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South by Southwest is not the only annual genre fest out there by any means, but its equal focus on film, music, and tech makes it nearly unmissable for many a genre fan. The Austin-set fest has almost too much to offer, however you slice it: Building one's schedule feels like a perpetual exercise in killing your darlings.

Immersive Navigation has a new 3D view that Google says will more accurately reflect what you'll see in real life. There's a Gemini tie-in here because Google can't develop anything new that doesn't at least touch on AI anymore. You'll see accurate overpasses, crosswalks, landmarks, and signage in the new navigation experience, which is all courtesy of Gemini models that glean data from Street View and aerial photography.

Adjusted EBITDA totaled $143 million, a 138% increase from 2024. This was a reflection of improved earnings quality and the benefits of scale across the company's platform. Funded loan volume totaled $2.4 billion in 2025, a 24% increase from 2024, with fourth-quarter funded volume reaching $619 million, up 16% from the same period a year earlier.

Upload any picture or video, and Musubi uses artificial intelligence to extract the most important part and hover it in space as a 3D image within the frame. That could be a video of a child's first steps or a snapshot of a birthday party. The image will be displayed in 3D form, viewable in all its holographic glory across nearly 170 degrees.

Author Malorie Blackman said the scheme seeks to highlight the imagination, commitment, craft and care taken to produce stories and books which can be enjoyed by everyone. She added: Any creative endeavour requires time, effort, a willingness to learn from mistakes and failure, and a determination to persevere lifelong, essential skills which cannot be learned and honed by allowing AI to do all of our creative thinking and production for us.

They created an artificial 'mental map', with pleasantness along one axis and bodily reactions along the other, and charted how the brain responded while watching clips from films. The results revealed clear groupings in the way that our brains represent emotion - with guilt, anger and disgust in one corner and happiness, satisfaction and pride in the other.

Pre-tax profits rose by 5.8%, totalling €8 billion (£6.9 billion), with Zara alone contributing €5.6 billion (£4.8 billion). All of Inditex's brands, including Massimo Dutti, Bershka, and Stradivarius, experienced growth, particularly during the spring and summer collections.

Oscar is on track to return to profitability this year. We expect a significant year-over-year improvement of nearly $750 million in earnings from operations in 2026, representing the midpoint of our guidance. Oscar's 2026 guidance targets earnings from operations of $250 million to $450 million, against a 2025 loss from operations of $396 million.

Over the last several years, the enhanced capabilities of artificial intelligence have resulted in its increased application and adoption across many and varied industries and occupations. However, reporting from across the private sector, academia, and media depict an uncertain picture of artificial intelligence's current and potential impact on the workforce, with some use cases demonstrating a high probability of job disruption and others making the case for employment growth.

AI will be capable of further automating tasks such as document intake, classification, and preliminary adjudication, making it more feasible than ever for VA to deliver benefits in 'minutes not months.'

The US stands with all of the children throughout the world. I hope soon peace will be yours. A nation that makes learning sacred protects its books, its language, its science and its mathematics. It protects its future.

Alaska's House of Representatives unanimously passed HB47, a bill that imposes sweeping limits on when and how minors use social media apps, along with bans on generating or distributing harmful deepfakes of children.

For $20,000-or a $499 per month rental fee and a six-month commitment-the lanky robot can do simple tasks around the house, such as unloading the dishwasher and watering plants, and can answer your questions through its built-in large language model.

We believe AI should be something people can depend on every day, designed to work consistently for everyone and without the need for expertise. This statement from TM Roh, CEO and president of Samsung Electronics' Device eXperience Division, encapsulates Samsung's philosophy regarding artificial intelligence integration in the Galaxy S26 series, emphasizing accessibility and reliability as core design principles.

Artificial intelligence has upended this relationship, decoupling a company's potential productivity from its headcount and redefining which businesses will fare best. As a result, America's mid-sized companies are disappearing: the number of businesses with between 250 and 499 employees has fallen by 22.5% since 2020.

We're working really hard to figure out how do we improve business process execution for our customers at a lower cost. I think that's where the agentic model fits in. What can agents do to replace human labor? And then obviously longer term, we've got to figure out what we're going to do with those humans that are displaced.

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as oppositesone deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet argues, is one of our most ancient and enduring technologies, a system of meter and rhyme invented to store vital information. She views AI as its natural heir. Stiles's path to AI began with literature, not code.

Biology is undergoing a transformation. After centuries of studying life as it evolves naturally, researchers are now using a combination of computation and genome engineering to intervene, generating new proteins and even whole bacteria from scratch. The use of artificial-intelligence tools to design biological components, an approach known as generative biology, is set to turbocharge this area of research. Just last year, scientists used AI-assisted design to produce artificial genes that can be expressed in mammalian cells.

Email marketing should seemingly be obsolete. The first "email," after all, occurred in October 1971, nearly 55 years ago. Surely, social media platforms, text messaging, and various applications such as WhatsApp and Discord could have supplanted it. And let's not forget the grim industry concerns when Gmail introduced the "Promotions" tab in 2013. Today, AI inbox summaries are the latest marketing threat.

At present, we do not intend to issue any statements regarding the use of AI in the film industry, We are monitoring developments with great interest.