Google’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling

Google’s Veo video AI made stunning leaps in fidelity in 2025, and Google isn’t stopping in 2026. The company has announced an update for Veo 3.1 that adds new capabilities when you provide the model ...

Neo humanoid maker 1X releases world model to help bots learn what they see

X released a new world model that it says is a solid step toward its robots being able to teach themselves new tasks.
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Estimating pi with fake circles using Python

Estimating π with “fake circles” using Python. This short shows how to simulate the geometry, calculate the approximation step by step, and see how accuracy improves as the model gets refined. #Python ...
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Model steering is a more efficient way to train AI models

Training artificial intelligence models is costly. Researchers estimate that training costs for the largest frontier models ...
IEEE

Cross-Granularity Network for Vehicle Make and Model Recognition

Abstract: Vehicle Make and Model Recognition (VMMR) is a fine-grained classification task in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Recent works address VMMR through feature encoding schemes, ...
IEEE

A β-Factor Common Cause Failure Model Using Taylor's Mean Value Theorem of Brain-Inspired Computing Systems

Abstract: The study of reliability in High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems is becoming increasingly important. Brain-Inspired Computing Systems (BICS) employ large-scale asynchronous parallel ...
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OpenAI’s New AI Image Model Is 4X Faster—but Can It Make You Forget About Nano Banana?

The company says the new model is four times faster than its previous iteration, much better at following prompts, and can edit images more precisely. OpenAI released its previous image-generation ...