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Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

Muchas veces hemos tratado los videojuegos como si su disponibilidad estuviera garantizada, incluso cuando dependían de discos, tiendas digitales y servidores que podían desaparecer. Lo que hemos visto esta semana recuerda que conservarlos exige algo más que voluntad: hacen falta soportes que sobrevivan y organismos capaces de catalogarlos, mantenerlos y abrirlos a investigadores y público. Sony ha decidido cerrar una de esas vías para los lanzamientos futuros. Casi al mismo tiempo, Alemania ha

Investors are growing uneasy about increasing competition from China in the global race to dominate artificial intelligence.

The company is expected to deliver comprehensive, data-driven reports and assessments to illuminate and secure the military’s medical supply chain. The post DOD selects Accenture to investigate ‘existential supply chain vulnerability’ threatening military medicine appeared first on DefenseScoop .

For a second time, the android robot Andrea was set up at a public museum in Germany for six consecutive days to have conversations with visitors, fully autonomously. Building on previously gathered qualitative results, the robot was now capable of engaging in multi-lingual conversation with the visitors about the museum context. The robot was prepared with context information about the museum in general and its surrounding exhibits this time. The robot featured a slightly artificial sounding vo

While investigations are ongoing, health officials suspect shredded lettuce may be partly responsible for the current outbreak.

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall Street, and academia was swift and pointed. TNW covered the model’s capabilities at launch, but the political and […] This story continues at The Next Web

In some countries, the debate around technological sovereignty has been framed as a race toward independence. Governments have invested billions in sovereign cloud initiatives, national AI programs, semiconductor manufacturing, and critical infrastructure under the implicit assumption that sovereignty means self-sufficiency. But that assumption is detached from reality.

On a video conference call from Hangzhou earlier this year, one of China's hottest startups held a four-hour pitch meeting with potential venture investors that was unusual by almost any measure. Von Saritha Rai und Olivia Poh ( Deepseek , KI )

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The president’s speech re-hashed debunked conspiracies around U.S. elections. Critics say the administration’s 18-month investigation into voter fraud has been a total failure. The post State officials, election experts pan Trump speech: ‘This is what desperation looks like’ appeared first on CyberScoop .

Shift in pecking order illustrates that investors are reassessing outlook for artificial intelligence Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company, reshuffling the top ranks of tech heavyweights as investors reassess the outlook for artificial intelligence. Apple was last valued at $4.88tn as ⁠its shares held steady, while Nvidia ⁠was roughly at $4.86tn, ​after a 3.5% decline. Continue reading...

California’s latest budget includes $116 million over three years to help schools identify and support students experiencing homelessness — the first time the state has dedicated funding specifically for this purpose. Homeless student advocates welcomed the investment after years of lobbying lawmakers to supplement the federal dollars California gets annually to address student homelessness. However, […]

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

Data-free knowledge distillation transfers the knowledge encoded in a teacher model to a student model without access to the original training data. Prior work such as Contrastive Abductive Knowledge Extraction (CAKE) achieves this for classifiers by synthesizing samples near the teacher's decision boundary. In this work, we investigate whether this boundary-seeking principle extends to autoencoder distillation through experiments on the MNIST dataset . To enable a direct comparison, we reformul

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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, Grey Zone, a web-based, multi-perspective interacti

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Classical approaches to event-based egomotion estimation, including those adopted by the top-performing teams of the ELOPE challenge, rely on geometric optimization frameworks such as contrast maximization, homography estimation, or dense optical flow combined with analytic motion inversion. This work investigates the geometric structure that emerges inside a multi-modal network for egomotion estimation. Event tensors, inertial measurements, and range signals are fused through a cross-modal atte

The days of treating fraud as a simple line-item liability are over. For years, the banking industry...

Jio Credit’s AUM rose 163% YoY to Rs 30,667 crore in Q1 FY27, while loan disbursements jumped 173%. Jio Financial’s payments, banking and asset management businesses also posted strong growth. The post Jio Financial Q1: NBFC arm sees 173% rise in loan disbursements, payments bank users near 4 million mark appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

The Kenya Investment Authority (Invest Kenya) is working on proposals for a residency-by-investment programme that would grant long-term residency to investors who commit substantial capital and create jobs, reviving a plan first floated in 2019 but never implemented.

More than 9.4 million investor accounts applied for shares in the blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), with retail demand reaching about 212 times the shares initially available online. Investors submitted valid applications for nearly 817 billion shares on Thursday, according to an official announcement published Thursday night. The response highlights the intense appetite for China’s leading producer of dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, as...

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By Kevin Walker, CEO, Centari. In recent months, several of the world’s leading law firms have announced investments in legal technology at a scale only ...

Symmetry Investments has received the regulatory approval to operate in Dubai, joining hedge fund peers who’re continuing to expand in the emirate despite the regional conflict.

LEED v4.1 BD+C certification remains a document-intensive process that requires reviewers to read hundreds of pages of project evidence and apply credit-specific threshold logic by hand. This paper investigates whether small, locally deployed language models can perform meaningful screening of LEED documentation and how deterministic symbolic components should share that work. A neuro-symbolic pipeline is introduced that aligns project PDFs to LEED credit sections, retrieves evidence with credit

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Investors pull away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year

The UK and EU have committed twice as much money as the US to investments in the computing sector

South Korean regulators fear single-stock leveraged ETFs are fuelling volatility

Reports of a Russo-Chinese plan to disable satellites underline how markets are ignoring geopolitical threats to the tech boom

Founder of VC firm Lakestar has raised a $300mn ‘resilience’ fund to back European dual-use and defence tech start-ups

arXiv:2607.14436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study investigated the public acceptance of Society of Automotive Engineers Level 3 conditionally automated cars, which can self-drive under certain specified conditions but require the human driver to remain ready to resume control when requested. Previous Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2)-based research has focused mainly on European samples, and so it is still unclear whether the same factors shape acceptance a

arXiv:2607.14605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study examines the cross-prompt generalization and first-language (L1) scoring effects of a LoRA-adapted open-weight large language model (Gemma-3-27B-it) applied to automated essay scoring. Using the identical model and inference configuration reported in "AiAWE: An Open-Source LLM Automated Writing Evaluation System Using LoRA-Adapted Instruction-Tuned Models" (Gayed, 2026), which was fine-tuned on 480 argumentative essays from two prompts

Un grupo de investigadores españoles aclara en un nuevo estudio cuánto material delictivo original hay en el rincón más profundo de internet

Japanese AI-linked stocks tumbled as a fresh rout in U.S. semiconductor shares spread across Asia after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's outlook failed to reassure investors.

Billions of dollars in leveraged bets on South Korea's AI darlings have warped a stock market once revered as a reliable barometer of global growth into a wild ​casino, confounding both regulators and ...

Global fintech venture funding hit $28.6 billion in the first half of 2026, up 23% on the same period the previous year, according to data from Crunchbase.