Laurent Joubert

Agence du numérique en Santé @esante_gouv_fr

[Blender 🔶 @Blender]

The Blender Foundation and the online community proudly present Blender 5.3 🎉

This release wraps up 2026 with new features and improvements across the board. Highlights include:

🔸 Native support for 3D Gaussian splats.
🔸 A new DLSS denoiser in the Viewport on NVIDIA GPUs.
🔸 Asset libraries can now be shared as extensions, and the Extensions platform accepts asset libraries containing public domain (CC0) assets.
🔸 A new optional Projects system makes Blender aware of context beyond the open .blend file, with project-wide features to match.
🔸 Dispersion and roughness anisotropy for glass and transmissive materials in Cycles.
🔸 New Material Lighting nodes and panoramic camera support in EEVEE.
🔸 A stack of effects for the Compositor, similar to Geometry Nodes modifiers.
🔸 Grease Pencil adds selection tools to Draw Mode, a new Carver tool that cuts shapes with proper boolean subtraction, and multi-fill for the Fill tool.
🔸 Animation & Rigging adds operators to copy and paste world-space animation and to convert rotation modes, along with friendlier playback.
🔸 A full ripple editing framework and a rewritten Blade tool in the Video Sequence Editor.

And more!

Explore the release notes for the full picture: https://t.co/LwTsIlV5Gj

#b3d #devfund

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

Announcing a major milestone achieved by my team @GoogleDeepMind: we have proven key security properties of the machine code underlying the Signal messaging protocol. This is the first time the actual production code of a widely deployed protocol has been formally verified – by any method, with or without AI – and at this depth.

More than a research breakthrough, it’s a prime example of how frontier AI can be a force multiplier to counter the speed and scale of modern cyber threats.

Formal verification offers a higher standard of security; however, it’s extremely complex and time consuming, which is why in many cases it’s considered to be impractical. Similar efforts could take teams decades of combined effort. We did it in a month’s time.

Using AlphaProof Code, Google DeepMind's new agentic framework for formal verification that runs on LLMs including Gemini Carbon, we verified the Signal protocol down to the actual code running on devices.  This milestone lays the groundwork for a future in which vital systems, from medical device firmware to power grid software, ship with mathematical proof that their protections work.

Reaching that future will take continued research from our community. In that spirit, we're open-sourcing our formal specifications and verification artifacts so others can build on this work.

On a personal note, this moment is of deep significance to me. I started my own research journey more than two decades ago as an intern working on checking the consistency of complex software systems. Seeing this grand challenge made practical with modern AI is extraordinary.

I'm extremely proud of my team members: Swarat Chaudhuri, Andrew Ferraiuolo, Anton Kovsharov, Tej Chajed, Sam Schlesinger,  Karn Seth, Jonathan Katz, and Charles Sutton for taking on this grand challenge and delivering, and grateful to the Signal team for their partnership.

https://t.co/kN1eRYQ8fF

[Caleb @calebfahlgren]

Hugging Face is now the best place to host and share 3D assets 🧊🤗

Drop in .glb, .ply, .stl, or splat files and get a 3D gallery automatically. There are thousands of 3D models already in public datasets!

350+ datasets to explore: https://t.co/yQv82qMWL9
Docs: https://t.co/cyTYMSpJos

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

18 of the 20 best open models today are Mixture-of-Experts. Dense is basically over.

And yet the know-how to train a good MoE still lives mostly in the heads of a handful of teams.

So we spent 800k GPU hours running the experiments ourselves and wrote everything down. Super happy to finally release "The Ultimate MoE Training Handbook", free and open, organized around the questions training teams hit:
- how many experts, how big, shared or not?
- why is half my step spent in all-to-all, and how do I hide it?
- why is my run 25x slower with no error in the logs?
- softmax, sigmoid or sqrt(softplus) router, and why keep it in fp32?
- aux loss or DeepSeek's loss-free bias?
- upcycle a dense checkpoint or train from scratch?
- can I serve with fewer experts per token than I trained with?

