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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 finanzia un dottorato per scoprire se l'AI può convertire milioni di righe di C in Rust

È un progetto di ricerca di tre anni, non un'invasione di bot. La società madre di Ubuntu vuole prove concrete prima di toccare il suo codice.

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L'IA aiuta i laboratori robotici a progettare nuovi farmaci e materiali più velocemente che mai

Le biofonderie automatizzate, laboratori in cui i robot eseguono il lavoro di ricerca, stanno ricevendo un aggiornamento alimentato dall'IA. Ecco cosa significa per la scoperta di farmaci e la salute quotidiana.

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Un minuscolo agente AI di una startup londinese ha battuto Anthropic e OpenAI nella lettura di articoli scientifici

Inherent, fondata da quattro veterani di Google DeepMind, afferma che il suo agente Faraday ha superato modelli molto più grandi di Anthropic e OpenAI su un benchmark scientifico fondamentale, nonostante funzioni su un modello circa un decimo delle loro dimensioni.

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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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La startup di fusione riduce la produzione di pellet di carburante da giorni a minuti

Inertia Enterprises sostiene di poter ora realizzare le minuscole capsule di carburante al cuore della sua centrale di fusione nucleare in due o tre ore, rispetto a una settimana o più. L'accelerazione risolve silenziosamente uno dei problemi di produzione più difficili che si frappongono tra l'energia da fusione e la rete elettrica.

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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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La scansione cerebrale diventa intelligente: cosa significa una nuova tecnica di IA per la neuroscienza

I ricercatori hanno sviluppato un metodo che trova modelli nascosti nei segnali cerebrali di più persone contemporaneamente, anche quando i dati cerebrali di ciascuna persona appaiono leggermente diversi.

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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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