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A robot learns targeted fixes from human corrections.
Microsoft researchers introduced Rho, open robot-control models tuned for three dual-arm platforms. In their preprint, 15 human-corrected practice runs improved two already-trained tasks, suggesting robots can learn targeted fixes without retraining their full control model.
AI agents benefit from thinking about what to try next.
Meta researchers report that giving AI agents a separate controller to plan their next steps improved coding and reasoning benchmarks. Their preprint finds a trade-off: the extra deliberation can hurt performance when computing budgets are small.
Cloudflare plans a new issuer for quantum-resistant web certificates.
Cloudflare plans a public certificate authority to verify website identities, with quantum-resistant certificates targeted for early 2027. Browser approvals are still pending; the announcement lays out a migration route rather than a service websites can use today.
Battery backup expands to emergency dispatch centers.
Evoltix says two new battery-backup units are now available for emergency dispatch centers and small data centers. They support three-phase power; outage coverage depends on the battery capacity and critical load configured for each site.
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