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For the modern LLM era, the standard recipe has rested on two pillars: a fixed tokenizer, and next-token prediction. Text becomes tokens, and the model learns by guessing the next one. Two lines of work are now challenging that recipe from opposite sides. Meta’s Byte Latent Transformer (BLT) asks whether we need tokens at all. […]

How Robots Learn to Walk Like Humans Humanoid robot walking is one of the most challenging problems in robotics. A humanoid must coordinate many joints, maintain balance on two relatively small feet, respond to sensor feedback, and adapt its movements as conditions change. Unlike a wheeled robot, a humanoid cannot simply move its body forward. […]

A collaboration involving Lockheed Martin, Verizon, Nvidia and Keysight Technologies is testing an AI-powered system called NetSense that turns existing 5G networks into tools for detecting and tracking unmanned aircraft. During a July demonstration in the Miami area, the system showed that commercial cellular infrastructure can help monitor drones without depending entirely on ...