Google Cloud is advancing the enterprise AI landscape with the Gemini agent, a unified AI system designed to move beyond answering questions and generating content toward completing complex workplace tasks. Announced at Gemini at Work 2026 on October 8, the system brings knowledge work, software development, media creation, business-system connectivity, and multi-step task execution into a common interface. The announcement reflects a broader shift in artificial intelligence, from...

A robotic hand normally depends on an arm for almost everything. The arm transports it, positions it, stabilizes it, and supplies the reach required to interact with the surrounding world. Researchers at ETH Zurich are challenging that conventional architecture by teaching an off-the-shelf anthropomorphic robotic hand to move independently across surfaces using its own fingers. The result is an unusual but technically significant machine: a five-fingered robotic hand that can crawl without an...

Alibaba’s Qwen research team has introduced Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight artificial intelligence model designed to combine high-quality image generation and advanced image editing within a single system. Its visual generation component contains 7 billion parameters and uses a 32-layer single-stream Diffusion Transformer architecture. The model also integrates a Qwen3-VL 8B text and vision encoder, a dedicated RGBA autoencoder, and an inference design intended to reduce repeated computation...