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Hugging Face Blog · huggingface.co · March 9, 2026
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Microsoft Research Blog Aug 31, 2026

GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models

What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, opening the door to larger studies and broader exploration. The post GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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Mask2Real-WM is presented, a two-stage action-conditioned world model for dexterous manipulation that decouples pixel prediction into a dynamics model and a rendering model that shows that mask conditioning and simulation pretraining are both required for per-DoF action controllability across all 23 degrees of freedom.

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Planning-aligned Token Compression for Long-Context Autonomous Driving

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#robotics Preprint Open access Aug 2026

FleetScape: A Mixed Reality Sandtable for Spatial Supervision and Control of Scalable Drone Fleets

As autonomous drone deployments scale from individual units to coordinated swarms, the human operator's role shifts from direct piloting to high-level supervision. Current interfaces often treat multi-drone control as a scaled-up version of single-drone operation. We instead investigate how reframing fleet supervision as spatial interaction can better support the spatial, temporal, and safety demands of complex missions. We present FleetScape, a Mixed Reality (MR) sandtable system that externalizes layered real-time mission, safety, and environmental data while enabling fluid transitions between manual intervention and autonomous supervision. We developed a high-fidelity building inspection simulation that generates and streams synchronized multi-drone and environmental data for MR visualizations. We used this prototype to conduct a user study with six experienced drone pilots managing fleets of up to 15 drones. Our findings show that FleetScape supports situational awareness through layered spatial representations and clarifies control mode transitions. However, a limit to situational awareness was observed as fleet size increases, leading to different supervisory strategies. Finally, we derive design implications for supporting scalable drone fleet supervision.

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GigaBrain-WBC-0.5: A Behavior World Model for Robust Whole-Body Control with Environment Interaction

GigaBrain-WBC-0.5, the first Behavior World Model for humanoid whole-body control, is presented, which trains a causal Transformer to jointly predict its next action, next state, and the distribution over its next latent behavior command, so the network that acts also models how the environment shapes what it can do next.

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