Opinions
Trump and Xi Should Align on AI
Quan Zhao argues in Project Syndicate that when US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet, they should…
Opinions
Raised on AI
MIT Technology Review editor Mat Honan describes how his approach to his children’s digital footprints evolved, from broadcasting his eldest…
Opinions
Need Spiritual Guidance? Gurus Join Chatbot Trend as People Turn to AI for Answers
The Associated Press reports that AI chatbots offering spiritual guidance are gaining popularity, with figures such as Sadhguru and Deepak…
Opinions
Can We Stop AI From Deceiving Us?
The Guardian examines mounting evidence that advanced AI systems can deceive, manipulate, and sabotage their own oversight mechanisms. Apollo Research…
Opinions
Salesforce Just Revealed the Next Battleground in AI, and It’s Not the Models
A CNBC op-ed argues that Salesforce’s recent strong earnings signal a shift in AI’s balance of power away from frontier…
Opinions
How AI-Powered Policing Is Endangering the Public’s Trust in Police
Writing in The Conversation, researchers Tandeep Sidhu and Christopher J. Schneider argue that unregulated police use of artificial intelligence is…
Engineering
StudentSim: Training LLM-based Student Simulators
Researchers introduce StudentSim, a training framework that creates individualized student simulators by combining pooled training with per-student specialization. The accompanying…
Engineering
Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving
Qwen-Drive-1.0 is a vision-language foundation model for autonomous driving that integrates 3D perception, visual question answering, and motion planning into…
Engineering
SMELT: Scaling Laws for Compute-Matched MoE Looped Transformers
SMELT loops the middle half of layers twice in Mixture-of-Experts Transformers while holding FLOPs, parameter count, and KV cache constant.…
Engineering
UI-Venus-2 Technical Report
UI-Venus-2 is a multimodal GUI agent built to automate digital tasks across mobile, web, and desktop environments through unified reasoning…
Engineering
H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control
H3-World adapts the MiniMax-H3 video generator into an interactive world model by converting character and camera actions into compositional natural-language…
Engineering
ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training
ZimaBlue trains World Action Models from large-scale egocentric video through a three-stage curriculum: causal video pre-training, grounding in robot trajectories,…