Great to see AI-based weather prediction being rolled out across Africa. This is important because traditional weather forecasts rely much more on ground-based radar, and in Africa, there simply aren't enough to give high quality traditional forecasts. https://
blog.google/intl/en-africa
/products/explore-get-answers/nowcasting-on-search-is-bringing-ai-powered-weather-forecasts-to-users-across-africa/
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AI-Powered Weather Forecasting Rolls Out Across Africa
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Corporate Tech Promises: Aurora and Ouster Self-Driving Focus
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Wall Street’s Best Ideas: It’s corporate promises season, again Companies including Cognizant and Taboola are making big strategy promises to the Street, though they mostly sound uninspiring. Aurora Innovation and Ouster are two self-driving car names to put in your “high-risk”
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AI Progress Trajectory Often Underestimated by Skeptics
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you can show the world screenshots of progress every 6 months and yet they will not believe where it will lead even though the writing is on the wall
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Feed-Forward Networks Infer 3D Scene Attributes Directly
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Can a feed-forward neural network directly infer all key 3D attributes of a scene? This CVPR 2025 paper says YES.
— 机器之心 JIQIZHIXIN (@jiqizhixin) 28 mars 2025
The proposed VGGT can directly infer camera parameters, point maps, depth maps, and 3D point tracks from one, a few, or even hundreds of scene views. 🚀🔍 pic.twitter.com/Gm3z2ZAn6RCan a feed-forward neural network directly infer all key 3D attributes of a scene? This CVPR 2025 paper says YES.
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France’s Innovation Paralysis: Fear Blocks Technological Progress
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Le monde accélère. Les innovations fusent. Partout. Sauf chez nous.
— Rafik Smati (@RafikSmati) 28 mars 2025
Pourquoi ?
Parce que nous avons peur.
Parce que nous jouons en défense.
Parce que l’incertitude du changement nous terrifie.
La réalité est que depuis plusieurs décennies, la France a fait un choix : celui de… pic.twitter.com/fL6kEWHxodLe monde accélère. Les innovations fusent. Partout. Sauf chez nous. Pourquoi ?
Parce que nous avons peur.
Parce que nous jouons en défense.
Parce que l’incertitude du changement nous terrifie. La réalité est que depuis plusieurs décennies, la France a fait un choix : celui de -
Preference for 4o despite the absurdity of AI
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AI nonsense But I really like and use 4o over 4.5 Even before the update
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Historical parallels: Technology adoption and societal concerns
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They said the same thing about books
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Google strikes hard with Gemini 2.5 Pro: free full test
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Google just struck a BIG blow with Gemini 2.5 Pro Here is my full test and you will see all the crazy things you can do with it →
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What’s Stopping You from Creating Something New Today?
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You can create something new…what's stopping you?
