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VideoBuild with Perception Agents — Emile Baizel & Shruti Arora, Amazon AGI Lab
A coding agent says it added a duck icon to a podcast page; a browser verification pass checks whether the change actually appeared.
AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds
Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking.
She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people.
Claude Dashboards & Motion
Ask Claude for live dashboards and animated explainers
The Machines that Make the Machines
However, the process of assembling GB300 trays requires skilled physical labor in factories across the world.
Fully local conversational AI: Whisper + Hermes 8B + Kokoro, zero cloud, running inside a plush toy
A conversational AI plush toy where nothing leaves my network.
I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence
I’ve often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn’t really know why I doubted it.
VideoWhat Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar
A lot of people in AI treat evolution as a dumb fallback, basically random search for when you can't take a gradient.
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no.
Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out
A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue—keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of leading AI ethics researchers argue.
LWiAI Podcast #258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi
Our 258th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator
So, the idea I had was: if I manage for maybe ChatGPT or Claude to generate high-quality LDraw source files... then, they would actually be generating high-quality LEGO CAD models, right?
I built a free anime character & prompt library for AI art creator
I'm an AI art creator, and for a while now I've been wanting a better way to organize character prompts, find inspiration, and experiment with different scenes without having to dig through a bunch of different sources.
What work can robots do?
We present a robot exposure index based on how well robots can perform job tasks today.
How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering?
In this paper we find that, under an equal time budget and the same frontier LLM backbone, open-source state-of-the-art harnesses provide no advantages over a single session of a minimal-harness coding agent baseline, pointing to the backbone as the primary driver for performance.
Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
Are minds patterns from a Platonic space, with bodies and machines as their interfaces, Michael Levin asks:
Team Bots: shared AI teammates that learn as they work
Today we’re launching Team Bots, Grok Bots that work and learn alongside your team.
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Enterprises need agents that work well in their own environments.
The State of Chinese Physical AI
Dermot McGrath is an Irish entrepreneur and advisor based in Shanghai with over a decade in China.
Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models
Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision...Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision geometry, joints, and other physics properties before testing robot behavior.
AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
This would be Tesla’s Optimus, an AI-powered humanoid robot that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, believes will be “not just Tesla’s biggest product ever, but probably the biggest product ever,” headed to work on factory floors and, later, in our homes.
The U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI
If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one.
Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled.
These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car.
Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
Industrial AI is entering a new phase.
EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields.
OpenCode 2.0.26 is out, if you need to constantly prompt "Continue" it's not just your bot AFAIK
I upgraded to OpenCode 2.0.26 today, and even with competent bots it seems to hang up where the bot will be like, "Great, I'll implement that.
VideoGame of Thrones: Turing Edition | Akarsh Kumar on Core War
Akarsh Kumar wanted to see what would happen if you used LLMs to evolve small assembly programs that compete against each other.
Generative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared
Last December, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic’s Claude models to help plan two Mars drives for the Perseverance rover, with human planners checking and adjusting the route before upload.
Automations in Perplexity Computer
Automations that remember, act, and keep work moving
FloorGen
Draw the house, or just ask.
Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program
Today’s engineers face an unprecedented acceleration in AI hardware complexity, as explained in the recent research article “Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges.” The article examines the rapid growth of edge AI and the challenges it creates, including resource constraints, model architecture limitations, and network demands across edge-AI deployments.
Museum of Models
Every answer 371 AI models gave to the same questions
VideoLife as it could be | Akarsh Kumar on Artificial Life
Akarsh Kumar on searching for artificial life with foundation models.
Ghost Core
A personal AI computer that runs entirely on-device
A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp
For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support greater independence.
Pickle Sensei
AI pickleball coach for solo training, one swing at a time