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How to Build a Lightweight Vision-Language-Action-Inspired Embodied Agent with Latent World Modeling and Model Predictive Control

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In this tutorial, we build an embodied simulation vision agent that learns to perceive, plan, predict, and replan directly from pixel observations. We create a fully NumPy-rendered grid world in which the agent observes RGB frames rather than symbolic state variables, enabling us to simulate a simplified Vision-Language-Action-style pipeline. We train a lightweight world model […]

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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

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Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortagesJapan’s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff at Tokyo’s Haneda airport – although their new colleagues will need to take regular recharging breaks.Japan Airlines will introduce

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Meet Talkie-1930: A 13B Open-Weight LLM Trained on Pre-1931 English Text for Historical Reasoning and Generalization Research

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What if a language model had never heard of the internet, smartphones, or even World War II? That’s not a hypothetical — it’s exactly what a team of researchers led by Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford has built. They call it talkie, and it may be the most historically disciplined large language model

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Build a Reinforcement Learning Powered Agent that Learns to Retrieve Relevant Long-Term Memories for Accurate LLM Question Answering

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In this tutorial, we build a Reinforcement Learning–driven agent that learns how to retrieve relevant memories from a long-term memory bank. We start by constructing a synthetic memory dataset and generating queries that require the agent to recall specific information. Using OpenAI embeddings, we convert both memories and queries into vector representations, enabling similarity signals

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OpenMOSS Releases MOSS-Audio: An Open-Source Foundation Model for Speech, Sound, Music, and Time-Aware Audio Reasoning

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Understanding what’s happening in an audio clip is a deceptively hard problem. Transcribing spoken words is the easy part. A truly capable system also needs to recognize who is speaking, detect their emotional state, interpret background sounds, analyze musical content, and answer time-grounded questions like ‘what did the speaker say at the 2-minute mark?’. Tackling

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Taylor Swift files trademarks for voice and image amid concern over AI misuse

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The singer’s company filed three applications on Friday after Matthew McConaughey launched similar strategyTaylor Swift has filed applications to trademark her voice and image in a move seemingly designed to protect against AI misuse.On 24 April, Swift’s company TAS Rights Management filed three trademark applications, Variety reports. Two of these are sound trademarks which cover

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How AI job scams are destroying people’s hopes | Letters

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Sasha Cooklin, Darryl Dixon and Niall Leonard respond to an article by Victoria Turk about the boom in AI-driven fraud in recruitmentArtificial intelligence isn’t just being used by scammers to promise fake roles and trick job-seekers, it is becoming increasingly prevalent in responses and screening processes for real jobs (AI job scams are booming –

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If it’s only AI that’s keeping you up at night, maybe you’re doing OK | Letters

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Poverty is far more pressing for many people, writes Lynsey Hanley. Plus letters from Martin Pitt and Michael BulleyReading Alexander Hurst’s column on the frictionless experience of life promised – or threatened – by AI algorithms, I was struck by how little I recognised the picture he painted of daily experience being stripped of the

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Sadiq Khan may try to stop Scotland Yard signing Palantir contract

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Exclusive: Mayor raises concerns about using public money to support firms who act ‘contrary to London’s values’The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan may oppose Scotland Yard using Palantir’s AI systems to process criminal intelligence because of his “concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values”.The mayor of London’s office

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China blocks $2bn Meta takeover of AI agent developer Manus

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Beijing says domestic tech companies must seek explicit government approval for accepting US investmentBusiness live – latest updatesChina has blocked Meta’s $2bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of an AI startup as it cracks down on US investments in domestic tech companies.Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced the acquisition of Manus, a developer

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