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Ars Technica 1 month ago 39
Researchers built Spi-Fly, an algorithm inspired by fruit fly smell processing, to better remember scents over time. It was described in a paper published in Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. The result is an odor-recognition system aimed to reduce the “quick to forget” limitation seen in many commercial electronic noses as it adds longer-lasting scent memory.
Rest of World 1 month ago 33
A Ph.D. graduate in South Africa refused to train an AI system that would design assessments, teach undergraduates, and mark essays. The recruiter offered 600 rand (about $37) per hour, compared with a national minimum wage of 30.23 rand (about $2) per hour, amid 47.4% youth unemployment in Q2 2026. As a result, she stopped pursuing the role after an AI interview and continues searching for an academic job rather than AI work.
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16 October 2026
AI’s center of gravity this week moved toward something less glamorous than headlines about “smarter” models: scaling the stuff models actually learn from. AI4Bharat and NVIDIA released Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, backed by an open, GPU-accelerated synthetic data generation pipeline for 22 Indian languages. The corpus is massive—about 2.8 trillion tokens—split across 2,601.0 billion native-script tokens and 224.6 billion romanized tokens. The practical pitch is even sharper: builders can reuse not just the data, but the full prompt/quality/repair recipe, then continue-pretraining to push results on Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, with the promise that an Indic continued-pretraining stage helps benchmarks.
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