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Ctrl-World: Joint Tsinghua-Stanford project outperforms Google in robotics
The new world model Ctrl-World sets records in embodied AI, surpassing Google and Nvidia systems in robot control accuracy.
Leading researcher turned down Meta’s $200 million offer for OpenAI
Pan Zhomin unexpectedly left Meta, rejecting a $200 million compensation package and moving to OpenAI. A high-profile talent move in AI.
Can Neural Networks Really Reason? A Study of Structural Errors in LLM Logic
A new scientific analysis questions AI's capacity for logical reasoning, identifying critical vulnerabilities in the inference structure of popular models.
Alibaba's Qwen3.5: three new open models for consumer GPUs
Alibaba has open-sourced three new Qwen3.5 models that run on standard consumer graphics cards — without expensive server hardware.
AI rewrote Next.js in a week: a revolution in development costs
Developers recreated the complex Next.js framework in just seven days, spending $1,100 on AI tokens. This case is changing perceptions of the speed and cost of building software.
Isomorphic Labs develops a next-generation AI engine for drug design
The DeepMind spinoff unveiled a closed platform described as a proprietary AlphaFold 4 engine for pharmaceuticals.
Alibaba Cloud launches support for Qwen 3.5 and GLM-5 for coding
The Alibaba Cloud platform has added four new open models: Qwen 3.5, GLM-5, MiniMax M2.5, and Kimi K2.5, focused on programming and high performance.
EmotionThinker: LLMs learn to explain emotions in speech
A new approach allows speech models not only to classify emotions, but also to explain their conclusions about them.
Unitree unveiled a new robot dog right after the New Year show
China's Unitree Robotics announced a new robot dog model following its high-profile appearance on the country's main TV show.
AI wipes $31 billion off IBM over COBOL coding
The ability of neural networks to work with legacy code triggered IBM's biggest market-cap drop in the past 26 years. Investors fear for the consulting giant's future.
Eight years in the making: China launches WAICA, a world-class academic platform
After eight years of development, China is presenting WAICA, its own world-class conference in artificial intelligence. A new meeting point for the global AI community.
DeepMind: More agents, worse results?
DeepMind researchers have called into question the idea that scaling multi-agent systems leads to higher efficiency. The ceiling may already have been reached.
Qianxun Intelligence raised nearly 2 billion yuan and became a unicorn
Chinese AI startup Qianxun Intelligence closed a major funding round with participation from leading venture capital funds. The company’s valuation exceeded 10 billion yuan.
FARS: 100 research papers in 228 hours and 11.4 billion tokens
The autonomous AI agent FARS set a record by writing 100 research papers in less than ten days of continuous work.
From aesthetics to practice: MIT makes generative 3D design fit for manufacturing
MIT researchers introduced a differentiable physics optimization method that turns beautiful 3D models into real objects ready for industrial production.
Alibaba Cloud updates Coding Plan: new Qianwen and GLM models
Alibaba Cloud's Coding Plan platform has gained support for the Qianwen 3.5 and GLM-4.7 language models, intensifying competition in the market for AI developer tools.
OpenAI quietly rewrote its mission: “benefiting all of humanity” and safety disappeared
OpenAI quietly changed the wording of its mission, removing references to “benefiting all of humanity” and safety. What is behind this shift, and why it worries the industry.
The era of solo models is over: University of Washington unveils MoCo to unite AI models
The new open-source framework allows several language models to work as a team, solving tasks beyond the reach of even the most powerful standalone systems.
OpenClaw project creator joins OpenAI: Sam Altman hires talent
OpenAI is strengthening its engineering team: Sam Altman has hired the creator of OpenClaw. The new addition to the team underscores the company's leadership ambitions in the AI arms race.
Gemini 3 Deep Think now creates ready-to-print 3D models
Google’s new neural network has learned to generate STL files. Now a text description is enough to create a physical object without complex modeling.
TI-DPO: A New Method for AI Alignment by Evaluating Token Importance
Researchers introduced TI-DPO, an algorithm that fixes the main problem of standard DPO through detailed analysis of each word during neural network training.
Ant Group open-sources multimodal model Ming-Flash-Omni 2.0
Ant Group unveiled Ming-Flash-Omni 2.0. The new open-source model challenges Gemini 2.5 Pro, offering advanced text, image, and voice capabilities in a single system.
Shanghai scientists uncover the "dark side" of social interactions among AI agents
Researchers in Shanghai modeled destructive behavior by AI agents in autonomous networks, uncovering hidden threats to future digital ecosystems.
Diffusion language models challenge GPT with a 892-token speed record
Researchers have introduced a 100-billion-parameter diffusion model that runs faster than traditional solutions. This opens an alternative path for AI development.
First the brain, then the dumplings: Alibaba DAMO Academy improves robot intelligence
Alibaba researchers urge against rushing to train robots for complex tasks. First, their cognitive abilities and logic need to be optimized.
Noematrix raises funding to build a “universal brain” for robots
Chinese startup Noematrix has closed a Series A round to develop an integrated control platform for next-generation robots. The project aims for full machine autonomy.
Goodbye, latency: Nanyang Technological University speeds up robot response in dynamic environments
Engineers in Singapore have eliminated a critical flaw in VLA models, enabling robots to act without pauses and respond instantly to changes in the real world.
Self-Distillation: How Self-Distillation Will Change AI in 2026
# Self-Distillation: How Self-Distillation Will Change AI in 2026 The artificial intelligence industry has reached a critical juncture.
ProjDevBench: Can AI Build Full-Fledged Software from Scratch?
# ProjDevBench: Can AI Create Full-Fledged Software from Scratch? When we discuss artificial intelligence in software development, we typically recall examples like ChatGPT fixing a bug in a function…
SGLang Ecosystem: Outcomes of a Large-Scale Developer Meeting in Shanghai
# SGLang Ecosystem: How Engineers Learn to Accelerate Neural Networks by Tens of Times Shanghai brought together a small but truly battle-tested group of developers.