AI Nov 12, 2026

Teaching an AI to Imagine Things That Don't Exist

Reinforcement Mixing Learning teaches AI image generators to fuse two concepts—like frog and hog—into one coherent, balanced new object, approximating human conceptual blending.

Sumeya Ibrahim 5 min read

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Opinion Nov 10, 2026

Future tsunamis: Cosmists and Terrans, revisited

The 2026 midterms delivered a blue tsunami driven mostly by the cost of living - but a quieter signal ran underneath it: fear of AI and of the data centers being built to feed it. Hugo de Garis once predicted the defining fight of this century would pit Cosmists, who want to build godlike machine intellects, against Terrans, who want to stop them. i think the election was an early tremor of that split, and that only discussion, negotiation, and concessions on all sides can keep today's votes from hardening into tomorrow's artilect war.

Giulio Prisco 8 min read

AI Nov 10, 2026

AI film helps a grandson honour the pilot grandfather he never met

A Somerset man has used artificial intelligence to make a film about his grandfather, a Lancaster pilot killed over Danish waters in 1942.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read

Robotics Nov 10, 2026

At CoRL, NVIDIA and partners show how robots rehearse delicate work in simulation

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AI Nov 10, 2026

AI agents now write and test robot code in virtual worlds

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Space Nov 10, 2026

Caltech robot builds a structure in space for the first time

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Anthropic thinks its AI might be conscious, and not everyone agrees

Tech leaders are split over whether AI systems could have feelings, a dispute that could reshape safety rules, the law and everyday human freedom.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read

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Long-standing conjecture on the limits of quantum speedups is proven

A research system at Physical Superintelligence, running a non-public Anthropic model, found a machine-checked proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a central open problem in quantum computing.

Nov 9, 2026