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Recently, speech deepfake detection (SDD) has achieved significant progress. However, its robustness evaluation remains largely confined to controlled additive noise scenarios, lacking systematic investigation of the complex distortions introduced by acoustic front-end (AFE) processing pipelines in real-world deployments. In this work, we simulate a unified AFE pipeline comprising acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, automatic gain control, and voice activity detection (VAD), and condu

Un nouveau rapport de la banque des banques centrales analyse dans le détail les conséquences potentielles de la course à l’investissement dans l’IA. Il estime que le secteur est déjà en situation de surinvestissement, et que le mouvement en cours pourrait passer d’une « explosion » à un « effondrement » d’autant plus intense qu’il est financé par de […]

Company aims to develop AI software that cuts research times and use of rare metals in chipmakers’ supply chains Business live – latest updates Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and the UK government have invested in a £2bn British artificial intelligence startup that is aiming to become the “search engine for rare materials” that accelerates the next wave of technological breakthroughs. The Cambridge-based CuspAI has raised $450m (£330m) in funding from investors including Bezos and the government’

Yimu Tech, a Chinese developer of tactile sensing hardware and software for embodied-intelligence systems, has completed a Series E financing round of more than RMB1 billion, bringing its valuation above RMB10 billion. The financing was jointly backed by multiple leading RMB funds, USD funds and industrial investors. The company is developing tactile sensing materials, chips, […]

Somewhere, a hard drive is filling up with secrets no one can read yet, and its owner is waiting for the machine that opens them all at once. On March 30, 2026, that wait got shorter.Two independent research teams lowered the public estimates for breaking the encryption that secures banking, communications, and classified traffic. One showed that Shor’s algorithm, the quantum method for factoring the large numbers behind public-key encryption, could run at cryptographically relevant scale with a

Netflix veut changer la manière dont l’engagement est perçu par les investisseurs et les observateurs. Dans l’esprit de la plateforme de streaming, une heure de compétition sportive diffusée en direct qui déclenche le recrutement d’un nouvel abonné a plus de valeur qu’une heure de programme regardée par un abonné fidèle. Plus de qualitatif, moins de […]

China’s market regulator is poised to announce the outcome of its months-long antitrust investigation into Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, as soon as this week, according to three people familiar with the matter. The probes, launched in January by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), could be concluded as early as Monday, one of the people said. The company could face a fine of between 2 billion yuan (US$295 million) and 6 billion yuan,...

Speaking in an interview with CNBC, TSMC's Wendell Huang said the fresh investment comes on the back of robust customer demand.

The deal size will exceed Luxshare Precision's $3.1 billion IPO earlier this month, making it the largest listing in Hong Kong this ​year.

arXiv:2607.15888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving ethics is not only an expert concern, but also a public issue involving risk, responsibility, and governance. However, non-experts often struggle to interpret these issues in concrete incidents, especially when responsibility is distributed across multiple stakeholders. This paper investigates interactive narrative as a public-facing method for eliciting situated ethical reflection on autonomous driving. We present Red Light, Gre

arXiv:2512.10113v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dark personality traits have long been associated with antisocial and toxic online behaviors, yet their relationship with observable online activity remains unclear. We investigate the association between validated dark personality measures, self-reported experiences of online incivility, and linguistic and behavioral features extracted from real-world user activity. To this end, we developed a Web application that securely links responses to v

arXiv:2607.02672v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Local pairwise comparisons are a standard tool for learning how people want decision rules to work, e.g., in participatory design or alignment. However, their use builds in two strong assumptions: that local comparisons are sufficient evidence about how a person wants an automated decision rule to behave, and that people can always answer those comparisons decisively. We investigate how these assumptions may be compromised under internal

Massive investment plans lead to investor fears of a new boom and bust in memory chips

Cloud-native banking platform Lumin Digital has raised over $70 million in new capital from its own clients.

The United States Trade Representative (Trade Representative) has determined under Section 301(b) and Section 304(a) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (Trade Act), that certain of Brazil's acts, policies, and practices at issue in this investigation are actionable and that action by the United States is appropriate. In accordance with the specific direction of the President, the Trade Representative is taking action by imposing 25 percent tariffs on all imports of Brazil, with certain exempti

"But investors know it’s the bond market that will call the shots in the $4.2 trillion economy no matter who sits in the prime minister’s office."

Self-hosted AI agents read and write their own memory and configuration files to function. An agent may get compromised via corruption of its own state -- a compromise realized via legitimate OS system call invocation. We refer to this class of threats as self-state attacks. In this paper, we investigate the OS resilience to this class of attacks. Formally, we characterize a four-axis attack space (Target, Mechanism, Granularity, Temporal); investigate the structural limits of prevention, detect

Real-time EEG classification on edge devices is bottlenecked by the floating-point arithmetic of conventional neural networks. We investigated Differentiable Logic Gate Networks (Diff-Logic) as a hardware-native alternative that compiles models into pure Boolean circuits executable via bitwise CPU operations. Through rigorous iso-parameter experiments across four EEG datasets spanning two classification tasks, binary dementia detection and 3-class emotion recognition, we compared Diff-Logic agai

Las olas de calor extremo son un desafío estructural cada vez más intenso y duradero y, ante unas ciudades convertidas en trampas de asfalto con una clara falta de árboles, el concepto de "refugio climático urbano" ha ganado fuerza como infraestructura de emergencia. Sin embargo, no cualquier espacio verde actúa como escudo térmico, puesto que una reciente investigación liderada por la Universidad de Granada evidencia que el diseño, la morfología y, sobre todo, el tipo de arbolado son factores c

Asian share markets slipped on Monday as the escalating conflict in the Gulf lifted oil prices and ​fanned fears of inflation, while a packed week of major tech earnings will further test investor ...

