New Proposed Legislation Would Let Self-Driving Cars Operate in New York State

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New York governor Kathy Hochul says she will propose a new law allowing limited autonomous vehicle pilots in smaller cities.…

From brain scans to alloys: Teaching AI to make sense of complex research data

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to analyze medical images, materials data and scientific measurements, but many systems struggle when…

MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer

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Unified multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) that can both understand and generate visual content hold immense potential. However, existing open-source…

16 Best Heat Protectant Sprays for Wet and Dry Hair (2026)

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I've spent almost a year testing dozens of heat protectants for hair. Whether you’re blow-drying, curling, or straightening, these are…

Best Deals for New Year’s Resolutions: Sleep, Fitness, and More (2026)

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Whether you’re hitting the gym or tracking your schedule, these discounts on WIRED-approved gear can help.

AdaBoN: Adaptive Best-of-N Alignment

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Recent advances in test-time alignment methods, such as Best-of-N sampling, offer a simple and effective way to steer language models…

Crossmodal search with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings

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Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings processes text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model architecture. Available through Amazon Bedrock,…

OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

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To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it…

Stanford’s AI spots hidden disease warnings that show up while you sleep

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Stanford researchers have developed an AI that can predict future disease risk using data from just one night of sleep.…

Discrete spatial diffusion models data while obeying scientific principles

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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new approach that addresses the limitations of generative AI models. Unlike…