CryptoNews

Ripple’s Survey Signals Massive Blockchain Payment Adoption Across Middle East and Africa

January 8, 2025
Crypto is transforming finance across the Middle East and Africa, with payments, digital assets, and cross-border transactions leading the charge, Ripple’s survey reveals. Ripple Reveals How Blockchain Will Dominate Finance Across the Middle East and Africa Ripple’s Managing Director for the Middle East and Africa, Reece Merrick, highlighted the increasing role of cryptocurrency in payments…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How Meta’s latest research proves you can use generative AI to understand user intent

January 8, 2025
Meta — parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads and more — runs one of the biggest recommendation systems in the world. In two recently released papers, its researchers have revealed how generative models can be used to better understand and respond to user intent. By looking at recommendations as a generative problem, you can tackle it in new ways that are richer in content…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Samsung spreads Vision AI across its 2025 TV portfolio

January 6, 2025
For this year’s lineup, Samsung said that AI will come to life in more ways than just great picture quality. The company is introducing AI-backed experiences to make your day simpler, more dynamic, and just plain better. Announced at CES 2025, these experiences will help…
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DeepSeek-V3, ultra-large open-source AI, outperforms Llama and Qwen on launch

January 6, 2025
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3. Available via Hugging Face under the company’s license agreement, the new model comes with 671B parameters but uses a mixture-of-experts architecture to activate only select parameters, in order to handle given tasks accurately…
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DefenseNews

US Army unit in Poland the first to field new rocket system

January 6, 2025
A Germany-based artillery brigade is now the first Army unit fully equipped with the service’s next-generation Multiple Launch Rocket System. In November, soldiers with the 41st Field Artillery Brigade in Grafenwoehr, Germany, completed the replacement of their legacy…
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This Army unit is the first to field new company and battalion drones

January 6, 2025
Soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division, which is currently deployed in Romania, recently became the first Army unit to field the service’s newest reconnaissance drones. The 317th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, out of Fort Drum, New York, employed the Skydio and GhostX systems during training operations at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, according to an Army…
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