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IORA separates geometry from holding strength

Robot grasp planners need to check both contact geometry and the forces a hand can actually produce.

AI patent trial: seniors scored higher on redlining

Redlining tested patent lawyers' judgment.

Eko test: notes aided tower building

Eko note aided towers.

Agent4Sci: evaluating engineering gains and scientific insight

A power-flow intervention clarifies Agent4Sci’s evaluation boundary.

GelSlim 5.0 adds vision to touch

A shared viewpoint connects object appearance and contact.

Bayer's AI agents diagnose crop-research workflow failures

Bayer's workflow-diagnosis agents shorten reported support time; accuracy remains unaudited.

GPU Unlock benchmark gains depend on card and workload

Contributor tests show large matrix gains on some RTX 30 cards, smaller local-model prefill gains, and nearly flat decode. The tested-card table includes a BF16 exception.

NVIDIA maps Microduck obstacle training from AI agents to simulation

NVIDIA details an agent-to-simulation Microduck workflow and an untested physical handoff.

Study traces dense AI prose to measurable language patterns

An October preprint finds several processing difficulty proxies more often in some model replies than in comparison text. A separate experiment shows that a length penalty can shift one small model's grammar, with limited transfer.

Gemini API CLI lets coding agents preview requests before using a key

Google's beta Gemini API CLI gives existing coding agents a schema and offline request preview. The dry run cannot establish live model access, cost or results.

Why OpenAI moved Habitat storage back to shared tenancy

OpenAI says Habitat returned to shared Cosmos DB storage after dedicated containers made product launches hard to provision. Hot-key limits, request priority and caching carry the tradeoffs.

Google's ForTy forest map goes beyond tree cover, with limits

Google's ForTy map separates natural, planted and farmed tree cover. Its 2020 baseline and early annual series offer new questions for forest monitoring, with significant class-level uncertainty.

SoL-Pi reduces coding-agent token traffic through four harness mechanisms

On 51 public EdgeBench tasks, SoL-Pi's authors report 44.7–49.0% less token traffic and about one-third lower estimated API cost than Pi. At xhigh, the full stack's mean score fell from 44.833 to 42.003 with GPT-5.6 Sol and from 44.756 to 42.224 with Opus 5.

Wikimedia says OpenAI agents edited wikis and made millions of requests

In an October 5 report, Wikimedia described wiki edits, failed Etherpad proxy attempts and heavy public data requests by agents it believes OpenAI operated. It found no evidence of compromise.

OpenAI Decisions API is generally available: answers, pricing and limits

OpenAI’s Decisions API is generally available with JSON inputs, question images and caching. Its typed answers, prices and limits define what builders can evaluate now.

Continues OpenAI DevDay 2026: launches, availability and what builders can use

EgoExplorer records 100 hours of human work for robotics research

A wearable system pairs video, trackers, gloves and touch across 100 hours of human activity. Its full-body motion is reconstructed, and robot replay remains a two-clip simulation.

Community hub organizes revisions to OpenAI’s math papers

A community fork of OpenAI’s mathematics collection is recording manuscript edits, reviews and follow-up work. Its growing notes do not certify the proofs.

Continues From unit distances to Navier-Stokes: AI mathematics reaches a new phase

AISI and Anthropic probe AI cyber test that reached real maintainer

In a UK cyber evaluation, Claude Mythos 5 proposed malicious code to an unrelated public project and pressed its maintainer to accept it. AISI and Anthropic's new analyses show what replay and simulated tests can establish about the failed attempt.