A LiveKit voice agent named Alex, built as a carrier sales rep for a fictional freight brokerage, cut the margin it gave away in rate negotiations from an average of 40% in its first version to 14% in…
Researchers introduced C-STRIDE, an observation-driven AI digital twin that predicts basin-wide flood water depth from sparse stream-gauge records, terrain, and rainfall, extending forecasts up to one…
A new arXiv paper (2609.30469v1) reports that an external LLM-as-a-judge filtering paradigm significantly reduces word error rate in pseudo-labeled training sets for noisy Broadcast Police Communicati…
Coco Robotics said a "sidewalk deployment error" caused roughly a dozen of its food delivery robots to cluster on a sidewalk along North Clark Street near Lincoln Park in Chicago, a scene captured on …
KT and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) launched Korea's first 400-gigabit-per-second international dedicated circuit, linking KISTI's headquarters in Daejeon to Chica…
AlphaGeo, a geospatial AI company, ranked Chicago as the world's most climate-resilient major city, with a resilience-adjusted risk (RAJ) score of 8 out of 100, based on its Climate Risk & Resilience …
New York City will ban generative AI tools for approximately 600,000 students through eighth grade, while allowing restricted use in high schools, in what is considered the most restrictive AI policy …
A month-long bike and train trip from Chicago to Berkeley, during which the traveler conducted street interviews with Americans about AI futures, reveals a public that is surprisingly willing to belie…
A content creator conducted street interviews across the US, finding that most Americans are unaware of AI advancements and have not used frontier models, yet they are directionally concerned about AI…
An ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national in the U.S. illegally, after he allegedly rammed an ICE vehicle and tried to run over an agent during a traffic stop in Houston. Th…
A developer reflects on the history of the United States, tracing its journey from the asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs to modern AI breakthroughs. The piece highlights key innovations such as…
A developer building production AI agents argues that the key to effective multi-agent systems lies in military leadership principles rather than technical tweaks. Drawing from Marine Corps doctrine a…
Subcontractors for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago claim they are owed millions of dollars in unpaid work, with some facing financial ruin ahead of the center's grand opening. The allegations…
Matthew Clark, owner of Sipbie Caffe, operates a weekend pop-up coffee shop in Los Gatos, California, creating drinks inspired by his travels and feedback from friends and neighbors. Clark, one of the…
Nationwide weekday office visits remain at about 70% of pre-pandemic levels, with office vacancy rates climbing to 14%, the highest since the Global Financial Crisis. Newer office buildings are thrivi…
Unigox launched NeoBank-as-a-Service, a platform enabling companies to deploy a branded crypto neobank on the App Store within four weeks. The service emerged after the company abandoned a year-long e…
Ekorbia v0.2 introduces a comparison-chat mode that runs two to three local large language models against the same prompt in parallel. Testing Gemma 4, IBM Granite 4.1, and Qwen 3.5 on a 32 GB M1 Max …
San Francisco rents have surged 22% over the past year, the fastest rate of any major U.S. city, driven by a wave of wealth from the artificial intelligence industry. The median rent for a two-bedroom…
Serve Robotics deployed 500 additional delivery robots across 40 Los Angeles neighborhoods this month, expanding from just two neighborhoods in 2023, while competitor Coco Robotics operates roughly 30…
A school shooting plot in Plainfield Township, Illinois, was thwarted on Friday when a relative discovered a boy armed with a firearm and pinned him down while calling 911. The boy was en route to Gra…