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DongA Science reports South Korea launches a physics- and mathematics-based AI research program
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has begun a six-year, 20 billion won program to develop AI systems that use scientific laws alongside data. DongA Science reports that four university-led projects will focus on causal modeling, physical-law interpretation, long-context architectures and more efficient AI…dongascience.comInnovation
NPR reports AI-designed bacteriophages show medical promise and biosecurity risks
NPR reports that researchers used AI trained on DNA sequences to design new viruses that infect bacteria. About 16 of roughly 300 tested designs produced functioning viruses, while experts warned that more accessible biological design tools could create new safety and governance challenges.npr.orgProduct
NVIDIA previews shadow-engine recovery for faster LLM failover
NVIDIA says a preview feature in its Dynamo inference platform can restore an LLM worker in seconds by keeping a preinitialized standby engine on the same GPUs and sharing model weights in memory. In the company’s benchmark, recovery took 7.3 seconds instead of 283 seconds after a worker failure.
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Figure AI reports Index crowdsourced robot-training platform has collected 16 million videos
Glitchwire reports that Figure AI has brought Index out of stealth after collecting 16 million user-uploaded videos across 108 countries. Figure says the platform has 264,000 downloads, 43,000 weekly active contributors and has paid contributors $15 million, although the supplied report does not independently…glitchwire.comProduct
NetDocuments launches benchmark for measuring legal AI answer costs, London Insider reports
London Insider reports that NetDocuments has launched the Legal Context Engineering Benchmark, which compares legal-AI answers with and without access to the company’s Legal Context Graph. The benchmark is intended to help law firms assess answer quality and spending, although its results and independent validation…londoninsider.co.ukInnovation
MIT Technology Review examines why children learn language far more efficiently than AI models
MIT Technology Review reports that children acquire language from vastly less data than large language models, and researchers are testing whether children’s sensory, exploratory, and social learning can guide more efficient AI.technologyreview.comInnovation
SLAC researchers develop AI method for selective scientific-data compression
Newswise reports that researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory developed a neural-network method that can compress scientific data while preserving fine details and allowing users to decode only selected regions.newswise.comIndustry
AI Insider reports Vals AI raises $40 million at $400 million valuation for evaluation platform
AI Insider reports that Vals AI raised a $40 million Series A at a $400 million valuation to expand its AI evaluation and model-auditing platform, with new benchmark products aimed at coding, cybersecurity, frontier risks, and mental-health evaluation.theaiinsider.techInnovation
Cornell Chronicle reports stock-level test for AI bubble dynamics
Cornell Chronicle reports that Cornell researchers developed a statistical method to distinguish company-specific AI-related stock bubbles from ordinary volatility, finding strong overvaluation signals for Alphabet and earlier bubble episodes in semiconductor stocks, Tesla and cryptocurrency.news.cornell.edu
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