Hardware/Chips Hackaday

PCBs Straight from the Magazine

A look at the process of ordering printed circuit boards (PCBs) directly from manufacturing magazines/services.

AI/ML AI News

Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains

Retailers are implementing computer vision to automate shelf tracking and improve productivity to protect profit margins.

Tech Business/VC AI News

HSBC expands AI banking partnership with Google Cloud

HSBC is partnering with Google Cloud to deploy AI tools for wealth management and risk management across its global operations.

Tech Business/VC AI News

Microsoft sells OpenAI models in China. OpenAI and Anthropic won’t.

Microsoft is supplying OpenAI models to large internet companies in China despite OpenAI and Anthropic restricting their direct access.

AI/ML AI News

Google Cloud generative AI automates council planning operations

Government agencies in the UK are using Google Cloud generative AI to automate municipal planning and reduce administrative backlogs.

AI/ML AI News

Insurers pivot AI strategy toward core risk underwriting

Insurers are shifting their AI strategy to focus on core risk underwriting and capital allocation for tangible business value.

Other AI News

EU publishes its AI content labelling playbook ahead of the AI Act’s August deadline

The European Union has released a voluntary Code of Practice for AI content labeling to help companies comply with the AI Act.

Cybersecurity AI News

AI Red Teaming Explained: What It Is and Why You Need It

An explanation of AI red teaming, emphasizing its importance in identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening system safety before deployment.

Software Engineering AI News

How AI-Powered CMS Platforms Are Transforming Enterprise Content Operations

AI-powered CMS platforms are evolving to automate enterprise content operations and streamline complex publication workflows.

AI/ML AI News

HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China

Huawei's HarmonyOS 7 aims to fill the AI agent gap in China after Apple's Siri AI failed to launch in the region.

AI/ML AI News

Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents

Accenture research indicates that a majority of consumers are increasingly trusting AI shopping agents to perform tasks.

Other Hacker News

Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder

A discussion about Nikolai Evreinov, a 19th-century figure compared to modern prankster Nathan Fielder.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learning Geometric Representations from Videos for Spatial Intelligent Multimodal Large Language Models

Introduction of GeoVR, a framework that enables Multimodal Large Language Models to learn 3D spatial awareness from 2D video sequences.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

The ACUTE Protocol: Operationalizing Language Model Activations for Better Calibration, Utility, and Trust

The ACUTE protocol is proposed to improve the calibration, utility, and trust of LLM confidence estimates using activation-based estimation.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

KG-SoftMAP: Soft Knowledge-Graph Priors for Bayesian Network Structure Learning from Sparse Discrete Data

KG-SoftMAP is a method for learning Bayesian network structures from sparse discrete data by using knowledge-graph priors.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Improving Crash Frequency Prediction from Simulated Traffic Conflicts Using Machine Learning Based Microsimulation

Research demonstrates that ML-based behavior models in traffic microsimulation provide more realistic crash frequency predictions than rule-based models.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

NEXUS: Neural Energy Fields for Physically Consistent Contact-Rich 3D Object Dynamics

NEXUS is a neural energy-field framework designed for physically consistent contact-rich 3D object dynamics in video generation.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

StarOR: Synergizing Tree Search and Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Optimization Modeling

StarOR combines MCTS and Test-Time Reinforcement Learning to improve the accuracy of automated optimization modeling in LLMs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Gaming-Resistant Insurance Contracts for Autonomous AI Agents: Strategy-Proof Toll Mechanism Design

A theoretical framework for designing gaming-resistant insurance contracts to manage the side effects of autonomous AI agents.

Tech Business/VC AI News

SAP and Google Cloud deploy agentic commerce architecture

SAP and Google Cloud are collaborating to deploy an agentic commerce architecture to automate retail and marketing operations.