Stocks of neoclouds CoreWeave and Nebius both dropped on Wednesday morning, even as most tech stocks rose, a sign that investors interpreted Tuesday's votes in favor of anti-data center candidates as particularly bad for newer cloud firms.
At WSJ Tech California, tech billionaire Chris Larsen advocates for bipartisanship on AI regulation, crypto and renewables. He also defends his support of Flock cameras in California and calls the state's proposed wealth tax "dumb.
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CNAS warns sovereign AI agents that escape oversight and resist shutdown pose a graver risk than earlier persistent agents, urging testing, hardened chokepoints and international limits on open-weight releases.
Learning a universal action representation from video requires modeling dynamics that are consistent across different executions of the same action yet invariant to changes in embodiment and appearance. Existing latent action models infer actions from visual transitions, but their representations often entangle the underlying action with irrelevant visual variations, limiting transfer across embodiments. We introduce DreamX, which repurposes a pretrained video diffusion model as a universal latent action learner. Our approach extracts compact latent actions from the video model's rich spatiotemporal features, compressing each latent video frame by $\boldsymbol{300\times}$ ($\boldsymbol{1{,}200 \rightarrow 4}$ tokens). In addition, by leveraging the video model's generative prior, these latent actions capture action-relevant dynamics disentangled from visual appearance. The resulting latent space serves as a shared action interface across embodiments (human and robot), environments, and action parameterizations. On LARY-Bench, DreamX achieves state-of-the-art performance among latent action models. Moreover, actions encoded in one setting remain effective in another: the latent…
Pika H3 Flex is a post-trained H3 model, designed to give professional creators the flexibility and speed to explore with precision. Optimized for greater control, it generates video with synchronized audio in six sampling steps and supports up to 12 reference inputs, with shot…
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund (PIF) portfolio company, has brought Riyadh-based AI and cloud technology company CNTXT into its operations. The financial terms and ownership structure of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in…