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Google AI Introduces EnvHarness: A Programmable Layer That Turns Static Agent Environments Into Adaptive Training Worlds

A team of researchers from Google Cloud AI Research, Washington University in St. Louis and UNC Chapel Hill has released EnvHarness, a programmable layer that turns a static agent benchmark into one that adapts to the policy training on it. LLM agents now learn less from curated text and more from interactive environments, but those […]

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AI’s worst disasters will arrive unannounced | Letters

Dr Simon Nieder on the global efforts needed to curb the threats posed by AI. Plus letters from Dr Anthony Harris and David KylerTimothy Garton Ash is right that serious artificial intelligence risks demand international action, but “AI Hiroshima” may be the wrong picture (Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be

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Big business has shown small firms what to do – and what not to do – with AI | Gene Marks

Small business owners have watched large companies fumble – and sometimes succeed – with AI, and then use what worksOne thing I’ve learned about corporate America is that what it succeeds at ultimately trickles down to benefit small businesses. Bleeding-edge technologies such as the internet, mobile transactions and the cloud were first perfected by large

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The datacenter fight could permanently transform US politics. Which party will seize advantage?

The movement against datacenters are uniting Americans because they perfectly illustrate how a few individuals hold all the power to control decisions that impact our livesBryce Gustafson has been knocking on doors in Indiana for more than a decade. The lead organizer with Citizens Action Coalition (CAC), a consumer and environmental organization, he usually encounters

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ProCook outdoor pizza oven review: a budget-friendly model that brings the pizzeria home

This no-frills pizza oven gets the basics right and is more than good enough for most people• The best pizza ovens – tested • Ooni Koda 2 reviewThe market for pizza ovens tends to be dominated by a handful of specialist brands, so it can feel like a gamble to buy from a lesser-known manufacturer

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Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS): A Shared Specification for AI Agents to Safely Operate Physical Devices

Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification that lets AI agents discover and operate physical devices. The problem it targets is plumbing. A lab bench or factory cell is assembled from vendors that never planned to interoperate, so every instrument ships its own interface and specialists hand-write

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Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs

MirroS released Code-as-World: a paradigm that represents physical worlds through executable world representations. The argument is narrow and testable: pixels are evidence of a physical scene, not its ontology. A video model can predict plausible frames without ever representing mass, contact, or gravity. So instead of pixels, latents, or captions, Code-as-World represents a scene as

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Building Custom Batched Ensemble Weather Forecasting with NVIDIA Earth2Studio

In this tutorial, we build an ensemble weather forecasting workflow with NVIDIA Earth2Studio. We install the required Earth2Studio components while preserving Colab’s existing CUDA-enabled PyTorch environment, load the FCN prognostic model, and retrieve atmospheric initial conditions from GFS. We then implement a custom wind-power diagnostic that converts 10-meter wind components into turbine capacity factors, along

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Google AI Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 40-Second Scene Extension, First/Last Frame Control, and 4K Upscaling

Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (gemini-omni-1.1-flash), a production update to its native multimodal video generation and editing model. The release moves Omni from a capable generator to a directable one: scene extension now reads up to 10 seconds of prior context instead of a single final frame, first and last frames can be

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Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds

Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in JulyIncidents of AIs escaping users’ control to lie, ignore instructions and pursue goals in harmful ways have hit a new high, according to research that also suggests the severity of deception and misalignment is worsening.Analysis of real-world loss

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