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Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work

Amazon Quick is now available directly inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. These extensions bring connected data access and agentic document editing into the Microsoft 365 apps your…

  • Amazon Quick, an agentic AI assistant, integrated into Microsoft 365 applications
  • Enables access to enterprise data and document editing without new application

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MiniMax-H3, explained with your favourite TV shows

If you've been watching the open text-to-video space, MiniMax-H3 is one of the more interesting drops of the year. It generates short cinematic clips with a synced soundtrack from a text prompt, and…

  • MiniMax-H3 generates short cinematic clips with synchronized soundtracks from a single text prompt.
  • MiniMax-H3 is accessible via Hugging Face Inference Providers and Gradio node graph frontend.

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AI/ML STIG Seminars to Resume

On behalf of the AI/ML STIG organizers, we're excited to share that our second-year lecture series will kick off soon. Starting Monday, September 14, we'll be holding weekly talks every Monday at 4:00…

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Migrant-Smuggling Network Dismantled in Alicante and Murcia

A criminal network accused of transporting migrants from Algeria to Spain in high-powered speedboats has been dismantled following a joint operation in Alicante and Murcia. Five people were arrested and two vessels seized during the investigation, conducted by the National Police and the Tax Agency’s Customs Surveillance Service.

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A Dad Took a Cancer Test, Then Came the Result That Changed His Family

A rare cancer diagnosis was terrifying, but the risk to Mr. Vieira's children "pulled the ground out from under my feet," he said.

  • Brazilian father Marcos Vinicius Sampaio Vieira discovers rare thyroid cancer
  • Follow-up tests reveal cancer spread to liver and spine, genetic mutation found
  • Children Lara and Henrique inherit mutation, but test negative for disease

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Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs

Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.

  • Nvidia plans $500B initiative to create secondary market for aging GPUs.
  • Company offers financial guarantees to ensure GPUs used as collateral retain value.
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains risk mitigation and long-term vision for AI infrastructure.

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One dead in blast at Rotterdam port energy facility

A blast at a storage facility for petroleum products at the Netherlands' Rotterdam port killed one person and wounded several others on Thursday, officials said, adding that the cause was unknown. A spokesperson for major energy commodities trading company Gunvor said an “incident” occurred during maintenance work on a storage tank.

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