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Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI
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Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI

A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production. Download this free whitepaper now!

IEEE Spectrum8/12/20267
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Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT
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Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT

Judges around the world have made headlines for illicitly using generative AI in their work. But in Pakistan, a large-scale trial of a specially designed AI tool for judges found the technology—together with appropriate training–boosted the number of cases resolved by 6.3 percent with no obvious drop in the quality of judgments. With a backlog of 2.26 million cases and fewer than two judges per 100,000 people—compared to 22 in the EU and eight in Brazil—Pakistan’s judiciary was in sore need of h

IEEE Spectrum8/12/20261
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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.

TechCrunch AI8/12/20266
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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router

NVIDIA's open 30B MoE targets the agent execution layer, with Switchyard routing each step to the cheapest capable model. The post NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router appeared first on MarkTechPost.

MarkTechPost8/12/20263
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Xiaomi’s MiLM Plus Releases PROVE: Perception-Aligned Object Removal Metrics RC-S and RC-T With a Real-World Video Benchmark

Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and occluded structure convincingly, yet PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, ReMOVE and CFD frequently rank their outputs the wrong way. The root cause is structural: erasure is an ill-posed, one-to-many task, so no single ground truth exists to […] The post Xiaomi’s MiLM Plus Releases PROVE: Perception-Aligned Object Removal Metrics RC-S and RC-T With a Real-World Video Benchmar

MarkTechPost8/12/20262
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Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

TechCrunch AI8/12/20262
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The Video Production Stack Now Fits on One Desk: LTX-2.5 Launches as NVIDIA-Accelerated Open Weights World Model

LTX-2.5 brings frontier video generation to local NVIDIA hardware: 6.8-second clips, native multishot, day-one ComfyUI, open weights. The post The Video Production Stack Now Fits on One Desk: LTX-2.5 Launches as NVIDIA-Accelerated Open Weights World Model appeared first on MarkTechPost.

MarkTechPost8/12/20265
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.

TechCrunch AI8/12/20266
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Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users

Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.

TechCrunch AI8/12/20266
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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’

One of OpenAI's longest-serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was "excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point."

TechCrunch AI8/12/20265
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General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI

River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.

TechCrunch AI8/12/20266
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An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.

TechCrunch AI8/12/20266
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