Summary Switzerland has launched Apertus, a fully open-source, multilingual large language model trained on roughly 15 trillion tokens and covering over 1,000 languages. The project publishes model weights, training data,…
New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats Summary Tencent has released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates short, 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image.…
India’s AI Story Is ‘All Talk, Little Substance,’ Says Bernstein Summary Investment research firm Bernstein warns that India faces a “strategic tech crisis” as US tech giants use aggressive pricing…
Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Summary Sainsbury’s has begun an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in two UK stores — Sydenham in London and…
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Summary The Department for Business and Trade ran a three-month pilot of Microsoft M365 Copilot between October and December…
FreeBSD Project Isn’t Ready To Let AI Commit Code Just Yet Summary The FreeBSD Project’s Q2 2025 status update reports that the core team is investigating a formal policy for…
AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos Are Flooding YouTube, Drowning Out Real History Summary A Slashdot write-up of a 404 Media report describes how dozens of channels are churning out long,…
Switzerland has released Apertus, a fully open-source multilingual large language model reportedly trained on about 15 trillion tokens and covering over 1,000 languages. The project publishes model weights, training datasets,…
New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats Summary Tencent has released HunyuanWorld‑Voyager, an open‑weights AI model that generates 3D‑consistent video sequences from a single image. The…
India’s AI Story Is ‘All Talk, Little Substance,’ Says Bernstein Summary Investment research firm Bernstein warns that India faces a “strategic tech crisis” as major US tech companies use aggressive,…