TSMC is seeing strong, multi-year demand for its AI chips as it invests a further $100 billion to expand its Arizona facilities, but it needs to address several challenges, such as a shortage of ...

AMSTERDAM, July 20 (Reuters) - The global artificial intelligence boom has propelled ASML (ASML.AS), opens new tab to the top of Europe's stock market, as soaring demand for AI computer chips flows to ...

Dr Tomislav Karačić, Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Management and DSI Affiliate, has been awarded LSE Research and Innovation funding for his project, “Faith and AI: ...

Given a binary-labeled linearly separable dataset, and the objective is to compute the maximum-margin separating hyperplane, also known as the hard-margin Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. This paper investigates whether, if given an initial separating hyperplane, can it be exploited to reach this unique optimum more efficiently. We present a geometric approach that gradually improves the alignment of the hyperplane, starting from an initial separating hyperplane, while preserving separat

Color naming is influenced not only by physical color values but also by the semantic context in which colors are used. This paper investigates context-dependent color naming by mapping color-name datasets from Cosmetics, Crayola, and Car-color vocabularies onto the 86 fuzzy color categories of the COLIBRI color model. Contextual variation is analyzed using category coverage, Shannon entropy, and maximum lift. The results show that the three contexts occupy the COLIBRI color space differently: C

Chinese state-owned capital operators China Reform Holdings Corp (CRHC) and China Chengtong Holdings Group on Sunday announced ​fresh purchases of Chinese equities, according to separate ‌statements, ...

In recent years, interest in eudaimonic player experiences (PX) - concerning reflection, meaning-making, and personal growth - has increased. However, most games user research methods are not well-suited to study eudaimonic PX, as they have been developed to evaluate features of hedonic PX, such as flow, immersion, and playability. To more deeply explore eudaimonic PX, we require methods that can 1) investigate how moment-to-moment PX shapes player reflection and 2) explore how players reengage

Why it matters: Chipmakers are the picks-and-shovels of the AI gold rush, and they are now looking shaky. A recent selloff, combined with new stress over competition from Chinese open-source AI models ...

Social Media + Society, Volume 12, Issue 3, July-September 2026. We employed the framework of mass customization to investigate how the Soul app, a leading interest-based social platform, is reshaping sociality among Chinese Generation Z. Six months of participatory observation, from December 2024 to June 2025, in Soul’...

The PM’s vision must look beyond datacentres and copyright to questions of capability, security and public benefit Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Every new technology has a tipping point, when it speeds towards ubiquity, changing the world as we once knew it. In the past six months, artificial intelligence, in its various forms, has crossed that threshold. You can measure it in the billions of dollars being invested; the hope-tinged-with-fear decrees from presidents

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Nebius raised $775 million in its first secured debt facility, borrowing against deployed GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows from an investment-grade customer. The facility matures on October 31, 2030, and is priced at SOFR + 2.50%, roughly 6.8% at current rates. Together with the customer agreement’s cash flows, the facility covers more than 100% […] This story continues at The Next Web

China lleva años con las pilas puestas en la nueva carrera espacial . Aparte de probar sus cohetes de ida y vuelta como elemento clave para abaratar misiones y para llenar la órbita baja de satélites de todo tipo ( tanto militares como centros de datos ), están sacando partido a la Tiangong .  En uno de los últimos cargamentos enviados a su estación espacial mediante la Tianzhou‑10, había un paquete de lo más especial : una célula con embriones de peces cebra, ratones y humanos artificiales

Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course argument again. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less water than America’s golf courses. The comparison is technically correct today. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of […] This story continues at The Next Web

Shares of Elon Musk’s rockets and AI company have slipped below their listing price for the first time

GoCab, the mobility fintech that operates Yango's largest fleet in Côte d'Ivoire, has handed over 100 fully electric cars to drivers in Abidjan.

For the past year, Faramade, who earns a little over ₦800,000 ($578.42), has invested at least ₦200,000 ($144.61) monthly through Bamboo, a Nigerian digital investment platform.

Investments in semiconductors fuel growth in regional revenues for US banks

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While Mars rover operators plan drives across hazardous Martian terrain and diagnose unexpected faults, the necessary information is distributed across separate systems and often reconstructed through manual correlation and memory. To address this challenge, we partnered with Mars rover operators at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to introduce Hindsight, a visual analytics system that unifies previously disparate rover drive data into a single workspace for search, comparison, and investigati