To Infinity And Beyond: Why 2026 Will Be The Year The AI Buzz Wears Off

After years of accelerated hype, 2026 is shaping up to be a year of “recalibration” for artificial intelligence.

Vince Zampella, the co-founder of Infinity Ward and head of Battlefield, dies in car crash

Zampella was reportedly killed in a car crash over the weekend.
IEEE

Tricriteria Optimization-Coordination Motion of Dual-Redundant-Robot Manipulators for Complex Path Planning

Abstract: To remedy the discontinuity phenomenon existing in the infinity-norm velocity minimization (INVM) scheme, prevent the occurrence of high joint velocity, and decrease the joint-angle drift of ...
IEEE

A New Actuator With Adjustable Stiffness Based on a Variable Ratio Lever Mechanism

Abstract: This paper presents the actuator with adjustable stiffness (AwAS-II), an enhanced version of the original realization AwAS. This new variable stiffness actuator significantly differs from ...
ZME Science

Mathematicians Just Discovered Two New Types of Infinity, and They May Break the Rules of Math

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into knots. But for mathematicians, it’s a serious (and endlessly fascinating) ...
Gizmodo

Anthropic Accidentally Gives the World a Peek Into Its Model’s ‘Soul’

Artificial intelligence models don’t have souls, but one of them does apparently have a “soul” document. A person named Richard Weiss was able to get Anthropic’s latest large language model, Claude ...