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Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover
Scientists have identified a Bronze Age pottery tradition as one of the earliest examples of branding, proving humanity’s attraction to reliable commodities…
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Welcome NVIDIA Cosmos 3: The First Open Omni-model for Physical AI Reasoning and Action
Welcome NVIDIA Cosmos 3: The First Open Omni-model for Physical AI Reasoning and Action…
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Text-to-speech TTS moved fast over the past year. The line between synthetic and human…
30 May 2026
Making AI chatbots helpful weakens their ability to simulate human behavior, large-scale study finds
Making AI chatbots helpful weakens their ability to simulate human behavior, large-scale study finds…
30 May 2026
Genesis AI Releases Nyx, Quadrants, and Genesis World 1.0 Physics Platform for Scalable Robotics Foundation Model Evaluation
Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0. The platform consists of four components: the Genesis…
30 May 2026
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 as a “modest but tangible improvement” that tops GPT-5.5 in most benchmarks
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 as a “modest but tangible improvement” that tops GPT-5.5…
28 May 2026
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false
If you tell an 8-year-old a lie, then immediately tell them you were just…
28 May 2026
monome at 20: memories of the grid, in pictures
Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their monome company…
27 May 2026
Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.5 pulls even with Google’s Nano Banana 2 on benchmarks
Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.5 pulls even with Google’s Nano Banana 2 on benchmarks Microsoft shipped an…
27 May 2026
ITBench-AA: Frontier Models Score Below 50% on the First Benchmark for Agentic Enterprise IT Tasks, by Artificial Analysis and IBM
ITBench-AA: Frontier Models Score Below 50% on the First Benchmark for Agentic Enterprise IT…
27 May 2026

