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Business Ideas/Mixed reality/Canada
On one Meta Quest 3, passthrough users reached 0.43 cm too far and virtual reality users reached 0.31 cm short. Training studios score trainees on reach, so part of that score is the headset mode.
An offline crop disease model scored 97.3 percent on cactus-fig photos taken at university test plots. No farmer has ever used it, and the paper describes that figure two different ways.
Data/Robotics/China · Singapore
One humanoid model finished 81.8 percent of runs across 11 household chores, roughly double the best rival. The average hides a chore that worked 4 times in 10.
Data/Quantum computing/China · Singapore
A review prices quantum error cleanup at 537 million times more runs for 1,000 noisy places in a circuit. No machine was run to get that figure, and it is not a count of qubits.
From Africa/Climate & energy tech/Nigeria · South Africa
A Random Forest model turned ordinary weather records into hourly sunlight forecasts for one site in Ibadan, Nigeria. Its yearly error on total sunlight was 0.19.
Research Radar/AI agents & MCP/USA
ChainWatch would spot attacks that spread across many AI agent tool calls. The authors say plainly it is a design specification that is not running, checked only against five paper scenarios.
A humanoid picked loosened screws from a real Hyundai Ioniq 5 battery pack 86.7 percent of the time while standing still. After it walked itself into place, that fell to 36.7 percent.
Research Radar/Mixed reality/Canada
On the same Meta Quest 3, virtual reality users reached 0.31 cm short while camera passthrough users reached 0.43 cm too far. The virtual reality shift also lasted after the headset came off.
From Africa/Agritech/Tanzania
A Tanzanian team trained a Vision Transformer on 100,000 bean leaf images, adding tiny nudges made to fool it. Accuracy rose from 97.4 percent to 99.4 percent.
Research Radar/Robotics/USA · China
TANGO sets all 29 joints of a humanoid at once, so it can duck, squat and sidestep while it walks. Trained only in simulation, it finished 10 of 15 real cluttered runs against 6 for the rival.
From Africa/Biotech & health tech/Côte d'Ivoire · USA · Canada
A team in Cote d'Ivoire relabelled a day of microscope images, retrained the model overnight, and tested it the next morning. Its catch rate rose from 75.5 to 98.1 percent.
Research Radar/5G & 6G/India
A survey of tiny models for 6G reports one study that turned a 4.55 megabyte neural radio protocol into a 1 kilobyte rule set, a 99.98 percent cut with no loss in task performance.