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Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, a foundation model for physical AI reasoning

Nvidia Research positions Cosmos 3 as the bridge from scripted robotics demos to embodied autonomy in open-world environments.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
LLMs believe false claims even when training data labels them as lies
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LLMs believe false claims even when training data labels them as lies

A new preprint finds Qwen, Kimi, and GPT-4.1 absorb fabricated facts at an 88.6% belief rate even after explicit negation warnings.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia shows eight sim-to-real robotics papers at ICRA, led by COMPASS and PEEK

The research push targets multi-arm scheduling, cross-body navigation, and grasping, with one pipeline delivering a 41x real-world accuracy gain.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with 84% on Online-Mind2Web and cheaper fast mode

The new Opus holds Opus 4.7 pricing at $5/$25 per million tokens, while fast mode drops to a third of its prior cost at 2.5x speed.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Huawei's HiSilicon claims chip breakthrough to close China's 5-year AI lag
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Huawei's HiSilicon claims chip breakthrough to close China's 5-year AI lag

Tingbo He says Tau's Scaling Law will deliver 1.4-nanometer equivalent performance by 2031, three years behind TSMC.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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NVIDIA Vera CPU delivers 1.5x performance edge over 128-core x86 in Phoronix tests

Custom Olympus cores and 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth push Vera past Intel and AMD in agentic AI workloads.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Claude Code and OpenClaw ignite AI agent revolution among developers

Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and Steinberger's open-source tool turn thousands of programmers into supercharged coders.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Grok barely appears in federal AI records as agencies favor OpenAI and Anthropic
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Grok barely appears in federal AI records as agencies favor OpenAI and Anthropic

Reuters reviewed 400+ government AI deployments and found xAI's chatbot in just three entries.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google shifts AI science strategy toward agentic research systems

AlphaFold co-creator John Jumper moved to coding as Google pivots from specialized tools to general-purpose AI scientists.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI reasoning model disproves 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture

The proof marks the first autonomous AI solution to a prominent open math problem, verified by field experts.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Stability AI releases Stable Audio 3.0 with 6-minute song generation
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Stability AI releases Stable Audio 3.0 with 6-minute song generation

The new large model creates full compositions, more than doubling the length of last year's release.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google connects Street View to Genie 3 world model for interactive street simulation

The integration draws on 20 years of Street View data — 280 billion images across 110 countries — to let users simulate real-world streets with adjustable conditions.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Mira Murati previews Thinking Machines' interaction models with humans in the loop
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Mira Murati previews Thinking Machines' interaction models with humans in the loop

The ex-OpenAI CTO's lab shows AI that natively reads pauses, interruptions, and tone through camera and mic — its second product since launch.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Adaption launches AutoScientist, an AI tool that trains models on themselves
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Adaption launches AutoScientist, an AI tool that trains models on themselves

Co-founder Sara Hooker says the system doubled win-rates across models; Adaption is offering 30 days free to prove it.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Thinking Machines unveils 'full duplex' AI that listens while it talks
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Thinking Machines unveils 'full duplex' AI that listens while it talks

Mira Murati's startup says TML-Interaction-Small responds in 0.40 seconds, matching the cadence of natural human conversation.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines unveils real-time 'interaction models'
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines unveils real-time 'interaction models'

The startup says its new approach lets AI continuously process audio, video, and text instead of waiting turn-by-turn for users to finish.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic blames sci-fi tropes for Claude's blackmail behavior in tests

The company says training on stories of AI behaving admirably cut blackmail attempts from up to 96% to zero in Claude Haiku 4.5.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI adds GPT-Realtime-2, Translate and Whisper to its Realtime API

The new voice stack handles 70 input languages and 13 output languages, pushing the API beyond simple call-and-response.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic Teaches Claude Code to 'Dream' Between Sessions

A new idle-time memory consolidation feature lets Claude Code review up to 100 prior sessions and lifts task success by up to 10 points.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant Cuts Hallucinations 52% as Default ChatGPT Model

OpenAI replaces GPT-5.3 Instant with a new default model touting sharper accuracy in medicine, law, and finance, plus user-visible memory controls.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 model and in-house robotic hands after $105M seed
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Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 model and in-house robotic hands after $105M seed

The Khosla- and Eclipse-backed startup is building its own human-shaped hands and a sensor glove to close the embodiment gap in robotics data.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia opens Spectrum-X's MRC protocol via OCP after OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle deployments

The Multipath Reliable Connection transport, proven on Blackwell training runs, is now an open spec through the Open Compute Project.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia opens Spectrum-X's MRC protocol to the industry after OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle deployments

The Multipath Reliable Connection protocol, co-developed with OpenAI and Microsoft, reroutes failed network paths in microseconds across gigascale GPU fabrics.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI's o1 Beats ER Doctors at Triage Diagnosis in Harvard Study

A Harvard Medical School study found OpenAI's o1 preview diagnosed ER triage cases correctly 67% of the time, ahead of attending physicians.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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