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Researchers from Princeton, Ant Group and Stanford Introduce AQuA: A Two-Part Agentic Framework for Autonomous Factor Discovery and Model Development in Quantitative Finance

Quantitative research agents that write their own experiments can corrupt the evidence they later learn from. A leaky feature that scores well gets stored as a

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Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio

Speed and accuracy usually pull against each other in text-to-speech. Gradium AI's new default model reports both: an 81.0% human-rated pass rate on 500 hard se

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Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour

How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key? A search agent has a fetch tool. If the gold labels sit in a public d

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Google AI Releases TimesFM-3: A 330M Parameter Zero-Shot Foundation Model For Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a 330 million parameter time series foundation model that forecasts multiple related series in a single forward pass. Un

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OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.0: Guided Model Setup, 575 ms Control UI Startup, and One Trust Boundary Per Gateway

The OpenClaw Foundation has released v2026.8.1, which the project calls OpenClaw 2.0: 933 contributors, 569 first-timers, and more than 16,000 pull requests, ro

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Lowest-Latency Inference APIs for Voice and Realtime Agents: A Time to First Token TTFT-First Benchmark

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 r

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Google AI Introduces EnvHarness: A Programmable Layer That Turns Static Agent Environments Into Adaptive Training Worlds

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 be

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Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS): A Shared Specification for AI Agents to Safely Operate Physical Devices

Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared driver specification that lets AI agents discover and safely operate phys

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Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs

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’: A

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Building Custom Batched Ensemble Weather Forecasting with NVIDIA Earth2Studio

In this tutorial, we build an ensemble weather forecasting workflow with NVIDIA Earth2Studio. We install the required Earth2Studio components while preserving C

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Google AI Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 40-Second Scene Extension, First/Last Frame Control, and 4K Upscaling

We look at Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Google's production update to its native multimodal video generation and editing model. We break down what changed: scene exte

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Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown

Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a 2.3B-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides and images into Markdown with HTML tables, bounding bo

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Best Agent Sandboxes in 2026: Cold Start, Per-Second Pricing, and Network Policy Across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel

Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it, and no two vendors quote the same units. This comparison measures burst cold start across E2B, Daytona,

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From In-Silico to Wet-Lab: Evaluating AI Protein Design Performance

In this tutorial, we analyze Anthropic’s 1,440 AI-designed protein binder dataset to benchmark 10 leading structure predictors. Discover how target identity, ex

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Google Research Introduces GlucoFM: A 0.72M-Parameter Dual-Stream Foundation Model for Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Google Research and UNSW Sydney released GlucoFM, a self-supervised foundation model that splits a CGM trace into a slow physiological stream and a transient ev

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Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context

Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series — a 320B-total / 18B-active MoE with a 1,048,576-token context window,

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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture

We look at Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Alibaba's open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. We break down where the

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What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers

Four falsifiable conditions for agentic coding replacing juniors, tested against METR, OpenAI, DORA and Stanford primary source evidence The post What Would Hav

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IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models

IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, all under Apache 2.0. Every model exposes a thinking / low-ef

MarkTechPost 1w ago

Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together

Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone. This week, Liquid

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Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps

Perplexity releases Portable Computer, packaging local models, harness, sandbox, and connectors into one system running on NVIDIA DGX Spark. The post Perplexity

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Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet

Training and serving frontier models is now a networking problem as much as a compute problem. Collective operations like all-reduce and all-to-all synchronize

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Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction

Fastino released GLiNER2.5, replacing span enumeration with boundary prediction so entity width no longer costs compute. Three Apache 2.0 checkpoints ship at 74

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Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo

Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop 3–12 seconds of sensorimotor data