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Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 with whole-body humanoid control and multi-robot teamwork DeepMind's WeatherNext AI cyclone forecaster gains an extra day of accuracy, Nature paper says New distillation trick cuts training memory below single-GPU limit for large language models NVIDIA releases Magpie multilingual text-to-speech model with 12-language open weights and 32 ms latency IBM Research reports ACE-style agent memory can be delivered at a fraction of the token cost Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3-billion-parameter vision-language model tuned for on-device use Allen AI's OlmoEarth Studio now exports satellite-image embeddings for custom downstream analysis Google DeepMind unveils sign-language-to-text AI, now shipping in Pixel 11's Gboard and Live Transcribe

Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 with whole-body humanoid control and multi-robot teamwork DeepMind's WeatherNext AI cyclone forecaster gains an extra day of accuracy, Nature paper says New distillation trick cuts training memory below single-GPU limit for large language models NVIDIA releases Magpie multilingual text-to-speech model with 12-language open weights and 32 ms latency IBM Research reports ACE-style agent memory can be delivered at a fraction of the token cost Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3-billion-parameter vision-language model tuned for on-device use Allen AI's OlmoEarth Studio now exports satellite-image embeddings for custom downstream analysis Google DeepMind unveils sign-language-to-text AI, now shipping in Pixel 11's Gboard and Live Transcribe

Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 with whole-body humanoid control and multi-robot teamwork

Gemini Robotics 2, the new intelligence layer from Google DeepMind, gives robots whole-body control, five-fingered dexterity and the ability to collaborate with other robots to complete multi-step tasks.

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Space

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Ancient Tree Rings Suggest the Sun Can Unleash Far Bigger Storms

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New Nuclear Reaction Measurements Sharpen the Picture of Supernovae and X-ray Bursts

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Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 with whole-body humanoid control and multi-robot teamwork

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DeepMind's WeatherNext AI cyclone forecaster gains an extra day of accuracy, Nature paper says

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Health & Bio

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Belgium Battles Its Largest Wildfire Since 1911 as High Fens Blaze Nears the German Border

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Satellite Data From 362,000 Ocean Points Contradict the Textbook Two-Bulge Model of Tides