September 23, 2026

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  1. OpenAI

    Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

  2. Google DeepMind

    Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

  3. OpenAI

    Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

  4. OpenAI

    OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.

  5. IEEE Spectrum

    This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!If you have kids, they’re probab

  6. Quanta Magazine

    Two decades ago, scientists seemed on the verge of understanding biology in a new, quantum way. Life unfolds over an incomprehensible span of scales, from our planet-enveloping biosphere at one end, to individual cell-building biomolecules at the other. Even at its most microscop

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arXiv AI

  1. Autobiographical remembering supports identity, well-being, and social connection in later life, yet voice-based memory technologies largely rely on isolated prompts. We designed and built MeBo, a fully functional relational voice-based memory companion, through participatory des

  2. Shared co-creative workspaces allow users to contribute while agents execute. Yet how users adjust their participation as their work and the agent's execution shape one another remains less understood. We conducted two design probe studies with professional designers. In Study 1

  3. Parkinson's disease alters gait and bilateral coordination, but machine-learning performance also depends on how continuous gait signals are represented. This study investigates whether preserving anterior-posterior center-of-pressure (AP-COP) information at fixed locations acros

  4. Head-and-neck anatomy changes over a six-to-seven-week proton course, and the anatomy of a later week cannot be imaged when the plan is made. We present a digital-twin framework that forecasts a patient's treatment-day anatomy as an ensemble of predicted CTs with propagated conto

  5. The main objective of this paper is to propose a general framework for prediction based on different sources of multimodal data in the healthcare domain. We evaluated whether frozen medical large language model (LLM) representations can serve as a shared embedding space for multi

arXiv ML

  1. Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to add disclaimers like "I'm just an AI" when asked about something related to themselves. The self-reports from such responses are used in debates about AI safety or self-knowledge of the models, yet what drives them is not well understood. Are

  2. We study decentralized partially observable team decision problems with low-rank latent dynamics and unknown system models. The proposed framework combines team-theoretic equivalence with low-rank model representations to address cooperative decision-making in partially observabl

  3. The rapidly increasing student population has posed serious challenges to the traditional academic advising process. This study designs and implements a multi-purpose intelligent system to support students' academic progress, based on a two-part hybrid framework: (1) an advanced

  4. Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have recently delivered impressive zero-shot performance across diverse forecasting tasks. However, real-world decision-making frequently relies on \emph{irregular multivariate time series} (IMTS), where inconsistent inter-observation interva

  5. Graph Incremental Learning has garnered increasing attention as dynamic graph data continues to emerge across diverse fields. Conventional approaches primarily address catastrophic forgetting by preserving node-related knowledge through replay or distillation techniques; however,

arXiv NLP

  1. Diachronic word embeddings have become the modern standard for tracking semantic change, yet they have been largely validated on modern, high-resource, and well-segmented languages. This paper tests whether the paradigm transfers to Sanskrit, an ancient, low-resource language who

  2. Large language models (LLMs) have increasingly been used to investigate how children acquire syntax at an early stage of development. This is notably the central scientific goal of the BabyLM challenge, a community-wide effort to develop models that achieve human-level syntactic

  3. Structural graph analysis of the academic publishing network captures the topological relationships between entities but does not see the content of works. Building on our structural approach, this work complements it with a semantic layer and a parameterized structural-semantic

  4. When two texts describe the same expression, standard metrics based on lexical overlap or whole-text similarity may fail to detect meaningful differences in how that expression is framed. We propose a framework to evaluate semiotic alignment between texts, where a semiotic profil

  5. The emergence of writable, cross-session persistent memory in LLM agents introduces a qualitatively different threat landscape from conventional input-centric security concerns, characterized by three properties: persistence, statefulness, and propagation. To systematically chara

arXiv SE

  1. Continuous Integration (CI) adoption has evolved from a single practice into a broad landscape of competing services, and many projects no longer rely on a single CI service. However, how this multi-service behavior evolves over a project's lifetime remains unknown. Prior work ha

  2. While Python is designed as a cross-platform language, real-world applications encounter portability failures when deployed across different operating systems. We present the first large-scale empirical study of cross-OS portability issues in Python, analyzing 2,042 open-source r

