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Researchers from Meta AI and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have introduced Neural Computers (NCs) — a proposed machine form in which a neural network itself acts as the running computer, rather than as a layer sitting on top of one. The research team presents both a theoretical framework and two
In this tutorial, we walk through MolmoAct step by step and build a practical understanding of how action-reasoning models can reason in space from visual observations. We set up the environment, load the model, prepare multi-view image inputs, and explore how MolmoAct produces depth-aware reasoning, visual traces, and actionable robot outputs from natural language instructions.
In both Republican and Democratic states, scepticism and hostility towards an unregulated construction boom is growingWhen blue-collar Trump voters and Maga-friendly midwest states join the same cause as Bernie Sanders and liberal California teachers, something novel is afoot. Last month it was the turn of the Republican party in Texas to express forthright opposition to
What’s it like to have a diary that talks back to you, offering comments and advice on your hopes, fears and lunch plans? I spent two months finding outEver since I was a teenager, I have kept some form of diary. These days I favour a paper one for creative brainstorming, and the Journal app
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Just as the industry is set to capitalize on country’s political and economic instability, president accused in $5m schemeThe Argentinian president, Javier Milei, is facing his lowest approval ratings since taking office in 2023 as newly published evidence allegedly reveals a $5m financial agreement connected to his public endorsement last year of a controversial crypto
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week’s question: what would the world look like if people didn’t make mistakes?I always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? I am sure it doesn’t care.
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TikTok users increasingly say the app has steered them toward diagnosing medical problems not yet identifiedMalina Lee, a 31-year-old wedding baker based in San Antonio, Texas, joined TikTok during the Covid pandemic lockdowns in 2020. Like many people at the time, she was bored and began using the platform to pass the time and advertise
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New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with itIn 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has nicknamed its excretions “slop”. The CEOs of AI companies prance about on stage like supervillains, bragging that their products will eliminate vast swathes of work. Generative AI
The aggressive effort by major players aims to reshape the narrative as polls show increasing public disapproval of AIOpenAI made a surprise announcement this week – not an update to ChatGPT or another multibillion-dollar datacenter – but a policy paper that called for a reimagining of the social contract based around “a slate of people-first
MiniMax has officially open-sourced MiniMax M2.7, making the model weights publicly available on Hugging Face. Originally announced on March 18, 2026, MiniMax M2.7 is the MiniMax’s most capable open-source model to date — and its first model to actively participate in its own development cycle, a meaningful shift in how large language models are built
