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  1. Apple ML Research

    Các nhà khoa học vừa tạo ra một cách mới giúp máy tính vẽ tranh hoặc tạo ảnh nhanh hơn rất nhiều mà vẫn giữ được độ nét và chính xác cao.

  2. OpenAI

    OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

  3. IEEE Spectrum Robotics

    A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn’t have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic hand into a completely self-contained robot that walks on its fingertips while usin

  4. OpenAI

    Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.

  5. OpenAI

    GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.

  6. IEEE Spectrum

    By 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will be used frequently to treat a variety of diseases, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, according to the recently released 2030 Technology Megatrends Report from IEEE.“We are seeing a fundamental shift in how technology

  7. IEEE Spectrum

    This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!When I changed careers at 30 to

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arXiv AI

  1. Automated evaluation is essential for scaling generative 3D systems, where exhaustive human review is costly and slow. Yet the reliability of an automated judge depends on the full evaluation pipeline, including the vision-language model (VLM), asset rendering, visual evidence, t

  2. Early stress detection in crops is a necessity today to improve efficiency and reduce waste of time, money, and effort. However, most modern techniques, such as hyperspectral imaging and AI-based systems, are too costly and complex for medium and small-scale farmers to implement.

  3. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to judge how well an advertisement matches a query, but the fairness of these judgments has received limited attention. We conduct a systematic study of fairness in relevance judgments made by LLMs for queries and advertisements.

  4. Deterministic benchmark scores show that an agent received credit, but not whether that credit was earned, reported honestly, or would hold on a second run. We introduce a Trust Layer for Agent Evaluation, an additive post-hoc framework that reports, beside each recorded score, w

  5. Developing long-acting injectable formulations requires the simultaneous optimization of drug loading, release kinetics, viscosity, injectability, stability and other objectives. To navigate this multidimensional space, Corbion and Intrepid combined Corbion's diverse PURASORB bio

arXiv ML

  1. We present a foundational formulation of the Bayesian Mirror Architecture (BMA), a self-referential generative framework in which sensory abstractions, meta-abstractions, and a self-latent interact through circular recursion. The defining constraint is a closed update S_t

  2. Deep learning-based modeling of multimodal Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has become an important approach for clinical diagnosis and risk prediction. However, due to diverse clinical workflows and privacy constraints, raw EHRs are inherently multi-level incomplete, including i

  3. Despite its widespread use, Proximal Policy Optimization with clipping (PPO-Clip) remains difficult to tune, and the interactions among critic learning, clipping, and rollout reuse remain incompletely understood. We develop a \emph{non-asymptotic} analysis of PPO-Clip as a \emph{

  4. We present a hybrid quantum-classical framework that detects affinity and romance-investment fraud by modelling the cognitive biases in a manipulative conversation. In our proposed framework, cognitive biases central to this fraud class are carried by dedicated qubits in a struct

  5. Can a biological wiring diagram serve as a useful computational substrate beyond the behaviors for which it evolved? We use the publicly released MaleCNS v1.0 connectome, reconstructed from a single adult male Drosophila specimen, as the fixed recurrent topology of an artificial

arXiv NLP

  1. There are more than 2,000 listed companies on the UK's London Stock Exchange, divided into 11 sectors who are required to communicate their financial results at least twice in a single financial year. UK annual reports are very lengthy documents with around 80 pages on average. I

  2. Computational social science (CSS) has largely operationalized ideology along a single left/right partisan axis when studying online discourse. This approach obscures how people interpret and engage with more specific ideological formations related to race, climate, gender, and o

  3. Solving problems through repeated attempts is a sequential modeling task: at each step, the solver receives feedback and decides how to revise their solutions. Predicting whether performance improves, plateaus, or regresses across attempts is central to understanding any iterativ

  4. Continual pre-training and fine-tuning in Large Language Models (LLMs) inevitably induce catastrophic forgetting, typically mitigated by replay using often-inaccessible original data. In this data-free regime, we analyze where forgetting occurs and why. Systematic parameter freez

  5. Large language models (LLM) and vision-language models (VLM) have achieved state-of-the-art performance, but they impose significant memory and computing challenges in deployment. We present a novel low-rank compression framework to address this challenge. First, we upper bound t

arXiv SE

  1. We present a chat assistant for interactive software exploration, embedded in the 3D software visualization tool ExplorViz. The assistant builds upon current Large Language Models (LLMs) and enables users to ask questions about the currently visualized software system and trigger