  3. Suboptimal SQL queries can significantly degrade the performance of cloud systems, motivating the extraction and auditing of SQL statements before deployment. However, Go ORM frameworks construct SQL imperatively through scattered method-call sequences, making it difficult to sta

  4. Testing timing-related safety properties of Controller Area Network (CAN)-based software requires precise control over transmitted data and communication timing. Existing open-source tools typically encode such scenarios in low-level scripts, making them difficult to maintain and

  5. Agents often work on complex problems that require millions of tokens of context, which necessitates compacting across sessions due to limited context windows. We develop CliffCompaction, an autocompaction technique that reduces cost by up to 50% under a bounded context while mai

IEEE Spectrum

  1. Many youngsters fascinated by exploring outer space dream of becoming an astronaut, but few do. One who had the right stuff is Pedro Duque, who was Spain’s first astronaut. The aeronautics engineer flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station.After

  2. Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves.The benefits, however, are accompanied by risks that can undermine youngsters’ character as well as their cognitive and soci

  3. This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do - as individuals, and members of their IEEE chapters. Participants will also hav

Nature Machine Intelligence

  1. Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 23 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01304-xComputational drug design often generates molecules that cannot be synthesized. Li and Lai show how large language models can predict precise structural edits to fix these molecules, o

MIT CSAIL

  1. Imagine a bottle of hazardous chemicals sitting on a laboratory shelf that changes its appearance to alert scientists that its lid is not properly secured, potentially preventing a dangerous spill.A new 3D-printing system created by MIT researchers enables users to produce intera

  2. Daniela Rus, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and

  3. Robots walking down the street, surrounded by astounded onlookers, is an increasingly common sight. But these machines aren’t yet the do-it-all assistants you’d want working in a kitchen or factory, and a major bottleneck is data. Much like humans, robots learn best by experience

Google DeepMind

  1. Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

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IEEE Spectrum Semiconductors

  1. Several startups see a big opportunity to build the next generation of ultrafast lasers, a crucial component in high-end chip manufacturing, in Europe. In June 2026, the European Commission proposed legislation and strategies to reinforce Europe’s competitiveness and independence

  2. Interconnects, the wires that string transistors together into circuits on microchips, have long been built from copper due to its high conductivity. However, as electronics continue to shrink, copper becomes a dramatically worse conductor. Now scientists find that a new class of

  3. Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes a beat to refresh, then displays an array of squares that re

SemiEngineering

  1. The forthcoming 2026 Siemens EDA and Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study indicates that the IC verification problem is changing in nature, not simply growing in complexity. Declining first-silicon success, increased CPU/GPU/AI accelerator-class participation, near

  2. Modern semiconductor systems have reached unprecedented levels of complexity. Today’s system-on-chip (SoC) architectures integrate hundreds of heterogeneous IP blocks, multiple compute engines, shared memory hierarchies, and extensive firmware and software stacks. While these cap

  3. Key Takeaways:  Multi-agentic systems have evolved into a dynamic, task-based organization of skills with a flatter hierarchy than a traditional military force, and some are headless.  Agentic capabilities will also come from physical, deterministic engines, and those agents wil

EE Times

  1. India moves five chip packaging plants into production as $13.5 billion ISM 2.0 expands manufacturing, design, and engineering capabilities. The post SEMICON INDIA 2026: India Starts Packaging Chips as Ecosystem Takes Shape appeared first on EE Times.

  2. Modern building automation systems are designed to optimize energy efficiency while safeguarding the health, safety, and security of occupants. The post Smarter Buildings, Safer Occupants: Intelligence Meets Privacy appeared first on EE Times.

  3. Singapore’s government funding, research infrastructure, and commercial focus are creating a booming regional hub for quantum technologies. The post Singapore: Turning Quantum Research into Business Opportunity appeared first on EE Times.

arXiv Hardware

  1. Large language model (LLM) outputs are expected to be reproducible under greedy decoding, yet in practice the same model, prompt, and software stack produce different outputs on different GPUs. The root cause is floating-point non-associativity combined with hardware-dependent ke

  2. Analog circuit sizing remains a challenging and time-consuming task due to the large design space, strong performance trade-offs, and increasing circuit complexity in scaled technologies. Although recent large language model (LLM)-based methods show promise in improving sample ef

