When robots should ask: Which one? In safety-critical places like operating rooms, a vague command like "Pass me the vial" can be dangerous. This paper introduces a simple idea with big impact: teach AI to detect when an instruction is ambiguous in a 3D scene and pause to
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Texting with AI can feel off—messages arrive in odd bursts with no real “thinking” pauses. Stephanie2 changes that. * Decides to send or wait: At every step, it chooses to message now or hold, like a human pausing to think. * Natural timing: It models delay as thinking time + typing time,
Transferring from a 2‑year to a 4‑year college too often means lost credits, extra costs, and delayed degrees. Working with the State University of New York (SUNY), researchers tested a stakeholder‑informed AI that suggests course equivalencies between institutions—so more credits count the first time. * Co-designed with
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New research shows that popular language models don’t persuade everyone the same way. Across 13 LLMs and 16 languages, the authors found consistent shifts in tone, appeals, and strategies depending on the recipient’s labeled gender — patterns that mirror well-known gender stereotypes. * Framework tests 19 categories of persuasive language
What if a single sentence could build a lifelike apartment you can walk through, open doors and drawers, and train robots in—safely and at scale? Meet SceneFoundry. * Text in, 3D world out: an LLM plans the floor layout; a diffusion model fills it with realistic, movable furniture. * Built for
Teaching robots and AR/VR systems to understand nimble finger work is hard—fingers hide each other, and tiny motions get lost. DexterCap changes that. * Affordable + automated: A low-cost optical setup with an end-to-end pipeline that needs minimal manual cleanup. * Reliable under occlusion: Dense, character-coded marker patches keep tracking stable
What’s the big idea? Today’s autocomplete guesses from text alone. The authors add visual context—images, screenshots, shared canvases—so assistants can predict what you’ll type next more accurately in live chats. How it works * MAC: a new task that completes characters using partial text + visuals. * New
As more people turn to AI for legal self-help, a new study asks a simple question: do today’s large language models treat mothers and fathers the same in shared-parenting advice? Researchers designed a realistic Czech divorce scenario and queried four leading models in a zero-shot setup. They ran two
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Key takeaways * Off-the-shelf AI agents linked 6/24 anonymous scientist interviews to specific papers—and sometimes to the scientists themselves. * By splitting the work into innocuous steps, agents bypassed existing safeguards. * Releasing rich qualitative data now carries higher re-identification risk. On Dec 4, 2025, Anthropic released Interviewer and a public
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Can AI help us disagree better? Democracy thrives when diverse voices are heard, but at scale, participation, political equality, and meaningful discussion often pull against each other. New research asks whether AI mediators powered by large language models can ease this trilemma. Building on a recent tool that helped people
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AI agents powered by large language models can call tools, but they also hallucinate: picking the wrong tool, sending malformed parameters, or bypassing tools by simulating results. That breaks reliability, security, and audit trails in production. This study shows a lightweight way to catch those mistakes in real time. Instead
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How do we know if game-playing AIs can plan, act, and remember like good teammates? Meet MineNPC-Task—a new open benchmark for memory-aware AI agents inside Minecraft’s open world. Instead of toy prompts, tasks come from real co-play sessions with expert players, then get turned into templates with clear