Flow Matching Trades the Score for a Velocity Field
Lipman and colleagues prove that regressing a network onto a closed-form conditional velocity field has the same gradient as the intractable objective it stands in for, which is how a state-of-the-art image generator gets trained with nothing harder than mean-squared error.
A tardigrade survives drying by turning its cell to glass
Drying to a glassy fleck should be lethal, yet a tardigrade rebuilds the structural work its lost water was doing, setting its cytoplasm into a glass of its own disordered proteins where other dried life would use sugar, while a second protein sits astride the DNA.
Should College Athletes Be Employees of the Schools They Play For?
The House settlement handed athletes a share of the revenue while its own approval order declined to say whether they are employees, leaving a question that Johnson v. NCAA presses in court and the SCORE Act would foreclose by statute.
Carry the Baby to the Reptile House
The Bronx Zoo's cool, dim indoor houses are the right call for a newborn on a hot or stormy July day, and the real work is carrying the baby between them across 265 acres.
Europe's top court backs Spain's amnesty for Catalan separatists
Carles Puigdemont can return to Spain, with the amnesty's limits left to the judges he fled.
A distillation method rewards the student only for what instruction-tuning added to the teacher
A new attack cut a world-action agent's task success from 96.5% to 43.1%, and Anthropic set a July 19 cliff that moves Fable 5 onto metered usage credits.