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Crimea's civilian economy is breaking down under Ukrainian drone strikes, and the roughly one million Russians who moved to Crimea after 2014 cannot easily be sustained or evacuated.
DEEP Robotics' CNY 2.5B STAR Market IPO is in flight the same week its 65-kg DR02 humanoid climbed an outdoor staircase in one uncut 18-second take.
Motif Technologies re-released its largest open-weights language model under an MIT license, letting any builder fine-tune, embed, or sell products built on the weights.
Liquid AI's 3.1B-parameter vision-language model (an AI that reads images and answers questions about them) swaps the standard AI architecture's growing memory buffer for a fixed-size state, fitting in 3.
The fourth attack on Russian oil infrastructure in three days hit one of Russia's largest refining complexes, even as AP reports no sign that Kyiv's aim of compelling peace talks is working yet.
Northrop Grumman and Aeronix say a radiation-tolerant, software-updatable-after-launch crypto module can push LEO throughput fivefold, a partner-stated target rather than a delivered result.
The GitHub repo is 10 to 15 times the size of X's 2023 code drop. A new in-app page tells users whether their account was hit by 'ranking labels' (the platform's own term for shadowbans), but not which signal pushed them down.
The pay-per-use structure differs from the flat licensing fees OpenAI and other AI labs have typically paid for broad training access.
Researchers show that a single 'stop' label per unsafe moment can teach the whole trajectory, by redistributing the safety signal backward through every earlier action.
Anthropic and outside collaborators built the first public scorecard for the philosophical, low-feedback reasoning that AI safety work depends on.
Nvidia is building Nemotron 4 as a planned 1-trillion-parameter system.
A Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reporter tried to assemble an autonomous attack drone from off-the-shelf parts. The places where the attempt broke down tell a clearer story than the threat itself.