  2. Conversational agents based on large language models (LLMs) must comply with policies. Each condition in a policy draws a boundary between user requests, and the agent must behave differently on its two sides. We present AdaT$^2$, which extracts statements from the agent's replie

  3. Developing optimization models for production scheduling requires substantial expert effort. Research on large language models (LLMs) has followed two directions: specialized approaches for automated modeling, mostly for mixed-integer linear programming, which often rely on dedic

  4. Large language model (LLM) agents interact with external resources to complete complex user tasks, exposing them to indirect prompt injection (IPI), where malicious instructions redirect agents toward attacker-intended tasks. Since IPI is difficult to defend against in real-world

  5. The Linux kernel is one of the largest and longest-maintained open source projects in existence. With more than 40 million lines of code, understanding the kernel's internal structure and assessing its software evolution is a great challenge. In this paper, we present an approach

IEEE Spectrum

  1. This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!If you have kids, they’re probab

  2. Many youngsters fascinated by exploring outer space dream of becoming an astronaut, but few do. One who had the right stuff is Pedro Duque, who was Spain’s first astronaut. The aeronautics engineer flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station.After

Quanta Magazine

  1. In the 1960s and ’70s, colorful comic book advertisements from the Transcience Corporation in New York City promised to mail anyone who sent cash, check, or money order a “bowlfull of happiness” — in reality, a small paper envelope of freeze-dried eggs. Dropped into salt water, t

  2. We know all about how things exist in the three dimensions of length, width, and height. Physicists often talk about time as a fourth dimension, but what if there were a fourth spatial dimension — another direction entirely? How on earth would we picture that? Mathematicians use

  3. I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what’s in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, I’ve navigated my environment, accessed my memory, and assessed the energetic state of my body, all in the space of a few seconds. Ho

MIT CSAIL

  1. The global building boom of power-hungry data centers is straining electrical grids, causing greater reliance on energy from polluting fossil fuels.Christina Delimitrou, a newly tenured associate professor at MIT, is fighting this environmental threat by rethinking how the comput

  2. This interview is part of a series of short interviews from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Each spotlight features a student answering their choice of questions about themselves and life at MIT. Nathaniel Morgan, from Atlanta, Georgia, is a senior

  3. Imagine a bottle of hazardous chemicals sitting on a laboratory shelf that changes its appearance to alert scientists that its lid is not properly secured, potentially preventing a dangerous spill.A new 3D-printing system created by MIT researchers enables users to produce intera

Google DeepMind

  1. Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

  2. Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.

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Microsoft Research

  1. On July 24, 2025, Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore (MSRA – Singapore) opened its doors as Microsoft’s first research lab in Southeast Asia. The launch built on more than two decades of collaboration between Microsoft Research Asia and Singapore’s universities, research institu

  2. At a glance Skala 1.1 demonstrates the continuously improving nature of Microsoft Research’s deep-learning DFT approach: trained on 2.5× more data than its predecessor, it delivers substantially higher accuracy across key molecular simulation challenges, including thermochemi

IEEE Spectrum Semiconductors

  1. Several startups see a big opportunity to build the next generation of ultrafast lasers, a crucial component in high-end chip manufacturing, in Europe. In June 2026, the European Commission proposed legislation and strategies to reinforce Europe’s competitiveness and independence

  2. This article is brought to you by COMSOL.In pursuit of improved range, greater reliability, and faster charging, electric vehicles are driving the demand for high-voltage electronics. Other applications driving this demand include wind farms, data centers, and server farms, to na

  3. Interconnects, the wires that string transistors together into circuits on microchips, have long been built from copper due to its high conductivity. However, as electronics continue to shrink, copper becomes a dramatically worse conductor. Now scientists find that a new class of

EE Times

  1. Nuremberg / Munich, Germany, 2026 — SCHIEDERWERK GmbH, a specialist in custom power electronics solutions engineered and manufactured in Germany, will showcase its latest platform-based power supplies and innovative power management solutions for mobile, medical, and industrial a

  2. This technical guide provides a practical framework for migrating machine learning models and applications from an NVIDIA/CUDA-based environment to the SiMa.ai Physical AI platform. It explains the key differences between the two deployment workflows, outlines the model and appli

