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In an interview with TechCrunch, Al Gore suggested he isn't losing sleep over AI data center emissions — he's more worried about the AI industry's own warnings about where the technology is headed.

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as an "anticipatory AI service" that "helps you manage what needs attention today, so you can make progress toward your longer-term goals." Like with other AI assistants, you can also chat with it. Specs Intelligence is being launched alongside Specs, Snap's first consumer pair of augmented reality gla...

Agentic AI workflows can be used to prepare and validate digital twins for physical AI systems. Agents can inspect 3D scenes, author simulation-relevant data in... Agentic AI workflows can be used to prepare and validate digital twins for physical AI systems. Agents can inspect 3D scenes, author simulation-relevant data in OpenUSD, add physics properties, render preflight views, and validate the result against simulation-ready (SimReady) requirements. This workflow follows that process from a scene in Blender to a simulation-ready OpenUSD handoff for NVIDIA… Source

Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.

Christopher Nolan's engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that it might just make viewers hate the original book altogether. The new film, called Odysseus: The Fall, comes via AI firm Fountain 0 and is written and directed by company cofounder Ash Koosha, who also lent his likeness to the title character and created all of the music. (The film's credits are very short.) The studio's only previous work is an AI film called Dreams of Violet...

E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers - roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times if lined up in a row. It's a significantly higher estimate of AI's e-waste than previous studies have found because the authors of the new report factor in all the infrastructure needed to support servers in data centers. The broader scope provides a clearer picture of junk AI leaves behind, according to the nonprofit Basel Action Network (BAN), which published the paper today...

AI agents are moving from cloud data centers to vehicles, robots, and other edge devices. Unlike a chatbot that answers a single prompt, an agent works through... AI agents are moving from cloud data centers to vehicles, robots, and other edge devices. Unlike a chatbot that answers a single prompt, an agent works through a sequence of steps. It selects tools, evaluates their results, and continues reasoning within an increasingly long conversation. This workflow places new demands on edge inference. The model must generate tokens quickly… Source

Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?

There may be a simpler and more effective fix for rogue agents, hiding in plain sight.

Anthropic merges Claude Cowork and Claude Chat into unified interface with persistent agent capabilities across web, desktop, mobile for Pro/Max users.

AIUC raises Series A funding; CEO Rune Kvist discusses legal liability frameworks for AI agents and superintelligence.

Study disentangles tokenization algorithm design space (BPE vs. UnigramLM) by decomposing optimization objective from search procedure.

Introduces ComPO, zeroth-order preference alignment method using comparison oracles to extract directional information without differentiable loss.

PANORAMA addresses panoptic grounded captioning, combining dense captions with pixel-level segmentation for vision-language models.

Robot learning pipeline augments video generation with audio synthesis to infer force profiles for contact-rich manipulation tasks.

Theoretical result: off-policy evaluation requires exponential sample complexity under history-dependent logging despite full action/belief coverage.

ScienceIDE converts scientific code repositories into agent-learnable environments by bridging fragmented toolchains and domain conventions.

Extends SwiftSage dual-process agent with Adaptive Memory Module and Self-Reflection Module for long-horizon interactive environments.

Affora design system enables software interfaces to be both human-usable and agent-readable through task-state clarity and reusable components.

Flag Game toy model studies mechanisms of collective belief formation and social evidence weighting in bounded multi-agent systems for alignment analysis.

Benchmark: six frontier models play log(N)-Questions game; Claude Opus 5 underperforms (28/68 wins), revealing communication asymmetry gaps.

Architectural interventions like looped transformers modify scaling exponents and enable exponential performance gains independent of compute alone.

rMuscle optimizes Vision-Language-Action model inference latency for factory robotics by exploiting embodied workload characteristics.

Difference-of-means vectors in model representations reveal reward hacking signatures in Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, and Qwen 3.8 Max.

Andromeda 2 agentic system designs drug formulations via structured evidence reasoning, outperforming probabilistic baseline in autonomous lab experiments.

Survey of 761 Nigerian healthcare workers on AI adoption awareness, attitudes, and barriers in low-resource settings.

Heterogeneous radiologist reporting practices confound chest X-ray report generation model evaluation via reference concordance metrics.

Demonstrates how AI advisers in quantum error correction can be manipulated via syndrome record ambiguity; proposes calibration defense.

MUSE benchmark evaluates vision-language models on multimodal artistic and cultural understanding for AI-assisted language education.