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Registration is now open for QCon AI New York 2026, a specialized conference for senior engineers focusing on production AI systems. Scheduled for December 15-16, it will address critical areas like agent runtime design and zero-trust security, with sessions led by industry experts from Red Hat and Google.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano can be customized in minutes using Prime Intellect Lab, making model adaptation more accessible for developers. This tutorial guides users through a simple reinforcement learning process to create a tailored model for Python Math tasks, requiring only a few minutes for setup.

SLPO introduces Surrogate Latent Policy Optimization to enhance outcome-reward reinforcement learning for autoregressive latent reasoners, improving Pass@$k$ performance and enabling longer computations for complex tasks. This method addresses the limitations of latent reasoning by providing a trajectory-level credit assignment and a correctness-supervised stopping mechanism, leading to better efficiency in reasoning tasks.

A new reference-free framework for auditing LLM-generated responses enhances evaluation in reasoning-heavy tasks. By utilizing Natural Language Inference (NLI) and hypergraphs, it outperforms traditional LLM-as-judge methods, particularly in clinical settings like UroReason, revealing weakly grounded responses that fluent models often miss.

This paper formalizes structural generalization in computational complexity, showing that pure Transformers cannot learn it under the assumption that TC0 ≠ NC1. Neuro-symbolic systems outperform pure Transformers by incorporating semantic rules, highlighting a significant gap in benchmark evaluations.

Motorway partnered with AWS to develop a dealer stock search agent using Strands Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, reducing incorrect query results from 1 in 8 to 1 in 50 and cutting issue detection time from hours to minutes. The solution leverages a robust evaluation pipeline and costs approximately $5–10 for running the sample evaluation suite.

AegisAI, founded by ex-Google security leaders, secures $36M to combat AI-driven spear phishing, leveraging advanced AI agents to detect threats traditional systems miss. Their technology is already adopted by companies like Mash and LangChain, aiming to redefine email security.

The PSFT framework enhances point cloud classification robustness by selectively retaining minimally influential points, achieving significant error reduction on ModelNet-C and ModelNet40-C benchmarks. It outperforms existing tuning strategies, particularly with ULIP-2 and Uni3D-B models, demonstrating superior performance against corruption.