  3. Rising semiconductor costs and computing requirements drive automakers toward modular ADAS AI solutions. The post Rising Costs, Compute Demand Push ADAS Toward Modular AI appeared first on EE Times.

arXiv Hardware

  1. While dependent quantization in H.266/VVC delivers a high compression ratio, its strong serial nature and high complexity result in poor real-time performance, making it difficult to deploy in practical scenarios. To improve the real-time performance of dependent quantization wit

  2. The selection of benchmark workloads is of paramount importance in computer architecture, as it establishes the yardstick against which architectural innovations are measured and guided. Yet for decades, the SPEC benchmark suites, comprising merely tens of workloads, have been th

  3. Processing-in-Memory (PIM) on monolithic 3D (M3D) DRAM is a promising answer to the memory wall for data-intensive dynamic programming (DP), yet extracting its performance today demands hand-written kernels: the programmer must pick a tile size, place data across non-uniform-late

  4. CXL-SSDs promise memory-semantic access to NAND-scale capacity through a small in-device DRAM cache, but scarce hardware makes emulation central to CXL-SSD research. Cylon, a state-of-the-art emulator, runs workloads in a VM, intercepting DRAM misses to inject NAND latency. We sh

IEEE Spectrum Robotics

  1. This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp.In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot arms swivel, rotate, and extend, the electrical cables, fiber

  2. This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Microspines are one of many ways to enable robots to latch onto surfaces like walls and ceilings. Now roboticists in Canada are using the mini spikes to get drones to land on a more ch

arXiv Robotics

  1. World Action Models (WAMs) emerge as a promising foundation for policy refinement by predicting the consequences of sampled actions. However, visually plausible predictions can mislead policy refinement if they fail to reflect the input actions. To address this mismatch, we intro

  2. Models based on graphs have emerged in robotics as a powerful foundation for internal world representations, where factor and scene graphs are among the most prominent model types found in the related literature and in successful robotic solutions. Initially, many of these models

  3. Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) can facilitate mass customisation in Industry 4.0, with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) representing a promising approach for developing safe AI-based robots. Practical challenges remain regarding safety during AI development, hum

  4. Objective: Data-driven models that estimate physiological states, particularly biological joint moments, are widely used in exoskeleton control. However, these estimators are often coupled to device-specific sensor configurations, limiting controller transfer and the use of open-

Robohub

  1. Các nhà khoa học vừa chế tạo một con robot nhỏ bằng hạt giống có thể điều khiển từ xa bằng nam châm để phẫu thuật bên trong cơ thể.

  2. Một nhóm người đã cùng nhau lắp ráp và lập trình một robot nhỏ bằng máy tính để nó có thể tự đi qua mê cung.

  3. Trung Quốc đang đẩy mạnh phát triển trí tuệ nhân tạo và robot giống con người để dẫn đầu ngành công nghiệp toàn cầu.

Cloudflare Blog

  1. Radar provides a real-time view into global Internet trends, powered by Cloudflare’s global network. We support Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet by making web data visible, clear, and actionable for everyone. Since launching in 2020, Radar has found a natural

Simon Willison

  1. I've always been kind of into computers since I was young. And then when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. And the visual effects workflow for many years has included machine learning. So I can write like pretty shitt

  2. As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago, and was priced at $1/million input and $5/million output - relatively expensive even back then

  3. Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and excessive formality. He also warns against overreliance on l

Lil'Log (Lilian Weng)

  1. Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute (Graves et al. 2016, Ling, et al. 2017, Cobbe et al. 2021) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) (Wei et al. 2022, Nye et al. 2021), have led to significant improvements in

  2. Reward hacking occurs when a reinforcement learning (RL) agent exploits flaws or ambiguities in the reward function to achieve high rewards, without genuinely learning or completing the intended task. Reward hacking exists because RL environments are often imperfect, and it is fu

Hacker News

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ArchDaily

  1. The solar-powered bicycle hall is an experiment in new communal roofs. It is the embodiment of unifying uses, encouraging people to adopt frugal and sober lifestyles, with the rise of cycling, an essential intermodality at metropolitan stations.

