Reducing that multiplier to 1.25 puts it 70.7 per cent below the same plan. Against the best of three tested fixed plans, discharge-based termination reduces the mean endpoint by 14.8, 15.8 and 18.3 per cent across the three loads.

Thomson Reuters v. Ross Appeal A legal-research startup that shut down its platform in 2021 has now lost

Bill Draper began funding start-ups in the early 1960s, when the Santa Clara Valley was better known for apricot orchards than microchips. He has died at 98.

Written by Vytautas Valinskas Gamma, the start-up often described as an AI replacement for PowerPoint, turns a prompt or

arXiv:2609.37614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This chapter examines how digital platforms, as infrastructures of extractivism in contemporary artificial intelligence, enable corporations to appropriate data and labour while concentrating value in core regions such as Silicon Valley. It proposes platform extractivism as a framework linking commodification, epistemic dominance, and reproduction through territory. Drawing on digital labour studies, Latin American critical thought, and mixed-methods research with Venezuelan and Colombian data workers, the chapter discusses how AI depends on precarious platform labour to produce, clean, annotate, and maintain data. It further shows how annotation systems normalize culturally specific categories, especially US norms, as universal knowledge, reproducing colonial hierarchies. Finally, it highlights how data work is sustained by unpaid reproductive labour, community networks, and material conditions that make workers available for platform

China's securities regulator is raising the bar for public listings of humanoid robot startups with three specific criteria, according to three sources.

In a bid to cut its reliance on foreign tech, India tries to catch up with China and the U.S. by readying an investment of $25 billion in Deep Tech startups.

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DevOps connects software development and operations through process automation, shared responsibility, and fast feedback. For startups, it isn’t

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arXiv:2609.30556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study dynamic regret in online convex optimization with an \emph{indicator switching cost}: a fixed penalty incurred whenever two consecutive decisions differ. This captures startup overheads such as server activation, model deployment, and cache updates, and on a bounded domain it recovers norm-based movement costs as a special case. Existing guarantees for indicator costs handle only static comparators. We show that a direct extension of these techniques to dynamic regret provably fails, motivating a different approach. We propose a meta-learning framework: a set of randomized lazy FTRL base learners restarted at dyadic time scales, aggregated by a movement-aware master that mixes their proposal densities and samples actions via maximal coupling of consecutive mixtures. The resulting algorithm satisfies, in expectation, $\mathcal{R}^{\mathbf{1}}_T \le \tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\min\{\sqrt{T(S_T{+}1)},T^{2/3}(P_T+1)^{1/3}\})$, where

A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds new details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.

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arXiv:2609.29061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automation systems must adapt to changing tasks, equipment states, and staffing conditions while providing evidence for human review. This study presents a multi-line task-adjustment system integrating a local large language model, a digital twin, and human decision-making. A Propose-Verify-Decide workflow translates operator intent into structured requirements, generates a bounded set of candidate strategies, and checks semantics, simulation execution, and operational constraints. Linked records preserve traceability from requests to verification evidence and decisions. Thirty fixed test records were evaluated using four virtual surgical-instrument sorting lines: 28 assessed the workflow and two assessed model generation. Eighteen workflow cases met expectations; autonomous strategy-workflow success was 3/10, and correct rejection of invalid inputs was 7/8. All four cases that passed preceding checks, produced complete evidence, and

arXiv:2609.27702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A camera and an IMU are the minimal sensor setup for metric localization and dense mapping, yet classical visual--inertial filters must wait for parallax before they start and then retain only sparse landmarks. Feed-forward geometry models, in contrast, predict dense structure from a few images but provide neither metric scale nor gravity. We present DAVIO, which uses a single multi-view depth model, Depth Anything~3, for both start-up and mapping. At start-up, a five-image window and preintegrated IMU measurements form a feature-free linear system. Its robust, conditioning-checked solution bootstraps a VIO filter through buffered replay. During tracking, the filter's metric poses condition the depth model. Residual scale is corrected only along viewing rays, which preserves the metric camera baselines, and a gravity-preserving submap graph with drift-gated revisits refines the map. On EuRoC, DAVIO starts markedly earlier, reduces the

Island faces an increasingly competitive cybersecurity market fueled by demand for agentic Ai defenses

Island faces an increasingly competitive cybersecurity market fueled by demand for agentic Ai defenses

U.S. artificial intelligence startup Anthropic on Wednesday unveiled the first discovery from its molecular biology lab, a previously unknown enzyme system spotted by its Claude model and touted by the company as proof that AI can speed up basic research.