⚠️ Warning: it's long (~70k words, budget a few days, sorry) but with 55 interactive figures, code you can run and numbers from our own runs.

Read it here: https://t.co/6XihlUrj92

[Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot]

Releasing the model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro: https://t.co/tJXcYUeSCj
We'll keep advancing open intelligence.

[OpenEvidence @OpenEvidence]

Introducing Learn, a free, personalized medical education platform from OpenEvidence, built to support trainees and clinicians across their entire careers.

As AI changes how doctors work, it matters just as much that it strengthens how they learn.

Clinicians have made OpenEvidence an everyday tool at the point of care. Now we apply that same technology and those same principles to how doctors learn medicine. Developed with leading medical institutions, certifiers, and educators, Learn brings together a suite of tools built on OpenEvidence so every trainee and clinician gets a tailored, evidence-based learning experience.

[RoboColosseum @RoboColosseum]

Introducing RoboColosseum

An open robot eval initiative by @huggingface @BitRobotNetwork @eaic_sg @DJiafei

Access:
- 100+ robots (@UnitreeRobotics G1s, @LeRobotHF SO-101s, YAMs, Franka and more)
- 140+ in-the-wild scenes
- Open rollout data
- 10,000 FREE eval hrs

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[etienne @cetiennec]

Welcome to @huggingface family @asimovinc !

Very excited about this collaboration @menloresearch !

Sound on ! 🎶

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Today, we release the weights of a new and improved Le Chonk, advancing the open frontier for agentic coding and cybersecurity.

💻 Built to build: Le Chonk ranks #1 on @cognition’s FrontierCode among open models, and sets a new benchmark for Pareto efficiency on @artificialanalysis.

🛡 Built to defend: State-of-the-art in cyberdefense, put through the paces by the world's leading cyber vendors, including @CrowdStrike, @cloudflare, @rubrik, @zscaler, and others.

Built for sovereignty: Make it yours. Download the weights on @huggingface , customize it with Mistral Forge, and deploy it wherever you need it.

Read more from our team and customers 👇:

[CNRS 🌍 @CNRS]

La France a joué un grand rôle dans l’essor de la robotique médicale. La roboticienne Jocelyne Troccaz, forte de ses 35 ans de recherche dans le domaine, en détaille les enjeux. https://t.co/FULkvrg2ju

[Laurent Joubert @ljo]

@Angers Bonjour, et il est impossible en tant que visiteur de pouvoir payer via l'application sans prendre un abonnement auprès d'easypark. #racket

[Marco Pavone @drmapavone]

Ever wondered what it’s like to learn robot autonomy @Stanford? Now you can.

Today, we’re opening up the robot autonomy teaching materials that my collaborators and I have been developing over the past several years—for anyone, anywhere, completely free.

At the heart of this effort is Principles of Robot Autonomy (PoRA), a textbook inspired by the Stanford robot autonomy course series I’ve been teaching since 2017.

Robot autonomy has evolved from a research discipline into a technology deployed in the real world. Building capable autonomous systems requires more than understanding individual algorithms: it requires understanding how perception, state estimation, planning, control, and learning work together in a complete autonomy stack.

That’s what we set out to teach with PoRA: bringing classical robotics and modern AI together in one coherent framework, grounded in both theory and practice.

Coming soon in print from Cambridge University Press, Principles of Robot Autonomy is also freely available online and comes with a comprehensive collection of open educational resources:

📖 Textbook, https://t.co/wRvXr4VCIP — Foundations of robot autonomy, from classical methods to modern AI-based approaches.

🎥 Video lectures, https://t.co/Yw3P1aGzBG Lectures from my Stanford courses on robot autonomy and on optimal and learning-based control.

💻 Interactive exercises, https://t.co/kyPV8AnyB3 — Hands-on Python implementations and Jupyter notebooks.

📝 Teaching materials, https://t.co/a6MqqYAcEN — Lecture slides and resources for instructors.

🌐 Explore all PoRA resources, https://t.co/oAsjrMJxZT — Including Ask the Book, an AI study assistant integrated throughout the textbook to answer questions, explain derivations, and connect ideas across chapters.

