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Infrastructure & Runtime

KV Cache Offloading Breaks on Text2JSON: Why Llama 3 and Qwen 3 Lose Accuracy on Context-Intensive Prompts

Four KV cache offloading methods show accuracy drops on Llama 3 and Qwen 3 in Text2JSON's multi-needle extraction tasks, a gap that TTFT-only benchmark suites don't detect.

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Ethics, Policy & Safety

Maryland Enacts First US Ban on Algorithmic Grocery Pricing, Effective Immediately

Governor Moore signed Maryland's Protection From Predatory Pricing Act on April 28, making it the first US state law to ban AI-based grocery pricing, effective immediately.

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Models & Research

The Last Word Often Wins: A Format Confound Inflates Chain-of-Thought Corruption Robustness Scores

A format confound in CoT corruption benchmarks—suffix sensitivity collapsed 19× when final-answer text was stripped—means published faithfulness scores are inflated.

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Agents & Frameworks

Trojan Hippo Plants Dormant Payloads in Agent Memory, Hits 85-100% Exfiltration on Frontier Models

Trojan Hippo plants dormant payloads in agent memory via a single untrusted email, achieving 85-100% exfiltration ASR on frontier models after surviving 100 benign sessions.

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Culture & Society

AB 566 Forces Chrome and Safari to Ship Opt-Out Signals by 2027 — Then Shields Them from Google's 86% GPC Failure

AB 566 forces Chrome, Safari, and Edge to ship opt-out signals by January 2027, shields browsers from liability, and leaves Google's 86% GPC failure rate for CPPA to fix.

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Industry & Business

AI Was Cited in 26% of Challenger's April Layoffs. UBS Notes the Series Captures 5% of US Job Flow

Challenger data shows 26% of April layoffs cited AI, but UBS notes this tracks corporate narrative, not displacement. The predictive signal is hiring-pipeline compression.

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