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Caledonia Mining announced a maiden mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its Motapa property in Zimbabwe showing 7.8 million tonnes grading 1.51 g/t gold, containing 379,000 ounces at 0.5 g/t cutoff, and increased estimates for its Blanket operation. This resource definition strengthens Caledonia's portfolio and signals expansion potential for a junior gold miner in Southern Africa.
Read original →Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
Read original →Economists have long viewed the post-pandemic economy as "K"-shaped. That consensus has now evaporated.
Read original →Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.
Read original →Researchers from University of Alberta published a technical paper titled “PPAPlace: Differentiable Cross-Stage Objectives for Chip Placement Optimization.” Abstract: “Macro placement significantly affects a chip’s post-route performance, power, and area (PPA). Most placement methods optimize half-perimeter wirelength (HPWL) as the primary objective. However, recent benchmarking shows a near-zero correlation between HPWL and post-route timing metrics... » read more The post Predicting Post-Route PPA from Macro and Standard-Cell Placements (U. of Alberta) appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
Read original →Iran's president says sanctions are hitting imports and exports, as its supreme leader urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar.
Read original →Google Research has introduced WikiSkill, a framework that gives AI agents a persistent knowledge base. Instead of discarding what they learned after each run, agents document both failures and successes in a wiki-like structure and use that knowledge to get better over time. Larger models benefit more, but smaller models with WikiSkill can match the performance of larger ones without it. The article Google's WikiSkill gives AI agents a persistent memory of past mistakes to sharpen future performance appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →San Francisco defense startup Mara has secured $7 million in a pre-seed round to produce what it calls Spike, a portable counter-drone system housed inside a backpack.
Read original →Warren Buffett will be celebrating his 96th birthday on Sunday, but Berkshire Hathaway investors aren't celebrating the stock's anemic performance.
Read original →The Comulytic Note Pro AI voice recorder packs a lot of power into a credit card-sized device. But its usefulness is up to you.
Read original →The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.
Read original →"Meta is seeking to ensure its competitors will face the same rules," one business professor told CNBC after Meta called on rivals to protect children online.
Read original →LAION's Big Video Dataset (BVD) is one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, with 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips. Models trained on BVD beat the previous benchmark, InternVid, by up to 2.1 percentage points. Legally, LAION can likely point to a 2024 Hamburg court ruling that allows collecting copyrighted content for non-commercial research. The article LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people pumping out this kind of content immediately own up to using AI, others have denied using the technology until increasing public scrutiny forced them to tell the truth. For musicians - especially those creating art in technologically-focused spaces like electronic dance music - the increasingly complicated question of what is "real" and what isn't feels particularly urgent and personal … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) provides AI agents unified interface access to physical devices, reducing integration time from weeks to hours in early tests. This enables faster deployment of AI systems in laboratory and manufacturing environments, lowering barriers to industrial AI adoption.
Read original →DatacenterDynamics article discusses leadership strategies for managing data center operations under operational constraints, focusing on organizational mindset shifts required to navigate the current environment. The framing suggests data center operators face structural resource or capacity limitations affecting operational planning.
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