AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR
Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization
-
-
Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps
Perplexity has launched Portable Computer, a local-first construct of its agentic Computer platform that runs the agent harness, orchestrator, planner, software router and post-trained fashions immediately on NVIDIA DGX Spark. The native mannequin, inference engine, software sandbox and app connectors ship as one packaged system, each job begins on the gadget, and work dealt with…
-
Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
Training and serving frontier fashions is now a networking drawback as a lot as a compute drawback. Collective operations like all-reduce and all-to-all synchronize hundreds of accelerators throughout coaching, and the slowest switch units the tempo for your entire job. Even small quantities of community friction instantly strand important compute capability. This week, Meta launched…
-
MIT AI forecasts extreme weather without historical data
MIT engineers have constructed an AI software that forecasts extreme weather without coaching on historical catastrophe data. Kai Chang, a mechanical engineering graduate pupil, and Professor Themis Sapsis developed the software. It produces maps of occasions that haven’t appeared in a area’s historical report however stay statistically-possible. Each map additionally carries estimates of the occasion’s…
-
Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction
Information extraction groups face a recurring selection. Small encoder fashions are low-cost however inflexible, and huge language fashions are versatile however costly per doc. Fastino launched GLiNER2.5 to slim that hole. The launch replaces span enumeration with boundary prediction: the mannequin scores the place an entity begins and ends as a substitute of scoring each…
-
Building Compute Foundations for the Physical Economy
The core imbalance behind industrial AI’s stalled progress is structural: bodily‑operations AI is being requested to run actual‑time, security‑essential management workloads on a fraction of the compute maturity the digital economic system already constructed. This is a compute‑maturity lag — the architectural deficit. OECD information on AI adoption throughout G7 economies present a transparent…
-
XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electrical automobile maker introduced the funding spherical for its robotics enterprise by means of a set of share buy agreements with a number of buyers. XPENG says the deal represents the most…
-
Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo
Generalist AI has launched GEN-1.5, a robotic basis mannequin that learns a brand new bodily activity from a single demonstration. Drop 3–12 seconds of sensorimotor knowledge into its 30-second context window, and the robotic performs the duty. No gradient updates, no fine-tuning, no task-specific programming. Across 10 various manipulation duties, this one-shot in-context prompting averaged…
-
Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings
A workforce from Google Research and USC has launched Mobility-Embedded POIs (ME-POIs), a framework that folds combination human motion into text-based place embeddings. The premise is that language fashions describe what a place is, however not how it’s used. Two espresso retailers can share a class, an handle block, and a textual content vector, whereas…
-
AI-Powered Financial Fraud Detection: Why Data and Human Expertise Matter
Financial establishments course of thousands and thousands of transactions, buyer onboarding requests, buyer interactions, and compliance checks on daily basis. The Federal Trade Commission reported that buyers misplaced greater than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, a major improve from earlier years. Due to the sheer quantity of knowledge, it’s unimaginable for human investigators alone…
