Evolving AI may arrive before AGI and create hard-to-control risks

Evolutionary biology holds clues for the future of AI, argue researchers from the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Eötvös Loránd University, and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. In a new Perspective published April 20 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team warn that evolvable AI (eAI) …

Local Mechanisms of Compositional Generalization in Conditional Diffusion

Conditional diffusion models appear capable of compositional generalization, i.e., generating convincing samples for out-of-distribution combinations of conditioners, but the mechanisms underlying this ability remain unclear. To make this concrete, we study length generalization, the ability to generate images with more objects than seen during training. In a controlled CLEVR setting (Johnson et al.,2017), we find …

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Connecting Agents to Decisions

The Palantir Ontology Palantir’s software powers real-time, human-agent decision-making in many of the most critical commercial and government contexts around the world. From disaster response to nuclear energy production, our customers depend on Palantir AIP to safely, securely, and effectively leverage AI in their enterprises — and drive operational transformation. While many factors contribute to achieving and scaling …

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Migrating a text agent to a voice assistant with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Migrating a text agent to a voice assistant is increasingly important because users expect faster, more natural interactions. Instead of typing, customers want to speak and understand in real time. Industries like finance, healthcare, education, social media, and retail are exploring solutions with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic to enable natural, real-time speech interactions at scale. …

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50+ fully managed MCP servers now available for Google Cloud services

At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced that more than 50 Google-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are generally available or in preview, with more on the way. Why it matters: To move beyond experimental prototypes, AI agents must be able to access real-world data and solve complex problems autonomously. Google-managed Managed Context Protocol (MCP) …

HappyHorse 1.0, four shot anime sequence with character consistency across cuts

Multi shot consistency was the test I cared about. Same girl across four cuts in different locations and lighting, with each shot using a different framing convention (long shot in the tide at dusk, side close up at a train window, rear tracking down a slope at sunset, environmental wide of a summer seaside station). …