AI & RoboticsNews

Flow Specialty launches the 1st AI insurance broker

January 23, 2025
Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry’s first AI insurance broker. The brokerage’s platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, Errors & Omissions, and Executive liability modules. It may be critically important as people struggle to get insurance in the wake of various disasters. The firm is based in Mountain View…
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AI & RoboticsNews

ByteDance’s UI-TARS can take over your computer, outperforms GPT-4o and Claude

January 23, 2025
A new AI agent has emerged from the parent company of TikTok to take control of your computer and perform complex workflows. Much like Anthropic’s Computer Use, ByteDance new UI-TARS understands graphical user interfaces (GUIs), applies reasoning and takes autonomous, step-by-step action. Trained on roughly 50B tokens and offered in 7B and 72B parameter versions, the PC/MacOS agents achieves…
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DefenseNews

Army tries out next-gen hybrid tactical vehicle prototype in Germany

January 23, 2025
The U.S. Army is taking a hybrid next-generation tactical vehicle prototype for a spin in snowy Bavarian terrain, according to a report from the U.S. Army Europe and Africa posted to its website. The GM Defense-developed Next Generation Tactical Vehicle-Hybrid, or NGTV-H, is a diesel-powered, electric light reconnaissance vehicle that the company unveiled at the Association of the U.S. Army’s…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

The world's largest EV battery maker predicts another big move in Europe in 2025

January 23, 2025
CATL held a commanding lead in the EV battery market last year, accounting for over a third of global usage. The world’s largest EV battery maker expects to announce another big partnership for a new EV plant in Europe by the end of 2025. The new facility will be separate from the one announced last month with Stellantis. Here’s what we know so far. CATL to reveal fourth EV battery plant in…
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