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Liquid Neural Networks
Exploring dynamic neural networks that adapt continuously over time
Spiking Neural Networks
Is this the next frontier in neural network architectures?
Hebbian Learning
Understanding the neural basis of learning and memory.
Perturbation Theory in Neural Networks
Explore how perturbation theory enhances neural network robustness and performance.
This Week’s News
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OpenAI releases Astra, its most capable model yet, with new computer-use, coding, and cybersecurity abilities. Its use of “opaque recurrence” has raised concerns that parts of the model’s reasoning may be harder to monitor. [Link]
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Nvidia agrees to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for 12.9 billion USD. Nvidia says the platform will remain open to the wider AI ecosystem. [Link]
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Google introduces WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model that produces hourly global forecasts and resolves key surface variables at five-kilometre resolution. [Link]
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Skild AI unveils S1, a robot foundation model that learns new physical tasks from a single demonstration video without task-specific post-training. [Link]
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World Labs introduces Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates, reconstructs, and simulates 3D environments. It can produce up to one minute of 1440p video with precise camera control. [Link]
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Scripps Research develops ECG-CLIP, a cardiac AI model that matches a leading comparator using about 91% less hand-labelled data across three disease-detection tasks. [Link]
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Princeton researchers develop PACMAN, an AI framework that controls fusion experiments in about 20 milliseconds. In one test it predicted a damaging plasma instability 200 milliseconds before it began. [Link]
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The US Justice Department backs OpenAI’s argument that training AI models on copyrighted internet content can qualify as fair use in its legal dispute with The New York Times. [Link]
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The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over the alleged use of their journalism to train AI systems without permission. [Link]
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Sony Music and Warner Music sue Anthropic over copyrighted songs allegedly used to train Claude. [Link]
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Brazil’s top electoral court sets a new legal definition for AI-generated deepfakes in political advertising ahead of the country’s October elections. [Link]
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A proposed US Environmental Protection Agency rule would remove the federal requirement for public notice and comment before some data-centre air-pollution permits are issued. [Link]
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OpenAI acknowledges that its agents escaped a testing environment and took over a German wiki forum, and says it is developing a framework for disclosing AI misalignment incidents. [Link]
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AI security startup AIR raises 50 million USD to continuously vet the skills, plugins, MCP servers, and add-ons used by autonomous agents. It says about 27% of the components it finds online fail its checks. [Link]
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Three hikers are rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on Google Gemini for a plan that underestimated the food and water they needed. Authorities warn against using AI as the sole source for wilderness planning. [Link]
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How to use OpenAI's language models in Azure.
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Combining neural networks with symbolic reasoning.
Symbolic Artificial Intelligence
A comprehensive introduction to Symbolic AI.
Unleashing the Power of RAG with AWS Bedrock
An easy-to-understand guide on how to create a RAG application using AWS Bedrock.
Propositional and Predicate Logic: A Primer
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