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A new preprint describes a foundation model designed specifically for survival analysis — the statistical task of predicting when an event (
A team from NVIDIA has published a detailed recipe for a relatively new stage in large-model development called “midtraining,” and shown tha
A team of four coding agents built on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon model autonomously beat Minecraft’s Ender Dragon after a day of coordinated pr
Robots that handle objects today tend to rely on their hands or simple end-effectors. Humans, by contrast, routinely press, brace and slide
A new preprint describes a foundation model designed specifically for survival analysis — the statistical task of predicting when an event (
A team from NVIDIA has published a detailed recipe for a relatively new stage in large-model development called “midtraining,” and shown tha
A new benchmark study finds that the latest probabilistic AI weather models can improve where they think tropical cyclones will go, even whi
Researchers have proposed a new computational model that teases apart three features that make online disinformation cascades different from
A team from NVIDIA has published a detailed recipe for a relatively new stage in large-model development called “midtraining,” and shown tha
A new paper sharpens the connection between combinatorics and deep categorical invariants of toric varieties, giving concrete, checkable cri
A team of four coding agents built on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon model autonomously beat Minecraft’s Ender Dragon after a day of coordinated pr
A team of number theorists has taken a significant step toward understanding how certain subtle arithmetic invariants change as one moves th
Robots that handle objects today tend to rely on their hands or simple end-effectors. Humans, by contrast, routinely press, brace and slide
Wireless signals that carry phone calls and data may also carry detailed hints about the layout of the world they move through — reflections
A new preprint (arXiv:2610.21902v1) paints a careful picture of a surprising weakness in current multimodal large language models (MLLMs): l
A team of researchers reports a modular system that uses vision and a small onboard language model to give unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) c
A new review (arXiv:2610.22202v1) walks through how long, thin “stellar streams” — the debris of star clusters and small galaxies torn apart
Robots that handle objects today tend to rely on their hands or simple end-effectors. Humans, by contrast, routinely press, brace and slide
In September 2026 the U.S. Department of War released a heavily redacted infrared (IR) video recorded from a military aircraft over the Midd