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Technology
Space-tech startup Starcloud raises $170m to reach unicorn status
The new capital will be used for the next generation of Starcloud-3 satellites, the establishment of a dedicated manufacturing facility,…
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Despite tripling its profits, the stock of Sea Ltd. down 60% since Sep
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below are solely the author’s. Sea Ltd is a very successful Singapore company…
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Artificial intelligence
Local AI: Why Multilingual AI Still Needs Subject Matter Experts
AI systems expand to more languages, more regions, and more customer touchpoints. That sounds like a translation problem at first.…
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Artificial intelligence
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.5 Omni: A Native Multimodal Model for Text, Audio, Video, and Real-Time Interaction
The landscape of large multimodal linguistic models (MLLMs) has shifted from experimental ‘wrappers’—where separate visual or audio encoders are sewn…
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Technology
The Rec Room is closing: Once valued at $3.5B, the community playground is losing profits
Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming company once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down its platform on June 1,…
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Artificial intelligence
Microsoft AI Releases Harrier-OSS-v1: A New Family of Multilingual Embedding Models Beats SOTA in Multilingual MTEB v2
Microsoft announced the release of the Harrier-OSS-v1a family of three multilingual text embedding models designed to provide high-quality semantic representations…
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Technology
Opinion: AI trainer or AI ghostwriter? The choice is yours
(Photo by Claude) You use AI to write and so does your boss, your student, and everyone else. That ship…
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education
Truth, Courage, and the Power of the Student Voice: The Transformative Work of Jessyca Mathews
Overview: Jessyca Mathews is an educator whose work focuses on empowering students to use their voices to confront injustice, drawing…
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Technology
‘Transformation’: Amazon and Microsoft celebrate the opening of a light rail line between Seattle and the Eastside
Sound Transit’s Link light rail crosses the Lake Washington floating bridge. (Photo of noisy transport) Amazon and Microsoft are on…
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education
How the SCOTUS Decision on Birthright Citizenship Could Affect Access to Education
Here’s what you need to know about how the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish or reduce primogeniture could change the…
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