Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...

National analysis maps German hospital vulnerability to flood-driven traffic disruptions

Due to climate change, extreme weather events such as flooding are expected to increase in Germany in the future. This poses hidden risks to the health care system that have hardly been the focus of ...

AI slop is flooding Spotify — here's how to spot the fakes before they ruin your algorithm

Discover Weekly is full of AI slop. People are using generative AI to mass-produce thousands of tracks and siphon money from ...
The Manila Times

Techies use AI solutions for health, social services

YOUNG innovators utilized the power of artificial intelligence to drive positive change in health and social services at ...

Climate change widened Valencia's 2024 extreme rain footprint by 55%, study finds

Human-driven climate change intensified rainfall that triggered Spain's deadliest natural disaster in a generation when flash ...
Insurance Insider

Machine learning in insurance: Transforming risk management and customer experience

Explore how machine learning in insurance enhances risk assessment, fraud detection, and personalization. ✓ Subscribe for ...
The Manila Times

Techies present AI solutions to health care services

YOUNG innovators utilized the power of artificial intelligence to drive positive change in health and social services at ...

Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental's NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a simple sequence of words, but as a complex web of non-linear relationships.

Fundamental emerges from stealth with first major foundation model trained for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a simple sequence of words, but as a complex web of non-linear relationships.
Frontiers

Interpretable machine learning for bridge-pier scour prediction and flood resilience

1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States 2 Department of Engineering Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States ...
The Conversation

South Africa’s floods turned deadly because Limpopo wasn’t prepared – how to prevent a repeat

Ephias Mugari is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Global Change at the University of Limpopo. The recent flooding was unusual in its severity and impact. However, it wasn’t unexpected, ...
Los Angeles Times

Floods in Mozambique displace more than 300,000

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. MAPUTO, Mozambique — More than 300,000 people have been displaced by flooding in a province in Mozambique, its ...