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Apache Flink is uniquely positioned to serve as the backbone for AI agents, equipping them with the powerful new tool of stream processing. Join Steffen Hoellinger at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how Flink jobs can be transformed into “Agents”—autonomous, goal-driven entities that dynamically interact with data streams, trigger actions, and adapt their behaviour based on real-time insights.
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Tubi announces plans to distribute 20 films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684374/tubi-kickstarter-initiative

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi and Kickstarter are partnering to bring a selection of crowdfunded movies to the upstart streamer.

GENMANIP: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation
Ning Gao, Yilun Chen, Shuai Yang, Xinyi Chen, Yang Tian, Hao Li, Haifeng Huang, Hanqing Wang, Tai Wang, Jiangmiao Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10966

GENMANIP: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation
Robotic manipulation in real-world settings remains challenging, especially regarding robust generalization. Existing simulation platforms lack sufficient support for exploring how policies adapt to varied instructions and scenarios. Thus, they lag behind the growing interest in instruction-following foundation models like LLMs, whose adaptability is crucial yet remains underexplored in fair comparisons. To bridge this gap, we introduce GenManip, a realistic tabletop simulation platform tailore…

Last week, our students learned how to conduct a proper evaluation for an NLP experiment. To this end, we introduced a small textcorpus with sentences about Joseph Fourier, who counts as one of the discoverers of the greenhouse effect, responsible for global warming.

Nice to see Michael Hansmeyer still following his dreams: The White Tower was finally revealed 2 weeks ago, currently the largest 3D printed structure in the world (30 meters [90ft] tall), located in a small village in Switzerland:
https://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/white-tower

Tor Alva | White Tower - Project Overview
Tor Alva, White Tower, Weisser Turm in Mulegns, Switzerland, Origen Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summa…

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summa…

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

Near-Field Sensing Enabled Predictive Beamforming: Fundamentals, Framework, and Opportunities
Hao Jiang, Zhaolin Wang, Yue Liu, Hyundong Shin, Arumugam Nallanathan, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09225

Near-Field Sensing Enabled Predictive Beamforming: Fundamentals, Framework, and Opportunities
The article proposes a novel near-field predictive beamforming framework for high-mobility wireless networks. Specifically, due to the spherical waves and non-uniform Doppler frequencies brought by the near-field region, the new ability of full-dimensional location and velocity sensing is characterized. Building on this foundation, the near-field predictive beamforming framework is proposed to proactively design beamformers for mobility users following arbitrary trajectories. Compared to the co…

Twenty-Five Years of the Intelligent Driver Model: Foundations, Extensions, Applications, and Future Directions
Shirui Zhou, Shiteng Zheng, Junfang Tian, Rui Jiang, and H. M. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05909

Twenty-Five Years of the Intelligent Driver Model: Foundations, Extensions, Applications, and Future Directions
The Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), proposed in 2000, has become a foundational tool in traffic flow modeling, renowned for its simplicity, computational efficiency, and ability to capture diverse traffic dynamics. Over the past 25 years, IDM has significantly advanced car-following theory and found extensive application in intelligent transportation systems, including driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicle control. However, IDM's deterministic framework and simplified assumptions fac…