Empowering smart app development with SolidGPT: an edge-cloud hybrid AI agent framework

Microsoft has previewed a new tool in VS Code Insiders that leverages GitHub Copilot to modernize JavaScript and TypeScript applications by upgrading npm dependencies and addressing breaking changes. This initiative aims to enhance the development experience for programmers using these languages.

A new method for image debanding has been proposed, utilizing the Wavelet State Space Model and frequency masking maps to effectively reduce banding artifacts in images, particularly in smooth areas like skies. This technique has shown promising results in suppressing banding compared to existing methods, achieving a DBI value of 0.082 on the BAND-2k dataset.

The Open Polymer Challenge (OPC) has successfully launched a community-developed benchmark for polymer informatics, releasing a dataset of 10,000 polymers and five key properties. This initiative aims to enhance machine learning applications in discovering sustainable polymer materials, addressing the current limitations posed by the lack of accessible polymer datasets.

The introduction of Omniguard presents a novel approach to AI safety moderation by enhancing the detection of harmful prompts across various languages and modalities, addressing the vulnerabilities of large language models (LLMs) to misuse. This method improves classification accuracy by 11.57% over existing baselines, marking a significant advancement in AI safety protocols.

AraLingBench has been introduced as a human-annotated benchmark aimed at evaluating the Arabic linguistic capabilities of large language models (LLMs), covering grammar, morphology, spelling, reading comprehension, and syntax through 150 expert-designed questions. The evaluation of 35 Arabic and bilingual LLMs indicates a disparity between high performance on knowledge-based benchmarks and true linguistic understanding, with many models relying on memorization rather than comprehension.

A new LiDAR-camera calibration toolkit named RAVES-Calib has been introduced, allowing for robust and accurate extrinsic self-calibration using only a single pair of laser points and a camera image in targetless environments. This method enhances calibration accuracy by adaptively weighting feature costs based on their distribution, validated through extensive experiments across various sensors.

GitHub has announced updates to its Copilot features, including new sharing capabilities in Copilot Spaces, an update for Visual Studio Copilot, and public preview access to OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max model. These enhancements aim to improve user experience and collaboration among developers.

EasySpec has been introduced as a layer-parallel speculative decoding strategy aimed at enhancing the efficiency of multi-GPU utilization in large language model (LLM) inference. By breaking inter-layer data dependencies, EasySpec allows multiple layers of the draft model to run simultaneously across devices, reducing GPU idling during the drafting stage.