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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 ...
Tech Xplore

AI and physics draw a blueprint for better hydrogen storage materials

Hydrogen can become a clever way to store renewable energy and power fuel cells—but this introduces the problem of what can ...

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Prestigious journal Nature has published a peer-reviewed critique of Microsoft's claims to have made quantum computing ...

All the world’s a robot-staging ground for tech entrepreneurs building ‘physical AI’

Smarter robots aren’t the only end game for world models. Castricato started Overworld last year and the tiny Rhode ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
Tech Times

Embodied AI World Models Attracted $6 Billion, But the LLM Parallel May Not Hold

Embodied AI world models drew $6 billion in Q1 2026 alone, but new analysis from Fusion Fund investors argues the LLM scaling ...

Astrochemical model digs into the universe's missing sulfur

Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. If you peer into a diffuse interstellar cloud, you find loads of it—about the amount expected based on fusion patterns in the stars it was ...

How Can Soccer Players Bend Their Shots in Midair?

With the talent on tap, World Cup 2026 is sure to serve up plenty of jaw-dropping kicks, like a ball that curves in midair to ...

AI Learned How the Universe Works—and That Created an Unexpected Problem for Physicists

In a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, cosmologists trained an AI neural network on simulations of ΛCDM—the standard model of cosmology ...
Ars Technica

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

Here we go again. Get used to it, folks. This is part of the new business model... has little to do with the model being somehow amazingly more powerful than whichever ones came immediately before it.