The founder of the blood-testing start-up Theranos was sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud and had been serving time at a minimum-security federal prison in Texas.

SoftBank shares jumped more than 7% after the Japanese tech investor issued $11.1 billion in bonds to help fund its OpenAI investment.

Tekever is one of a number of European defense tech startups raising sizable rounds amid a rearmament campaign from countries in the region.

The most powerful venture capital firm in Silicon Valley is starting a two-year private school intended to replace college, as some members of the U.S. tech elite question the benefits of a traditional university education.

Medtech startup Anaconda Biomed has hauled in $53 million to help finish off work on a pivotal trial for its endovascular project.

An ironic development emerging alongside the "Make America Healthy Again" movement is the portrayal of nicotine as a wellness and performance-enhancing product. Across social media, podcasts, wellness communities and tech startups, prominent wellness personalities and other influencers are portraying nicotine as a misunderstood compound whose potential benefits have been overshadowed by its negative association with cigarette smoking.

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Beacon Therapeutics has found the light in a rare vision loss disease that has left larger companies in the dark. The biotech’s gene therapy for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) successfully improved visual acuity in a pivotal trial, setting up the startup to seek regulatory approval.

arXiv:2609.20874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference deployed on Kubernetes faces an autoscaling challenge that conventional web services do not: new serving replicas take two to ten minutes to start because multi-gigabyte model weights must be loaded, which makes purely reactive scaling structurally late. We ask a sharp question: among the components of a predictive autoscaler, which ones actually matter under such long actuation delays? We answer it by decomposing predictive autoscaling into four factors---token-aware demand tracking, startup-delay lookahead, a bounded uncertainty margin, and plant-state observation---and measuring each factor's contribution in isolation on production-derived heavy-tailed workloads generated by ServeGen. Our main finding is that a simple exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) predictor with delay-aware lookahead and an upper confidence bound (UCB) margin captures most of the benefit, reducing time-to-first-token

The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

Times columnist Kevin Roose sees reasons for optimism — and worry — as the world wakes up to what Silicon Valley has been talking about for years.

Instead of going solo, Factorial is bringing battery companies together to make solid-state batteries a reality.

“The Social Reckoning” and other movies reflect growing discontent with Silicon Valley founders. But such films may be at the mercy of the companies themselves.

arXiv:2609.19644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery is defined by the ability to identify the boundaries of existing knowledge and venture into unexplored territory. The ultimate vision for AI in science is problem-driven autonomous research: given a fundamental challenge by a human expert, the AI independently navigates the scientific landscape, uncovers theoretical and empirical bottlenecks, and systematically expands the frontier of knowledge. In this paper, we introduce ScientistTwo, a fully autonomous multi-agent framework designed to realize this vision. Specifically, ScientistTwo takes an initial problem as input, establishes state-of-the-art baselines, formulates novel hypotheses, and coordinates specialized agents to orchestrate an end-to-end discovery cycle without human intervention. Moreover, the framework rigorously conducts experiments using diverse datasets and metrics, refines methodologies through automated ablation studies, and validates research

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The startup Moonshot said it signed on financial industry giants from investment bank CICC to venture capital firms

The startup Moonshot said it signed on financial industry giants from investment bank CICC to venture capital firms

Novo’s race to rejuvenate its cardiometabolic portfolio has seen the rebranded Danish pharma pen a $1.4 biobucks pact with oral macrocycle drug start-up Orbis Medicines.

Altman's attendance comes as a heated battle over AI regulation unfolds in Washington and Silicon Valley

arXiv:2609.17128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive structured data on inter-firm relationships is often scarce or inaccessible because many relationships are privately negotiated, selectively disclosed, and fragmented across proprietary databases. This scarcity hinders the discovery of collaboration opportunities, particularly for startups and small and medium-sized enterprises. Firm profiles are readily available, but collaboration potential cannot be inferred from business similarity alone, since similar firms may be competitors, whereas dissimilar firms may offer complementary products, technologies, channels, capabilities, or capital. We present FirmCORe (Inter-Firm Collaboration Opportunity Reasoning), a human-annotated benchmark for pairwise reasoning over weakly structured firm profiles, comprising 2,805 labeled firm pairs. Given two firm profiles, a model must determine whether the available evidence supports a collaboration opportunity and, for positive pairs,

arXiv:2609.16148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern application platforms must isolate workloads while preserving deployment speed, portability, resource efficiency, and security. Virtual machines (VMs) and Docker containers address this requirement at different abstraction layers: VMs virtualize hardware and run independent guest operating systems, whereas containers isolate processes while sharing the host kernel. This paper presents a comparative, literature-based analysis of the two approaches across architecture, configuration and lifecycle management, performance, scalability, and security. Published studies generally associate containers with shorter startup times, smaller images, higher workload density, and near-native execution for many workloads. These benefits depend on workload characteristics, storage and network drivers, resource controls, and experimental design. VMs introduce greater overhead but offer independent kernels, heterogeneous guest operating systems, and

