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Stable India growth outlook masks hit to vast informal sector, say economists: Reuters poll
A Formalization of the Mean-Field Derivation of the Vlasov Equation: AI-Assisted Lean Formalization as a Strategy Game
arXiv:2607.08986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We formalize a research result in the Lean 4 proof assistant by having a mathematician direct an AI system, and frame the activity a…
CogniConsole: Externalizing Inference-Time Control as a Formal Abstraction for Reliable LLM Interactions
arXiv:2607.08774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliability in large language model (LLM) systems is typically framed as a function of model capability. We challenge this by demons…
Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models
After a long day of exhausting conversations about Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, random jackasses trying to play gotcha with endpoint attacks against end-to-end encrypted messa…
Kore Potash adds new party to formal sale process
Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide
Israel's Cabinet approved a proposal to designate violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as a genocide. The step reflects deteriorating ties between Is…
Carville calls for formal ‘schism’ with socialist candidates: ‘Can’t be in the same party’
Democratic strategist James Carville this week urged socialists in the Democratic Party to split off and create their own political movement, arguing the policies they favor are no…
Reading AI Model Compilation in MLIR Through the Lens of Formal Theories
Compiler infrastructures such as MLIR rest on a set of design principles: IR abstractions, interfaces, match-and-rewrite, flow analysis, type conversion, staged lowering, and so on…
Slate Crossword: Horizontal Lifestyle Trend, Informally (Six Letters)
Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for June 22, 2026.…
White House launches full-court press to sell Iran agreement ahead of formal signing, release of text
THE HARD SELL: Vice President JD Vance — whose digital signature is already affixed to the memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the Iran war — made the circuit of network an…
French singer Patrick Bruel under formal investigation for rape
Bruel was released from custody under judicial supervision while an examining magistrate looks more deeply into the case.…
Southern Baptists vote to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors
Thousands of Southern Baptists have voted overwhelmingly to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors in the nation’s largest conservative evangelical denomination…
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, following the FTX collapse (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, following the FTX collapse — FTX co-founder…
CBP seizes nearly $100K from Dulles Airport Travelers Without Formal Charges
LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong informal mathematical reasoning but struggle to generate mechanically verifiable proofs in formal languages like Lean. We present LEAP, …
A formal definition and meta-model for a machine theory of mind
This paper proposes, for the first time, a rigorous formal definition of the concept of Machine Theory of Mind, based on principles supported by evidence from cognitive psychology,…
Proof-Refactor: Refactoring Generated Formal Proofs into Modular Artifacts
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in generating formal proofs, their outputs often remain less readable, modular, maintainable, and reusable than pro…
Canada formally requests 16-year renewal of North American free trade pact
In a letter to his North American counterparts, US-Canada Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the three countries should renew the USMCA trade deal.…
Who verifies the verifier? Notes on DeepMind's formal proof-search paper
An AI built the machine I said mathematics needed — a compiler that verifies proofs for cents instead of expert weekends. The catch is what it still can't read.…
Ferrari Films Issues Formal Rebuttal to Forbes Article Mischaracterizing Section 168(k) as "Worthless" for Film Investors - Morningstar
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Court Formally Clears Hernan Lopez, Former Fox TV Exec and Wondery Founder, of Bribery Charge
A federal court dismissed the bribery indictment against Hernan Lopez, former head of Fox International Channels and founder of Wondery.…
SEC moves to formally rescind corporate climate disclosure requirements
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally proposed Friday to rescind its 2024 rule that would have required publicly traded companies to disclose certain information re…
The blockchain trilemma originated from a 2017 blog post — not a peer-reviewed paper. Two formal academic papers in July 2025 refuted it. Does the industry's most cited framework hold up?
