DevFest is back
DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.
At a glance
- blog.google: DevFest is back
- arxiv.org: Is Multilingual LLM Watermarking Truly Multilingual? Scaling Robustness to 100+ Languages via Back-Translation
- nytimes.com: What Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Argued in His Call for AI Slowdown
The story
blog.google: DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.
arxiv.org: arXiv:2510.18019v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multilingual watermarking aims to make large language model (LLM) outputs traceable across languages, yet current methods still fall short. Despite claims of cross-lingual robustness, they are evaluated only on high-resource languages. We show that existing multilingual watermarking methods are not truly multilingual: they fail to remain robust under translation attacks in medium- and low-resource languages. We trace this failure to semantic clustering, which fails when the tokenizer vocabulary contains too few full-word tokens for a given language. To address this, we introduce STEAM, a detection method that uses Bayesian optimisation to search among 126 candidate languages for the back-translation that best recovers the watermark strength. It is compatible with any watermarking method, robust across different tokenizers and languages, non-invasive, and easily extendable to new languages. With average gains of +0.23 AUC and +37%p TPR@1%, STEAM provides a scalable approach toward fairer watermarking across the diversity of languages.
nytimes.com: What Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Argued in His Call for AI Slowdown The New York Times AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? The Guardian Tech leaders urge limits on AI development amid warnings WJLA
democracynow.org: Anthropic’s CEO Calls for the Development of Artificial Intelligence to Slowdown Democracy Now!