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Four AI agents finish Minecraft together using programs they wrote themselves
Four AI agents from Google DeepMind have finished Minecraft on their own. In just over 27 hours they shared out the work through chat, wrote 2,783 programs of their own and defeated the final boss. They played on easy mode, with software that tells them exactly what is around them.
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Japan gives the green light: TSMC will make the most advanced AI chips in Kumamoto
The Japanese government has approved the new plan for TSMC's second chip factory in Kumamoto. From the end of 2028, 3-nanometre chips for AI will come off the line there, for the first time in Japan. The factory will, however, start smaller than first planned.
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Deep-sea expedition off Argentina yields 57 new animal species
In a deep underwater canyon off the coast of Argentina, biologists have found 57 animal species that nobody knew, from sea cucumbers to corals. Millions of people watched live as an underwater robot filmed the animals.
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Robot AI from Seoul first imagines what the result will look like, and only then chooses its movement
Researchers at Seoul National University have built an AI model that lets a robot 'see' in advance how a task will turn out. With those images, the robot chooses its movements. In real tests it completed almost eight out of ten tasks, slightly more often than well-known competitors.
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Astronomers find the first star that would look green
A burnt-out star full of dust from rocky planets would glow green to the human eye. Astronomers at the University of Warwick calculated this. It is the first star for which a green colour has been credibly reported.
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Nvidia simulates a 104-qubit quantum circuit on a European supercomputer, real errors included
Nvidia and the German research centre Jülich used the JUPITER supercomputer to simulate how a 104-qubit quantum computer makes an important building block, including the errors that real hardware makes. This lets designs be tested before they are built.
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AI model Maxwell makes existing software faster while it runs
The Israeli company doubleAI presents Maxwell, an AI that rewrites programs while they run so that they go faster, without touching the source code. According to the company, one customer's computing costs fell by 67 per cent.
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AI company Odyssey lets a recreated fly brain move through a world that AI makes up
Odyssey linked a computer model of a fruit fly's brain to its world model Odyssey-3, an AI that creates an environment on the spot. It is a first demonstration; a description of exactly how it works is still to follow.
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AI model Mercury 3 writes more than a thousand tokens per second by creating the whole text at once
The American company Inception has released Mercury 3, a language model that does not write word by word but brings a whole text into focus in a few steps. According to the company, this makes it four to eight times as fast as comparable models.
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New membrane breaks down more than 90 per cent of six types of PFAS in water
Researchers at Arizona State University do not just remove PFAS from water, they also break the substances down. Their palladium membrane kept this up for almost two months. The next step is to make the system cheaper and larger.
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Work robot Digit 5 recharges in nine minutes and can then keep going for an hour and a half
Agility Robotics is getting a fast-charging battery from the British company Nyobolt for its humanoid robot Digit 5. After nine minutes of charging, the robot works for another hour and a half. According to Agility, this lets it stay at work for more than twenty hours a day.
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Researcher says the inner workings of AI are much easier to understand than we thought
Nick Cammarata of the AI company Goodfire argues that the 'neurons' in AI models usually have one clear task. If that is right, it becomes much easier to look inside an AI model and check what it does. Other experts call the work interesting, but want to see more evidence first.
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British biobank maps the immune systems of 80,000 people, as learning material for AI
The London company IMU Biosciences will measure the immune cells in 80,000 blood samples from UK Biobank in great detail. Linked to genes and health data, this should teach AI models which changes in the immune system signal diseases such as cancer or dementia.
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d-Matrix splits the work of an AI model across two kinds of chips for faster answers
At a major data centre conference, the American chip company d-Matrix showed how an AI model answers faster when ordinary graphics chips and its own chips each do the work they are good at. The company now also supplies complete computing clusters.
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Small snakes on Borneo escape by doing cartwheels, with their head pointing straight ahead
Japanese researchers filmed dwarf reed snakes that roll away like a wheel when in danger. That is four times as fast as ordinary slithering. The clever part: while the body spins round, the head keeps looking steadily ahead.
