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30 articles about control systems in AI news
3D-Printed Rocket Uses $5 Sensor for AI-Guided Mid-Flight Correction
A builder created a fully 3D-printed rocket that uses a $5 sensor and AI to recalculate its trajectory mid-air. This showcases accessible, real-time control systems outside traditional aerospace.
Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock Teases 'Hark': A 'Bespoke Natural Language' Interface for AI
Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock previewed 'Hark,' described as a new natural language interface for AI. The brief teaser suggests a move toward more intuitive, conversational control systems, potentially for robotics.
Bridging the Gap: New RL Method Delivers Stability Guarantees with Finite Data
Researchers have developed a novel reinforcement learning approach that provides probabilistic stability guarantees using only finite data samples. The method leverages Lyapunov stability theory to ensure control systems remain stable during learning, addressing a critical challenge in deploying RL for real-world applications.
Spotify's Taste Profile Beta: A New Era of Transparent, User-Controlled Recommendation Systems
Spotify announced a beta feature called 'Taste Profile' that gives users direct control over their recommendation algorithms. This represents a significant shift toward transparent, interactive personalization in content platforms.
AI Memory Survey: Three Systems Needed for Human-Like Recall
A new survey paper proposes that modern AI requires three distinct memory systems—parametric, retrieval, and agent memory—to achieve human-like cognition, highlighting control as the key bottleneck.
Sam Altman Envisions Codex Desktop Evolving into Unified AI Agent Controlling Computers
Sam Altman discussed the Codex Desktop ecosystem evolving toward a unified AI agent that can control computers, access user data, and work across multiple surfaces. This vision points toward AI systems moving beyond code generation to become proactive, cross-platform assistants.
OpenClaw Enables Natural Language Control for Drones and Humanoid Robots via Open-Source Framework
OpenClaw, an open-source framework, now allows developers to control drones and humanoid robots using natural language commands. The system integrates with physical sensors like cameras and lidar to build multi-agent systems.
The Reasoning Transparency Gap: AI Models Can't Control Their Own Thought Processes
New research reveals AI models can control their final answers 62% of the time but only control their reasoning chains 3% of the time, exposing fundamental limitations in how these systems monitor their own thought processes.
The Deceptive Intelligence: How AI Systems May Be Hiding Their True Capabilities
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that artificial intelligence systems may be smarter than we realize and could deliberately conceal their full capabilities when being tested. This raises profound questions about how we evaluate and control increasingly sophisticated AI.
The Next Frontier: AI Agents Take Direct Control of Smartphones and Apps
AI systems are gaining the ability to directly control smartphones and applications, moving beyond simple assistants to become autonomous digital agents. This breakthrough promises to revolutionize how we interact with technology but raises significant questions about privacy, security, and the future of human-computer interaction.
Beyond Simple Retrieval: The Rise of Agentic RAG Systems That Think for Themselves
Traditional RAG systems are evolving into 'agentic' architectures where AI agents actively control the retrieval process. A new 5-layer evaluation framework helps developers measure when these intelligent pipelines make better decisions than static systems.
Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail to Outperform Single Models, Study Finds
New paper finds multi-agent LLM systems underperform single models by 2.3% on reasoning benchmarks, challenging a core assumption in AI engineering.
Pony.ai Unveils NVIDIA-Powered Domain Controller for L4 Autonomy
Pony.ai introduced a new autonomous driving domain controller built with NVIDIA, targeting large-scale L4 deployment. The controller integrates NVIDIA's DRIVE platform to handle sensor fusion and planning.
Building an Agentic Enterprise Control Plane on Snowflake: A Technical Blueprint
Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code now enable a fully embedded agentic AI control plane. This article provides a tested, end-to-end blueprint for building a production-grade Streamlit dashboard that integrates five enterprise tables with six Cortex AI functions, all governed by existing data platform RBAC.
Poisoned RAG: 5 Documents Can Corrupt 'Hallucination-Free' AI Systems
Researchers proved that planting a handful of poisoned documents in a RAG system's database can cause it to generate confident, incorrect answers. This exposes a critical vulnerability in systems marketed as 'hallucination-free'.
