Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...
IEEE

Separate, Locate, and Align: Determine Context Relation of Scene Text From Multiple Perspectives in TextVQA

Abstract: Text-based Visual Question Answering (TextVQA) focuses on answering questions about the scene text in images. Most works in this field uses transformer based models to modeling the ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious VSCode extensions on Microsoft's registry drop infostealers

Two malicious extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace infect developers' machines with information-stealing malware that can take screenshots, steal credentials, crypto wallets, and ...
The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Align U.S. Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries

ALIGNING THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to begin the process to align U.S. core childhood vaccine ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
Scientific American

AI Decodes Visual Brain Activity—And Writes Captions for It

Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain activity sounds futuristic, but it’s now one step closer to reality. A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences ...
Reuters

Invisalign maker Align Technology raises fourth-quarter revenue forecast, shares jump

Oct 29 (Reuters) - Medical equipment maker Align Technology (ALGN.O), opens new tab raised fourth-quarter revenue forecast and beat third-quarter estimates on Wednesday, driven by strong demand for ...
marktechpost

Zhipu AI Releases ‘Glyph’: An AI Framework for Scaling the Context Length through Visual-Text Compression

Can we render long texts as images and use a VLM to achieve 3–4× token compression, preserving accuracy while scaling a 128K context toward 1M-token workloads? A team of researchers from Zhipu AI ...
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‘Multi-alignment is key’: Marco Rubio cites India’s example to justify US ties with Pakistan

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has clarified that Washington’s renewed partnership with Pakistan will not come at the cost of its strong ties with India. Addressing media questions post-Operation ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large ...
Tidbits

Visual Intelligence: Occasionally Useful, but Often Flawed

I’ve been exploring the “visual intelligence” aspect of Apple Intelligence in iOS 26 on my iPhone 17 lately, and while it’s not game-changing, it is occasionally useful and can be faster than using a ...