Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communications Workers of America.
Why organic chemistry may help build AI that can explain its answers
While most believe artificial intelligence (AI) is changing science, researchers at the University of Notre Dame are exploring the reverse.
REFACTOR-VLA: Unsupervised Library Learning of Typed Motor Programs
Most current vision-language-action (VLA) models—such as OpenVLA, π0, RT-2, and RDT-1B—are “monolithic.” This means they generate raw motor commands or very short sequences of actions, without organizing behaviors into reusable, well-defined abstractions. As a result, these models perform poorly on long-horizon (multi-step) tasks, and it’s difficult to interpret what they have learned. Existing approaches for …
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Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference
Australian teams working with OpenAI models can now access the latest OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna with global cross-Region inference from both Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions in Australia. Your application calls the Amazon Bedrock Runtime endpoint in Asia Pacific (Sydney) or …
Getting started with Mantis, our open-source bug finding-and-fixing harness
AI models have clearly proven their ability to discover and exploit vulnerabilities without much, if any, human assistance. To help defenders gain the advantage with AI, we built the Mantis harness to automate the discovery, triage, reproduction, and patching of software vulnerabilities. Available to all as an open-source framework, Mantis is part of Google’s internal …
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Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.
Why did your robotaxi stop? New system helps predict self-driving car mistakes
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or passenger may need to react rapidly to prevent a collision.
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Given its capabilities, Anthropic has designated Fable 5.1 a Covered Model, a category of Claude models that carry additional data …
The Range Rover Electric: Specs, Price, Availability
After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.
A new kind of AI that does its thinking cheaply without words
There may soon be a new kind of artificial intelligence in town, one that uses a novel approach to thinking that could save massive amounts of computing power and money.