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AI can help by detecting and identifying devices on the network, configuration errors or issues, and automatically applying corrections or adjustments. In addition, if support for the home is needed, AI can help field agents plan better routes to serve more customers more quickly.Predictive and proactive capabilities of AI in network management are transformative for the connected home ecosystem. By automating network optimization and preemptively addressing potential problems, AI enhances reliability, reduces downtime, and ensures seamless connectivity for consumers. It also creates all sorts of new ways to engage with the customer and provide support across many important lifestyle areas.Troubleshooting:Consumers…

The heirs of German Jewish banker and art collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy have called on the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Thursday to revive their lawsuit seeking the return of a Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers painting they claim was sold under Nazi duress, Courthouse News reported Thursday.  In 2022, three heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, respectively based in New York and Germany, filed a lawsuit in an Illinois district court against Sompo Holdings, a Japanese insurance company. The lawsuit claims that Sunflowers (1888) was purchased at a 1987 Christie’s auction by Sompo’s corporate predecessor, Yasuda, which ignored a provenance identifying Mendelssohn-Bartholdy as a victim…

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. Another week, another review of giant AI-related financings. For this past week, the standout fundraiser was humanoid robot developer Figure, with its $1 billion Series C. Several other AI companies closed nine-figure rounds, and we also saw good-sized financings in biotech, manufacturing and reforestation.…

British renewable energy provider Octopus Energy said this week that it’s spinning off Kraken, its tech platform for utilities, spurred in part by $500 million in committed annual revenue from other utilities and energy providers. An eventual Kraken IPO could be valued at $15 billion and could occur within a year, according to The Wall Street Journal. Kraken was actually the company’s initial product, per Octopus CEO Greg Jackson. “We created Octopus as the ‘demo client,’” he told the Journal earlier this year. That demo client has since grown to provide power to more than 7.7 million households in the…

Anges Gund, an avid art collector and patron of towering importance to New York’s Museum of Modern Art, died on Thursday in Manhattan. She was 87. The New York Times reported her death on Friday, but did not provide a cause. Following the announcement of Gund’s death, artists and cultural workers took to social media to honor her memory. “My heart just broke. Rest in peace dear Aggie. They broke the mold with you,” Roxana Marcoci, chief curator of photography at MoMA, wrote alongside a photograph of Gund at the opening of “LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity” with Frazier, playwright Lynn…

The artwork Washington, D.C., has surely been waiting for has arrived: a statue of President Donald Trump holding up a Bitcoin. The 12-foot-tall statue is of largely unknown origin. It arrived suddenly, mysteriously, outside the Capitol Building. When viewed from certain vantage points, this beaming, golden Trump can be seen with the Washington Monument in the distance. Its makers are a group of cryptocurrency investors, per ABC’s local Washington affiliate. “The installation is designed to ignite conversation about the future of government-issued currency and is a symbol of the intersection between modern politics and financial innovation,” Hichem Zaghdoudi, a representative…

A little more than a week after a valuable pharaonic gold bracelet disappeared from a conservation lab in Egypt, the country’s Antiques and Tourism Ministry reported that the stolen artifact had been sold for 194,000 Egyptian pounds (around $4,000) and melted down. The 3,000-year-old treasure, adorned with lapis lazuli beads, belonged to King Amenemope, who reigned in Egypt around 1,000 BCE. In the days since the bracelet went missing September 9, it was found to have been stolen from a safe by a restoration specialist, sold to a silver trader, and passed on a gold smelter who recast it with…

When the Federal Reserve announced earlier this week that it was lowering its benchmark interest rate for the first time since December, Wall Street rejoiced. Stocks rallied on the news that the Fed had approved a drop of 0.25 percentage points, bringing rates to their lowest level since late 2022. While markets welcomed the prospect of cheaper money, the implications for the art world are less straightforward. Anita Heriot, president of the Americas for the Fine Art Group, a London-based advisory and boutique art lender, was skeptical that the cut would dramatically alter the art market. Related Articles “Buyers are…

Is your favorite AI chatbot scheming against you?If “AI scheming” sounds ominous, you should know that OpenAI is actively studying this phenomenon. This week, OpenAI published a study conducted alongside Apollo Research on “Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models.” The researchers “found behaviors consistent with scheming in controlled tests,” the result of AI models with multiple, and at times competing, objectives.So, what is AI scheming, and does it mean that ChatGPT is lying to you? In a blog post about the study, the creators of ChatGPT define AI scheming as a chatbot “pretending to be aligned while secretly pursuing…

Tesla is officially ditching the development of a key Cybertruck charging feature, and the reason is very obvious, all things considered. The Cybertruck is among the most unique vehicles available on the market, and, like all Tesla vehicles, it has continued to improve through Over-the-Air software updates that enhance performance, safety, and other technological features. However, the development of some features, while great on paper, turns out to be more difficult than expected. One of these features is the presence of wireless charging on the all-electric pickup, a capability Tesla has been working to integrate across its entire vehicle lineup.…