Trump officials loosen strings on federal education money for Iowa. More states could follow

The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money, signing off on a ...
Rest of World

In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks

Local governments are building training centers to address a shortage of robotic data, as China makes embodied intelligence a ...
IEEE

Model-Free Privacy Preserving Power Flow Analysis in Distribution Networks

Abstract: With the increasing availability of smart meter (SM) data and the frequent lack of accurate network topology information, model-free power flow (PF) calculation has gained traction, often ...
U.S. News & World Report

China's Tech Giants Move AI Model Training Overseas to Access Nvidia Chips, FT Reports

(Reuters) -Top Chinese firms are training their artificial intelligence models abroad to access Nvidia's chips and avoid U.S. measures aimed at curbing their progress in advanced technology, Financial ...
Reuters

As data flow revives, Fed still faces a deep policy divide

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Federal Reserve begins receiving updated economic reports from the now-reopened federal government this week as policymakers hope for clarity in their ...
Reuters

India strengthens privacy law with new data collection rules

BENGALURU, Nov 14 (Reuters) - India put new privacy rules into force on Friday that will make Meta, Google, OpenAI and other companies minimize collection of personal data and give people more control ...
GitHub

Training Flow Matching Models via Online RL

To improve training efficiency, we provide a better set of parameters for Flow-GRPO. We found the following adjustments significantly accelerate training: To mitigates implicit over-optimization in ...
GitHub

ManiFlow: A General Robot Manipulation Policy via Consistency Flow Training

ManiFlow is a visuomotor imitation learning policy for general robot manipulation that generates precise, high-dimensional, and dexterous actions from visual, language, and proprioceptive inputs. It ...
Gizmodo

Reddit Sues a Collection of Startups It Says Are Wrongly Scraping It for AI Training Data

Let’s say a website makes it a violation of its terms of service for you to send bots onto its pages in order to vacuum up its text, which you want to package as AI ...
VentureBeat

Google releases new AI video model Veo 3.1 in Flow and API: what it means for enterprises

As expected after days of leaks and rumors online, Google has unveiled Veo 3.1, its latest AI video generation model, bringing a suite of creative and technical upgrades aimed at improving narrative ...
GeekWire

Amazon’s ‘model factory’ is training the next generation of AI on the tech giant’s own business

Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s senior vice president and head scientist for artificial general intelligence, left, speaks at the Madrona IA Summit in Seattle with Madrona’s S. “Soma” Somasegar. (GeekWire ...