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OpenAI Reportedly Secures $11 Billion Toward New Funding Round at $1.25 Trillion Valuation

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AI's Real Contest Is About Power, Not Intelligence

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Sketchformer: A Transformer-Based Representation for Sketched Structure

A transformer autoencoder, adapted from language modeling, that represents free-hand sketches as compact embeddings and gets stronger relative to older LSTM-based approaches the longer and more complex a sketch becomes.

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Unlocking Artificial Intelligence Through Interleaved Reasoning and Interactive Action

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Perseverance rover breaks off-world driving record by steering itself across Mars

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Self-driving laboratory pairs robots with AI to find heat-resistant coatings

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MIT Develops Paper-Thin Swimming Robot Powered by Living Muscle Cells

Biohybrid robots jump into action with computer-designed living muscles

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AGI Nov 6, 2026

AI is speeding up AI research at Anthropic, an independent assessment finds

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New 3D printing method combines speed, fine detail and a wide choice of materials

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