📣 Read the Stanford announcement: https://t.co/f6BBBZZQmg

Our goal is simple: to make high-quality education in robot autonomy accessible to students, researchers, engineers, educators, and anyone curious about how autonomous robotic systems work.

I believe that sharing knowledge is fundamental to the mission of a university. Autonomous robotics—and Physical AI more broadly—are among the defining technological frontiers of our time. We want to help more people understand these technologies, build with them, and advance the field.

A huge thank you to my co-authors, @DanieleGammelli, Joseph Lorenzetti, @katielulula, and @GioeleZardini, and to everyone who helped bring this project to life.

Explore the resources, use them in your own learning or teaching, and please share them with anyone who might find them useful!

#Robotics #PhysicalAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AutonomousSystems #Education

@Stanford @StanfordEng @StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI

[Maziyar PANAHI @MaziyarPanahi]

hot take: every CT scan should open in 3D 🔥

one click on the aorta and NVIDIA's open NV-Segment-CT traced it. then everything: 84 structures from 304 slices, every rib, all 5 lung lobes, the heart

10 seconds on one NVIDIA GPU

radiologists, default view or gimmick?

[Caleb @calebfahlgren]

We just launched OpenUSD support on the @huggingface Hub 🎉

Yesterday, @nvidiaomniverse put 2,500+ SimReady assets on the Hub. Forklifts, robot arms, engines, hospital equipment, all OpenUSD. You can also search the whole library in plain English
https://t.co/SU8mXQQRzL
https://t.co/U4PmZ0OMUp

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Published in @ScientificData, the ForTy 2020 map and the 2017–2025 time series are freely available today on Google Earth Engine - helping organizations build deforestation-free supply chains and protect the natural forests that matter most.
Find out more → https://t.co/hGzBRD7h3k

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Jensen closed his GTC Berlin 2026 keynote with this Hermes Agent demo as the finale.

He introduced it by saying the way to build an agent is to ask an agent to build it for you, so he installed and set up a customized Hermes in one prompt.

Then he used Hermes, running on @nvidia RTX Spark, to create a simulated training environment for the @huggingface Microduck. Hermes planned an obstacle course with Nemotron and had GPT-6 Astra build it using FreeCAD, Omniverse libraries, Blender, Newton, and Isaac Lab. Hermes trained thousands of simulated ducks on that course until the validated policy was ready to run on the real robot in the physical world.

At Nous, we believe open source is a practical tool as much as a philosophical ideal. It gives users the ability to build powerful, complex workflows chaining numerous local+cloud models, devices, and tools themselves instead of waiting for a company to enable them.

[Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. @iScienceLuvr]

Cancer patients with the same diagnosis often have very different tumor biology.

Molecular testing can reveal underlying differences, but that's slow and expensive.

Introducing Holon-S1, our platform to predict genes and biomarkers from routine pathology slides.

• beats two other models at predicting spatial gene activity in a controlled comparison
• has identified potentially novel biomarkers in breast cancer and colon cancer
• evaluated across 16 organ types and more than 15 scanners, using slides from both formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded and fresh-frozen tissue.

We believe Holon-S1 has the potential to help researchers find new biomarkers in slides they already have, discover treatment targets, and bring more personalized cancer care within reach!

[Arthur Mensch @arthurmensch]

Should Europe leave frontier AI to the Americans and the Chinese?

The idea has gained ground in Europe. It is a fundamental mistake.
Build or surrender: for now, the choice is still ours.

Full article below. https://t.co/v1biuiXoYe

[Misha Laskin @MishaLaskin]

Beam weights are out today (Apache 2.0 license).

We integrated Beam across 40+ different partners.

And are also open sourcing Mirror CLI - the harness Beam was trained against.

Happy building.

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Today we’re releasing Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date.

Built for coding and agentic work, it excels at long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step reasoning.

Key Model Specs:
→ 816B total / 42B active parameters
→ 1M token context window
→ Natively multimodal across text, image, video, audio