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AI Revolutionizes Space Exploration with Robotics and Quantum Tech
AI is revolutionizing space exploration by enhancing satellite operations, data analysis, and autonomous missions, integrating with robotics and quantum computing for efficiency and innovation. Despite ethical and regulatory challenges, it...
Oxford University astronomers have built an amazing AI tool
Oxford University astronomers have detailed an AI tool they’ve been using to help spot supernovae out in the depths of space and reduce the workload on humans by 85%.
I visited a 24/7 convenience store where robots named Barb and Peter served me snacks
I visited VenHub, a 24/7 convenience store in LA that’s run by a pair of robotic arms named Barb and Peter, and no humans.
India’s Next Leap In Surgical Robotics: Meril Unveils Mizzo Endo 4000, The Advanced Soft Tissue Robotic System
In a landmark moment for Indian healthcare and global MedTech, Meril, one of India’s leading medical device company, announced the launch of the Mizzo Endo 4000, a next-generation soft tissue...
Reaching Across the Isles: UK-LLM Brings AI to UK Languages With NVIDIA Nemotron
Trained on the Isambard-AI supercomputer, UK-LLM enables AI reasoning for Welsh and other UK languages for public services.
Qwen Ecosystem Expands Rapidly, Accelerating AI Adoption Across Industries
Alibaba’s Qwen3, the company’s first hybrid reasoning model family, is gaining rapid traction as it expands across platforms and sectors, powering
Databricks at a crossroads: Can its AI strategy prevail without Naveen Rao?
Will the company falter in its expansion plans amid intensifying competition from rivals like Snowflake?
Why California backed off again from ambitious AI regulation
For the third year, the state delayed AI regulation for disclosing and appealing many automated decisions by the state and companies
What is artificial intelligence’s greatest risk?
Risk dominates current discussions on AI governance. This July, Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel and Turing laureate, addressed the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
Cartwheel Robotics’ Scott LaValley: Today’s robots too scary
interview: Scott LaValley, CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, says robot makers should prioritize social acceptance over capabilities
AI Max, Ads in AI Overviews and the End of the Hyperlink Economy: Hotel Marketing in the Post-Search Age
For thirty years, the web has been a system of exits, a labyrinth of blue underlined doors pointing outward, each page no more than a step toward another place. With...
Albania Appoints an AI as Government Official
In a world first, Albania’s prime minister has appointed an AI to a government official position in hopes of rooting out corruption.
What Parasitic AI might tell us about LLMs Persuasion Capabilities
TLDR: I think LLMs are being optimized to be persuasive, and that this optimization is happening astonishingly fast. I believe that in the relatively…
Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
Hacker exploits AI chatbot in cybercrime spree
Anthropic investigates alarming AI abuse case where hacker automated entire cybercrime campaign using Claude, stealing sensitive data from defense and healthcare firms.
Elon Musk: 80% of Tesla’s Future Value from Optimus Robots
Elon Musk claims 80% of Tesla’s future value will derive from its Optimus humanoid robots, pivoting from EVs amid sluggish sales and competition. While envisioning trillions in economic impact, skeptics...
The U.S. State Department Knows AI Risks
What’s the AISIC? The U.S. State Department commissioned Gladstone AI to assess advanced AI risks with a report.
Medra Launches AI-Robotics Platform to Accelerate Biotech Drug Discovery
Medra, a San Francisco startup, launched its Continuous Science Platform on September 12, 2025, integrating robotics and AI to automate lab workflows in biotechnology. This innovation accelerates data generation, reduces...
Artificial intelligence accelerates drug discovery and reduces animal testing
1. Artificial intelligence is cutting preclinical development timelines from more than three years to under two years. 2. The Food and Drug Administration now supports validated computational models as part...
Robotics Breakthrough: Reinforcement Learning Scales Vision-Action Skills
By combining reinforcement learning with robotic vision, researchers have created a system that learns complex manipulation tasks with less human demonstration data and even discovers new, more efficient movement patterns...
Window is Everything: A Grammar for Neural Operations
The operational primitives of deep learning, primarily matrix multiplication and convolution, existas a fragmented landscape of highly specialized tools. This paper introduces the Generalized WindowedOperation (GWO), a theoretical framework that...
Embodied visuomotor representation
npj Robotics – Embodied visuomotor representation
Lila Sciences Secures $235M Funding, Hits Unicorn Status in AI Biotech
Lila Sciences, a Cambridge-based AI-biotech startup, raised $235 million to achieve unicorn status at over $1 billion valuation, following a $200 million seed round. It develops a “scientific superintelligence” platform...
California lawmakers pass AI safety bill SB 53 — but Newsom could still veto
The state’s landmark safety bill sets new transparency requirements for large AI companies.
Embodied visuomotor representation
npj Robotics – Embodied visuomotor representation
Hacker exploits AI chatbot in cybercrime spree
Anthropic investigates alarming AI abuse case where hacker automated entire cybercrime campaign using Claude, stealing sensitive data from defense and healthcare firms.
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same...
California, New York could become first states to enact laws aiming to prevent catastrophic AI harm
California and New York could become the first states to establish rules aiming to prevent the most advanced, large-scale artificial intelligence models — known as frontier AI models — from...
Claude can now create and use files
Claude can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks, and PDFs directly in Claude.ai and the desktop app.
Anthropic Agrees to $1.5B Settlement
AI company Anthropic has confirmed it will pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit brought by authors and book publishers.
mmBERT: ModernBERT goes Multilingual
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Microsoft’s new light-based computer inspired by 80-year-old technology — it could make AI 100 times more efficient
Microsoft’s latest computing system uses micro-LEDs and camera sensors to perform calculations.
AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now
Nature – The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite.
Reinforcement Learning Foundations for Deep Research Systems: A Survey
Deep research systems, agentic AI that solve complex, multi-step tasks by coordinating reasoning, search across the open web and user files, and tool use, are moving toward hierarchical…
Artificial intelligence-enabled wearable microgrids for self-sustained energy management
Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering – Wearable multimodal monitoring systems deliver continuous insight into patients’ health status but are constrained by power needs. Next-generation…
OpenAI Says It’s Making a Full Hollywood Movie Using AI
OpenAI has teamed up with production companies in London and Los Angeles to create a feature-length animated movie made with AI.
Judge reviews $1.5B Anthropic settlement proposal with authors over pirated books for AI training
A federal judge has started reviewing a class-action settlement between AI company Anthropic and book authors.
Judge reviews $1.5B Anthropic settlement proposal with authors over pirated books for AI training
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has begun reviewing a landmark class-action settlement agreement between the artificial intelligence company Anthropic and book authors who say the company took…
AI Firm To Pay $1.5 Billion For Pirated Books, Keeps Its Trained Models
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle a major copyright case over pirated training data—but the company gets to keep its Claude models intact. No deletion. No rollback.