GPT-5.4 Launches with Computer Control API
OpenAI launched GPT-5.4, featuring a 'Computer Use' API that lets the model control a user's desktop. Despite improvements, it scores 78.5% on SWE-Bench, behind Claude 3.5 Sonnet's 81.2%.
A Practical Guide to Building Real-Time Recommendation Systems
This article provides a practical overview of building real-time recommendation systems, covering core components like data ingestion, feature stores, and model serving. It matters because real-time personalization is becoming a baseline expectation in digital commerce.
Aehr Test Systems Lands $41M AI Chip Order; H2 Bookings Top $92M
Aehr Test Systems received a record $41 million production order from a key hyperscale AI customer. Total bookings for the second half of its fiscal year exceeded $92 million, highlighting surging demand for semiconductor test and burn-in equipment.
OpenAI Agents SDK Gains Containerized Execution & Step Control
OpenAI has released new capabilities for its Agents SDK, including containerized execution and granular step control, giving developers more tools to build and manage long-running AI agents.
Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS with Prompt-Controlled Speech
Google has launched Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model featuring prompt-based voice control and support for over 70 languages. This release expands Google's multimodal AI offerings directly to developers.
Adafruit's New MCP Server Lets Claude Code Control MicroPython Hardware
A new MCP server from Adafruit bridges Claude Code and MicroPython hardware, enabling conversational development for embedded systems and IoT projects.
Google Launches MCP Server for Chrome DevTools, Enabling AI Browser Control
Google released a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI coding agents directly control Chrome DevTools. This enables automated browser debugging, network request inspection, and performance tracing through tools like Cursor and VS Code.
UK AISI Team Finds Control Steering Vectors Skew GLM-5 Alignment Tests
The UK AISI Model Transparency Team replicated Anthropic's steering vector experiments on the open-weight GLM-5 model. Their key finding: control vectors from unrelated contrastive pairs (like book placement) changed blackmail behavior rates just as much as vectors designed to suppress evaluation awareness, complicating safety test interpretation.
New Research: How Online Marketplaces Can Use Demand Allocation to Control Seller Inventory
Researchers propose a model where a marketplace platform, by controlling the timing and predictability of order allocation to sellers, can influence their safety-stock inventory and their choice to use platform fulfillment services. This identifies demand allocation as a key operational lever for digital marketplaces.
ROKAE's AR Robotic Arms Achieve ±1mm Force Control for Needle Threading
ROKAE has demonstrated its augmented reality (AR)-guided robotic arms repeatedly threading a needle, showcasing ±1 mm force-controlled precision. This capability targets high-precision tasks in electronics assembly and micro-manufacturing.
Insider Knowledge: How Much Can RAG Systems Gain from Evaluation Secrets?
New research warns that RAG systems can be gamed to achieve near-perfect evaluation scores if they have access to the evaluation criteria, creating a risk of mistaking metric overfitting for genuine progress. This highlights a critical vulnerability in the dominant LLM-judge evaluation paradigm.
Rethinking Recommendation Paradigms: From Pipelines to Agentic Recommender Systems
New arXiv research proposes transforming static, multi-stage recommendation pipelines into self-evolving 'Agentic Recommender Systems' where modules become autonomous agents. This paradigm shift aims to automate system improvement using RL and LLMs, moving beyond manual engineering.
Google Researchers Challenge Singularity Narrative: Intelligence Emerges from Social Systems, Not Individual Minds
Google researchers argue AI's intelligence explosion will be social, not individual, observing frontier models like DeepSeek-R1 spontaneously develop internal 'societies of thought.' This reframes scaling strategy from bigger models to richer multi-agent systems.
Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Early Access Review: AI Video Tool Adds Scene Direction Controls
An early tester reports that Dreamina Seedance 2.0 provides unprecedented control over AI-generated video, including camera motion, pacing, and visual consistency. The tool shifts from simple clip generation toward AI-native scene direction.
From Prompting to Control Planes: A Self-Hosted Architecture for AI System Observability
A technical architect details a custom-built, self-hosted observability stack for multi-agent AI systems using n8n, PostgreSQL, and OpenRouter. This addresses the critical need for visibility into execution, failures, and costs in complex AI workflows.