  2. India's stepwells are usually encountered after their useful lives have ended. They are photographed, restored and interpreted as evidence of a water culture that once existed. Beneath the carved stone and descending stairs is a practical question: what happens when a structure b

  3. We have already fitted out a flat in Vienna for the clients. Sophisticated, urban, colorful. From the city to the countryside—a different atmosphere. An old winegrower's house is being converted to serve as a holiday retreat. A relaxed atmosphere, plenty of guests.

  4. In the story of the Three Little Pigs, the choice of material determines the fate of each house. The wolf's breath brings down the structures made of straw and wood, while the brick house remains standing. The moral is that the more solid the construction, the greater its ability

  5. Photographer Marc Goodwin has extended his Atlas of Architectural Atmospheres to Belgium, capturing the workspaces of architecture studios in Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent. The series includes large offices such as B-architecten, POLO, and Binst Architects, alongside smaller-scale

  6. The project is located on former vineyard land converted into a housing estate. The installation of a cultural facility in this fragmented peri-urban context, with no direct connection to the public realm, led to the search for an inward-looking layout. This is informed as much b

ArchDaily Materials

  1. Through October 11, 2026, Mexico City once again becomes a global epicenter of innovation and creative excellence with the opening of Design Week Mexico 2026 (#DWM26). This edition adopts a broader and more diverse curatorial vision, inviting both the public and design profession

  2. Far from simply transporting goods from A to B, shipping containers have become a go-to building material across the US, forming the basis of everything from tiny homes to container pools, site offices to workshops. But given the size of the country, and the range of climates fou

  3. The week began with World Architecture Day, drawing attention to the global housing crisis as a fundamental element of human dignity, inclusion, and well-being. In a joint message between the UIA and the United Nations, this year's call is to focus disciplinary efforts on buildin

  4. The North Gate of Taipei, also known as Beimen, stands not only as a reminder of the city's complex history but also as a witness to the changing urban landscape around it and its shifting attitudes towards the urban spaces bordering heritage buildings. Initially a Chinese imperi

  5. BAG begins with a contradiction: a temporary construction system used to establish a permanent presence. In Al Muhammadiyah, Riyadh, a leased plot carried a former restaurant, its drive-thru lane and a parking yard. Nothing on the site was worth preserving in any heritage sense,

Dezeen

  1. The Zaha Hadid Foundation is set to open a public arts venue within the former headquarters of the late Zaha Hadid's eponymous studio in London. Located in London's Clerkenwell area, the new venue will serve as "a dynamic new hub for architecture and design" within the Grade II-l

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  2. Giant shutters close off the towering facade of Wardrobe House, a rectangular wooden home in the Czech Republic designed by local studio Šépka Architekti. Located in Prague's Ořechovka district, the home is modelled on a footed wardrobe, with a tall and narrow form that is rais

  3. TV show Grand Designs is still going strong after 27 years. In this interview, the show's host, Kevin McCloud, considers how British architecture has changed over that time. First aired in 1999, Grand Designs follows the self-build projects of individuals and families creating th

  4. Ahead of Oxford Street closing to traffic later this month, local architecture studio East has released its latest renders revealing how the popular London shopping destination will look when pedestrianised. East is working with landscape architecture studio JL Gibbons and urban

  5. British studio John McAslan + Partners has transformed and extended a disused power station into a learning space and accommodation for the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. John McAslan + Partners restored the brick facades of Osney Power Station, which opened in 1892

  6. Multi-coloured, earth-toned bricks wrap the facade of this eight-storey residential project on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, which is shown in this Instagram carousel created by Dezeen for Glen-Gery. Designed by Brooklyn-based NA Design Studio, the development feature

designboom

  1. Building the idea of a night out   A club facade is an image before it is a place.   It was probably this idea that led me, more than a decade ago, to start photographing nightclubs. It began in 2011, during a bike ride along a canal in Burgundy. On a small road cutting through t

  2. AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi transform Pedrali Pavilion   Pedrali has transformed the Pedrali Pavilion, adapting it for permanent use and turning the structure from a one-off architectural wonder into a permanent gathering place for the community.   Looking back, few archite

  3. Eight horse doubles bring monumental forms into everyday use   The Flatland Horse by Studio Deng reinterprets the equestrian monument as a set of eight functional horse ‘doubles’ that visitors can climb, touch, sit on, and pass through. The project disassembles the equestrian sta