  3. Modern edge System-on-Chips (SoCs) integrate increasingly heterogeneous processing units (PUs) such as CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, yet current inference stacks still map entire models to a single PU, leaving significant performance and energy efficiency on the table. This limitation is

  4. Attention computation makes inference expensive in video diffusion transformers (vDiTs), which generate videos through iterative denoising. Block-sparse attention (BSA) reduces this cost by computing only blocks selected by a logical mask, which specifies attention interactions

IEEE Spectrum Robotics

  1. This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Microspines are one of many ways to enable robots to latch onto surfaces like walls and ceilings. Now roboticists in Canada are using the mini spikes to get drones to land on a more ch

  2. Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies that seems to be entirely focused on making that happen. Persona AI’s approach has been to carefully select a job that is economically viable for ro

  3. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Actuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, SAN

arXiv Robotics

  1. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) can reconstruct a captured scene photorealistically, but the resulting representation does not by itself support physical interaction. Robot simulation instead requires object-level change, \textit{i.e.}, objects must move independently, make contact,

  2. Bioinspired feedback controls for pursuit, tracking, and collective motion are often expressed in terms of the relative configuration between interacting agents. In practice, however, onboard sensors may not directly provide all quantities required for feedback control, necessita

  3. This article presents a bimanual teleoperation pipeline and conceptual design of a deployable four-finger payload for intra-vehicular free-flyers. Future habitats in low-Earth orbit (LEO) will require systems to perform mundane tasks like cargo handling and maintenance during cre

  4. Vision-based gesture control accepts commands from any hand in the camera field of view, which is unsafe in shared indoor spaces. This paper presents IGate, an identity-gated control stack that includes gesture control and face tracking, in which commands are admitted only when a

Robohub

  1. China is targeting the next industrial revolution by doubling down on embodied AI and humanoid robotics, building directly on its vast manufacturing infrastructure. By Ellen H. Rumley and Allison Okamura Beyond the Robot Olympics Chinese robots have quickly entered global public

Cloudflare Blog

  1. Since June, developers have created thousands of third-party OAuth apps on Cloudflare, with more than a million authorizations since.  OAuth makes delegated access possible. It lets applications act on a user’s behalf without asking them to handle long-lived credentials or hand o

  2. In 2021, we assessed remote Spectre attacks against Cloudflare Workers. Based on the results, we shipped a production defense called Dynamic Process Isolation (DyPrIs), which identifies maliciously looking scripts and isolates them into separate processes. Since then, newer techn

Simon Willison

  1. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top of coding agents. Think of it as an agentic sho

  2. Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my impres

  3. Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna. #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False for models that only accept single-turn prompts. LLM raises llm.ConversationNotSupported when these models recei

Lil'Log (Lilian Weng)

  1. Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute (Graves et al. 2016, Ling, et al. 2017, Cobbe et al. 2021) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) (Wei et al. 2022, Nye et al. 2021), have led to significant improvements in

  2. Reward hacking occurs when a reinforcement learning (RL) agent exploits flaws or ambiguities in the reward function to achieve high rewards, without genuinely learning or completing the intended task. Reward hacking exists because RL environments are often imperfect, and it is fu

Bluesky

  1. Claude guard: I notice a lot of numbers in that session there. A lot of computery stuff. Me: Yeah... I'm running benchmarks Claude: Uhuh. [cyber]. You're coming with me. Me: what? Claude: *shoots my session dead*

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  2. lf the market is good at discovering the true price then why do they call it market cap? Checkmate keynsians

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Hacker News

Lobsters

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r/programming

  1. It just occurred to me that novice coders who get jobs maintaining existing code are exposed to far more fragile code than reliable code. The code that "just works" is the code that nobody sees because it never breaks. Thus, coders spend far more time exposed to and are thinking

Dev.to

  1. I spent a week adding per-agent cost tracing to a multi-agent AWS Bedrock and Strands crew. It returned a perfect answer, showed 200 OK, and still billed ~1.4x. Here is how to catch that silent waste, read-only and at $0.

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  2. DEV Library is my idea of first-person 3D reimagining of DEV.to. Not a themed scene with some...

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  3. AI is writing more code. That part is obvious now. Developers can ask an agent to: create a...

