Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday announced five new machine learning services aimed at helping companies in the industrial and manufacturing sectors embed intelligence in their production processes. The new services – Amazon Monitron, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, the AWS Panorama Appliance, the AWS Panorama SDK, and Amazon Lookout for Vision – are designed to help … Read more
Romania was recently rocked by the annulment of presidential elections in December 2024, a crisis apparently stifled by the March 2025 invalidation of Călin Georgescu’s candidacy in do-over elections. Mr. Georgescu, an ultranationalist firebrand, styles himself in a MAGA-like fashion as tribune of “the People” and warrior against a “Soros-driven” elite conspiracy. The Hungarian-American billionaire … Read more
The standardization of collective memory involves the processes through which shared memories and narratives are shaped, maintained, and transmitted within a society through formal procedures and often supported by policy. In the digital age, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT has significantly impacted this phenomenon. While these models … Read more
Landgericht Hamburg Criminal Justice Building by Andrew Milligan sumo from flickr CC BY 2.0 Last week, the District Court of Hamburg, Germany, held a hearing in the first European case to examine the legality of using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative AI models. The case centers on LAION e.V.’s (a German non-profit … Read more
