Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared driver specification that lets AI agents discover and safely operate physical devices. Instrument integration that normally takes weeks or months drops to hours: Carnegie Mellon went from raw equipment to a...
Google Cloud AI Research, with Washington University in St. Louis and UNC Chapel Hill, has released EnvHarness, an Apache-2.0 layer that turns a static agent benchmark into one that adapts to the policy training on it. It wraps a frozen environment through the standard reset()/step() interface, so...
Voice agents fail on latency long before they fail on intelligence. Time to first token is the metric most teams use to choose an inference API, and it is the right starting point and the wrong stopping point. This benchmark works through every layer of the voice stack — LLM, speech-to-text,...
Code-as-World recovers editable MuJoCo scene code from real video, then uses those verified worlds to train physical reasoning. The post Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is actually two products The more interesting version of ChatGPT Work is the one...
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.
As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by...
Burnt out on wrist buzzes and notification overload? A new crop of minimalist wearables promises to collect your health data without demanding your attention.