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Everyone Is Talking About Humanoid Robots. Procurement Data Shows What Comes Next.

Everyone Is Talking About Humanoid Robots. Procurement Data Shows What Comes Next.

Humanoid robots are everywhere in the news right now. From Tesla's Optimus to Figure AI, Unitree, Agility Robotics, and Boston Dynamics, it seems like every week brings another breakthrough. The latest headlines focus on robots becoming…

TASS

Iran carries out drone strikes on military facilities at air base in Kuwait

According to the statement, the air base in Kuwait plays a vital role in US air reconnaissance and support operations

TASS

How to Automate AI Video Generation With an AI Agent (Without Losing the Director's Job)

How to Automate AI Video Generation With an AI Agent (Without Losing the Director's Job)

The cover image on this article was not made by me clicking a button. I typed a description of the shot I wanted into a chat window, an agent picked the model, set the resolution, fired the generation, and handed back a file. No dashboard…

BP to sell North Sea business; AI companies lead record surge on Korea’s stock market – business live

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BP to sell North Sea business; AI companies lead record surge on Korea’s stock market – business live

Live, rolling coverage as British oil company looks for buyer amid political dispute over future drilling licences Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets. BP has put its North Sea oil…

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Microsoft turns to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice over second-hand software licenses, and billions could ride…

Microsoft turns to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice over second-hand software licenses, and billions could ride…

Microsoft has won an extended stay at the Competition Appeal Tribunal while it seeks permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court, having lost at both the Tribunal and the Court of Appeal Its argument that Office's icons and clip art…

'The risk is that people begin spending more time signalling progress than making it'

'The risk is that people begin spending more time signalling progress than making it'

Report finds adults are spending four hours a week on reputation management, compared with 2.5 hours on developing skills This seems to be a response to the belief that professional opportunities increasingly favour people who communicate…

Can a New iOS Developer Ship an App in Two Months?

Can a New iOS Developer Ship an App in Two Months?

I need you to imagine something so bear with me. Imagine you’re playing a character in your favorite RPG. You start off weak. A simple rat makes you run for the hills. You can barely hold a sword. Magic? You probably can’t read, forget…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' 'message' to customers on what is not going to change

Times of India

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' 'message' to customers on what is not going to change

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stated customer focus remains paramount for the company's future growth. He stressed that low prices and fast delivery will continue to be valued by customers. Amazon is making artificial intelligence its largest…

Times of India

AI Infrastructure Is Becoming an Energy Business

AI Infrastructure Is Becoming an Energy Business

The strongest strategic signal in today’s source window is the transition from model-scale competition to power-system-scale competition. Brookfield and NextEra Energy have announced plans for a privately financed AI infrastructure and…

MRR Suspends Weekly Bhajan Programs Amid Rising Tensions in Terai Districts

TechPana

MRR Suspends Weekly Bhajan Programs Amid Rising Tensions in Terai Districts

Kathmandu. Popular Facebook community Mens Room Reloaded (MRR) has temporarily suspended its weekly bhajan programs across the country in light of the sensitive situation and rising communal tensions in several Terai districts. In a…

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Inside ARK-ASR-3B’s Whisper and Qwen Architecture

Inside ARK-ASR-3B’s Whisper and Qwen Architecture

Overview ARK-ASR-3B is a 3-billion-parameter multilingual automatic speech recognition model built by Audio8 that combines a Whisper-style audio encoder with an MLP adapter and a Qwen decoder. The model operates at 16 kHz sampling rate and…

The Meeting That Outlived Its Purpose

Fourteen of my forty weekly hours belonged to one recurring status meeting with eleven people on the invite. Cutting it to four people and fifteen minutes did not slow anything down. Forty hours in a week, and fourteen of them belonged to…