Startup Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator that interprets the faint electrical signals running through plant stems, aiming to let humans understand what plants are communicating.
A Hugging Face post introduces FairStress, an approach for evaluating fairness in decisions made by large language models in more depth.
A computer program has for the first time outperformed humans at solving cryptic crosswords. The Guardian compares the milestone to IBM's Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997.
A Hugging Face post describes ALTK-Evolve, which uses learned memory to reach the top of the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without relying on a frontier model.
In August, MIT researchers showed that a society of AI agents placed in a shared world without instructions could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same agents working alone. A team working with Apex Fusion has now reproduced the result on consumer hardware rather than a hosted frontier model.
Eka Robotics is now valued at $1.45 billion on the strength of a physical AI model for robotic arms. The company's arm is described as unusually good at picking up a wide range of objects with smooth, human-like movements.