Continuous Diffusion Models Can Obey Formal Syntax
Diffusion language models offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models due to their global, non-causal generation process, but their continuous latent dynamics make discr…
US, Mexico launch formal trade talks, haggle over automotive content rules
The most important AI use case isn't in Silicon Valley
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent The informal economy...…
Alberta formalizes separation question ahead of October referendum
Premier Danielle Smith and her cabinet have issued an order in council confirming the exact phrasing of the question…
Rockstar developers to formally unionize ahead of legal battle with the company
GTA 6 devs now have a formal union.…
Brazil creates fewer formal jobs than expected in April
Packers RB Josh Jacobs released following arrest, no formal charges made
Josh Jacobs was released from jail on Wednesday, and the Brown County District Attorney's office is "not yet prepared" to issue formal charges.…
U.S. eases some tariffs on Taiwan to formalize trade agreement
The move forms part of a trade deal previously agreed between Washington and Taipei.…
Formalizing a Divergence Monitor: Stochastic Implementation of Phase Divergence and Invisible Moves
US eases some tariffs on Taiwan to formalise trade agreement
The US will remove derivative aluminium, steel and copper duties from aircraft components imported from Taiwan, according to a notice. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at s…
How DeepMind AlphaProof Nexus Cracks 56-Year-Old Math: Agentic LLM Loops and Lean Formal Verification
How Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus Cracks 56-Year-Old Math Problems: A Deep Dive into...…
28 Black-Tie Wedding Guest Dresses That Are Perfectly Formal
Everything from sequined gowns to maximalist florals.…
Google finally gets around to formally introducing its new icon designs
You've probably already seen many of Google's new icons, and now the company is explaining its intentions with the redesign.…
My mum and I run a small consulting business with no real process. Getting clients but everything is held together with a string. How did you formalise yours? (I will not promote)
Barcelona forward target prepared to force his way out once formal offer is made
The search for Robert Lewandowski’s long-term successor is becoming the defining mission of Barcelona’s summer planning, and Joao Pedro is now gathering serious momentum.While much…
Heimdall: Formally Verified eBPF-to-Rust Migration
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) programs are kernel extensions used for networking, observability, and security enforcement in the Linux kernel. The in-kernel eBPF verifier …
Methods for Formal Verification of Agent Skills: Three Layers Toward a Mechanically Checkable Capability-Containment Proof
The companion paper introduced a four-level verification lattice on agent-skill manifests (unverified, declared, tested, formal) and left the top level aspirational. This paper c…
QUIVER: A Formal Framework for Quantifying Perturbation Propagation and Bifurcation in Compound AI Systems
Compound AI systems that chain multiple LLM calls into directed computation graphs are now the dominant architecture for production AI. Although these architectures leverage hetero…
ATWL: A Formal Language for Representing, Comparing, and Reusing Visual Analytics Workflows
Visual analytics (VA) workflows are inherently complex, involving data transformation, feature engineering, visual representation, and human interpretation. They are typically desc…
Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US (Bryan Hecht/The Boston Globe)
Bryan Hecht / The Boston Globe : Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union …
Ride-Share Drivers in Massachusetts Formally Unionize
Zelensky formally rejects Merz proposal for associate EU membership
NeuroNL2LTL: A Neurosymbolic Framework for Natural Language Translation of Linear Temporal Logic
Effectively translating between natural language (NL) and formal logics like Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) requires expertise that limits formal verification's reach in safety-critic…
ImProver 2: Iteratively Self-Improving LMs for Neurosymbolic Proof Optimization
Formal mathematics libraries are rapidly expanding, creating a growing need to refactor verified proofs for maintainability and to improve training data quality for neural provers.…
Inductive Deductive Synthesis: Enabling AI to Generate Formally Verified Systems
AI agents increasingly excel at generating, testing, and refining code. However, they fall short on tasks requiring formal guarantees of full coverage that testing alone cannot pro…
Lipschitz Optimization for Formal Verification of Homographies
The adoption of vision neural networks in regulated industries requires formal robustness guarantees, especially in safety-critical domains such as healthcare, autonomous vehicles,…
Creating an AI Layer for India’s Informal WhatsApp Supply Chains
Advancing Mathematics Research with AI-Driven Formal Proof Search
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly excel at mathematical reasoning, but their unreliability limits their utility in mathematics research. A mitigation is using LLMs to gener…
River Wye formally recognised as living ecosystem with intrinsic rights
Charter to be adopted along river’s entire catchment from Cambrian mountains to Chepstow and Bristol Channel The entire catchment of the River Wye has been formally recognised as a…
Taiwan raids 12 locations in its first formal crackdown on Nvidia AI chip smuggling — hunts three fugitives for document forgery, fraudulent declarations in Super Micro smuggling case
Simulating Why One AI Always Wins: Formal Theory of the Singleton Attractor
Why one dominant intelligence is the inevitable long-run outcome in any competitive recursive-improvement environment. - ninjahawk/singleton-attractor…
ARCHITECTURE SPECIFICATION & FORMAL SYSTEM REPORT: k501-AIONARC
ARCHITECTURE SPECIFICATION & FORMAL SYSTEM REPORT: k501-AIONARC Document ID:...…
A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto
With the latest release of corecrypto, we’re publishing our implementations of quantum-secure ML-KEM and ML-DSA algorithms, along with the mathematical proofs we built to assure th…
New Taliban Decree on Divorce Formalizes Child Marriage in Afghanistan, U.N. Warns
A new Afghan law requires girls to wait until puberty before seeking to get out of a marriage. It also requires mediation for women seeking to escape an abusive husband.…
Celebrations of life, more informal and intimate than traditional funerals, are on the rise
How to plan a meaningful event that captures the essence of the person who has died and brings loved ones together…
Conformal Selective Acting: Anytime-Valid Risk Control for RLVR-Trained LLMs
A local specialist LLM, fine-tuned with reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) on operator-local data, is installed in a regulated organization with per-deployment e…
Iran formalizes transit fee mechanism for ships in Strait of Hormuz, with crypto payments on the table
Iran's new Persian Gulf Strait Authority will charge formal transit fees in the Strait of Hormuz, with reports suggesting Bitcoin and USDT as payment options.…