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New York, NY – Apr 28, 2025 – VEPO Solutions, a leader in smart metering and water management solutions, proudly announces the launch of Cindy, its new AI-powered Customer Service Agent. This innovation underscores VEPO Solutions’ ongoing commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology to enhance customer service and operational efficiency.Cindy is engineered to provide fast, accurate, and around-the-clock assistance, ensuring that customer inquiries are addressed without delay. From scheduling appointments to answering frequently asked questions and routing requests to the appropriate departments, Cindy delivers a seamless and responsive service experience.”VEPO Solutions has always been dedicated to innovation,” said Wade Glanek, Technical…
Stanford HAI’s 2025 AI Index Reveals Record Growth in AI Capabilities, Investment, and Regulation U.S. leads in model development, China narrows performance gap, and global optimism rises despite persistent challenges in reasoning and trust Today, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) released its 2025 AI Index report which provides a comprehensive look at the global state of artificial intelligence. Now in its eighth edition, the AI Index tracks, distills, and visualizes data across technical performance, economic impact, education, policy, and responsible AI, offering an empirical foundation for understanding AI’s rapid evolution. This press release features multimedia. View the full…
The role of agentic AI has grown rapidly over the past several months as organizational leaders seek ways to accelerate AI Transformation. We firmly believe that Agents + Copilot + Human Ambition can deliver real AI differentiation for our customers. By putting the autonomous capabilities of an agent to work for their businesses, our customers are unlocking AI opportunity to realize greater value. The recent introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is delivering on our promise of “Copilot for all” by providing frontline workers with a free, secure and enterprise-ready AI chat interface. Our customers are building their own custom…
[Image from Pixabay]The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative recently announced the establishment of the Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub to drive children’s healthcare innovation. Launched in collaboration with the Boston-based Charles H. Hood Foundation — which has committed $15 million toward the effort over the next five years — the hub will focus on developing technologies and treatments tailored specifically for children, meeting unmet needs in pediatric medicine. Leveraging MIT’s life science strengths, the hub will provide seed funding and strategic support for bold, high-impact research projects with the potential to transform children’s healthcare. In addition to supporting researchers with…
Construction work in Barcelona’s Ciutadella district has revealed a remarkably preserved medieval shipwreck, provisionally named Ciutadella I. The vessel, believed to date from the 15th or 16th century, was uncovered five meters below ground during excavations for a new biomedicine center, according to the Jerusalem Post. Measuring ten meters long and three meters wide, the ship was built using skeleton construction typical of late medieval Mediterranean vessels, with curved wooden ribs and planks fastened by dowels and iron nails. Groundwater kept the wood waterlogged for centuries, aiding preservation, though the timbers remain extremely fragile and must be kept wet to avoid rapid…
Between 2013 and 2024, global private sector investment in artificial intelligence (AI) has surged, with a few countries leading the charge. Recent data reveals that 12 nations accounted for the bulk of global AI funding during this period, underscoring a growing international race for technological leadership. The United States leads by a wide margin, raising $471 billion—more than the rest of the world combined. China follows with $119 billion, while the United Kingdom, Canada, and Israel round out the top five with $28 billion and $15 billion each, respectively. Read also: Top countries leading in artificial intelligence patents This concentrated…
In shortGenerative AI is used across departments. Most of the 530 identified generative AI implementations are in customer support, marketing, IT, operations, and R&D. Customer issue resolution is the top application. 49% of projects focus on customer support, with issue resolution alone making up 35%. Tech sector and North America lead adoption. 56% of projects were implemented inside tech companies, and 56% were implemented in North America.Why it mattersFor generative AI vendors: It is important to focus on where generative AI initiatives are taking off and creating real value for customers. For generative AI adopters: Enterprises should look at generative…
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#tvae #topographic #equivariant Variational Autoencoders model the latent space as a set of independent Gaussian random variables, which the decoder maps to a data distribution. However, this independence is not always desired, for example when dealing with video sequences, we know that successive frames are heavily correlated. Thus, any latent space dealing with such data should reflect this in its structure. Topographic VAEs are a framework for defining correlation structures among the latent variables and induce equivariance within the resulting model. This paper shows how such correlation structures can be built by correctly arranging higher-level variables, which are themselves independent…
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