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Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/tencent-open-sources-two-high-performing…

Tencent open sources two high-performing translation models
Chinese tech giant Tencent has open sourced two specialized translation models, claiming they outperform established tools like Google Translate in international benchmarks.

In my second instalment of thinking out loud about #ArtsPedagogy for film schools, I touch on drawing, sensory learning, experience, and the audience. I big reach for a short blog post, but a useful way to both train myself to write down what I’m thinking and also to record the connections in my thinking for future reference…

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, which automates the creation of custom frontier AI models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-first-product-fine-tune/

Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product
Thinking Machines Lab, led by a group of prominent former OpenAI researchers, is betting that fine tuning cutting-edge models will be the next frontier in AI.

Latent Thinking Optimization: Your Latent Reasoning Language Model Secretly Encodes Reward Signals in its Latent Thoughts
Hanwen Du, Yuxin Dong, Xia Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26314

Latent Thinking Optimization: Your Latent Reasoning Language Model Secretly Encodes Reward Signals in its Latent Thoughts
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at problem solving by generating chain of thoughts in natural language, but such verbal thinking is computationally costly and prone to overthinking. Recent work instead proposes a latent thinking architecture Huggin-3.5B, which represents intermediate reasoning steps as sequence of latent representations. However, latent thoughts lack interpretability and are difficult to supervise, raising concerns about the correctness and reliability of its latent thinking…

The fascinating neuroscience of lucid dreaming https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/sleep/2025/the-fascinating-neuroscience-of-lucid-dreaming-072325

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming
Training the mind to enter this rare state of conscious sleep may bring surprising benefits.

Cosmological tensions in the era of precision cosmology: Insights from Tensions in Cosmology 2025
Eleonora Di Valentino, Jackson Levi Said, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25288

Cosmological tensions in the era of precision cosmology: Insights from Tensions in Cosmology 2025
The ``Tensions in Cosmology'' series of conferences has been established as one of the main venues where the cosmological community collectively assesses the cracks in the concordance model and explores possible theoretical and observational remedies. The 2025 edition, held once again in Corfu, Greece, came at a crucial time: the Hubble constant $H_0$ discrepancy has now exceeded $6σ$, and new high-precision data from DESI, JWST, ACT, and other facilities have made this tension more robust whi…

The International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science becomes a permanent institution in Göttingen and Braunschweig
The Solar System School, the joint graduate school of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the University of Göttingen, and the Technical University of Braunschweig, is now a permanent fixture in doctoral training in Göttingen and Braunschweig. The Max Planck Society will continue the International Max Planck Research School for Solar Syste…

Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functiona

Thinking Functionally in PHP
Functional programming in PHP 7.4, with a side of category theory and monads accessible to everyone.

A Miniature High-Resolution Tension Sensor Based on a Photo-Reflector for Robotic Hands and Grippers
Hyun-Bin Kim, Kyung-Soo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00464

A Miniature High-Resolution Tension Sensor Based on a Photo-Reflector for Robotic Hands and Grippers
This paper presents a miniature tension sensor using a photo-reflector, designed for compact tendon-driven grippers and robotic hands. The proposed sensor has a small form factor of 13~mm x 7~mm x 6.5~mm and is capable of measuring tensile forces up to 200~N. A symmetric elastomer structure incorporating fillets and flexure hinges is designed based on Timoshenko beam theory and verified via FEM analysis, enabling improved sensitivity and mechanical durability while minimizing torsional deformat…

Beyond Passive Critical Thinking: Fostering Proactive Questioning to Enhance Human-AI Collaboration
Ante Wang, Yujie Lin, Jingyao Liu, Suhang Wu, Hao Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Jinsong Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23407

Beyond Passive Critical Thinking: Fostering Proactive Questioning to Enhance Human-AI Collaboration
Critical thinking is essential for building robust AI systems, preventing them from blindly accepting flawed data or biased reasoning. However, prior work has primarily focused on passive critical thinking, where models simply reject problematic queries without taking constructive steps to address user requests. In this work, we introduce proactive critical thinking, a paradigm where models actively seek missing or clarifying information from users to resolve their queries better. To evaluate t…