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The QBE North America See full company profile “> Foundation announced that it has partnered with nonprofit InnSure See full company profile “> and the City of Salem, Massachusetts, to implement a pilot program aimed at increasing resilience to climate-driven flood risks. This public-private partnership will evaluate measures that lower flood risks for homeowners and renters, while also mitigating community-wide vulnerabilities to flash flooding. The pilot program will leverage insurance industry expertise to develop and execute actionable work plans. These plans include home resilience audits and a community-embedded insurance solution designed to recognize and reward climate adaptation efforts at both…

ThecePlay and Logitech G have teamed up to launch Aim & Run, a high-intensity speedrun challenge where anyone can be the best player in a Counter-Strike 2 map. ThecePlay has created a speedrun test in a Counter-Strike 2 mod where a player moves through a maze quickly and has to precisely shoot a bunch of dummy enemies. Whoever can shoot most accurately and quickly moves to the top of the leaderboard. Logitech G is launching Aim & Run, a high-intensity speedrun challenge designed to push precision and speed to their limits. Aim & Run is the latest asynchronous individual competition…

Cummins has its eye on hybrid powertrains to help decarbonize the transport, construction, and mining spaces the operates in. To that end, the company has acquired the hybrid equipment experts First Mode, and plans to make the first commercially available retrofit hybrid system for mining equipment a reality not just soon – but now. The Cummins brand is almost synonymous with diesel in the US, but they’re making big moves in the ZEV space, too, with their Accelera brand and, now, with their purchase of First Mode. The acquisition includes the rights to all of First Mode’s tech in the mining…

Dynabook and NEC defy industry trends by bringing back optical drivesDynabook T series uses both Blu-ray Disc drive and DVD Super Multi-DriveNEC Lavie N16 opts for only DVD Super Multi-DriveIn somewhat surprising news, Dynabook has released its T series (originally in Japanese), with 13th-generation Intel processors, while NEC has introduced the Lavie N16 (also in Japanese), featuring a mix of AMD Ryzen 7 and Intel 12th-generation processors.The startling part is that these business laptops, from the Year of Our Lord 2025, contain built-in optical drives. bucking the trend of manufacturers prioritising lightweight portability over physical media playback.Dynabook T series(Image credit:…

“We are delighted to have Zhanna join our Board,” said Eric Hansotia, Chairman, President and CEO of AGCO Corporation. “Her technology, innovation, digitalization and sustainability expertise and experience will be invaluable as we continue to evolve AGCO’s smart solutions and technology offerings. Zhanna brings valuable perspectives and further enhances the collective experiences of the Board to advance our strategic priorities.”Ms. Golodryga is Executive Vice President of Emerging Energy and Sustainability for Phillips 66, an integrated downstream energy, manufacturing and logistics company. Ms. Golodryga is responsible for driving energy transition and decarbonization across the enterprise. She has held senior roles at…

Frank Azor, AMD Chief Architect for Gaming Solutions, took the stage at X to address rumors of a potential 32GB RX 9070 XTX in the making. The executive revealed the impossibly powerful RX 90700.05XTXT Max 320GB as an alternative, which quote-unquote matches the RTX 5090, though only in raster. Jokes aside, a 32GB variant could still be on the cards (no pun intended), as it wasn’t explicitly denied but that’s just a guess at this point.Click ‘See more’ to check out Frank’s replyIt’s unusual for executives to publicly address leaks by confirming or denying their validity. A few days back,…

The path from the atrocities of Nuremberg and Tuskegee to today’s robust ethics of medical research has not been easy. In response to these horrific events, a remarkable global consensus emerged, across countries in very different parts of the world and with very different types of governments: Medical researchers, and the institutions and companies who fund their work, are bound by a series of ethical obligations. These obligations are designed to protect and respect the interests of people who participate in their research. They include minimizing foreseeable harms to participants and keeping the promises that researchers make to study volunteers.…

French insurer Matmut See full company profile “> has renewed its partnership with Zelros, an AI and Generative AI provider for insurance, for another three years. The collaboration will integrate the Zelros See full company profile Zelros will be integrated into Salesforce CRM to assist call center agents in advising customers on home and auto insurance. It will also automate key tasks, including policy reading and data extraction from supporting documents.These enhancements aim to provide faster and more accurate responses for both employees and customers.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, virtually every cutting-edge AI product and model uses a transformer architecture. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o, LLaMA, Gemini and Claude are all transformer-based, and other AI applications such as text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image generation and text-to-video models have transformers as their underlying technology.   With the hype around AI not likely to slow down anytime soon, it’s time to give transformers their due, which is why I’d like to explain a little about how they work, why they are…

French hydrogen firm Hyvia has been given a stay of execution. The Commercial Court of Versaille has given Hyvia a few extra weeks to get through its insolvency proceedings and find a buyer – but, frankly, it ain’t lookin’ good. Hyvia began life as a joint venture between French carmaker Renault and American company Plug Power in 2021, but as anyone with more than a social media headline-deep knowledge of hydrogen’s shortcomings as a transportation already know: it’s impossible for hydrogen to compete with BEVs. The facts surrounding hydrogen fuel cells remain the kind of lessons that people insist on…