Alibaba's model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks

Real environments can't inject edge cases on demand. Alibaba's Qwen-AgentWorld simulates them — and outperformed ...

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its ...

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest ...
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Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500

Training a foundation LLM from scratch costs millions and requires internet-scale data — which is why most enterprises don't bother. Sapient thinks it has a cheaper path. To overcome this brute-force ...
CNN

Blue Origin Rocket Explodes During Ground Test

Today on CNN10: As Atlantic Hurricane season officially kicks off, we'll learn the science behind this year's below-average forecast. Then, we'll get the latest on Blue Origin's investigation into ...
CNN

Taiwan test-fires rockets in China’s direction from US-supplied mobile launching system

Taiwan’s military fired rockets in China’s direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday in a demonstration of how it might try to repel a Chinese attack. While the US-supplied system ...
Scientific American

Bumblebees use tools to solve complex problems—despite not being trained to do so

Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees utilized tools to solve complex problems to win a sugary treat, even if they ...
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Trump Will Ask Supreme Court to Revive $475 Million CNN Suit

President Donald Trump told the US Supreme Court he intends to ask the justices to revive his $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN over use of the term “Big Lie” in reporting on his claim that ...
techtimes

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

DeepReinforce today released Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source coding models built around a mechanism most RL-trained agents avoid: the model itself writes the training harness that guides its own ...
Mediaite

CNN Medical Expert Trolls Trump for Claiming ‘Cognitive Test’ Shows ‘Extreme Intelligence’: ‘It’s a Dementia Screening Tool’

Dr. Jonathan Reiner trolled Donald Trump on Sunday after the president once again bragged that the “cognitive test” he has taken four times showed “extreme intelligence.” In a late-night Truth Social ...
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CNN Medical Expert Trolls Trump for Claiming ‘Cognitive Test’ Shows ‘Extreme Intelligence’: ‘It’s a Dementia Screening Tool’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Jonathan Reiner trolled Donald Trump on Sunday after the president once again bragged that the “cognitive test” he has taken ...
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Bumblebees use tools to solve complex problems—despite not being trained to do so

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees ...