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Fiatlux, a new simulation benchmark, asks a humanoid to climb a ladder, swap a lightbulb, and dispose of the old one without breaking it. Policies with no task-specific training clear none of its twelve subtasks.
Northeastern researchers propose PANDA, a multi-agent design that drops the central registry and lets agents self-form teams. The 8x benchmark claim is single-dataset.
Adversaries targeted leading AI models' step-by-step reasoning through normal-looking API traffic, scaling to 16,000 requests from more than 4,000 accounts in two days — with a related cluster spanning more than 15,000 more accounts before
Vision-Language-Action models like π0.5 clear a demo in seconds, but production robots must hit a real-time control cycle, share a processor, pass a safety case, and clear a bill of materials.
Data Agent Benchmark（DAB）测的是"模型+智能体+数据系统"端到端协同，覆盖 PostgreSQL、MongoDB、SQLite、DuckDB 与金融、生物医学、政务等领域；首个破 90% 的提交用 OceanBase 加智谱 GLM-5.2 大模型组合，Scout 是 OceanBase 这次提交 DAB 的内部代号，仍非上线产品。
An arXiv impossibility theorem shows bounded-degree quantum annealing solvers (a class of quantum optimization techniques restricted to low-order penalty interactions) can tie their math to thirteen decimal places and still overflow the plate (the
Researchers built a benchmark from real business dashboards. Frontier AI still scored below 50%, and the tool that closed some of the gap shows how far 'AI replaces the analyst' really is.
A passive spring-loaded latch snaps the drone between rolling and flight in 200 ms, dropping current draw from 10 A to 0.7 A and lifting estimated range from 144 m to 2057 m.
A new preprint turns "is the robot getting closer?" into a training signal, not a hand-coded metric, and uses it to land a 7-joint robot arm on 25 of 30 reaching trials.
Spear phishing pulls names from LinkedIn and company sites to look personal; a BYU study found AI versions now match or beat human ones, and people told them apart only half the time.
Huawei chairman Eric Xu says China can ship a credible Nvidia rival by 2027. The hard part is the inter-chip network that turns a million AI processors into one computer.
Meta's free personal AI agent is live on WhatsApp. The data it asks for is the real story.
Vals just raised $40M from Andreessen Horowitz to build private benchmarks that frontier models cannot train against, a bet that the next phase of AI evaluation has to move underground.
A 450,000-prompt audit of 15 GPT models finds toxicity scores fall while a different kind of gender bias moves into safer territory, a pattern the authors call 'harm laundering.'
A 1-to-1 joint mapping between a motorized hand rig and a seven-joint robot hand unifies in-the-wild data collection with force feedback, a trade-off prior setups could not resolve.
Even the leader cites the right evidence only 0.360 times out of 1 — and that is the point.
AI is starting to help build the next, more capable model. A new research agenda is building the public machinery to measure, slow, and verify that race from outside the labs.
AlchemQ is a quantum circuit optimizer that ships an open, machine-checkable certificate with every rewrite, so a verifier can confirm the new circuit still does the same work as the original.