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Verifiers v1 Lets Agentic RL Training Exceed Model Context Windows via DAG Branching
10+ hour, 55+ min ago (470+ words) In the original verifiers library, an environment bundled its data, agent logic, and execution infrastructure together as a single monolithic unit. That design was adequate for simple prompt-completion pipelines. It did not hold up once modern evaluations started running fully…...
South Korea Becomes First G20 Nation to Give All Citizens Free AI Access
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (286+ words) South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on Monday for what would be the most ambitious deployment of government-funded artificial intelligence in history: a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service assistant available to all 52 million of the country's…...
SKA Will Use Violent Radio Blasts to Map Universe's Hidden Magnetic Fields
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (404+ words) The FRBs as cosmological probes preprint is the second chapter in a three-part series being prepared for the SKA's science community. Universe Today covered the paper today. Their origin remains partially contested. The 2020 detection of FRB 200428 from the magnetar SGR…...
Space Force Battle Network Expands Thursday: Laser Mesh Not Yet Switched On
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (308+ words) According to Spaceflight Now's launch tracking, the window for T1TL-E opens Thursday, July 16, at 1:22 PM PDT, with liftoff targeted for 1:32 PM PDT within a 47-minute opportunity. SpaceX will fly a southerly trajectory from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) to carry…...
GLM-5.2 Captures 40% of Developer Tokens: Open Weights Do Not Equal Sovereignty
1+ day, 28+ min ago (447+ words) The scale of the shift is most visible in a chart published by Oxford-affiliated research organization Our World in Data, based on OpenRouter's production usage data. Chinese AI companies held five models in the platform's daily top-50 rankings at the…...
Citizen Science Doubled a 90-Year Record in Two Days, Revealing Why Animal Fathers Evolved
16+ hour, 51+ min ago (517+ words) The reason is not that parental care is actually rare. It is that documenting it requires someone to be in the right forest, at the right moment, watching the right species — and most of the world's harvestmen live in the…...
Organic Flow Battery Unicorn CMBlu Plans US Factory to Power AI Data Centers
16+ hour, 57+ min ago (543+ words) The announcement comes roughly ten weeks after CMBlu crossed the €1 billion valuation threshold with a €50 million Series C initial close backed by Samsung Ventures — making it what the company describes as Germany's first non-lithium battery unicorn — and establishes the first…...
Longevity Gene Therapy Holds in Aged Dogs: Pfizer COVID Vaccine LNP Partner Backs SIRT6 Platform
22+ hour, 4+ min ago (1340+ words) Tech Times...
Acer Swift Go 16 AI at $899 and Yoga Slim 7x at $999: Best Copilot+ Deals Before DRAM Prices Jump
18+ hour, 57+ min ago (527+ words) Copilot+ PC is Microsoft's hardware certification for on-device AI in Windows 11, requiring a minimum 40 trillion operations per second from a dedicated neural processing unit, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of fast storage. Both laptops in this article clear that bar — the Acer's…...
Pentagon Backs Indiana Refiner With $25M to Break China's Gallium Chokehold
16+ hour, 28+ min ago (303+ words) Germanium is similarly concentrated: China accounts for roughly 60 percent of global production. It is essential to the thermal imaging optics used in fire control systems, smart munitions, and electro-optical weapon sights. The United States maintains a small National Defense Stockpile…...