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Baidu’s robotaxis froze in traffic, creating chaos

Numerous robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu froze in a major city on Tuesday, reportedly trapping passengers inside, stranding them on highways, and causing at least one accident in snarled traffic. Police in Wuhan confirmed receiving multiple reports of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stopping in the middle of streets and being unable to move. […]

How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes "digital sovereignty" (Laura Pitel/Financial Times)

Laura Pitel / Financial Times:
How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes “digital sovereignty”  —  Schleswig-Holstein's radical tech overhaul offers Europe a live experiment in ending dependence on US Big Tech

Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions  —  The energy shock sparked by the Iran war is increasingly coming up in conversations about data center deals for Asian bankers …

Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding


The Copenhagen-based health AI company built Symphony on peer-reviewed research from the largest medical coding study of its kind, treating coding as a reasoning task rather than a labelling problem. It’s available via API now. Medical coding, the process of converting clinical notes, diagnoses, and procedures into standardised alphanumeric codes used for billing, reporting, and […]



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A Steam game for the sickos who like organizing their collections

Boxroom is a part of Steam's larger House and Home sale event, which features chill simulators and games that pull off making chores fun