Closed for decades, a historic L.A. theater reopens for an ambitious late-night video art experience

German video art collector Julia Stoschek is bringing her landmark video art collection to the historic Variety Arts Theater in downtown L.A., marking the first major U.S. presentation from Stoschek's ...
Communications of the ACM

Building Intelligent Agents with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts

The agent acquires a vocabulary of neuro-symbolic concepts for objects, relations, and actions, represented through a ...
Ecommerce Fastlane

How To Design Black Websites: Examples + Tips

Most websites are built with dark text on a light canvas—after all, it’s how humans were used to interacting with words and ...
GitHub

High-level visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models

The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs, including objects, their spatial and semantic interrelations, and their interactions with the environment. However, a quantitative ...
Phys.org

Glowing urine and shining bark: Scientists discover the secret visual language of deer

During mating season, when male white-tailed deer want to get noticed by the opposite sex and warn off rivals, they rub their antlers against trees and scrape the forest floor. Then they pee on these ...
The Conversation

Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly

Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...
Forbes

BioRender Gives AI A Visual Language For Science

BioRender provides a rich set of tools for creating highly accurate images from biology. The tools provide a visual language to support AI in the biological domain. Notation and diagrams are essential ...
Wired

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers

The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature ...
GitHub

GSM8K-V: Can Vision Language Models Solve Grade School Math Word Problems in Visual Contexts?

GSM8K-V is a purely visual multi-image mathematical reasoning benchmark that systematically maps each GSM8K math word problem into its visual counterpart to enable a clean, within-item comparison ...
The Washington Post

Can you tell when you’re seeing CGI in movies and TV shows?

In subreddits and X threads, commenters seem to be railing more and more against terrible visual effects and wondering why modern films and TV shows look so bad. But is that actually true? Let’s flip ...
TechNode

Alibaba’s new Qwen3-VL models bring visual-language AI to mobile devices

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing ...