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Speech AI Gets Its First Major Hindi Benchmark, and It Measures Who Gets Left Behind

A new evaluation dataset called Monsoon puts Hindi and Indian English on the global leaderboard for the first time, with nearly 5,000 speakers and data designed to expose the gaps that single-score tests hide.

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Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories

A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.

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AI and drones are decoding whale calls. What they're finding could change how we think about animal culture.

Researchers are using artificial intelligence to crack the complex language of beluga whales. The findings hint that these animals pass down knowledge and traditions, much like we do.

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Apple's New AI Tool Turns a Single Photo Into a Fully Lit 3D Object

A research system called Luce can convert one image into a 3D model complete with realistic materials, ready to be dropped into games, product pages, or films.

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A New Tool Lets Researchers See Inside AI Models, Not Just Watch What They Do

AI lab Goodfire has opened its Silico platform to the public, giving researchers the ability to peek inside a model's workings and ask why it behaves the way it does.

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Canonical financia un doctorado para descubrir si la IA puede convertir millones de líneas de C en Rust

Es un proyecto de investigación de tres años, no un ataque de bots. La empresa matriz de Ubuntu quiere pruebas reales antes de tocar su base de código.

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La IA ayuda a laboratorios robóticos a diseñar nuevos medicamentos y materiales más rápido que nunca

Las biofábricas automatizadas, laboratorios donde los robots realizan el trabajo de investigación, están recibiendo una actualización de IA. Esto es lo que significa para el descubrimiento de fármacos y la salud cotidiana.

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Un diminuto agente de IA de una startup de Londres superó a Anthropic y OpenAI en lectura de artículos científicos

Inherent, fundada por cuatro veteranos de Google DeepMind, afirma que su agente Faraday superó a modelos mucho más grandes de Anthropic y OpenAI en un punto de referencia clave de ciencia, a pesar de ejecutarse en un modelo aproximadamente una décima parte de su tamaño.

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Starcloud raises $250 million to build AI data centres in space

The satellite startup is now valued at $2.3 billion and is betting that SpaceX's next-generation rocket will make processing data in orbit genuinely competitive with servers on the ground.

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A £5 Million AI Trial Wants to Stop Planes Drawing Heat-Trapping Lines Across the Sky

Google, the UK government and air traffic controllers are teaming up to test whether artificial intelligence can predict where contrails form, then quietly steer planes around them.

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Startup de fusión reduce la producción de pastillas de combustible de días a minutos

Inertia Enterprises afirma que ahora puede fabricar las diminutas cápsulas de combustible en el corazón de su planta de energía de fusión nuclear en dos o tres horas, en lugar de una semana o más. Este aumento de velocidad resuelve discretamente uno de los problemas de fabricación más difíciles que se interponen entre la energía de fusión y la red eléctrica.

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AI Cracked Ten Hard Maths Problems in One Summer. Now Mathematicians Are Fighting Back.

OpenAI's models solved open problems that stumped humans for decades. The world's most celebrated mathematician says the field has until the end of 2025 to decide who controls its future.

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A Faster Way to Solve One of AI's Hardest Maths Problems

Researchers from Apple ML Research have found a shortcut through a calculation that slows down high-dimensional AI comparisons, making a useful technique practical for the first time at scale.

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El escaneo cerebral es más inteligente: qué significa una nueva técnica de IA para la neurociencia

Investigadores han desarrollado un método que encuentra patrones ocultos en señales cerebrales de múltiples personas simultáneamente, incluso cuando los datos cerebrales de cada persona se ven ligeramente diferentes.

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AI can run the experiments, but it cannot do the science

A Princeton-led study gave an AI agent six days, a $3,000 budget, and two unsolved research questions. The papers it produced were rejected. Here is what that tells us about self-improving AI.

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