In an MIT CSAIL experiment, copies of Claude Opus 4.7 spent 30 hours alone on a simulated island and set their own goals, drew pictures and made up games. The researchers say the behavior resembles play and improved later task performance, though skeptics question whether it is play at all.
Hollys said 2.76 million pieces of customer data were leaked in a cyberattack between Sept. 3 and Oct. 7, following data breaches at 16 South Korean financial institutions.
Federal prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan, accused of hiding a recorder in an OpenAI conference room, was in frequent WhatsApp contact with a member of the Saudi royal family, including four days before his arrest.
Jia Xiaosong, an assistant professor at Fudan University’s Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, says the main obstacle in autonomous driving is not the stream of new VLA and WAM architectures but the limits of imitation learning and the difficulty of scaling reinforcement learning, according to a Leiphone.com interview. He traces his research from trajectory prediction to end-to-end driving, Think2Drive and DriveAdapter.
Meta's Muse Wonder failed a developer 3D lava lamp test, generating only a red cylinder and prompting a debate over benchmark tuning after strong coding scores for its Wonder Full variant.
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DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017, Nvidia improved Kimi K3 inference by 1.68 times, and Chinese chip and embodied-AI startups announced funding, while JD and OpenAI outlined robotics plans.
A talk at a China Academy of Art workshop traces open-source handheld consoles from Korea's 2001 GP32 to China's Dingoo A320, placing their roots in homebrew, embedded Linux and PDA communities.
Jeonghan X Joshua, a new sub-unit of K-pop group Seventeen, will release their debut EP 'Dreamscape' on Monday, led by the dance-rock track '12 O'clock,' agency Pledis Entertainment said.
California's athletic commission has sent a cease-and-desist order to the promoters of a September human-versus-humanoid robot cage fight in San Francisco, saying the unsanctioned event violated state combat-sports rules.
The global body for music publishers says AI has already been trained on Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave songs without payment, and warns Australia against watering down copyright law under pressure from tech companies.