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CS Academics, 1 min read

GitHub Release Pages - UI Enhancements

GitHub has updated release pages with new features aimed at improving navigation and providing direct access to asset download metrics.

AI Organizations and Media, 10 items

AI Research - Compositional Evaluation of Coding Agents

A compositional evaluation framework for coding agents under realistic user requests is proposed, focusing on the evaluation of coding agents' ability to generate code...

Also covers Job Opportunity - Education Program Manager, Data Science Clinic - Information Session, Nordic Wind-Powered Empire and 6 more.

AI Leaders and Thinkers, 20 items

AI/Robotics - Microduck

Microduck, a low-cost, consumer-facing robotics bot, combines affordability, built-in capabilities, and learnability, making it a powerful tool in the robotics landscape.

Also covers Resources:, Fable 5.1 - Amazon Bedrock API, Resources: and 16 more.

AI in Healthcare and Science, 9 items

Medical Research - Autoimmune Disease Genetics

Autoimmune disease genetics research has made significant progress in recent years, with a study mapping 6.3 million records into distinct clusters, not one shared...

Also covers Premature Folding in Human Cortex, HOT OFF THE PRESS, Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy and 5 more.

AI Holodeck and Virtual Worlds, 10 items

AI Tools - Interactive Learning

Aivah Agentic Presenter is an AI-powered tool that enables interactive learning by allowing users to ask questions about approved materials and continue learning in...

Also covers AI Tools - Website AI, AI Tools - Workspace, AI Tools - AIAgents and 6 more.

AI Leaders and Thinkers, 10 items

AI/ML - Infinite Slop Levels

Infinite Slop Levels is an interactive AI-generated live stream of slop that goes on forever.

Also covers Tools - Weight Gain, Politics - China's Responsibility for Nepal's Floods, Social Justice - Israel's Murder of Children in Gaza and 6 more.

AI Companies and Ventures, 10 items

Database Service Update - Sunset Notice

Instant Cloud is being sunsetted. Existing applications retain support for twelve months following the announcement.

Also covers System Constraints - Operational Logic, Serialization - Canonicalization and Verification, Agent Autonomy - Base Development and 6 more.

AI Organizations and Media, 10 items

DevOps Setup - Local Homelab Construction

Building a local DevOps environment provides practical experience with containerization, orchestration, and automation tools.

Also covers Neuroscience - Motor Learning Mechanisms, Knowledge Graph - Link Prediction Losses, Model Testing - Isolation Concerns and 6 more.

AI in Healthcare and Science, 10 items

Medical News - Failed Trials and New Approvals

Novartis's pelacarsen, a monthly shot to lower lipoprotein(a), failed its Phase 3 outcomes trial.

Also covers Medical News - KOL Reactions to ETCAMAH Approval, Medical News - Voice Disorders and Cognitive Impairment, Medical News - Adagrasib + Cetuximab Withdrawal and 6 more.

AI Holodeck and Virtual Worlds, 25 items

AI Animation - Gen AI for Animation

AI animation is opening new creative possibilities for animators. Virtual Infocom offers a course on Gen AI Animation, which teaches how to work with AI as a creative...

Also covers AI Video Creation - Seedance 2.5, Image-to-Video - 30s Prompt, 3D Mesh Generation - WebMCP and 21 more.

AI Companies and Ventures, 10 items

Video Generation - Seedance 2.5 Release

The latest iteration of the Seedance video generation model supports high-resolution outputs.

Also covers Model Training - Hybrid Loss and Preference Optimization, Reinforcement Learning - Multimodal Reward Optimization, Media Editing - Automated Video Effects and 6 more.

AI Powered Film and Media, 10 items

AI Systems - Visual Design Paradigm

A new paradigm where a coding agent uses a VLM as the creative brain and an image model as a visual simulator to generate posters and infographics with real text,...

Also covers Paper: Editable Design, Feature Reconfiguration With Visual Prior, Knowledge Reflection Layer and 6 more.

AI Generated Music and Audio, 10 items

Compressed Podcast Summaries

We compressed a series of podcasts into concise summaries, covering topics from AI and tech to archaeology and spirituality.

Also covers Permissioned Chains, Chip Companies, Bessent and AI and 6 more.

VC Firms, 9 items

Career Development - ScreenSkills Bursaries

ScreenSkills provides bursaries for individuals working in the screen industries. These funds support various aspects of professional development.

Also covers Startup Support - R[3]sidency x Program, Venture Capital - APAC Investment Focus, Job Opportunity - PR & Communications Manager and 5 more.

AI Leaders and Thinkers, 10 items

AI Reasoning - Benchmark Performance

A general-purpose coding agent achieved a perfect score on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark.

Also covers Data Centers - Economic Impact, Music Video Preview - Access Status, Market Reality - Consumer Social Media and 6 more.

AI in Healthcare and Science, 11 items

Health - Climate Change and Respiratory Health

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human health, and its impact on patients with respiratory health conditions should not be underestimated.

Also covers AI - Evaluating Lakehouse Agents, Health - Personalized Medicine, Healthcare - N-of-1 Medicine and 7 more.

AI Holodeck and Virtual Worlds, 9 items

AI & Tech Updates

Miora Design is hosting a short story contest, Bestiary, where participants can create a narrative bestiary short using MiniMax H3.

Also covers AI & Tech Updates, AI & Tech Updates, AI & Tech Updates and 5 more.

AI Artists and Creators, 6 items

Art - AI Art Debate

Art does not ask what tool you used. It asks if you made something worth looking at. That is the whole argument. The rest is noise.

Also covers Nethack - GPT6 Astra, Morning Beauty, Future? No Thanks! and 2 more.

Devs, Designers, DevRel, 3 items

Design Process - Font Selection

Designers often spend considerable time on font selection. This process involves evaluating many options to find a font that aligns with project requirements and...

Also covers shadcn/ui - New Table Components, UI Components - Table Blocks.

AI Powered Film and Media, 10 items

AI & ML - Photorealistic Game Recording

Photorealistic game recording with flat even exposure, deep focus, and sharp front-to-back rendering without depth of field blur or film grain.

Also covers AI & ML - Child Murder Excuse, AI & ML - Integrated Multimodal Description, Music - House Music and 6 more.