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Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors<\/strong><\/a>Will Knight | Wired ($)<\/em><\/p>\n “Google DeepMind is teaming up with Boston Dynamics to provide its humanoid robots the intelligence required to navigate unfamiliar environments and establish and manipulate objects\u2014exactly the sorts of capabilities wanted to carry out guide labor.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Distinct AI Models Seem to Converge on How They Encode Reality<\/strong><\/a>Ben Brubaker | Quanta Journal<\/em><\/p>\n “Is the within of a imaginative and prescient mannequin in any respect like a language mannequin? Researchers argue that because the fashions develop extra highly effective, they could be converging towards a singular ‘Platonic’ solution to signify the world.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Flu Is Relentless. CRISPR Might Be Able to Shut It Down. “They imagine CRISPR may very well be tailor-made to create a next-generation therapy for influenza, whether or not that\u2019s the seasonal strains which plague each the northern and southern hemispheres on an annual foundation or the worrisome new variants in birds and different wildlife that may set off the following pandemic.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Next-Level Quantum Computers Will Almost Be Useful<\/strong><\/a>Dina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum<\/em><\/p>\n “The machine that Microsoft and Atom Computing will likely be delivering, known as Magne, may have 50 logical qubits, constructed from some 1,200 bodily qubits, and needs to be operational by the beginning of 2027. QuEra\u2019s machine at AIST has round 37 logical qubits (relying on implementation) and 260 bodily qubits, Boger says.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse “In current months, I\u2019ve observed a troubling pattern with AI\u00a0coding assistants. After two years of regular enhancements, over the course of 2025, a lot of the core fashions reached a top quality plateau, and extra just lately, appear to be in decline. A activity that may have taken 5 hours assisted by AI, and maybe ten hours with out it, is now extra generally taking seven or eight hours, and even longer.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Meta Unveils Sweeping Nuclear-Power Plan to Fuel Its AI Ambitions “Meta Platforms on Friday unveiled a collection of agreements that will make it an anchor buyer for brand spanking new and current nuclear energy within the US, the place it wants city-size quantities of electrical energy for its artificial-intelligence information facilities. …Monetary particulars weren\u2019t disclosed, however the preparations are among the many most sweeping and bold to this point between tech corporations and nuclear-power suppliers.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Even the Companies Making Humanoid Robots Think They\u2019re Overhyped<\/strong><\/a>Sean McLain | The Wall Avenue Journal ($)<\/em><\/p>\n “Billions of {dollars} are flowing into humanoid robotic startups, as traders guess that the business will quickly put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our residing rooms.\u00a0For all of the current advances within the subject, humanoid robots, they are saying, have been overhyped and face daunting\u00a0technical challenges\u00a0earlier than they transfer from science experiments to a alternative for human employees.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Former Google CEO Plans to Singlehandedly Fund a Hubble Telescope Replacement “On Wednesday night, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his spouse, Wendy, introduced a serious funding in not only one telescope challenge, however 4. Every of those new telescopes brings a novel functionality on-line; nonetheless, probably the most intriguing new instrument is a space-based telescope named Lazuli. This spacecraft, if efficiently launched and deployed, would provide astronomers a extra succesful and trendy model of the Hubble Area Telescope, which is now three a long time outdated.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Uber\u2019s Not Done With Self-Driving Cars Just Yet. It\u2019s Designing a New Robotaxi With Lucid and Nuro<\/strong><\/a>Sasha Lekach | Gizmodo<\/em><\/p>\n “The businesses stated that on-road testing [in San Francisco] began on the finish of final yr, which isn\u2019t stunning as Nuro already holds driverless testing permits by way of the California DMV. Finally, the trio plan to supply the Stage 4 robotaxi prototype all over the place Uber has a presence\u2014if all goes properly, that’s.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kawasaki\u2019s Four-Legged Robot-Horse Vehicle Is Going Into Production<\/strong><\/a>Bronwyn Thompson | New Atlas<\/em><\/p>\n “What was introduced as a 2050 pipe dream by Kawasaki, the corporate’s hydrogen-powered, four-hooved, all-terrain robotic horse automobile Corleo is definitely going into manufacturing and is now anticipated to be commercially obtainable a long time earlier\u2014with the primary mannequin to debut in simply 4 years.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NASA’s Science Budget Won\u2019t Be a Train Wreck After All<\/strong><\/a>Eric Berger | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\n “On Monday, Congress made good on…guarantees [to fund most of NASA’s science portfolio], releasing a $24.4 billion finances plan for NASA as a part of the conferencing course of, when Home and Senate lawmakers convene to hammer out a closing finances. The result’s a finances that requires only a 1 p.c lower in NASA\u2019s science funding, to $7.25 billion, for fiscal yr 2026.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\nArtificial Intelligence<\/a><\/h4>\n
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<\/strong><\/a>David Cox | Wired ($)<\/em><\/p>\nComputing<\/a><\/h4>\n
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<\/strong><\/a>Jamie Twiss | IEEE Spectrum<\/em><\/p>\nENERGY<\/a><\/h4>\n
<\/strong><\/a>Jennifer Hiller | The Wall Avenue Journal ($)<\/em><\/p>\nRobotics<\/a><\/h4>\n
SPACE<\/a><\/h4>\n
<\/strong><\/a>Eric Berger | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\nRobotics<\/a><\/h4>\n
Robotics<\/a><\/h4>\n
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