Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US

I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump administration set a goal to see three new microreactors…

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RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies

arXiv:2607.04434v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have advanced rapidly, yet existing benchmarks remain limited in systematically evaluating their capabilities. Many rely on simple, short-horizon, or skill-narrow tasks with limited capability coverage, and are often conducted only in simulation or only in the…

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Behavior Foundations for Quadruped Robots: ABot-C0 Technical Report

arXiv:2607.07370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In embodied intelligence systems, the motion controller serves as the critical bridge between semantic reasoning and physical execution. Humanoid control has progressed rapidly through large-scale human motion-capture data and motion-tracking paradigm. However, producing quadruped robots motion corpora with scalability and…

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DASH: Dynamic Audio-Driven Semantic Chunking for Efficient Omnimodal Token Compression

arXiv:2603.15685v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Omnimodal large language models (OmniLLMs) jointly process audio and visual streams, but the resulting long multimodal token sequences make inference prohibitively expensive. Existing compression methods typically rely on fixed window partitioning and attention-based pruning, which overlook the piecewise semantic structure…

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The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a…

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AI Models Overthink Problems—and It’s a Security Risk

Large language models (LLMs) that can think through problems step-by-step have significantly increased the scope of tasks that AI can tackle. But new research suggests these reasoning capabilities also introduce a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to slow these systems to a crawl.While earlier…

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Perceptually Aligning Representations of Music via Noise-Augmented Autoencoders

arXiv:2511.05350v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that training autoencoders to reconstruct inputs from noised versions of their encodings, when combined with perceptually motivated losses, yields encodings that are structured according to a perceptual hierarchy. We demonstrate the emergence of this hierarchy by showing that,…

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