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Presentation of the best paper award at the RoboCup 2025 symposium. An important aspect of autonomous soccer-playing robots concerns accurate detection of the ball. This is the focus of work by Can Lin, Daniele Affinita, Marco Zimmatore, Daniele Nardi, Domenico Bloisi, and Vincenzo Suriani, which won the best paper award at the recent RoboCup symposium. The symposium takes place alongside … Read More

Professional sports teams pour millions of dollars into data analytics, using advanced tracking systems to study every sprint, pass, and decision on the field. The results of that analysis, however, are industry secrets, making many sports difficult for researchers to study. Now, two University of Waterloo researchers, Dr. David Radke and Kyle Tilbury, are using AI to level the playing … Read More

Coinbase breach traced to TaskUs staff; $400M lost as hackers exploited insider-sold customer data. Court docs show TaskUs workers sold records, triggering scams, lawsuits, and 300 employee firings. Coinbase tightened controls, cut TaskUs ties, and reimbursed victims after insider-driven data theft. New court documents have revealed how a data breach at Coinbase, which came to light in May 2025, originated … Read More

Figure 1: DeFoG progressively denoises graphs, transforming random structures (at t=0) into realistic ones (at t=1). The process is similar to reassembling scattered puzzle pieces back into their correct places. Designing a new drug often means inventing molecules that have never existed before. Chemists represent molecules as graphs, where atoms are the “nodes” and chemical bonds the “edges,” capturing their … Read More

Nadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / AI Am Over It / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By David Comerford, University of Stirling Back in the 2000s, the American pharmaceutical firm Wyeth was sued by thousands of women who had developed breast cancer after taking its hormone replacement drugs. Court filings revealed the role of “dozens of ghostwritten … Read More

Fanny Maurel & Digit / Ambient Scribes / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Francis Osei 1. We built agentic systems. Here’s what broke When Agentic AI started dominating research papers, demos, and conference talks, I was curious but cautious. The idea of intelligent agents, autonomous systems powered by large language models that can plan, reason, and take actions using tools, … Read More

Avantis (AVNT) has hit a new ATH of $1.54 after listing on Binance, Upbit, and Bithumb. Trading volume has surged to $1.47 billion, driven by strong growth in the futures market. Avantis is gaining traction as a perpetual DEX backed by Coinbase and Pantera. Avantis (AVNT), a fast-rising token on the Base network, has taken the cryptocurrency market by storm … Read More

The T-maze, shown below, is a prototypical example of a task studied in the field of reinforcement learning. An artificial agent enters the maze from the left and immediately receives one of two possible observations: red or green. Red means that the agent will be rewarded for moving to the top at the right end of the corridor (in the … Read More

Coinbase backs UK petition urging stablecoin rules and blockchain adoption. Petition tops 5K signatures; 10K triggers government reply, 100K a debate. Supporters warn UK risks falling behind without clear crypto strategy. A public petition urging the United Kingdom to adopt a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins has gathered momentum after crypto exchange Coinbase rallied its users to support the … Read More

By Melissa Anchisi and Florian Meyer In July, EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) announced their joint initiative to build a large language model (LLM). Now, this model is available and serves as a building block for developers and organisations for future applications such as chatbots, translation systems, or educational tools. The model is named Apertus … Read More