2026-11-09

What do you assign when a coding agent can finish last year’s homework in one prompt? In the second run of Stanford’s CS146S, Mihail Eric brought open-source maintainers into the course. Students have to learn an unfamiliar repo, propose a change, and ...

Egocentric human video offers a scalable source of manipulation priors for robot learning, yet translating raw data scale into generalizable robot policies demands rigorous data curation and training recipes. We introduce Open-HumanScale, the first fully open recipe for scaling egocentric pretraining to 50,000 hours, anchored by Open-HumanScale-50K---a curated egocentric video corpus densely annotated with hand motion and natural language. Leveraging this corpus, we systematically investigate pu

Google's Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin makes coding agents draft specs, then runs 5 zero-context review stages before any code. The post Google AI Releases Elephant-Goldfish Model Plugin for Spec-First Coding appeared first on MarkTechPost .

A config-verified comparison of how 10 open MoE models route tokens: total and active parameters, expert counts, top-k, shared experts, gating functions and load-balancing methods. The post Which Routing Does Each MoE Model Use? DeepSeek, Qwen, Mixtral, Llama 4, gpt-oss Compared appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Multimodal agents use web and image tools to answer questions beyond their internal knowledge. Some search tasks use images mainly to identify an initial entity, then rely on text retrieval. These tasks offer limited insight into how agents connect information across images, objects, and search steps. We therefore focus on visual context management. This involves organizing and using visual information and linking it to other findings during search. Visually intensive tasks require agents to com

🤖VisSearch-Bench evaluates multimodal agents on visually intensive search tasks that require integrating visual context with external information, showing that even the best system fully solves only 26.47% of tasks.

On Sunday, Nvidia announced it was launching an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, an AI executive and agent of the Chinese government. In addition to the Board of Directors announcing the investigation, Huang sent a memo to Nvidia employees acknowledging the affair. You can read the full text below. To my […]

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it's […]

Research: parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust I was out walking the dog when I got curious about how easy/difficult it would be to write a SQLite C extension that adds a parse_number() function for turning strings like -$1,234.56 or '12.5%' into numeric values that could be summed and sorted. I fired up regular Claude chat (Opus 5.5) and prompted : I'm thinking about a SQLite custom function 'parse_number(value)' that strips ',', '$', '£' and '%', handles a leading '-', and returns '

The latest 13-inch MacBook Air is currently available for $1,099.99, marking the second time we’ve seen this $200 discount following the company’s hefty price increases over the summer. Although the base model — which features Apple’s M5 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage — often sold for around $950 to $1,000 shortly after […]

Code in the iOS 27.3 beta suggests that Apple could add support for chatbots to its smart home hub. There's a flag listed for a "Conversational Apps" category. While there are no details about what apps would fall under that heading, it seems reasonable that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude could be added to […]