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Fara1.5 – A family of frontier computer use agent models

By: Ahmed Awadallah, Sahil Gupta, Yash Lara, Yadong Lu, Hussein Mozannar, Akshay Nambi, Zach Nussbaum, Yash Pandya, Aravind Rajeswaran, Corby Rosset, Alexey Taymanov, Luiz do Valle, Vibhav Vineet,...

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VITRA Redefines VLA Pre-training Paradigms via Human Video Reconstruction

When you see robots participating in running races or performing folk dances on stage, you might envision a future where a simple natural language command is all it takes for a robot to tidy up a...

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SentinelBench, a Benchmark for Long-Running Monitoring Agents

By Matheus Kunzler Maldaner, Adam Fourney, Amanda Swearngin, Hussein Mozannar,Gagan Bansal, Maya Murad, Rafah Hosn, Saleema Amershi Video playback requires cookie consent Modern AI agents are...

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Object-Centric Residual RL for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real VLA Enhancement

By Kinam Kim, Namiko Saito, Heecheol Kim, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Jaegul Choo and Yasuyuki Matsushita Video playback requires cookie consent Introduction A residual RL policy learns purely in simulation...

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Study: Developing tangibles with and for people living with chronic illness

The study is a part of a larger goal of improving quality of life for people living with chronic illnesses through the use of small, tangible devices. About this study The purpose of this study is to...

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Announcing the AI Economy Institute’s Third Cohort of Senior Fellows 

Continuing to Build a Global, Multidisciplinary Community of Knowledge The 2026 cohort of the AI Economy Institute (AIEI) brings together researchers from across North America, Europe, the Middle...

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Temporal Augmentations for Streamed Video Games: Supplementary Material

This supplementary website accompanies the paper “Augmentations for Robust and Efficient Imitation Learning in Streamed Video Games,” published at the Conference on Games 2026. The paper studies...

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Treatment Effect Assessment at Scale: Accounting for Correlated Metrics and...

By Kai Qi and Momo Meng, Microsoft Experimentation Platform At Microsoft’s Experimentation Platform (ExP), feature launches are routinely evaluated through A/B tests that can generate hundreds—or even...

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From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators: Reinforcing Social Reasoning...

Wenyue Hua, Zachary Huang, Tyler Payne, Safoora Yousefi, Saleema Amershi, Asli Celikyilmaz Increasingly, we ask AI agents to act for us: to schedule our meetings, compare offers, settle the terms of a...

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Why Africa’s Agriculture AI Must Listen Before It Speaks

By Najeeb G. Abdulhamid¹, Elizabeth “Liz” Ankrah¹, Abiodun Ogunyemi², Mark Perry³, Merja Lina M. Bauters², Jona Repishti⁴, Steven Sam³, Samuel Chege Maina¹, Millicent Ochieng¹, Mercy Muchai¹,...

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