MIT-led team receives up to $38 million for disease-monitoring patch
An MIT-led team has received funding from the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health for a four-year project worth up to $38 million to develop a wearable patch that continuously monitors biomarkers of heart disease and sepsis.
MEMENTO study improves book question answering with a 20K-token context
Researchers report in a preprint that MEMENTO raised Qwen3-8B's accuracy from 36.9% to 67.8% across four book question-answering benchmarks while holding no more than 20K tokens in context. The tests included books of up to 2.5M tokens.
DreamX preprint reports 300× compression of video action representations
Researchers report in a DreamX preprint that they compressed each latent video frame from 1,200 tokens to 4 while retaining action information that transfers across human and robot embodiments and environments.
RoboTryOn study reports robot task success rising from 2% to 60%
Researchers report in an arXiv preprint that robot policies trained with RoboTryOn synthetic demonstrations improved average success on novel tasks from 2% to 60%, without real robot demonstrations of those tasks.
Fal raises $1.3 billion at $16 billion valuation
Fal raised $1.3 billion in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners that values the AI inference startup at $16 billion, TechCrunch reported, citing Bloomberg. Nvidia, Sound Ventures and T. Rowe Price participated. The valuation doubles the $8 billion assigned in April.
Tallia raises €4 million for AI tax research and drafting
London-based Tallia, formerly Revax, has secured €4 million ($4.5 million) in seed funding to expand its AI research and drafting platform for tax and accountancy professionals.