AI & RoboticsNews

China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets

Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open source models are still facing no shortage of interest from those who don’t mind a performance hit in exchange for cheap inference. And investors are taking notice. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based AI lab developing the popular Kimi series of open-weight large language models, has raised about $2…
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NewsPhotography

From Victorian portraits through Nazi archives to NYC in the 70s: these photo works just earned major recognition

Historical narratives, documentary photography, and deeply personal visual storytelling define the longlist for the UK’s leading prize celebrating excellence in photography and moving image publishing. The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards published the 2026 longlist, and this year’s Photography Book Award selections explore subjects including Victorian portraiture, colonial legacies, race, war, and…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

BMW opens 2027 iX3 preorders starting at $61,500 with up to 434 miles of range

The 2027 iX3, BMW’s first Neue Klasse vehicle, is now available to order in the US starting at $61,500. BMW’s electric SUV delivers more range than expected, up to 434 miles on a single charge. 2027 BMW iX3 50 xDrive preorder prices by trim BMW opened preorders for the all-new 2027 iX3 on Wednesday, widely considered its most important vehicle to land in the US in decades. As the first model…
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DefenseNews

Pentagon turns to AI targeting to help troops shoot drones

The Department of Defense is looking for AI-enhanced target recognition to help troops, vehicles and ships destroy drones. The C-UAS Close-In Kinetic Defeat Enhancement project focuses on aided target recognition, or AiTR. This uses concepts such as AI, machine learning and computer vision to create a system that can detect threats — and distinguish them from non-threats such as birds —…
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