Memes don’t act alone—neither should moderation Women are twice as likely as men to face gender-based harassment online. MemeWeaver is a new AI that spots sexist and misogynistic memes by looking beyond single posts to the web of related memes they live in. Instead of judging an image
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Finding "the red mug on the top shelf" in a 3D scan isn’t just about matching pixels—it’s about reasoning. Key takeaways * 3D visual grounding = teaching AI to locate an object in a 3D scene from a natural-language description. * Most systems rely on huge, hand-labeled 3D
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AI-generated videos often look great frame by frame—but the motion between frames can jitter, drift, or break physics. A new study introduces Motive, a motion-first way to find which training clips actually drive how a model moves. Instead of focusing on static appearance, Motive uses gradient-based influence signals weighted
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Renovate, don’t demolish Producing facade proposals that respect existing structures usually requires painstaking as-built modeling. This research shows a faster path: turn a rough sketch and a short text prompt into a photorealistic renovation concept. * Spot changes: a vision–language model reads your sketch and words to mark where
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Meet WaterCopilot, an AI assistant co-created by IWMI and Microsoft Research to help manage the Limpopo River Basin. It turns scattered documents and live hydrology feeds into clear, actionable answers. * Unifies policy files, reports, and sensor data in one chat. * Answers with transparent source links you can verify. * Provides live
ReinforcementLearning
Curious how the algorithms that learn to play games can also steer quantum devices? This beginner-friendly tutorial walks you from classical reinforcement learning (RL) basics to quantum RL, showing how these ideas power practical tasks in quantum control. What makes it different: * Plain-English explanations that connect math to intuition. * Step-by-step,
PersonaDual: AI that knows when to personalize—and when not to Personalized answers can feel helpful—but they can also bend the facts. PersonaDual is a new framework that lets one model switch between objective reasoning and personalized reasoning on the fly, based on the question and context. * Two minds
Generative AI is reshaping coursework—but where do students want help, and where do they want control? This case study of online graduate CS students audits student–AI collaboration across 12 academic tasks. Using two back-to-back surveys, it maps current AI capabilities against the level of automation students actually prefer.
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Teaching Basketball Robots to Know Where They Are At Robocon 2025, split-second positioning can be the difference between a swish and a miss. Naren Medarametla and Sreejon Mondal present a real-time localization framework that helps autonomous basketball robots figure out their spot on the court—using only what they see
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AI is shaping what we read and decide. But do large language models carry hidden political leanings? A new study proposes a transparent way to audit political bias: ask models to predict how parliaments voted, then compare those predictions to the real records. * Benchmarks: PoliBiasNL (2,701 Dutch motions; 15
VideoEditing
Imagine editing a video as easily as rewriting a sentence. This research explores text-driven video reauthoring—using words to reshape footage. The team introduces two pieces: (1) a generative reconstruction algorithm that reverse-engineers a video into an editable text prompt, and (2) an interactive probe, Rewrite Kit, that lets creators
We talk about AI as a productivity tool. But a new paper argues its biggest near-term impact may be entertainment—memes, music, companions, and endless remixing—already popular with young people and a massive potential revenue stream. As companies seek returns on huge infrastructure bets, “AI for fun” will shape