This survey asks how far AI Scientist systems are from changing the world, and argues that their impact should be evaluated not by whether they produce plausible papers, but by whether they produce auditable research trajectories that can be inspected, reproduced, and challenged. We first provide a definition of AI Scientists, distinguish them from adjacent scientific AI systems, and organize the field around four core capabilities: knowledge acquisition, hypothesis generation, experimental validation, and evolution. We further synthesize representative systems by autonomy, execution grounding, auditability, human control, and evidence level. The resulting picture shows a field moving from prompt-to-paper automation toward auditable research laboratories, where executable grounding, provenance, and human-governed autonomy become central. We conclude by identifying open challenges toward trustworthy AI-driven science and providing a roadmap for integrating AI Scientists into the future landscape of scientific discovery.

Multimodal hate detection aims to identify hate content across multiple modalities for promoting a harmonious online environment. Despite promising progress, three critical challenges, the absence of implicit hateful cues, the cross-modal-induced hate, and the diversity of hate target groups, inherent in the multimodal hate detection task, have been overlooked. To address these challenges, we propose a hypergraph-based prompting fusion model. Our model first uses tailored prompts to infer implicit hateful cues. It then introduces hyperedges to capture cross-modal-induced hate and applies a diversity-oriented hyperedge expansion strategy to account for different hate target groups. Finally, hypergraph convolution fuses diverse hateful cues, enhancing the exploration of cross-modal hate and targeting specific groups. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance in multimodal hate detection.

Short video fake news detection is crucial for combating the spread of misinformation. Current detection methods tend to aggregate features from individual modalities into multimodal features, overlooking the implicit opinions and the evolving nature of opinions across modalities. In this paper, we mine implicit opinions within short video news and promote the evolution of both explicit and implicit opinions across all modalities. Specifically, we design a prompt template to mine implicit opinions regarding the credibility of news from the textual component of videos. Additionally, we employ a diffusion model that encourages the interplay among diverse modal opinions, including those extracted through our implicit opinion prompts. Experimental results on a publicly available dataset for short video fake news detection demonstrate the superiority of our model over state-of-the-art methods.

We present Sailor, a family of open language models ranging from 0.5B to 14B parameters, tailored for South-East Asian (SEA) languages. From Qwen1.5, Sailor models accept 200B to 400B tokens during continual pre-training, primarily covering the languages of English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, and Lao. The training leverages several techniques, including BPE dropout for improving the model robustness, aggressive data cleaning and deduplication, and small proxy models to optimize the data mixture. Experimental results on four typical tasks indicate that Sailor models demonstrate strong performance across different benchmarks, including commonsense reasoning, question answering, reading comprehension and examination. We share our insights to spark a wider interest in developing large language models for multilingual use cases.