They might be the smallest falcon, but American kestrels still intimidate other birds. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. No one wants poop on their cherries . Farmers in northern Michigan could get some help on this fecal matter from some feathered allies. Small falcons called the American kestrel help deter smaller birds that like to snack on the fruit when it is growing.

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The development of embodied agents for complex commercial environments is hindered by a critical gap in existing robotics datasets and benchmarks, which primarily focus on household or tabletop settings with short-horizon tasks. To address this limitation, we introduce MarketGen, a scalable simulation platform with automatic scene generation for complex supermarket environments. MarketGen features a novel agent-based Procedural Content Generation (PCG) framework. It uniquely supports multi-modal inputs (text and reference images) and integrates real-world design principles to automatically generate complete, structured, and realistic supermarkets. We also provide an extensive and diverse 3D asset library with a total of 1100+ supermarket goods and parameterized facilities assets. Building on this generative foundation, we propose a novel benchmark for assessing supermarket agents, featuring two daily tasks in a supermarket: (1) Checkout Unloading: long-horizon tabletop tasks for cashier agents, and (2) In-Aisle Item Collection: complex mobile manipulation tasks for salesperson agents. We validate our platform and benchmark through extensive experiments, including the deployment of a modular agent system and successful sim-to-real transfer. MarketGen provides a comprehensive framework to accelerate research in embodied AI for complex commercial applications.

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Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources. In early June, tech entrepreneur Vik Bajaj took over Saison, a two-Michelin star restaurant in San Francisco, for an off-the-record dinner to talk about AI with journalists and a handful of scientists. In attendance was Sherjil Ozair, a late addition who had previously held senior research roles at DeepMind and Tesla . The following day, Bajaj and Ozair were on their way to making a deal, public records show. Bajaj didn't mention it at the dinner, but earlier this year he had begun working with Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos on a new AI venture called Project Prometheus.

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising "serious concerns" about the company's "aggressive rollout" of artificial intelligence tools. Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company's allegedly "all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development" could cause "staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth," an internal advocacy group announced on Wednesday. Four members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice tell WIRED that they began asking workers to sign the letter last month. After reaching their initial goal, the group published on Wednesday the job titles of the Amazon employees who signed and disclosed that more than 2,400 supporters from other organizations, including Google and Apple, have also joined in. Backers inside Amazon include high-ranking engineers, senior product leaders, marketing managers, and warehouse staff spanning many divisions of the company.

The cosmic oddball that's 67 million light-years away has a puzzling shape. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. What does it look like in your mind? Chances are, it's a swirling circle of galactic energy . A galaxy is often described as one of a few broadly defined shapes--elliptical, spiral, or lenticular--as described by the Hubble sequence .

Australopithecus deyiremeda lived peacefully alongside other early hominins like Lucy. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Sixteen years ago, paleoanthropologists stumbled upon an errant foot bone at a dig site in Ethiopia. It was clearly human-like, but which species it belonged to remained a mystery. Now, we finally know that the foot belongs to one of humanity's oldest known evolutionary relatives .

Bidding in Heritage's Nature & Science Auction begins on December 2. This amethyst geode weighs 1,933 pounds and is 44 inches long. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Fossils, purple geodes, and more are hitting the auction block during Heritage's Nature & Science Auction on December 2. "This is an exceptional event, with every lot from the same consignor," Craig Kissick, Heritage's Vice President of Nature & Science said in a statement . "Collections like this, with this level of both quality and variety, rarely reach the collecting market. From fossils to meteorites, and minerals to lapidary arts, this auction has treasures that will appeal to collectors of all kinds."