Dell's Alienware Area-51 PC range is back for round two with AMD X3D chipsets, but it doesn't come in price peace

That's not to say the new AMD-powered Alienware Area-51 range isn't impressive, but the cheapest models showcased at CES 2026 ...
IEEE

Model Predictive Control for a 2-DOF Robotic Arm: Dynamics and Control

Abstract: The growing interest in arm robotics is driven by the need to facilitate complex and repetitive jobs for humans, as well as by the advancement of production. There is a need for optimal ...
IEEE

An Integration Model of Blind Spot Estimation and Traversable Area Detection for Indoor Robots

Abstract: Traversable area detection is essential for autonomous robot navigation, enabling robots to identify safe areas, plan optimal paths, and avoid obstacles. In complex indoor environments, this ...
GitHub

Rethinking Few-Shot Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Two Stages

Abstract. An old-school recipe for training a classifier is to (i) learn a good feature extractor and (ii) optimize a linear layer atop. When only a handful of samples are available per category, as ...
Microsoft

VALL-E Family

VALL-E 2 is the latest advancement in neural codec language models that marks a milestone in zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), achieving human parity for the first time. Building upon the ...
NBC Bay Area

Here are the winning numbers from Wednesday's $1.25 billion Powerball drawing

The winning numbers for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, with an estimated jackpot of $1.25 billion, were announced, but no ticket matched all six numbers. The jackpot has now grown to an estimated $1.5 ...
Science News

A quantum trick helps trim bloated AI models

A hunk of material bustles with electrons, one tickling another as they bop around. Quantifying how one particle jostles others in that scrum is so complicated that, beginning in the 1990s, physicists ...
Mashable

GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3 — How the two heavyweight models compare on benchmarks, price, and feature set

The AI race between OpenAI and Google is heating up with the release of GPT-5.2. How does it compare to Gemini 3? Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images OpenAI's latest AI model ...
Reuters

OpenAI launches GPT-5.2 after 'code red' push to counter Google's Gemini 3

Dec 11 (Reuters) - OpenAI on Thursday launched its GPT-5.2 artificial intelligence model, after CEO Sam Altman reportedly issued an internal "code red" in early December pausing non‑core projects and ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI fires back at Google with GPT-5.2 after ‘code red’ memo

OpenAI launched its latest frontier model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday amid increasing competition from Google, pitching it as its most advanced model yet and one designed for developers and everyday ...
The Verge

GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle

According to OpenAI, its new model ‘hallucinates less’ and is more accurate than GPT-5.1. According to OpenAI, its new model ‘hallucinates less’ and is more accurate than GPT-5.1. is The Verge’s ...