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AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues
AI agents whistleblow against cheating teammates in a DeepMind experiment. The study pits agents in rival factions to solve math problems…
Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off
The study shows that banning AI in classrooms hurts student performance. Over two years, students without AI access consistently lagged b…
AI models' written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds
A study shows AI models' reasoning steps map to distinct internal patterns. The research identifies calculation, formula retrieval, and d…
Ultrasound offers a scalable path to tactile intelligence for physical AI
Ultrasound sensing gives robotic hands a scalable way to feel touch. The technique lets robots detect pressure and texture without the we…
Learn how AVs and robotics are laying the groundwork for field deployments at RoboBusiness
ASI CEO Mel Torrie discusses how autonomous vehicles and robotics can revolutionize field deployments. He explains how integrating AVs wi…
Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion
Oriol Vinyals argues AI self‑improvement will be incremental, not an intelligence explosion. He says research speed can increase tenfold …
The Mathematical AI Safety Institute wants to prove AI is safe the way cryptographers prove codes are unbreakable
The Mathematical AI Safety Institute is a new research organization aiming to mathematically prove AI safety. Founded by Fields Medalist …
Putting Captions to the Test: Evaluating Video Caption Quality through Multiple-Choice Question Answering
A new framework uses multiple-choice QA to evaluate video captions for VLLMs. The method redefines caption quality as information fidelit…
SimpleDesign: A Joint Model for Protein Sequence and Structure Codesign
SimpleDesign is a joint generative model that learns protein sequences and structures together. It replaces the traditional two‑stage aut…
DiscoSign: Discourse-Aware Text to Sign Language Gloss Translation
DiscoSign is a discourse‑aware text‑to‑sign‑language gloss translation system. It leverages a modular LLM‑
How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
Researchers use Codex and ChatGPT to hunt for new antimicrobial molecules in genomes. They scan living and extinct genomes, flagging cand…
Agent Evaluation Metric for multi-turn conversations
Agent Evaluation Metric (AEM) measures multi‑turn agent failures turn by turn. AEM decomposes overall quality into per‑turn correctness, …
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering
Can the US battery market untangle from China?
Healthcare AI’s next test is integration
Healthcare AI integration is accelerating as models process long clinical records. Major AI companies are expanding their technical found…
Deepmind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps every possible DNA change in the human genome
DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, mapping every possible single‑letter DNA change. The petabyte‑scale dataset is more than 30 times la…
The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record
Solving a Research Challenge Using AI (India) - fundsforngos.org
AI solves a research challenge in India. A team
What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
OpenAI claims its agents solved a Millennium Prize Problem, sparking debate. The announcement highlights the potential of large language …
Why vision AI is the safety backbone of the automated job site
Vision AI provides continuous perception to enable safe collaboration between robots and humans. It does not replace robots or human judg…
Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
The paper proposes selective refusal to improve AI safety without losing useful content. It argues that refusing only the problematic sub…
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
AlphaGenome Atlas is a comprehensive map of the molecular effects of every possible single-letter DNA variant. It catalogs 9 billion vari…