Researchers at Apple have developed PICO (Perceptual Image Codec), the first learned image compression model optimized for human visual perception and practical on-device deployment. The codec achieves 2.3-3× bitrate sav…
Emergent Ventures has awarded a new tranche of grants to four archaeologists developing drone-based radar imaging, AI dating tools, and ancient DNA analysis to accelerate the discovery and interpretation of buried sites.…
Ukrainian tech founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk, who transitioned from building PetCube to founding AI-guided drone company The Fourth Law, told Noah Smith that Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones last year while China could p…
NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model that unifies vision, audio and language processing into a single system, enabling AI agents to achieve up to 9x higher inference efficiency. The model tops s…
NVIDIA announced that manufacturers are shifting from traditional design-build-test cycles to simulation-first workflows using OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. ABB Robotics achieved 99% simulation-to-real accuracy in its Ro…