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A new arXiv preprint proposes a pipeline that uses robot-generated grasp examples and a single RGB frame to cut final gripper position spread to 5.38 mm in simulation and hit 66.6% real-world grasp success on a common industrial robot arm.
In standards marketed as quantum-proof, the ordinary software that ties quantum bits to the rest of the quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol is where the audit should look first, and the standards body is where the fix should land.
A new benchmark of 600 tasks shows AI agent hierarchies complete more work but leak more unauthorized actions, and the gap widens with depth.
An arXiv preprint (the open-access research archive), an IEEE Spectrum interview (IEEE's flagship magazine), and 37 machine-learning researchers make the case that the 350-year-old paper format is lossy compression, and ship a four-layer executable
An AI chemistry check just overturned a 75-year-old reference database. The same tools are now scanning a century of papers, and naming their own ceiling.
Cactus's 45M-parameter Needle 2 fits a session in 28MB of RAM, the company says, and reports 500 tokens/second on a Raspberry Pi 5.
GeoPT, an MIT and Tsinghua pre-training method, reaches peak physics-simulation performance twice as fast with 60 percent less data by training on synthesized 3D interactions instead of slow numerical solvers.
A magnetic module at the centre of a silicone body is remagnetised to switch between locomotion, cutting tissue, releasing drugs, gripping samples, and localised heating. The five tasks are demonstrated in lab tests only, not in living tissue.
Google's open Gemma 4 family, at 12 billion parameters, shows you can drop the audio-and-video encoder — the translator that turns raw audio and video into a form the model can read — and still transcribe better. The rest of the family tells you why.
The 364-million-parameter speech synthesis model runs on a team's own hardware rather than as a cloud voice API, with vendor-reported sub-50ms time to first audio output on NVIDIA's flagship data-center GPUs (B200 and H100).
Texas A&M, Korea's KIMM (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials), and UST (University of Science and Technology, Korea) researchers mapped Kerr self-focusing (a nonlinear-optical beam-bending effect inside the crystal) in 4H-silicon-carbide, a
Each vendor measures text similarity on its own scale, so a cheaper embedding model is rarely a like-for-like swap. The score scale moves with the vendor.
Synchronized GPU training turns backup batteries, generators, and cooling from slow-depreciating insurance into fast-cycling consumables. The hundred-billion-dollar build-out has not priced that in.
Multiverse Computing says caching only a teacher's top 100 guesses per token cuts the GPU bill for knowledge distillation, training a small model to mimic a larger one.
The USC rig applies known forces to the RAVEN II research surgical robot.
A new theoretical design routes energy into a long-lived 'metastable' shelf of three-level atoms, turning the random jumps that normally waste stored energy into the charging mechanism itself.
A recoverable geometric falsehood signal inside model activations suggests misinformation detection is becoming an interpretability problem, not just a document-lookup one.
Scaling the judge does not scale the verdict. A new research preprint, posted to arXiv, argues the fix is structural: split the checklist.