Daily Research Brief 2026-04-29

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Covers the latest AI research, open source and industry moves, updated daily.

Editor’s Note

Firestorm Labs raised $82M to take drone factories to the frontline; Scout AI raised $100M; researchers explore how AI could combat antibiotic resistance.

1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. ESICA: A Scalable Framework for Text-Guided 3D Mesh Editing — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24876

2. Learning Illumination Control in Diffusion Models — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24877

3. MotionBricks: Scalable Real-Time Motions with Modular Control — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24833

4. VISION-SLS: Safe Perception-Based Control from Language Specifications — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24894

5. Mitigating Shared-Private Branch Imbalance via Dual-Loss Training — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25179

6. Beyond Isolated Utterances: Cue-Guided Interactive Speech Understanding — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25618

7. CRC-SAM: SAM-Based Multi-Modal Segmentation for Colorectal Cancer — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24793

8. Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting for Semantic Scene Understanding — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25330