Ultra-Reduced-Impact-Encased-Logging (URIEL): propose a new method for selective sustainable logging and post-harvest silvicultural treatment in tropical forest using airborne robotics systems
arXiv:2605.28883v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tropical forests worldwide are under intense deforestation pressure driven by economic and political interests, and scientific evidence suggests this deforestation contributes to climate change. This paper proposes a novel logging method for tropical ...
AI Weekly Issue #497: Anthropic and OpenAI are taking over governments
This was the week the frontier labs stopped being vendors. OpenAI now runs inside US biodefense and Japan's three biggest banks, and it just mapped its own safety rules to EU and California AI law. Meanwhile China unveiled an LLM that automates satellite targeting. Workforce policy is splintering: C...
AI Weekly Issue #497: AI's labor war just went global
This was the week the AI-and-work conflict broke into the open simultaneously across four jurisdictions. Wikipedia editors are organizing a strike over Wikimedia layoffs. Amazon employees gamed its internal AI ranking into uselessness. Chinese courts began enforcing a framework that bars AI-justifie...
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An On-Device MoE Model With 8.3B Total and 1.5B Active Parameters
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-8B-A1B activates 1.5B of 8.3B parameters, offering 128K context, reasoning, and tool calling on consumer hardware.
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Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Alongside Dynamic Workflows and Cheaper Fast Mode, With Workflows Capped at 1,000 Subagents
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 brings dynamic workflows and cheaper fast mode to Claude Code, now in research preview
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As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.
EmoNet: Speaker-Aware Transformers for Emotion Recognition — and What I’d Build Differently in 2026
A retrospective on my MS thesis, the leaderboard it placed on, and the LLM shift that has reshaped the field since.
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Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data
Data Formulator introduces AI-powered analytics for enterprise data workflows. Data teams can easily bring enterprise data into an AI-ready workspace where users can explore, analyze, and visualize data with AI agents to turn raw data into actionable insights.
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Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
Sesame’s new iOS app brings its conversational AI agents to the public, offering more natural back-and-forth interactions designed to feel less like traditional chatbots and more like talking to a person.
The Infrastructure Behind Making Local LLM Agents Actually Useful
Lessons from building a fast, reliable scientific agent with local open-weight models, vLLM, and long-context infrastructure
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NVIDIA Research Advances Robotics From Simulation to the Real World
Robotics is entering a new phase: moving from controlled demos and scripted automation toward generalizable, reliable embodied autonomy in the real world. At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), eight of NVIDIA Research’s 28 accepted papers show how simulation-to-real tra...
The Name’s Gaming … Cloud Gaming: ‘007 First Light’ Launches on GeForce NOW
License to stream, shaken and stirred. GeForce NOW is dialing up the espionage with the launch of 007 First Light, letting members slip into James Bond’s reimagined origin story from almost any device — no tux or preloads required. For a limited time, the game is included with the purchase of a 12‑...
DiffuJudge-AV: A Diffusion-Inspired Framework for Calibrated AV Video Evaluation
A diffusion-inspired framework for stress-testing and denoising LLM-as-a-Judge pipelines, applied to safety-critical driving video.
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Your AI Agent Already Forgot Half of What You Told It
This is the seventh article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, part five here, and part six here. This is the latest article in my Radar series on AI-driven development and agentic engineering, and I have ...