Opinion

'AGI Should Be Open Source'—Peter Thiel-Backed Sentient Bets $42M

Sachi Kamiya's Sentient Foundation, backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, has committed $42 million to open-source AGI as crypto becomes the payment rail for AI agents.

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
Decrypt

Ornith Is the Open-Source Coding Model Built for Agents, Not Humans

Ornith 1.0 by DeepReinforce is meant for developers who want AI that finishes the job, not just autocompletes the next line.
Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...
GitHub

Improving and Evaluating Hand-Object Interaction Detection

HOI-DETR is a transformer-based framework for detecting hands, hand-held objects, and their interactions in images and video. Built on the Co-DETR architecture, it adds a lightweight interaction ...

OpenCV 5.0 brings LLMs to the Computer Vision Library

Version 5.0 Modernizes DNN Engine, Adds LLM/VLM Support, and Enhances Core, Hardware Acceleration, and 3D Stack.
IEEE

Det-Agent: Open-Vocabulary Object Localization and Detection with Reinforcement Learning Agent

Abstract: Object detection, which aims to locate and recognize objects in images, is evolving toward reduced reliance on manual annotations and enhanced adaptability to open-world scenarios. This ...
IEEE

LLaMA-Unidetector: An LLaMA-Based Universal Framework for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery

Abstract: The object detection is a crucial task in the computer vision for remote sensing applications. However, the reliance of traditional methods on predefined and trained object categories limits ...