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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly recommending extreme cuts to staff and programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the New York Times reported Tuesday evening. NEH employees were informed by managers on Tuesday morning of DOGE’s recommended reductions to the staff by as much as 70 to 80 percent of the organization’s 180 staffers, as well as the possible cancellation of all outstanding grants made under the Biden administration. Senior leadership is expected to provide more detailed plans. Related Articles Only three weeks ago, the head of the NEH Shelly Lowe was forced to…

Every day, countless videos are uploaded and processed online, putting enormous strain on computational resources. The problem isn’t just the sheer volume of data—it’s how this data is structured. Videos consist of raw pixel data, where neighboring pixels often store nearly identical information. This redundancy wastes resources, making it harder for systems to process visual content effectively and efficiently. To tackle this, we’ve developed a new approach to compress visual data into a more compact and manageable form. In our paper “VidTok: A Versatile and Open-Source Video Tokenizer,” we introduce a method that converts video data into smaller, structured units,…

Producing video content is a particular challenge for generative AI models, which have no real concept of space or physics, and are essentially dreaming up clips frame by frame. It can lead to obvious errors and inconsistencies, as we wrote about in December with OpenAI’s Sora, after it served up a video with a disappearing taxi.It’s these specific problems that AI video company Runway says it’s made some progress in fixing with its new Gen-4 models. The new models offer “a new generation of consistent and controllable media” according to Runway, with characters, objects, and scenes now much more likely…

Sentient, an artificial intelligence development platform backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, has released an open-source AI search framework that it says outperforms leading closed-source competitors.The company announced the public release of Open Deep Search (ODS) on April 2, describing it as a high-performance, developer-friendly alternative to platforms like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s GPT-4o.Sentient’s ODS aims to empower developers with open-source “Loyal AI” models, which Sentient says preserve the original intent of their developers.The firm’s fingerprinting technology allows developers to protect intellectual property while maintaining model openness — aiming to solve the biggest issue of open-source AI, the challenges of…

Counterpoint Research has estimated that Chinese automaker BYD will be able to overtake American electric car maker Tesla in Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) sales this 2025. Counterpoint’s insights were shared by the market researcher on its official website. The (Counter)Point Counterpoint Research’s latest Global Passenger EV Forecast suggests that BYD will be capturing a 15.7% global market share this year. This is expected to be driven by scale, innovation, and strong backing from the Chinese government. The market researcher highlighted a number of factors that could help BYD become the world’s premier BEV maker this year. These include the company’s…

Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…

Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary. This article was written using Microsoft Word on a computer running Microsoft Windows. It is likely to be published on platforms hosted by Microsoft Azure, including LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary with over one billion users. In 2024, the company generated a net profit of $88 billion from sales worth $245 billion. Its stock market value is close to $3,000 billion, making it the world’s second-most valuable company behind Apple and almost on a par with NVidia. Cumulative profits since 2002 are approaching $640 billion. And yet, 50 years ago, Microsoft was just a tiny computer company founded in Albuquerque, New…

Tesla bull Wedbush has responded to the company’s lackluster Q1 delivery figures, which were released on Wednesday morning in a new note from analyst Dan Ives. Tesla reported deliveries of 336,681 vehicles in the first quarter of the year, a far cry from the Wall Street estimate of 352,000 and whisper numbers of roughly 350,000. At first glance, it seems to be a disaster, but Tesla said it lost “several weeks of production” in Q1 due to the ramp of the new Model Y at all four of its vehicle production factories. Tesla (TSLA) reports 336,681 vehicle deliveries for Q1…

The MIT Bitcoin Club—a passionate coalition of students, alumni, researchers, and community members—presents the 12th annual MIT Bitcoin Expo (April 5–6, 2025), a landmark event exploring how Bitcoin and freedom technologies empower individuals worldwide. With just 5 days remaining, this student-led initiative continues its decade-long tradition of bridging academia, activism, and technical innovation.Why This Matters Born from MIT’s 2014 Bitcoin Project—which distributed Bitcoin to undergraduates to study adoption—the expo has evolved into a critical forum for sovereignty-focused dialogue. This year’s agenda of freedom tech focuses on physical liberation through technology.  Speakers like Zimbabwean activist Evan Mawarire (#ThisFlag movement leader) and…

Fra Dana, ‘On the Window Seat,’ oil on canvas.Montana Museum of Art & Culture, University of Montana Settlement of the American West by European colonizers was a violent affair as all such incursions into indigenous land across the world have been. Genocide, stolen land, broken treaties, introduced disease, warfare, massacre, extermination of wildlife. Colt’s ‘Peacemaker’ revolver. Winchester’s repeating rifle. Sharp’s .50 caliber buffalo killer. Dynamite. Steel jawed animal leg traps. Barbed wire. Railroads. Indentured labor–cowboys weren’t unionized, neither were the thousands of Chinese immigrants who toiled and died constructing the railroads. That is how the West was won. How the…