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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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