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The sovereign AI market is seeing questions about transparency and accountability, with almost a third of providers not providing evidence for their sovereignty claims.
Source: Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/10/26/sovereign-ai-boom-raises-questions-over-provider-accountability
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Exposed AI infrastructure grew 63% in nine months, according to the Censys State of the Internet Report.
Source: Techxmedia
https://techxmedia.com/en/exposed-ai-infrastructure-grows-63-in-nine-months/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exposed-ai-infrastructure-grows-63-in-nine-months
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Research examines Large Language Model agent vigilance in three realistic tasks and proposes a vigilance harness.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21262
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UniMASO improves the average score from 69.79 to 70.40 and reduces token-weighted deployment cost by 85.2% relative to DeepSeek-V4-Pro with MASPO.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31743
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Researchers introduced PaperScorer, a family of models predicting peer-review decisions from text or screenshots without author identity or formatting.
Source: arXiv cs.LG
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31791
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MAST-VLA introduces skill-conditioned LoRA Mixture-of-Experts adapters in the LLM backbone.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32312
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Monzo founder Tom Blomfield is backing the AI agent startup Nous in a $17m raise.
Source: Sifted
https://sifted.eu/articles/nous-ai-agent-funding-round-monzo-tom-blomfield/
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WorldMirror introduces an agentic real-to-sim framework that constructs interactive digital twins from in-the-wild robot demonstrations.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31834
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Researchers introduced DiscoDemo to discover efficient and diverse robot demonstrations for imitation learning.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32093
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The OWLS system uses open-vocabulary vision-language models to score each pixel of a camera image and creates a speed field for rover navigation without task-specific training or additional sensors.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32596
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TravSUITE is a traversability system for high-speed off-road navigation. It features an efficient voxel mapper and a unified neural network that jointly predicts traversability-relevant quantities.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32130
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Researchers show that a dot product with k-bit weight codes can be computed with fewer multipliers. A new scatter-accumulate processing element replaces the MAC unit in a systolic array.
Source: arXiv cs.LG
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31913
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CoCarry introduces a dataset and Contact-Support-Structured Retargeting for dual-humanoid cooperative carrying.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32460
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Researchers present UAV SwarmAgent, a hierarchical multi-agent system where an operator states the mission in one natural-language sentence.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32559
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FORCA is a force-aware coding agent for contact-rich robot manipulation. It uses visual observations and wrist force/torque measurements to write Python programs.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31841
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RepresentNav is a navigation foundation model built on a self-constructed representation space.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31762
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Researchers study the practical demands of embodiment change for closed-loop loco-manipulation on a Unitree Go2 with an AgileX Piper arm.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32271
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LogLook is an execution-grounded memory for frontier-model robot planners. It lets the system keep the record while the model decides where to look.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32348
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Ultrasound imaging is highly operator-dependent, motivating robotic systems that reproduce expert scanning skills consistently.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32525
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A new study investigates whether a swarm of twenty robots can use its own members as thermal shielding during the lunar night. Two behaviors emerge, mirroring how emperor penguins survive the Antarctic winter.
Source: arXiv cs.RO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31868
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