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that map specialist representations into a language model's internal states, training only those connectors while three protein and three small-molecule specialists stay frozen alongside Gemma 3 and Kimi K2.6.","url":"https://disruptive-concepts.com/article/ai-mindmeld-a-latent-interconnect-protocol","html_url":"https://disruptive-concepts.com/article/ai-mindmeld-a-latent-interconnect-protocol","arxivId":"2610.30215","weekId":"2026-W44","score":78,"topics":["ai"]},{"id":"benchmarking-recent-single-cell-synthetic-data-generation-methods-on-the-onek1k-dataset","slug":"benchmarking-recent-single-cell-synthetic-data-generation-methods-on-the-onek1k-dataset","title":"Benchmarking Recent Single-Cell Synthetic Data Generation Methods on the OneK1K Dataset","headline":"On a donor-split immune atlas, copying the quiet genes leaks people; Poisson reconstruction of those genes is what actually moves membership inference toward chance.","blurb":"What: The authors benchmark scGFT, scLDM, and 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