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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 Is Here: Better AI Coding, Smarter Safety—Same Huge Price

Anthropic's latest flagship AI model Claude Opus 4.8 arrives with sharper reasoning, tighter alignment, and a price tag that hasn't budged.
Rock Paper Shotgun

After 10 years of work, modders have remade classic RPG Ultima Underworld in Unity with 3D models, new sound effects, and controller support

Eyes up, dungeon delvers! Or down, rather. Some bright spark has remade Looking Glass classic Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss in the Unity engine with new 3D models and sound effects, plus ...
Nature

Too dangerous to release: is Mythos the start of the restricted-AI era?

What happens when AI companies produce models that they say the public can’t have — and how should users and governments ...

3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild

A $2,500 pair of humanoid robot legs built from 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components is not going to win marathons ...

Milo3D.ai Launches Free AI 3D Model Generator That Turns Text and Images Into Game-Ready 3D Assets in Seconds

New platform gives game developers, artists, and product designers instant access to a free AI 3D model generator with ...
IEEE

Gaussian On-the-Fly Splatting: A Progressive Framework for Robust Near Real-Time 3DGS Optimization

Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves high-fidelity rendering with real-time performance, but existing methods rely on offline training after full Structure-from-Motion (SfM) processing. In ...
IEEE

Online Estimation of Model Parameters and State of Charge for Lithium-Ion Battery Using Multitimescale Recurrent Neural Networks

Abstract: Accurate estimation of battery parameters and state is significant for new energy electric vehicles. In this work, a novel online estimation method is proposed for a second-order equivalent ...