2026
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Humanoids Learn to Serve in Tennis Like Pros: Planner and Tracker Split Apart
How humanoids mimic the style of professional tennis players: a hierarchical architecture with separate planner and tracker, adaptive speed control to bridge the…
Drones knock out Yandex's third data center in four days
Yandex says a drone attack knocked out its data center in the Vladimir region, the third site the company has lost in four days. Some services are unavailable.
China agrees to cut hybrid exports to the EU — possibly by more than half
Beijing has promised to curb hybrid and plug-in hybrid shipments to the EU. Šefčovič estimates exports could fall by more than half. Details have not been disclosed…
Six parents explain how they limit their kids' social media and AI use: trust in Big Tech is fading
Microsoft President: AI Is Regulated Less Than Milk and Washing Machines
DeepSeek to Invest $400M in Robotics Startup Founded by Ex-Tencent Scientist
Booz Allen Hamilton's AI Agents Succeeded in 8 of 8 Test Attacks on an Industrial System
Karpathy Estimates Only About 5,000 People Have Access to the Most Advanced AI
Andrej Karpathy believes only about 5000 people can actually work with the closed systems inside frontier labs, where clusters of thousands of agents run for weeks.
SIA: China Supplies the US Just 5% of Chip Equipment, but Over 90% of Some Rare Earths
An SIA report exposes a gap: by country of manufacture, China supplies about 5% of what US chipmakers buy directly, yet it controls over 90% of some rare earth…
Yandex Blocks Some 360 and Disk Features After Drone Attack on Third Data Center
Asbis bets on data centers and AI to sustain a 476% stock rally
TikTok CEO Promises AI Science Breakthroughs Within 2–3 Years
There Are More Programmers Now, Even Though AI Promised to Replace Them Within a Year
Tsinghua Team Pushes Generation Down to a Single Step, From Images to Streaming Video
Tsinghua researchers are developing "sample distribution training" to enable one- or few-step generation, from still images to real-time video.
模思智能 Raises Over 1 Billion Yuan in Pre-A for a Real-Time Omni-Modal Model
Shanghai startup 模思智能 closed a Pre-A round of over 1 billion yuan, about $140 million. The money will fund a foundation model for real-time omni-modal interaction.
New Benchmark Tests Whether AI-Generated Images Obey the Laws of Physics
An image can score high on aesthetics and prompt adherence while showing distorted hands and objects passing through each other. A new test measures "world…
SAM 2.1 fine-tuned on facades and interiors: mIoU rises from 49.9% to 69.6%
SAIL Keeps Its Target in Frame Using Audio and Text, and Beats Rivals on Two Benchmarks
Wearable Stereo Camera Estimates Food Volume With 9.1% Error, No Reference Object Needed
Researchers Compare CNN, ViT and Mamba Attention Against Human Gaze
Stroop Test Shows VLMs Read the Text in an Image Before They See the Color
Researchers ran contrastive and generative VLMs through the classic Stroop test. When text and color conflict, the models more often answer with the written word.
ForcingBooster Halves Denoising Steps in Autoregressive Video Generation
ForcingBooster assigns denoising steps per patch, so simple regions stop early. The result: roughly 50% fewer steps at quality comparable to a four-step baseline.
Video-Language Models Confuse Car Maneuvers: LoRA and Probes Fix the Error
MIRAGE anchors video-based 3D reconstruction to LiDAR and beats COLMAP on three datasets
OMNI: One Compact Encoder Absorbs the Knowledge of 10 Models for Pathology
TerraAgent checks whether the AI actually looks at the image: hallucinations drop from 17.1% to 9.8%
Genetic Optimizer Cuts Aerosol Sensor Placement Time in the UK by 60%
Researchers built a neural process into DeepSensor and cut the time to compute aerosol monitoring station placement in the UK from 25 to 10 minutes.
Kronecker Product Attention Compresses the KV-Cache Up to 10x and Matches MLA on Quality
An arXiv preprint proposes KPA, which stores keys and values as sums of Kronecker products. It claims up to 10x KV-cache compression with quality on par with MHA…
TimesFM 3.0 Cuts University Building Energy Forecast Error by 43%
Pretrained TimesFM 3.0, with no local fine-tuning, cut day-ahead MAE for a university building by 43% versus a naive baseline. XGBoost stays close behind.
DiffusionART speeds up RL fine-tuning of video models 12x, with no EMA tuning
A Physical Transformer Built Entirely From Transistors Learns In-Context Learning in Simulation
Theory Shows Masked Diffusion on Transformers Learns from Õ(LK/ε) Samples