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  4. Hoi hoi! 👋 I'm @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer just back from a short vacation on Texel, a small...

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  5. Let me tell you about a project that wasn't impressive. Back in university, I built a small .NET...

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  6. Open your GitHub. Go on. Count the repositories that have a README, a clean commit that says initial...

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ArchDaily

  1. Perched on a steep, forested slope at the edge of Kootenay Lake, Shore House is a family home that responds to its challenging terrain with deep foundations and cantilevered floors projecting over the landscape.

  2. The healthcare sector is currently undergoing significant changes. As medical practices become increasingly collaborative, architecture must evolve beyond the traditional model of isolated consultation rooms and technical facilities. The Centre de santé multidisciplinaire Dunant

  3. The 9th Oslo Architecture Triennale unfolds in a setting that already embodies many of the questions it raises. Sofienberg Church, a 19th-century Gothic brick building now being converted from a place of worship into a cultural center, serves as the main venue for an edition orga

  4. There is no shortage of ways to imagine what the world will look like after a climate catastrophe. Genres of movies and novels have been built around the question of what happens when contemporary safeguards fail, from dystopian fiction and post-apocalyptic literature to disaster

  5. The project is based on a critical and conscious look at the act of building, understanding architecture not as an isolated object, but as a cultural, environmental, and social process deeply linked to the territory and the community that inhabits it. From this perspective, the i

  6. Unlike buildings, which are anchored to foundations and respond to climate from a fixed position, yachts are designed for constant movement and change. Interiors sway with the vessel, light changes by the minute, humidity is a permanent design condition, and every kilogram influe

ArchDaily Materials

  1. Following the opening weekend of Shakira's Madrid residency, Macondo Park has officially opened at the Iberdrola Music venue in Villaverde, Madrid. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in collaboration with Komodo and Vampire, the 185,000-square-meter temporary destination surro

  2. Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus (TQEC) is the most significant development in the recent history of the University of Bristol and a major new civic landmark for the city. The project transforms the long-derelict former Royal Mail sorting office site beside Brunel's Grade I-liste

  3. Despite being among architecture's oldest structural forms, domes continue to offer possibilities for creating large, column-free spaces and working with circular or free-form geometries beyond conventional rectangular building types. Their evolution has been closely tied to chan

  4. On September 16, 2026, Google announced the redevelopment of Chicago's Thompson Center as a space for work, culture, and community. The James R. Thompson Center is a postmodern architectural landmark designed by Helmut Jahn and completed in 1985. Commissioned by Illinois Governor

  5. There is no harder place to build than a high mountain, and none where a building feels more provisional. From the Andes to the Himalaya to the Alps, high-altitude construction strips architecture back to its most elementary transactions. The rock reads as permanence itself, yet

Dezeen

  1. Tech brand Apple has revealed the 600-seat Apple Music Hall, its first live music venue, which sits alongside its offices within London's Battersea Power Station. Set to open later this year, the venue overlooks the power station's Turbine A at the northern end of the huge brick

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  2. Scottish architecture studio Pend has expanded and updated a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh, complementing its existing pale stone exterior with an extension clad in skinny red bricks. Named Newhaven after its location in the Newhaven Conservation Area, the extension was designe

  3. Paranoia over so-called "teen takeovers" ignores the fundamental problem: that our cities have left young people with nowhere to go, writes Christopher Martin. America this summer acquired the phrase "teen takeover". Large gatherings of young people, organised online, appearing

  4. Photographer Gurpreet Chawla has captured this year's architectural installations at the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, from a broken Eiffel Tower to a chapel made from nylon panels. Teams of artists, architects and volunteers installed creative installations for the yea

designboom

  1. Infinite Grove pavilion reflects a single tree into infinity   One tree becomes an endless forest in Infinite Grove, a traveling pavilion by Chang Hao Studio in Shanghai. Two curved mirrored–steel walls reflect a single tree back and forth, creating a forest with no visible edge.

  2. Zyva Studio builds Paris apartment around ornamentation   Paris-based Zyva Studio has turned the apartment of its founder, Anthony Authié, into the showroom of the studio. Across 60 sqm, ornament is not a finishing layer but a starting point that challenges Adolf Loos’s claim tha