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With generative AI (GenAI) entering classrooms the question to which teaching approach best supports metacognitive skill acquisition in AI-assisted learning becomes pressing. In this short-term longitudinal study we investigate two contrasting approaches: experiential learning encompassing hands-on approaches and instructional learning such as classical lectures. We conducted a quasi-experiment with 126 university students from a first-year engineering course which were distributed across the tw

What GAO Found The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provided budget authorities for transportation, infrastructure, and energy projects. Together, the four agencies selected for this review—the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of the Interior (Interior), National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and Department of Transportation (DOT)—obligated a majority of their IIJA or IRA funding. IIJA. Of the approximate

Samsung is in talks to invest up to one billion euros in French AI startup Mistral, which would push the company's valuation to around 20 billion euros. The article Samsung deepens its AI empire with a potential billion-euro stake in Europe's hottest AI startup appeared first on The Decoder .

The move comes as Nigeria's telecommunications sector continues to grow, with mobile subscriptions and data consumption increasing and operators investing heavily in network infrastructure and customer acquisition.

The company merges its Flash fintech subsidiary with Shop2Shop to create merchant commerce and fintech platform FintechCo.

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

For the first time, the Pan-African venture capital firm returns R45 million to investors in its Launch Africa Seed Fund I.

OPay currently serves 46 million users in Nigeria (according to its own estimates) — roughly 0.23% of Nigeria’s over 200 million population. Outside Nigeria, the fintech has footprints in Egypt, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

The findings arrive as African governments compete to attract founders and foreign investment by simplifying the mechanics of starting a business.

Fast-growing Chinese robot maker AgiBot is pursuing an initial public offering in Hong Kong and has hired Citic Securities as a sponsor, according to two people familiar with the matter. Additionally, China International Capital Corporation (CICC) and Morgan Stanley have also been tapped as joint sponsors, one of the people said. Shanghai-based AgiBot had shown signs that it was looking to list following its restructuring from a limited liability company to a joint-stock limited firm last year,.

The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.

Today, we’re excited to share a long-term commitment to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, backed by a $60 million investment designed to accelerate AI for science and the breakthroughs ...

Chinese artificial intelligence unicorn Moonshot AI, whose release of its Kimi K3 model last week sparked talk of another “DeepSeek moment”, has accelerated its fundraising ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, eyeing a new financing round as early as next month, a source says. The Beijing-based company was set to close its current funding round at a US$30 billion valuation later this month or early next month, according to a person familiar with the matter. It planned..

South Korean giant could invest as much as €1bn in French AI group seeking to be a leading alternative to US tech

arXiv:2607.18931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web browsers now provide AI-generated news summaries for millions of users. Despite their popularity and influence, we lack a systematic understanding of how these systems transform news before people read it. Through a large-scale audit, we investigate the factual accuracy of browser-based AI summarizers and how they alter the political bias, negative affect, and journalistic writing quality of news. Drawing on 13,777 articles from 15 U.S. news ou

Moonshot AI, the developer of the Kimi chatbot, reportedly plans to begin talks in August for a final pre-IPO funding round targeting a pre-money valuation of up to $50 billion. The company could pursue a Hong Kong listing within six months. The round would follow current financing expected to value Moonshot at about $31.5 billion […]

Global biotech firms are increasingly being drawn to Hong Kong for its growing investor base and proximity to Chinese pharmaceutical partners.

Natural, a US fintech startup building a payments stack for AI agents, has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner.

Tobacco giant Philip Morris used AI to generate hundreds of fake "citizen" responses opposing tougher EU rules on vapes, with the Netherlands among the countries worst affected, an investigation by broadcaster NOS and the journalism platfor ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7560)

Sony Pictures is in early talks to lease and operate the legendary Cinerama Dome theater in Hollywood, Variety has confirmed. Sony has been actively moving into the exhibition business in the past few years, acquiring the Alamo Drafthouse chain in 2024 for its Sony Pictures Experiences arm and investing in Cosm shared-reality experiences earlier this […]

CNBC's Jim Cramer urged investors to diversify beyond the market's hottest AI winners, warning that no single investment theme should dominate a portfolio.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified at a Senate hearing that Donald Trump's proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget would be a necessary investment.

Goldman Sachs is launching a new alternative investments platform aimed at giving wealthy clients and family offices direct stakes in private companies.

