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OpenAI Secures Record-Breaking Deal with SoftBank

OpenAI partners with SoftBank to achieve 'artificial super intelligence' surpassing human capabilities, raising $40bn in the largest startup funding round ever. The collaboration aims to advance AI research towards AGI, emphasizing the necessity of significant computing power.

Pattie Maes Honored with Lifetime Research Award

MIT's Pattie Maes awarded 2025 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award for human-computer interaction contributions, advocating for human-centered AI integration. Maes' pioneering work in software agents and wearable devices shapes today's online experience, emphasizing ethical design and human experience enhancement.

MIT Open Learning: A Life-Changing Journey

Serbian college student Ana Trišović credits MIT OpenCourseWare with transforming her career, leading her to become a research scientist at MIT's FutureTech lab. Trišović's journey from learning Data Analytics with Python to studying AI democratization showcases the impact of open learning resources on her interdisciplinary research.

AI: The New Threat to Fashion Models

H&M introduces AI ‘twins’ of models for marketing, sparking debate on exploitation in fashion industry. Chief creative officer ensures human-centric approach remains unchanged despite AI integration.

Introducing Young Minds to AI

Parents and teachers are preparing children for the future with generative artificial intelligence, despite age restrictions on tools like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. Guardian readers share their strategies and reasons for introducing AI education to the youngest learners.

Shifting Concepts in Mathematics

Adam Kucharski, a renowned epidemiologist, delves into the importance of evidence in the age of AI and social media. In his new book, he explores how our understanding of 'proof' is evolving in a world where information and trust are paramount.

Tech Startups Reinventing Defense

Venture capital-backed $1bn companies like Skydio are transforming warfare with AI-powered drones. These futuristic weapons could challenge traditional military manufacturers on the battlefield.

Mastering Hybrid Architectures

New AI model combines CNNs, Transformers, and morphological feature extractors for improved visual recognition accuracy up to 87.89%. CNNs capture details, morphological module highlights critical features, and multi-head attention models global relationships.

Mastering Nadaraya-Watson Kernel Regression in C#

The blog post discusses Nadaraya-Watson kernel regression using a radial basis function kernel, emphasizing the importance of normalizing predictor values. The key equation for NW kernel regression involves a weighted average of target y values based on the RBF kernel function values.

AI: The Key to a Medical Revolution

AlphaFold, from Google DeepMind, uses AI to predict protein structures, revolutionizing drug discovery and solving biological mysteries. The technology has already won a Nobel prize and made significant advancements in understanding complex structures like the nuclear pore complex.