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Firefly launched the AIBOX-9075, an industrial Edge AI box powered by the Qualcomm DragonWing IQ-9075 SoC delivering up to 200 TOPS at INT8, with 36GB ECC memory and 8x GMSL2 camera inputs, priced at $1,239. The ruggediz…
A fully autonomous humanoid robot penalty shootout at MWC Shanghai 2026 drew over 10,000 spectators, with eight Chinese embodied AI teams competing across nearly 100 rounds. The event, which banned remote control and pre…
Researchers at a major AI lab trained a 350M-parameter generative world model on 210 tasks and found that hallucination in world models is predictable and preventable, primarily a data-coverage problem. They introduced M…
A developer explores the uncanny valley of AI-generated children's books, highlighting how current generative models produce surreal and unsettling illustrations that veer into body horror. The project demonstrates the g…
Researchers used AI and virtual unwrapping to reveal texts inside charred Roman scrolls buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., opening a new window into the ancient world. NBC News reported on the discovery on June 26, 202…
Reka AI released CS2-10k, a large-scale egocentric dataset built from professional Counter-Strike 2 matches, containing over 600,000 player-round videos totaling 10,000+ hours of first-person footage with per-frame annot…
Reka released CS2-10k, a large-scale dataset and rendering pipeline built from Counter-Strike 2 professional match demos, providing over 10,000 hours of egocentric video with per-frame action annotations to advance world…
Happy Horse defeated Bytedance Seedance V1.5 Pro Image To Video in a head-to-head test of image-to-video food scenes, scoring 16.7 to 11.4. Happy Horse won by reliably following prompts for camera motion, scene staging, …
Unconventional AI released Un-0, an image generator that uses simulated coupled oscillators instead of neural network layers, achieving an FID of 6.74 on ImageNet 64x64. The model validates that physical computing can ha…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, raised $320 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The startup uses gaming footage from de Witte's clip-sharing platform Medal to train…
A developer highlights five innovative tools that are reshaping web development and browsing. Puter.js enables serverless AI integration on the frontend without API keys, while RapidAPI simplifies API integration with au…
Researchers used AI and high-resolution CT scans to read a sealed scroll from Herculaneum, destroyed by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. The scroll, PHerc. 1667, contains a Stoic philosophy treatise on ethics, mark…
A developer compiled FFmpeg from source with NVENC/NVDEC hardware acceleration on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and JetPack 6.2.2 (CUDA 12.6). The custom build offloads video encoding and decodi…
Cosmos 3 Super defeated AuraFlow 22.8 to 16.0 in a head-to-head image generation test, consistently outperforming on prompt fidelity for composition, setting, and action cues. AuraFlow lost points for producing images ad…
Adobe announced on June 25 that it will acquire AI startup Topaz Labs, whose on-device image and video enhancement technology will be integrated into Adobe's Firefly and Creative Cloud apps. The deal, expected to close i…
Robust.AI selected Aptiv PLC's intelligent perception systems, including the Aptiv PULSE sensor, for its Gen 3 Carter collaborative mobile robot. The sensor fuses radar and vision using machine learning to improve reliab…
A developer building an AI agent that controls a phone is replacing screenshots with direct reading of the Android UI tree. The approach provides exact coordinates in under one second, overcoming the slowness of OCR and …
A developer is replacing a screenshot-based vision system with UI hierarchy inspection for an Android automation agent. The old approach using OCR and template matching failed across different devices due to varying scre…
Tesla is rolling out a software update that uses exterior cameras to anticipate unavoidable collisions and prime airbags up to 70 milliseconds earlier than traditional systems, potentially reducing injury severity. The c…
A Walmart software engineer published InfiniteDiffusion, an independent paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026, introducing a new approach to infinite generation with diffusion models and the world's first learned procedural te…