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“I Gave Claude a Body”: Inside the Experiment That Put an LLM In An RC Car & Let It Loose In The Woods
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (324+ words) The creator's stated goal, as framed in the video "I Gave Claude a Body," was straightforward: give Claude a body, eyes, and motion, then see what happens when it has to actually deal with the world. The build isn't magic…...
AI chatbot's pesticide advice wipes out 25 acres of Chinese farmer's sesame seedlings
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (423+ words) An AI chatbot's bad farming advice turned costly in Chuzhou, China, where a sesame crop was destroyed less than a day after being sprayed with a machine-generated pesticide mix. The episode serves as a stark reminder that while AI tools can…...
Xanadu and University of Alberta to develop quantum algorithms for cancer
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (73+ words) Yahoo Tech Xanadu Quantum Technologies and the University of Alberta in Canada have formed a research partnership focused on advancing algorithms to treat cancer. The project combines Xanadu's algorithms team and the University of Alberta chemistry professor Alex Brown. "Xanadu…...
Can AI make mathematics more human?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (780+ words) An edited transcript of the interview follows. Manon Bischoff: You spent years studying string theory, a field at the intersection of mathematics and physics. But in 2017 your career pivoted. How did that happen? That year my son was also born....
Evolving Lighter's Technical Architecture, Together
1+ week, 5+ day ago (378+ words) Eigen's done it again. Or the more accurate phrasing is they're "at it again," given the challenge is still underway, but the early results are quite promising, prompting my first statement. On Wednesday they launched their latest autoresearch challenge, geared…...
DeepSeek's new AI model is by far the cheapest of well-known models to run, research firm says
2+ week, 3+ day ago (82+ words) By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among well-known models globally and...
How Alibaba’s New Qwen3.8-Max Stacks Up Against US AI Giants
2+ week, 3+ day ago (324+ words) Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max on Monday with its first published benchmarks, and the model ranked fourth on Arena's Frontend Code leaderboard. Only Claude Opus 5 and Moonshot's Kimi K3 scored higher in the test. The 2.4 trillion-parameter model exits its July preview with 95 billion…...
Unreleased OpenAI model solves decades-old maths problems
2+ week, 3+ day ago (511+ words) An unreleased AI system has solved a series of long-standing maths problems in what experts have described as a "jaw-dropping" breakthrough. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said its new "Astra" system had made 10 mathematical discoveries, including in areas that have…...
Researchers Tried Letting AI Do Science. It Failed
3+ week, 33+ min ago (286+ words) A new study found today's frontier AI agents could complete many of the engineering tasks required for AI research but failed to produce original work worthy of acceptance at a top machine learning conference. In the study, "Can AI agents…...
OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control
3+ week, 3+ day ago (601+ words) For some, the problem is a basic cybersecurity issue: the sandbox failed to contain the model, and Hugging Face's cybersecurity systems failed to keep it out. Those problems can be solved by patching bugs and building more robust control and…...