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Insider Brief Bulwark Dynamics raised $6.8 million in seed funding and signed an agreement with Japan’s Onomichi Dockyard to support serial production of its Caravel autonomous landing craft. Caravel is designed to autonomously deliver cargo across unimproved shorelines without ports, piers or cranes, and Bulwark said a 15-foot prototype completed transit, beaching, cargo offload and […]

Achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. That’s the motto of the Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual competition that—parodying the Nobel Prizes—recognizes some of the world’s most unusual scientific studies. The organization Improbable Research has been hosting the event since 1991 with the aim of showing that science also has a

Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or passenger may need to react rapidly to prevent a collision. To help humans better anticipate a vehicle’s mistakes, researchers from

M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&T is also examining

Guild has introduced Software Factory, a system of specialized AI agents designed to autonomously find, plan, implement, review, and maintain engineering work. The company said it built the system for internal use first, and it has since become a significant part of how Guild ships software, with 34% of merged pull requests now written autonomously by the