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Agent skill for beautiful, verifiable architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, and lifecycle diagrams—self-contained HTML with motion and crisp export.

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One day in 1982, Joseph “Rod” Canion and two colleagues from Texas Instruments sat down at the House of Pies in Houston and used a napkin to sketch out what would become Compaq’s portable PC. In 1996, Felix Zandman, founder of Vishay Intertechnology, dined at Husker Steak House i

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Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face. This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 in July, which was 295B, 21B

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Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.

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OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.

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A spy satellite simulator in your browser, except the data is real. Live open source spatial intelligence on a photorealistic 3D globe.

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Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science, used by 190,000+ scientists worldwide. 165 ready-to-use validated skills plus 100+ scientific databases covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. Compatible with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Antigravity, and the open Agent Skills standard.

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Open Multi-Agent Interactive Classroom — Get an immersive, multi-agent learning experience in just one click

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World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

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like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane

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Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean code (HTML/Tailwind/React/Vue)

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Open source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs

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Official, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins.

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Help AI coding agents write modern Go

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While walking to school as a child, Jernej Barbič would marvel at how beautiful his home was. He was born and raised in a picturesque village in northwestern Slovenia (formerly Yugoslavia), located in the European Alps. Surrounded by alpine and beech trees, Barbic dreamed of repl

I never intended to join the cutting edge of electromechanical television. I just wanted to make a nice clock. But sometimes you have to go where the engineering takes you, and in my case it took me to the Scanwheel, a pocket-size wide-screen electromechanical TV with a resolutio

The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) honor society is preparing to host the Innovating the Future event on 6 November.The inaugural one-day, in-person event is designed to provide a forum for IEEE and IEEE-HKN undergraduate and graduate student authors to present their original resea

The pioneering computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra, winner of the 1972 A.M. Turing Award and inventor of one of the most iconic algorithms in all of computing, was nothing if not opinionated. Certain programming languages drew his ire, for example: He once dubbed Fortran “the infa

At the heart of quantum mechanics lie a few sacred rules for how to use the theory. First and foremost is, roughly, that thou shalt not think about ordinary objects presently whizzing through ordinary space. Rather, quantum mechanics predicts — in exquisite detail — all the possi

Every moment of our lives, our bodies are awash in sensory signals. Photons hit our retinas. Waves of compressed air collide with our eardrums. Volatile molecules bind to receptors in our nostrils, and chemicals slather our taste buds. Pressure and heat activate nerve endings in

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 28 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01299-5AI integration in Earth system models enhances prediction and modelling capabilities but also amplifies challenges for reproducibility. This Perspective introduces a framework for assessi

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 28 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01283-zAlthough language models can be helpful in molecular design, they are not typically calibrated for uncertainty. Rankovic and colleagues present a method to train language models while tak

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01286-wFeng et al. introduce MAP, an artificial intelligence framework that integrates biological mechanism knowledge to predict how cells respond to chemical perturbation, improving generalizat

Modern processors are fast, in part, because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it's wrong, the work is discarded, but traces of it linger. Sinc

A new set of modular components allows users to create reconfigurable smart devices with electrical connections that keep working no matter which shape the structure forms.This electrical modularity can enable engineers to design interactive devices that can sense which shape the

Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and creating 3D models. But they aren’t as helpful when it comes to testing robots or designs for vehicles in diverse environments, since they don’t understand physics as well as they d

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A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.

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Evaluating AI agents that use external tools requires realistic test scenarios that capture how practitioners compose tools and iterate across conversation turns. Constructing such scenarios by hand demands deep domain expertise, does not scale across tool ecosystems, and produce

Modern AI systems are being deployed in complex domains such as medicine, science, and law, where there is often not a single correct answer given the observed evidence. Such systems must be able to represent and update uncertain beliefs about the world as new evidence arrives to

Designing effective reward signals for open-domain question answering is challenging because high-quality responses must simultaneously satisfy multiple aspects of answer quality that are difficult to capture with a holistic scalar objective. We introduce a rubric-based reward fr

At a glance MindTopo is a new benchmark for testing topological reasoning in AI, evaluating whether multimodal models can understand concepts such as connectivity, enclosure, order, separation, and knots. The benchmark measures both reasoning and planning, testing not only

Research Note: CARE-X is a research model and not a Microsoft product offering or medical device. It has not been cleared or approved by any regulatory authority and is not intended for clinical diagnosis, screening, or patient care. The results described below are retrospective

At a glance Orchard is an open-source framework for scalable and cost-effective agentic AI research, built around Orchard Env, a reusable environment service for training and evaluating agents across task domains. The same Orchard infrastructure supports software-engineeri

On 6 August, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the state of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan federal law passed under the Biden Administration to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and R&D. While manufacturing projects funded by

There are 17 rare earth elements. While almost all of them have vital industrial uses, you could be forgiven for believing, based on news coverage, that there are only four that matter: neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium.To be sure, those are the essential ingredien

This article is brought to you by Emerson.I’ve spent much of my career as an engineer, including years in the semiconductor industry. And one lesson has stayed with me through every major technology shift: innovation always creates new complexity.In semiconductors, we have seen t

Researchers at the University of Oxford published a technical paper titled “Hardware-Managed Heterogeneous High-Bandwidth Memory and Flash in LLM Inference Systems.” Abstract Excerpt: “ High-Bandwidth Flash (HBF) offers a denser alternative, providing 16x more capacity per stack

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Synopsys published a technical paper titled “A Process-Aware Hybrid Si/IGO Monolithic-3D 6T SRAM with BEOL Pass-Gates for the 2nm Node.” Abstract Excerpt: The paper proposes “a monolithic-3D (M3D) 6T SRAM at the 2nm node” that

Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) published a technical paper titled “Intrinsic polarization superjunctions in III-nitride heterostructures for efficient power electronics.” Abstract Excerpt: “III-nitride semiconductors combine a wide bandgap with l

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 Septem

This article is brought to you by Ollobot.From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still limit

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 Septem

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing eviden

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effectiveness. Johann Reh

The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recur

Scaling laws are one of the most critical empirical findings in deep learning. The observation is simple in form: the training loss $L$ decreases predictably as we scale up model size $N$, dataset size $D$, and compute $C$, following a power-law curve, which appears as a straight

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The official announcement with the breakdown of votes is [here](https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html), but option 5 has won.

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This is the first contest I have entered. I built the honesty controls before I built the agent,...

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I keep finding git behaviours the same way: set up the case, run the command, then check the state I...

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Every AI redesign of my portfolio looked different and was the same filing cabinet underneath. What a style guide couldn't fix — and the one instruction that did.

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I built two systems this year that try to solve the same problem from opposite...

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Every resume builder is a form. Building the actual editor meant event sourcing, a page-break planner, and a PDF that matches the screen exactly.

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I thought I was careful. I use a password manager. I have 2FA on everything. I do not post my...

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