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Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Tariffs, already a challenge to the retail sector and U.S. economy more broadly, could scuttle plans to take Nordstrom private and return a majority stake to the founding family, according to research Tuesday from William Blair analysts Dylan Carden and Anna Linscott. This outcome at Nordstrom isn’t likely at the moment, but the risk is more than zero and could grow as long as tariffs linger, the analysts said. The speculation reflects the far-reaching and perhaps unintended consequences of a trade policy…

Researchers from Stanford University early today published the latest edition of their annual AI Index Report, detailing the growing influence of artificial intelligence technologies on our society and the global economy. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, has been publishing its annual reports on the state of the AI industry since 2017. This year’s edition, the eighth, is the “most comprehensive” report to date, spanning more than 430 pages. The authors say it’s arriving at a critical juncture as the influence of AI across society rapidly accelerates with the emergence of increasingly capable and sophisticated…

With the rise of large language models and generative AI, researchers have spent the past few years figuring out how to apply that technology to robotics. For many, the answer is physical intelligence, the next major breakthrough for the robotics industry. At the 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, MIT CSAIL Director Daniela Rus will give a keynote presentation on the topic. Physical Intelligence is achieved when the ability of artificial intelligence to understand text, images, signals, and other information enables physical machines such as robots to better interact with their environments, objects, and…

IBM is “reviewing the implications of these shifts in trade policy and evaluating any potential impact on our pricing,” a spokesperson said. Potential early tariff impacts. A new Z refresh cycle. And momentum in the Red Hat division and newly acquired HashiCorp one. These are just some of the subjects expected to come up when IBM reports first quarter earnings for its 2025 fiscal year Wednesday. The quarter covers the three months ended March 31. One of the most likely subjects of discussion Wednesday is the behavior of IBM customers amid global tariffs. Analysts will likely come with questions on…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronomers have discovered a planet roughly 140 light-years from Earth — but it’s quickly disintegrating.The planet, which scientists have tagged as BD+05 4868 Ab, is located so close to the sun that it completes a full orbit every 30.5 hours, according to MIT News. As a result, it’s likely covered in magma, causing the planet to evaporate and shed the equivalent of one Mount Everest’s worth of surface materials during every orbit. The astronomers estimate the planet may disintegrate fully within the next 1 to 2 million years.Debris trails behind the planet in a comet-like fashion,…

his past November, Kelly Xi, an artist and lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), was checking her emails when the school’s provost, Martin Berger, called her into a meeting. In a private office on campus, Berger told Xi she was being placed under investigation for misuse of school printing funds. Earlier that month, Xi had used a SAIC photocopier to produce a zine and other materials for an exhibition in one of the school’s student-curated art galleries. A week and a half later, Xi received an email from Berger informing her that she was being…

Climate tech startups may be focused on reducing carbon emissions, but some are capitalizing on soaring demand for the energy-intensive data centers powering the AI boom.Tech giants such as Amazon and Microsoft are ramping up their AI infrastructure investments, while simultaneously looking to bring down costs and carbon emissions.That’s created new opportunities for climate startups to scale in a market known for its notable carbon footprint. Data centers currently account for 1-2% of global electricity use, and Goldman Sachs Research estimates this will rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade.”We’re definitely feeling a lot of market pull because of…

Canada-U.S. relations are strained right now — to put it mildly. U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war has impacted both nations’ economies and rankled what long has been a close relationship between the neighboring countries. While many wait to see the aftermath of the new tariffs — which went into effect this month — in the public market, there are also questions about what it could mean for venture investment in Canada-based startups. While Canada only made up about 2% of the global venture market last year, 2024 did represent a comeback of sorts after a down 2023. Last year,…

#cm3 #languagemodel #transformer This video contains a paper explanation and an incredibly informative interview with first author Armen Aghajanyan. Autoregressive Transformers have come to dominate many fields in Machine Learning, from text generation to image creation and many more. However, there are two problems. First, the collected data is usually scraped from the web and uni- or bi-modal and throws away a lot of structure of the original websites, and second, language modelling losses are uni-directional. CM3 addresses both problems: It directly operates on HTML and includes text, hyperlinks, and even images (via VQGAN tokenization) and can therefore be used…

Meesha Shafi in a still from her song, Sar-e-Aam.Awais Gohar Unveiling her debut album last week at a cinema in Lahore, Pakistan, well-known artiste, Meesha Shafi, reveals that she wrote the songs in a bid to “survive” a very dark and traumatic period in her life. Always one to challenge the status quo in Pakistani music, Shafi’s album, Khilnay Ko, is an intense deep dive within. While the songs are laid-bare and vulnerable, they carry an emotional depth which embodies both the light and the dark, tenderness and quiet strength. Khilnay Ko, Meesha Shafi’s debut album, released last week, after…