HackerRank is betting AI can change not only how interviews are conducted, but also what employers can measure Beyond whether someone arrives at the right answer, the startup wants to assess harder-to-capture signals such as critical thinking and judgment, as well as what it calls “AI fluency” : how well a candidate frames a problem for AI, judges its output, and steers it toward a solution ▶️ #AI #HybridWork techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/ha…

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PhoneBot : a small humanoid robot that relies on an Android smartphone to sense its surroundings and control its movements Their proposed system could make robotics experiments more accessible for students and researchers worldwide The phone also runs the software controlling the robot's movements. It sends commands over Wi-Fi to a small onboard computer, which forwards them to the motors PhoneBot has 13 motors: six in each leg and one that rotates its torso. This additional joint allows the camera to turn sideways while the robot's feet remain planted ▶️ #AI #Robotics techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AgentHands : Handedness & gesture : Choosing between one or two hands and selecting from a library of forms, such as a “palm” for caution or a “cylindrical grip” to mimic holding a tool Spatiality : Leveraging the depth of XR to determine where hands should live. They can be mid-air for general conversation, object-anchored for identifying specific parts, or user-relative for social cues Temporal dynamics & visual effects (VFX) : Gestures in XR aren't just static poses; they include animated motions like “pouring” or “tracing”. Also utilize XR’s unique visual layer by adding effects, such as a red glow to signify a heat warning ▶️ #AI #XR #Google research.google/blog/agentha…

KAIST Department of Materials Science and Engineering has developed a small soft robot called "BeetleBot" The system combines artificial muscles, a camera and tactile sensors in a small soft robot modeled on a 🪲 It is expected to be used in remote tasks, such as inspecting narrow spaces that are difficult for people to reach and retrieving small objects ▶️ #AI #Robotics techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

An AI video co-director, a unified, multi-agent framework that explicitly plans visual continuity in multi-shot narratives Built as an orchestration layer on top of Gemini and Veo, this framework natively inherits safety mechanisms like SynthID watermarking A suite of frameworks that translate high-level human creative specification into execution by automating repetitive orchestration tasks, from multi-model prompting and shot chaining to closed-loop visual refinement ▶️ #AI #google research.google/blog/coheren…

SensorFM : a foundation model for wearable health pre-trained on more than 1 Trillion minutes of sensor data from 5M people By co-scaling model size and data, SensorFM learns a general-purpose representation of human physiology that transfers to 35 health prediction tasks, supports label-efficient adaptation and data infilling, and can serve as a grounding tool for a " Personal Health Agent " ▶️ #AI #DigitalHealth #Google research.google/blog/sensorf…

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For people who are blind or have low vision, moving around independently is a daily challenge Harvard researchers have developed a new tool that could help people navigate more quickly and safely with nothing more than a device they likely already have : a smartphone ▶️ #AI #Smartgadgets techxplore.com/news/2026-08-…

A new set of modular components allows users to create reconfigurable smart devices with electrical connections that keep working no matter which shape the structure forms This electrical modularity can enable engineers to design interactive devices that can sense which shape they have taken, without the need for external wires The modular components : “bifur-circuits” could be used to rapidly design and prototype adaptable smart devices, like assistive furniture that helps individuals change body positions while recovering from injuries or reconfigurable robotic grippers that remain electrically connected when they change shapes for different applications ▶️ #AI #Robotics #MIT news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engine…

A light-activated drugs that helped blind 🐁 perceive light again and restored visually guided behavior without gene therapy, implants, or specialized lighting ( IBEC ) Even more intriguingly, two of the most promising compounds worked when administered as 👁 drops, pointing toward a potentially simple new approach to restoring vision ▶️ #AI #NeuroScience sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

MOVIA™ Air Plus generating a 3D map of an unknown environment in real time by combining lidar and camera data, processing it onboard and streaming the resulting intelligence back to an operator on the ground In addition, the ability for MicroVision to process the resulting data directly to ATAK is a huge operational advantage: squads are able to share the information quickly within their existing data processing ecosystem With SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), the system can also map an unknown environment while simultaneously determining its own position within that map – opening the door to autonomous navigation in GNSS-denied environments where GPS may be unavailable or intentionally disrupted ▶️ #AI #Robotics #Drones V / @MicroVision microvision.com/insights/lid…

Neural Networks in Trading: The Temporal Query Model (TQNet) The problem is that financial data is not like laboratory measurements taken under sterile conditions. The market has a life of its own: sharp price swings in response to news, periods of high and low volatility, and unexpected correlations that appear and disappear in a matter of hours. Add noise to the mix (measurement errors, quote delays, data gaps), and we are faced with a classic problem: how to extract a reliable signal in a world full of randomness. The situation becomes particularly complex when local relationships between parameters within a single time segment contradict the overall picture across the entire observation history To bridge this gap : "Temporal Query Network for Efficient Multivariate Time Series Forecasting" proposed a new approach called Temporal Query - a tool that makes it possible to combine local and global views of the market ▶️ #AI #fintech V/ ( Dmitriy Gizlyk ) mql5.com/en/articles/19157

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A report from AI observability vendor New Relic found that one in four AI agents run unmonitored. That becomes a bigger problem as companies deploy more agents and lose visibility into what those agents are actually doing And that’s where the problem lies. Giving an agent permission to act is one thing. Knowing what it is doing once it starts acting is another A new category of runtime controls is emerging in response Okta, for example, introduced new tools designed to give companies more control over AI agents while they're operating ▶️ #AI #AIagents aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/ai…

Gradium's new Voice Design turns a written description into a brand-new synthetic voice in seconds Won 72.6% of 7,627 blind pairwise comparisons against ElevenLabs, Inworld, MiniMax, Fish Audio Voices are fully synthetic, no actor licence, consent, or per-voice royalties required Returns a stable voice_id that runs on the same streaming TTS endpoint as catalog voices ▶️ #AI #TexttoVoice #Gradium alphasignal.ai/news/gradium-…