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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Canonical está a financiar um doutoramento para descobrir se a IA consegue converter milhões de linhas de C em Rust
É um projeto de investigação de três anos, não um ataque de bot. A empresa-mãe do Ubuntu quer provas concretas antes de tocar na sua base de código.
A IA está a ajudar laboratórios de robótica a desenhar novos medicamentos e materiais mais rapidamente do que nunca
As biofábricas automatizadas, laboratórios onde os robôs realizam o trabalho experimental, estão a receber uma atualização de IA. Eis o que isto significa para a descoberta de fármacos e a saúde geral.
Um minúsculo agente de IA de uma startup londrina acaba de bater Anthropic e OpenAI na leitura de artigos científicos
Inherent, fundada por quatro veteranos do Google DeepMind, diz que o seu agente Faraday superou modelos muito maiores da Anthropic e OpenAI num benchmark científico crucial, apesar de funcionar com um modelo aproximadamente um décimo do tamanho deles.
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.
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.
Startup de fusão reduz produção de peletes de combustível de dias para minutos
A Inertia Enterprises afirma que consegue agora fabricar as minúsculas cápsulas de combustível no coração da sua central de energia de fusão nuclear em duas a três horas, em comparação com uma semana ou mais. Esta aceleração resolve discretamente um dos problemas de fabrico mais difíceis que separam a energia de fusão da rede elétrica.
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.
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.
Análise cerebral mais inteligente: o que uma nova técnica de IA significa para a neurociência
Investigadores desenvolveram um método que identifica padrões ocultos em sinais cerebrais de múltiplas pessoas em simultâneo, mesmo quando os dados cerebrais de cada pessoa parecem ligeiramente diferentes.
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.