Contextual entrainment is the tendency of a model to let auxiliary context in its input pull its output, independently of whether that context is relevant, true, or even meaningful. Recently, it has been identified and given a mechanistic account in unimodal language models. Whether and how it manifests in vision-language models (VLMs) is, by contrast, largely unexamined, and the field lacks a purpose-built instrument with which to investigate it. We take the position that studying contextual en

Most automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems operate on individual utterances, despite real-world interactions typically consisting of multiple utterances. As speech accumulates, increasingly rich speaker information becomes available through acoustic, prosodic, and linguistic cues, potentially challenging speaker anonymization methods that primarily target vocal characteristics. We investigate ASV in a multi-utterance, multimodal setting and examine whether aggregating information across a

The department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office released its latest, annual UAP caseload analysis this week. The post Pentagon investigating mysterious UAP event reported by the Navy near Virginia’s coast appeared first on DefenseScoop .

A field experiment with 1,559 Pakistani judges found that the AI assistant JudgeGPT boosted case resolution by 6.3 percent. The catch: only judges who got hands-on training saw gains. Without it, the effect mostly disappeared. The researchers estimate a return of up to $38.50 per dollar invested. The article An AI system helped Pakistani judges clear massive backlogs at $38.50 return per dollar invested appeared first on The Decoder .

San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obvious Ventures, with Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments also participating, following an earlier pre-seed […] This story continues at The Next Web

Torture memo thug appears on Fox News to casually threaten the NYC mayor -- and all of us. The post John Yoo Wants DOJ To Investigate Mamdani For Crime He Literally Did Not Commit appeared first on Above the Law .

Sila, the battery materials company formerly known as Sila Nanotechnologies, has raised $300 million in a private equity round led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures to expand its silicon anode manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington. 8VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, and T Rowe Price also participated, alongside existing investors including In-Q-Tel, […] This story continues at The Next Web

On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners completed their purchase of all the equity in Aligned Data Centers. The deal […] This story continues at The Next Web

London-based robotics startup Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation, pushing Humanoid’s own valuation above $1 billion. Bosch, Schaeffler, Aglaé Ventures, the investment arm of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, and Taiwan’s Fubon Financial also participated. The round brings […] This story continues at The Next Web

Everyone agrees competition enforcement should be fair. Agreement gets shakier once fairness starts costing agencies time, discretion, or victories. Competition authorities often warn that procedure should not become an obstacle to enforcement. Fair enough. Antitrust investigations can be slow, document-heavy, and vulnerable to delay tactics. A firm with deep pockets may try to turn “process” ... Competition Law’s Fairness Gap: Why Better Procedure Requires Better Incentives The post Competition

Fraud detection systems must scale with rising transaction volume while remaining explainable and reviewable. We study a layered pipeline on the PaySim dataset that combines a gradient-boosted classifier, graph-derived structural features, an autoencoder-based anomaly signal, TreeSHAP explanations, and a bounded LLM investigation agent applied to cases the classifier scores uncertainly. Before any model comparison, we identify and remove a simulator-specific balance shortcut that would otherwise

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable multilingual fluency, their internal knowledge representations remain disproportionately biased toward high-resource languages. This leads to cross-lingual factual inconsistency, where they shift their empirical answer distributions based solely on the prompt language. We investigate whether these biases can be mitigated at inference time, forcing an English-prompted model to answer as if it were queried in target languages (German, Sp

The report envisions a decade in which drones move goods, medical supplies, and information at a scale comparable to national infrastructure investments like highways and the electric grid. Potential applications include natural disaster detection drones that spot wildfire sources within minutes, medical supply chains that bypass ground congestion to reach rural hospitals, and nationwide fleets that continuously inspect bridges and power lines. Realizing this future, however, requires closing wh

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What GAO Found The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigates and determines the probable cause of transportation accidents in the United States, among other responsibilities, thus playing a vital role in advancing transportation safety. To support its mission, NTSB procures a variety of products (e.g., laboratory equipment) and services (e.g., services to develop and maintain systems and applications used to investigate accidents). NTSB is generally required to promote full and op

La Comisión Europea ha multado a AliExpress con 550 millones de euros por permitir la venta de productos ilegales, inseguros y falsificados en su plataforma. Es la sanción más alta jamás impuesta bajo la Ley de Servicios Digitales (DSA) , la norma con la que Bruselas obliga a las grandes plataformas online a vigilar lo que se vende y se publica en ellas. La investigación, abierta en marzo de 2024, ha concluido que los sistemas de detección de AliExpress "no funcionaban correctamente": muchos pro

The UK utility company is investing $1.75bn in a developer focused on supplying power to data centres