New update to DeepMind's Deep Research that takes a leap in capabilities compared to the previous version and incorporates an even more powerful Max version. These are the most "frontier" versions of Gemini, so let's see what fruits it bears in mathematics and research 🙂
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Agent-World: Scaling Real-World Environment Synthesis for General Agents
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Agent-World Scaling Real-World Environment Synthesis for Evolving General Agent Intelligence paper: https://
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GPT-Image-2 Outputs Darker Than NBP: Technical Analysis
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gpt-image-2 version Outputs seem consistently darker than NBP?
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New AI-Focused News Newsletter Launches at Aligned News
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The newsletter on https://
unaligned.io is thematic and mostly done by @IrenaCronin . I'm about to start a new one up on https://
alignednews.com/ai which will be wholly AI done and very news focused. Yeah, trying to figure it all out and serve the community here better. -
Stanford AI Chatbots Train Workplace Social Skills Through Role-Play
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Stanford scholars have developed AI chatbots that help people practice and improve essential social skills—like active listening, empathy, conflict resolution, and counseling techniques—through realistic role-play scenarios with personalized feedback. https://
hai.stanford.edu/news/using-llm
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M4Human: Millimeter-Wave Radar Detects 3D Body Motion
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What if you could track a person's full 3D body shape through walls, in the dark, and with total privacy? Researchers from NTU, Edinburgh, MIT, and others present M4Human! They built the world's largest radar dataset for human motion. It uses millimeter-wave radar signals to
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Browser Fingerprinting Enables Tracking Without Cookies Everywhere
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Princeton researchers tested the top 10,000 websites. Fingerprinting scripts on 88% of them. The EFF tested browsers directly.
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FPTrace Tool Reveals Real-Time Fingerprint-Based Ad Targeting
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Texas A&M and Johns Hopkins built a tool called FPTrace. Published at the ACM Web Conference 2025. What they proved for the first time:
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Deep Research Agent API Launch Marks Beginning of Agents Journey
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Deep Research was our first hosted agent in the API and has gained a ton of traction over the last 3 months, very excited for folks to test out the new agents and all the improvements, this is just the start of our agents journey : ) Read more:
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MIT releases MathNet, largest IMO dataset for AI
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Today, MIT & the IMO released MathNet, the world’s largest dataset of International Math Olympiad problems & solutions MathNet is 5x larger than previous datasets & is sourced from over 40 countries across 4 decades: https://
bit.ly/4u1bhBC
