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Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State
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Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State

Geometry is invariant to viewpoint, which makes any collection of images a redundant encoding of a single 3D state. Existing feed-forward reconstruction models …

Understanding Truncated Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks
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Understanding Truncated Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks

Positional encodings (PEs) enhance the power of graph neural networks (GNNs), both theoretically and empirically. Two of the most popular families of PEs - spec…

Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation
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Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation

Text-to-image (T2I) models contain rich spatial priors. Synthesizing photorealistic, cluttered scenes requires an understanding of geometry, including perspecti…

InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation
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InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

Recent image generators have demonstrated impressive photorealism and instruction-following capabilities in single-image generation and editing. However, constr…

EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments
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EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments

Large language model (LLM) agents have achieved strong performance on a wide range of benchmarks, yet most evaluations assume static environments. In contrast, …

Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
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Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.…

Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
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Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.…

Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Skills let you encode domain-specific procedures as reusable, portable instructions for agents, but a fluent answer doesn't prove the agent picked the right ski…

OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
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OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.…

NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories
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NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories

Every AI factory needs power and cooling that fit its computing architecture. As AI infrastructure expands, power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints are…

How Benchling secured multi-tenant AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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How Benchling secured multi-tenant AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how Benchling built a defense-in-depth security architecture to run untrusted, AI agent-generated scientific code across thousands of life sciences tenant…

Grok 4.7 is now available in GitHub Copilot
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Grok 4.7 is now available in GitHub Copilot

Grok 4.7, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on Grok 4.6, it is designed for agentic coding and complex, multist…

Novartis’s Christian Diehl on scaling AI beyond the demo
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Novartis’s Christian Diehl on scaling AI beyond the demo

Novartis’s chief data and digital officer for biomedical research explains how data platform investments are paying off in AI safety prediction, generative chem…

Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer
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Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer

Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. By 2035, ABI Research projects an installed base of 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehic…

Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Save up to $200 before Sept…

5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy
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5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy

Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, e…

AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation
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AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.…

H3 Max: Built with fal Inference and Training
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H3 Max: Built with fal Inference and Training

H3 Max generates a 5-second video in under 3 seconds. In our human preference evaluations against twelve leading video models, it ranks first on quality, prompt…

Enhancing industrial safety AI with synthetic data on Amazon SageMaker AI
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Enhancing industrial safety AI with synthetic data on Amazon SageMaker AI

Learn how to build a synthetic data augmentation pipeline on Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Rekognition that generates photo-realistic, auto-labeled training im…

AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
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AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs

Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The…

Europe’s new AI edge? The emerging application layer opportunity
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Europe’s new AI edge? The emerging application layer opportunity

As enterprises shift from experimenting with models to redesigning workflows, new research suggests Europe could be well-positioned for this new AI application …

Fault tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS using NVRx
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Fault tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS using NVRx

Integrate NVIDIA Resiliency Extension (NVRx) into PyTorch FSDP training on Amazon EKS to overlap checkpoint I/O with training and recover from GPU faults in sec…

How to connect AI usage to business value
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How to connect AI usage to business value

Learn how ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics help teams understand AI usage and spend, identify training needs, and connect adoption to business outcomes.…

How workers are unlocking new ways of working
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How workers are unlocking new ways of working

New OpenAI Economic Research shows how workers use AI beyond traditional roles and which new activities become recurring parts of their work.…

Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch…

‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce
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‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce

Know everything. Do anything. That was the message NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought to Salesforce Dreamforce Tuesday, joining CEO Marc Benioff onstag…

Announcing instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs
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Announcing instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker A…

Build an AI-powered product tagging system with Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization
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Build an AI-powered product tagging system with Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization

Manually tagging thousands of catalog products is slow and inconsistent. This walkthrough shows how to customize Qwen3-8B with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and …

Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.
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Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.

Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.…

The generative AI customization spectrum: From prompt engineering to custom models on AWS
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The generative AI customization spectrum: From prompt engineering to custom models on AWS

Pick the right generative AI customization approach on AWS with an 8-step decision framework, from prompt engineering and RAG to fine-tuning, continued pre-trai…