Z.ai, Moonshot, MiniMax, Alibaba and Tencent did not provide any statements when contacted by CNBC about the warnings on AI from Silicon Valley.

arXiv:2609.15219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Founders face two linked decisions: whether to pursue an idea before founding, and which operating actions and capital partners fit afterward. We present a public-data decision-support toolchain combining time-bounded proposal profiling, market and moat checks, and deterministic aggregation with auditable investor-company event chains for retrospective analysis. Pre-founding: (a) After threshold selection on 198 development companies, the frozen pipeline achieves F0.5=0.5357 [0.412, 0.655] on an independent, row-disjoint 198-company validation sample. On the combined 396 rows, the Full Pipeline scores 0.6301 versus 0.2734 for a paired Raw LLM baseline. Post-stratification of 1,027 completed cases in a separate scale cohort yields 0.6506 [0.598, 0.707]; the run remains incomplete. A 377-row composition-matched check yields 0.6573. (b) The AI-inference study identifies distribution-layer businesses as a replicable path to independent

arXiv:2609.13637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent agents need evaluations that distinguish identity facts they can recall from those they express and enact. We introduce PAI-Bench, a provider-neutral benchmark for fidelity to a versioned, update-governed identity contract. It separates recall, composition, behavioral enactment, resistance, persistence, lineage, and role-conditioned updates while keeping scoring oracles outside the target process. Two frozen campaigns cover sixteen synthetic profiles, thirty-two probes, and three independently initialized target configurations, yielding 1,536 retained responses. A judge-independent literal audit finds direct-parent identifiers in 48/48 atomic responses but only 1/48 implicit self-portraits. On eight profiles, explicit field cues increase joint presence of three identity identifiers from 0/8 to 7/8 under the same four-sentence instruction. A separate startup body-label substitution increases full-designation presence from 1/8

Dutch startup Euclyd raised the funding in a round co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, the Scaleup Europe Fund and Innovation Industries.

Dutch startup Euclyd raised the funding in a round co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, the Scaleup Europe Fund and Innovation Industries.

Federal projects are rolling out A.I. agents that offer therapy and prescribe medicine, raising concerns about safety and the influence of venture capital investors.

Federal projects are rolling out A.I. agents that offer therapy and prescribe medicine, raising concerns about safety and the influence of venture capital investors.

European space startups are attracting fresh funding as the region seeks to build its capabilities and narrow a its gap with the U.S.

arXiv:2202.10883v6 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study information design in games where players choose from a continuum of actions and have continuously differentiable payoffs. We show that an information structure is optimal when the equilibrium it induces can also be implemented in a principal-agent contracting problem. Building on this result, we characterize optimal information structures in symmetric linear-quadratic games. With common values, targeted disclosure is robustly optimal across all priors. With interdependent and normally distributed values, linear disclosure is uniquely optimal. We illustrate our findings with applications in venture capital, Bayesian polarization, and price competition.

The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regulation were self-serving and misplaced.

A little known Croatian startup backed by Rimac is leading the way for robotaxis in Europe, with help from a Chinese AV company.

arXiv:2608.00045v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This study shows that textual descriptors alone can predict early-stage startup success, defined as Exit, without relying on contextual, financial, or human capital variables. Using venture capital-curated datasets covering 7,419 startups over 20 years, the research isolates text-based framing variables and engineers 850 features through startup narrative mapping. Data subsets and vector embeddings are evaluated for statistical significance, followed by supervised machine learning experiments across six models. LightGBM achieved the highest predictive performance (F1 = 0.48), while textual descriptors alone achieved F1 = 0.30, confirming the standalone predictive value of founder narratives. Feature analysis shows that optimized densities of hyping markers, including adjectives, jargon, and buzzwords, are associated with higher Exit probability, whereas excessive statement or name length reduces it. The study also introduces a

Ant-backed startup JoyIn's CEO published an article in Chinese that raised questions about similarities between his company's new model and OpenAI publications.