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Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature
Google has launched Playground, a browser-based platform allowing adults in the US to build games using only text prompts without any coding…
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Researchers stretch LeCun’s JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology
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24 Aug 2026
Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo
Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical…
24 Aug 2026
AI could make scientists do more work less well, not less work better, study argues
A new theoretical study warns that artificial intelligence could degrade the quality of scientific…
23 Aug 2026
Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover
Scientists have identified a Bronze Age pottery tradition as one of the earliest examples…
22 Aug 2026
World models that ignore human beliefs predict the wrong actions, new research shows
A new research paper argues that current world models fail because they ignore human…
22 Aug 2026
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia released research on Friday showing that the infrastructure surrounding an AI model matters…
21 Aug 2026
Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks
Deepseek has launched V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model that integrates image understanding into its…
21 Aug 2026