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NVIDIA updates its GPU-accelerated packages built on ROS.
The company expands regional endpoints and outlines longer-term compute plans.
Google focuses on movement, dexterity, and cooperation between robots.
NVIDIA describes a faster way to explore action-conditioned surgical scenes.
Pollen Robotics proposes an open handheld system for manipulation demonstrations.
Hume AI researchers examine the human quality of voice interaction.
Mistral introduces a model for following navigation instructions in physical spaces.
World models, reward models, and evaluation tools join the robotics toolkit.
Mistral releases an Apache-licensed model for Lean 4 proof engineering.
Anthropic emphasizes inspectable outputs and access to computation.
IBM evaluates modernization across a project rather than an isolated function.
OpenAI introduces expert-developed and checked life-sciences evaluations.
AWS describes an agent workflow spanning data, training, and hardware.
OpenAI updates its specialized life-sciences model.
The company positions models as another tool for engineering design.
Google introduces experimental environments around scientific work.
Google describes applications in scientific and infrastructure work.
OpenAI introduces a reasoning model for biological research workflows.
The update focuses on spatial reasoning before a robot acts.
A Google and Broadcom agreement points toward additional TPU infrastructure from 2027.
ServiceNow researchers look at both task completion and the human experience of voice AI.
Google DeepMind proposes a cognitive framework for evaluating AI progress.
Hugging Face expands hardware, control policies, and data tooling.
Google updates its specialized reasoning mode for science and engineering.
A new architecture paper is a reminder that bigger is only one way a model can change.
Start the year with a better question: what, exactly, did the test measure?