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Aug 12, 2025
Discover how Meta's AI predicts brain responses to videos and the impact of Nvidia’s new model enabling robots to think like humans. Explore the thrilling developments in cancer drug design by Korean researchers. Learn about GitHub's transition under Microsoft and Musk's legal feud with Apple. Delve into the ethical implications of AI technologies, particularly as Illinois implements new legislation requiring clinician input. The landscape of AI is evolving rapidly, making waves across industries and sparking vital conversations about its future.
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Robots Gain Common-Sense Vision
- NVIDIA's Cosmos Reason is a 7B vision-language model that gives robots common-sense physical reasoning.
- It predicts events like falling boxes and crosswalks but requires specific NVIDIA hardware to run.
AI Predicts Brain Responses
- Meta's Tribe (1B) predicted brain responses to movies and won Algonauts 2025.
- It outperformed single-sense models by ~30% in regions merging sight, sound, and language.
Reasoning Models Reach Olympiad Level
- OpenAI's reasoning model achieved gold at IOI and placed sixth overall under human rules.
- Its score doubled from a year earlier, showing rapid advances in general reasoning.