Machine Learning Research
Robots That Adapt to New Tasks: Sony and university researchers train robots to learn without catastrophic forgetting
Neural networks can forget how to perform earlier tasks as they learn new ones.
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How Nvidia Uses AI to Design Chips: Chipmaker's models design circuits, verify designs, and test new layouts
Nvidia’s chief scientist dreams of telling an AI model to design a new GPU, then skiing for a couple days while the system does the job.
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ByteDance Bids for Video Leadership: ByteDance adds state-of-the-art Seedance 2.0 video to Capcut, while OpenAI retreats
As OpenAI prepares to shut down Sora, ByteDance made its own video generation model available to hundreds of millions of users.
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Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans: Researchers at UT-Austin and Google model human decision-making in Rock-Paper-Scissors
While large language models can behave in human-like ways, the similarities are superficial. A simple strategy game revealed clear differences in their strategic approaches.
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Kimi K2.6 Challenges Open-Weights Champs: Kimi K2.6 matches open Qwen3.6 Max andDeepSeek V4, falls just behind top closed models.
Moonshot AI’s updated Kimi model handles longer autonomous coding sessions and scales up its multi-agent orchestration relative to its predecessor.
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GPT-5.5 Outperforms, Hallucinates: OpenAI’s latest model tops leaderboards for coding, visual puzzles, and overall intelligence
The latest update of OpenAI’s flagship model sets new states of the art in important benchmarks but has difficulty distinguishing between what it does and doesn't know.
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Assistants That Assist Consistently: Large language models can drift drift from helpful personas to harmful ones, but new research aims to stabilize them
Typically, large language models are trained to act as helpful, harmless, honest assistants. However, during long or emotionally charged conversations, traits can emerge that are less beneficial. Researchers devised a way to steady the assistant personas of LLMs.
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Humanoid Robots Work Factory Floors: Agiliy Digits humanoid robots fetch and carry bins at a Schaeffler auto-parts factory, displacing humans into higher-level jobs
A small number of humanoid robots have made their way into industrial settings, where they’re roughly matching the cost of human labor and propelling some workers into higher-level roles.
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GLM 5.1 Aims for Long-Running Tasks: Z.ai’s GLM 5.1 evaluates interim results and may change its approach hundreds of times before it delivers final output
Z.ai updated its flagship open-weights large language model to work autonomously on single tasks for up to eight hours.
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Simulating Diverse Human Cohorts: Persona generation simulates human characters across a controllable range of points of view
If you want to understand how the public will respond to your offerings, large language models can simulate users who answer questions about capabilities, features, promotions, or prices.
Tech & Society
US States Move Forward With AI Laws: Most states are regulating AI despite President Trump’s opposition to state-level laws
U.S. states are continuing to enact laws that regulate AI, despite President Trump’s efforts to discourage state-by-state legislation in favor of national laws.
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Big Pharma Bets Big on AI: Pharmaceutical kingpin Eli Lilly gave Insilico $2.75 billion for AI-driven drug development
Generative AI has proven that it can produce text, images, audio, video, and code. The world’s most valuable pharmaceutical company is betting billions that it can produce drugs as well.