AI systems can easily lie and deceive us – a fact researchers are painfully aware of

Researchers suggest two main factors could drive potentially harmful behaviour: conflicts between the AI’s primary goals and ...
IEEE

SLOT-MPC: A Hierarchical Whole-Body Model Predictive Controller to Enhance Simultaneous Localization and Object Tracking for UAVs

Abstract: This paper proposes SLOT-MPC, a hierarchical model predictive control framework for a system of multirotor Unmmaned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which aims to minimize uncertainty in estimating ...
C&EN

A First-in-Class Chemical-Induced Proximity System Achieves Dose-Dependent Control of Tumor Protein P53 Gene Activation in Preclinical Models of Gastric Cancer

Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States Center for Integrated Chemical ...

Future Bug Education: Analyzing Python Data Model: From Special Methods to Ecological Cornerstone

The core of the Python data model architecture is special methods (also known as "magic methods"). These methods, which start and end with double underscores, such as __init__, __getitem__, and __len_ ...

Analysis of Python Data Model: From Special Methods to Ecological Cornerstone

The core of the Python data model architecture is the special methods (also known as 'magic methods'). These methods, which begin and end with double underscores, such as __init__, __getitem__, __len_ ...
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Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues its journey across the solar system

Scientists are closely monitoring the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it moves across our solar system. The object could be twice as big as Manhattan, says Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, and will come ...
Phys.org

Earth system models' inaccurate gross primary productivity simulations threaten land carbon uptake estimates

Terrestrial ecosystems, vital for absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide to mitigate climate change, rely on Earth system models (ESMs) for estimating carbon uptake—a cornerstone of climate policy, ...
IEEE

Design of a Bio-Inspired Stiffness Controllable Continuum Robot for Object Grasping and Moving

Abstract: Continuum robots (CRs) possess better compliance than rigid manipulators. However, existing CRs suffer from difficulties in manipulating objects for the conflicting needs of high stiffness ...
GitHub

VARGPT: Unified Understanding and Generation in a Visual Autoregressive Multimodal Large Language Model

[2025-04-07] The technical report for VARGPT-v1.1 is released at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.02949. [2025-01-22] We release the datasets for training VARGPT (7B+2B ...
Reuters

Meta's AI leaders discuss using Google, OpenAI models in apps, The Information says

Aug 29 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab is considering partnerships with rivals Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab or OpenAI to enhance artificial intelligence features in its ...
Popular Mechanics

A Strange Object Has Entered Our Solar System—and One Scientist Says It May Be an Alien Craft

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the ...
GitHub

WMNav: Integrating Vision-Language Models into World Models for Object Goal Navigation

[IROS'25] This repository is the official implementation of WMNav, a novel World Model-based Object Goal Navigation framework powered by Vision-Language Models. agent_cfg: ... vlm_cfg: model_cls: ...