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TL;DR Hundreds of millions of cameras are already deployed, but most footage still requires a human to know what to look for. Lumana, founded by ex-Intel computer vision leaders, processes over a billion images daily across 50,000+ cameras using its VIA-1 model, which learns what is normal for
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Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe the binding constraint is grid capacity,
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T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days after Elliott built a stake to oppose it. A full combination would put the holding company outside Germany and cut the German state and KfW’s joint holding from about 28% to
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The Arduino UNO Q has been a pretty big hit, thanks to the useful SBC (single-board computer) and MDB (microcontroller development board) combination. It even has enough power to run some lightweight local machine learning and LLM models. But sometimes “lightweight” doesn’t cut it, which is why Arduino just
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Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company, said on Thursday afternoon that the issues with Grok resulted from “an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning.” The issues initially appeared
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2025 was a major year for new 360 cameras. Insta360 maintained its dominance with the X5 (since upgraded with the X6), DJI entered the picture with the Osmo 360, and GoPro finally upgraded its original Max after years of delays with the Max 2. In our in-depth review, we said
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You do not need a desk full of expensive hardware to keep AI agents running. You need a virtual machine that stays up, and you should not have to buy the box yourself. That is what Kumo trykumo.xyz sells. Instead of purchasing Mac minis, towers, or a closet GPU,
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Every large financial institution I've worked with sits on an ocean of financial data. Payments, transfers, settlements, reconciliations. Millions of events a day, all logged, all structured, all technically "available." And yet most of that data never reaches the people who make the decisions that matter.
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This series explores AI use cases: how AI can help you reach a solution or outcome. Remember that AI is probabilistic and can make mistakes, so anything it helps produce should be clearly labelled as AI-assisted and validated by a human It should also have a disclaimer similar to what
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For years, fiber optic patch cords have been among the more standardized products in optical connectivity procurement. LC-LC, SC-LC, single-mode or multimode—once the basic specification was confirmed, buyers could compare suppliers largely on price, lead time and product quality. That model still works for many conventional telecom and enterprise
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Safely using AI agents can seem like a daunting, if not impossible, task. The qualities that make them so useful—access to data, the ability to take action, and the flexibility afforded by non-deterministic output—also make them dangerous. But it’s not impossible, with the right tools and a
