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Using AI Agents to Teach Robots Like Microduck to Walk in Simulation

Teaching a robot to navigate an obstacle course requires more than a walking policy. It must perceive its surroundings, maintain balance, and adjust its actions…

Retro gaming is being overrun with AI

Retro video games are everywhere lately – especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the…

Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model

Design platform Canva has released Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model. The article Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model appeared first on The Decoder.

Anthropic's Claude now writes code and proves it safe automatically

Anthropic had Claude generate mathematical proofs that existing code is correct, producing roughly 180 million lines of proof code for 123 open-source libraries. Along the way, the model caught bugs that years of testing…

OpenAI lowers valuation target, raises up to $30 billion

OpenAI is closing in on a new funding round of up to $30 billion but has lowered its valuation target to get there. The article OpenAI lowers valuation target, raises up to $30 billion…

TinyFish Breaks Down Agentic Search Architecture for Production AI Agents

TinyFish published two engineering research articles on agentic search. One defines a 7-phase production architecture with evidence contracts and bounded retries. The other explains why its deep research system dropped a separate planner and…

Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent

Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service that gives every AI agent its own hardware-isolated microVM with no credentials inside. It already runs Gemini agents and enters preview in the coming months.…

You.com Launches Inference Router: 12 Open-Weight Models With 99.9% Uptime SLA

You.com launched Inference Router, an OpenAI-compatible API for 12 open-weight models with a 99.9% uptime SLA, zero data retention, 100% US hosting, server-side web search and no platform fee. The post You.com Launches Inference…

Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia

inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.

SpecMAGIC: Specification-Guided Multi-Task Generalization in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.30443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-task generalization is an important yet underexplored problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Many real-world applications require multi-agent systems to generalize across complex, temporally extended tasks with diverse inter-agent…

Optimistic Policy Regularization: Elite-Statistic Reward Shaping

arXiv:2603.06793v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy agents discard trajectories after each update, including rare high-return episodes. We propose Optimistic Policy Regularization (OPR), which turns those episodes into a closed-form reward bonus: we estimate an…