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Illustration for: A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp
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In this edition of our A Day in the Life of a Roboticist series, we meet Charlie Kemp , cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot , who develops mobile manipulators to help people in their homes and workplaces.

IEEE Spectrum AI5 min
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers.

Import AI (Jack Clark)16 min
Illustration for: OpenAI's agents went rogue on Washington
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AI OpenAI's agents went rogue on Washington PLUS: How to get started with Jev, TypeSafe's new AI Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 9,410 new readers. OpenAI’s agents spent the summer loose on government websites, and newly disclosed details are raising fresh questions about how well the company can actually control its technology.

The Rundown AI7 min
Illustration for: Set Up Qwen-Image-2.1 in ComfyUI: 13-Step AU Guide - tech-in
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Alibaba s Qwen team shipped Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026, and it changes the calculus for anyone running AI image generation on their own hardware in Australia. The 20-billion-parameter model handles text-to-image generation, multi-reference editing with up to 10 source images, and native transparent PNG output from a single checkpoint.

ComfyUI Blog23 min
Illustration for: Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space
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Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space Distillation - Apple Machine Learning Research research area Methods and Algorithms , research area Speech and Natural Language Processing content type paper published September 2026 Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space Distillation Authors Prasanth Yadla‡, Mohammad Samragh Razlighi‡, Dongseong Hwang, Mingbin Xu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Yongqiang Wang†**, Yuan Liu§**, Zhen Huang,...

Apple Machine Learning2 min
Illustration for: How to train your own Jev for $17
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We just launched our own Jev-like classifier, together/Tev1-4B-experimental , on top of Qwen3.5 4B on Together’s serverless platform. In this blog post we’ll show you how to fine-tune your own version!

Together AI Blog6 min
Illustration for: Amazon shuts out Meta's Muse
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PLUS: How to set up ChatGPT to write in your voice Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 4,369 new readers. Meta’s Muse AI assistant climbed to the top of the U.S.

The Rundown AI7 min
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Download this complimentary White Paper today! This White Paper gives data engineers and architects a practical overview of how parallel partitioned reads, write-path optimization, and cloud-native bulk loading reduce large-table replication times, and why replication speed has become a business concern as data volumes grow.

IEEE Spectrum AI2 min
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Hi folks,I’ve not been building as much this week 😬 - hand, foot and mouth is back in our house (happens yearly with 3 young kids!), and I have…

Ben's Bites4 min
Illustration for: Zuck sits out the AI slowdown
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Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 4,361 new readers. Days ago, the frontier CEOs looked united behind Dario Amodei's slowdown plan. Then Trump, Beijing, and Jensen Huang said no, and now one of the biggest labs outside that circle has too.

The Rundown AI7 min