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Embodied AI World Models Attracted $6 Billion, But the LLM Parallel May Not Hold

Embodied AI world models drew $6 billion in Q1 2026 alone, but new analysis from Fusion Fund investors argues the LLM scaling ...

'The Simpsons' comes to Fortnite: Cartoon rendering beyond the limits of PBR

After landing in Fortnite late last year, 'The Simpsons' will be applied to UEFN later this year, allowing for diverse use ...
The Next Web

Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...
consilium.europa

The Schengen area explained

The Schengen area allows more than 450 million people to travel freely between member countries without going through border controls. The Schengen area is one of the main achievements of the European ...
The Globe and Mail

‘We came back as best friends’: Jeremy Hansen says Artemis II voyage created a special bond between crew members

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen learned a lot about himself on his historic flight around the moon. One revelation was that despite the risk inherent in such a mission − and in being on the first ...
VentureBeat

Amazon S3 Files gives AI agents a native file system workspace, ending the object-file split that breaks multi-agent pipelines

AI agents run on file systems using standard tools to navigate directories and read file paths. The challenge, however, is that there is a lot of enterprise data in object storage systems, notably ...
TechCrunch

Adobe Firefly’s video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage

The video editor in Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions. Typically, ...
law.nyu.edu

Moving Targets: Ryan Goodman examines how the laws of targeting apply to the modern battlefield

Former president Barack Obama delivered a statement from the Pentagon on December 14, 2015, describing the latest success for the US in the fight against ISIL. “We’ve unleashed a new wave of strikes ...
IEEE

Towards Complex Backgrounds: A Unified Difference-Aware Decoder for Binary Segmentation

Abstract: Binary segmentation is used to distinguish objects of interest from background, and is an active area of convolutional encoder-decoder network research. The current decoders are designed for ...
GitHub

StructEdit: Learning Structural Shape Variations

Figure 1. Edit generation and transfer with StructEdit. We present StructEdit, a method that learns a distribution of shape differences between structured objects that can be used to generate a large ...
Nature

Differences between dumbbell and kidney-bean stomatal types may influence relationships between stomatal traits and the environment

arising from C. Liu et al. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42136-2, (2023) A suite of models of different levels of complexity will be needed ...
IEEE

A Universal Multi-View Guided Network for Salient Object and Camouflaged Object Detection

Abstract: Salient object detection and camouflaged object detection have attracted increasing attention due to their significant practical applications. While these two domains share similarities in ...