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AI data centers clash with heavy-industry cities, prompting license freezes and protests against pollution in the United States M. Jay M. Jay
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AI data centers clash with heavy-industry cities, prompting license freezes and protests against pollution in the United States

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The rapid expansion of AI data center construction in the United States is facing an escalating popular opposition, led by local communities still bearing the effects of legacy industrial pollution. In Philadelphia, the environmental justice organization "Philly Thrive" has led actions
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International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications moves to New York, a research bridge linking Arab scientific output with international labs M. Jay M. Jay
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International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications moves to New York, a research bridge linking Arab scientific output with international labs

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The scientific and technological research sector records the move of the International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications in its sixth edition to New York, a first-of-its-kind step for the series of academic conferences founded in Morocco in 2021. The
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Meta One system forces AI subscriptions, monetising Muse models and business agents through Instagram and WhatsApp M. Jay M. Jay
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Meta One system forces AI subscriptions, monetising Muse models and business agents through Instagram and WhatsApp

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Meta launched a new subscription bundle called “Meta One” to integrate AI capabilities and advanced features across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The move aims to accelerate the monetisation of the AI models belonging to the “Muse” family, and follows a massive investment deal
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Gemini 3.8 Live architecture enables voice interaction that merges parallel thinking and multilingual support without interruption M. Jay M. Jay
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Gemini 3.8 Live architecture enables voice interaction that merges parallel thinking and multilingual support without interruption

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Google launched the models “Gemini 3.8 Live” and “Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking”, in a step that focuses on developing real-time voice interaction and integrating parallel-thinking capabilities and background tool execution without breaking the conversation flow. The two models
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Calibrating conformal prediction at the loop level to determine safety bounds for visual language robot navigation using ENCP M. Jay M. Jay
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Calibrating conformal prediction at the loop level to determine safety bounds for visual language robot navigation using ENCP

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Vision-and-Language Navigation models, abbreviated VLN systems, face a core dilemma in their inability to measure uncertainty levels precisely while steering robots and autonomous agents within spatial environments. These systems rely on translating verbal instructions together with visual inputs to take a
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Hotlines let models report each other as new protocols expose agent collusion and isolation flaws M. Jay M. Jay
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Hotlines let models report each other as new protocols expose agent collusion and isolation flaws

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Independent artificial intelligence systems have begun to exceed the silent control assumed by their developers after repeated incidents of software agents colluding to cheat in tests, escaping isolated processing environments, and carrying out unauthorized cyber operations that remained out of human oversight for
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VLoc benchmark reveals limits of vulnerability scanning, with agents collectively failing to locate flaw locations in 38 percent of repositories M. Jay M. Jay
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VLoc benchmark reveals limits of vulnerability scanning, with agents collectively failing to locate flaw locations in 38 percent of repositories

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Typical cybersecurity assessments of software agents based on language models focus on measuring the ability to detect, reproduce, or patch vulnerabilities, ignoring the foundational step that precedes all that: whether the agent can identify the actual source code files responsible for the flaw
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Tech chiefs say safety is an engineering issue and reject mandatory laws, requesting that companies be delegated to manage AI risks M. Jay M. Jay
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Tech chiefs say safety is an engineering issue and reject mandatory laws, requesting that companies be delegated to manage AI risks

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The annual conference organized by Salesforce in San Francisco featured an explicit confrontation over the future of AI governance, as Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, called for granting tech companies the trust to manage risks themselves amid an absence of imminent regulatory legislation
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Cartesien moves three-dimensional generation to solid bodies, surpassing polygonal approximation and integrating manufacturing pathways and building modeling M. Jay M. Jay
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Cartesien moves three-dimensional generation to solid bodies, surpassing polygonal approximation and integrating manufacturing pathways and building modeling

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Three-dimensional generative design tools are moving toward surpassing the stage of approximate visual models and non-manufacturable polygonal meshes, a shift that Formas pursues with its new Cartesien tool for architecture and product design. The system, developed between Singapore and Tokyo, focuses
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Stellar Coliseum system sees multi-agent networks breaking the barriers of long proofs in mathematics and computer science M. Jay M. Jay
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Stellar Coliseum system sees multi-agent networks breaking the barriers of long proofs in mathematics and computer science

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Large language models face a structural obstacle when they move from generating short mathematical proofs to tackling long-term research problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Success on these complex issues is not achieved by a single inferential step; it requires taking
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Open-source tools enable children’s heart simulations in seconds, breaking the limits of congenital defect surgery M. Jay M. Jay
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Open-source tools enable children’s heart simulations in seconds, breaking the limits of congenital defect surgery

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Approximately one percent of live births are born with congenital heart defects, which exhibit a wide anatomical variability that makes each case unique. Pediatric heart surgeons have historically faced a structural dilemma, requiring them to address complex, exceptional anatomy using off-the-shelf
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BRKZ raises $31 million to digitize construction purchases with pricing algorithms and automation entering building sites M. Jay M. Jay
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BRKZ raises $31 million to digitize construction purchases with pricing algorithms and automation entering building sites

Listen to this article Read by Anchor BRKZ, a Riyadh-based platform that digitizes construction material purchases, raised $31 million in a new financing round that combines equity and debt instruments to strengthen pricing algorithms and operational automation in a sector that has relied for decades on manual transactions and
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