John Richmond stages ‘Culture Vulture’ show in London
Translated by Nicola Mira Published September 22, 2025 John Richmond has staged the ‘Culture Vulture’…
This Open Source Robot Brain Thinks in 3D
European roboticists today released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that acts as a brain for industrial robots—helping them grasp and manipulate things with new dexterity. The new model, SPEAR-1, was developed by researchers at the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) in Bulgaria. It may help other researchers and startups build…
Streamline code migration using Amazon Nova Premier with an agentic workflow
Many enterprises are burdened with mission-critical systems built on outdated technologies that have become increasingly difficult to maintain and extend. This post demonstrates how you can use the Amazon Bedrock Converse API with Amazon Nova Premier within an agentic workflow to systematically migrate legacy C code to modern Java/Spring framework applications. By breaking down the…
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to anyone who has spent…
OpenAI takes on Google with ChatGPT Atlas, its own AI-powered browser
By AFP Published October 22, 2025 On Tuesday, OpenAI launched its own web browser, ‘ChatGPT Atlas”, built around its artificial intelligence (AI) model- the most widely used in the world- in a bid to supplant Google Chrome as the number one gateway to the web. “AI represents a rare, once-in-a-decade opportunity to rethink the very…
Kering third-quarter sales beat expectations as investors bet on Gucci owner’s comeback
By Reuters Published October 22, 2025 Sales at Kering‘s flagship brand Gucci fell by 14% in the third quarter with overall group sales down 5% on a like-for-like basis, the French group said on Wednesday, beating market expectations. It was the seventh consecutive quarter that Gucci’s business shrank by double digits, reminding investors of the…
Tax-free luxury sales rise by 7% in Europe
By Adnkronos Published October 22, 2025 The European luxury Tax Free Shopping market has grown by 7%, according to Global Blue’s study presented at the second edition of the Luxury Insight event. The increase suggests a degree of market stabilisation after years of double-digit growth, driven by a modest rise both in the number of…
Metagenomi generates millions of novel enzymes cost-effectively using AWS Inferentia
This post was written with Audra Devoto, Owen Janson, and Christopher Brown of Metagenomi, and Adam Perry of Tennex. A promising strategy to augment the extensive natural diversity of high value enzymes is to use generative AI, specifically protein language models (pLMs), trained on known enzymes to create orders of magnitude more predicted examples of…
KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents: Exposure to and Trust in Children’s Health-Related Information Online
As debates over the safety of childhood vaccines and trust in public health guidance play out in the U.S., findings from the latest KFF/Washington Post Survey of Parents reveal how parents encounter health information on social media and how it may shape their decisions. One-third (34%) of parents say they have seen social media content related…
Is there a price tag for the Louvre’s stolen jewels?
By Bloomberg Published October 22, 2025 French authorities have described it as priceless. But the last time the diamond-encrusted bow, which once belonged to Empress Eugenie, was sold, it reached a reported €6.72 million ($7.8 million). What it’s worth now, three days after it was stolen as part of a raid on the Louvre Museum in Paris is…
Piquadro: first-half revenue rises 0.7% to €88 million
By Ansa Published October 22, 2025 Piquadro Group’s revenue for the first six months of the financial year, ended September 30, 2025, totalled €88.4 million, a slight increase of 0.7% compared to the same period last year, including the impact of exchange-rate movements. For the Piquadro brand alone, revenue came to €36.6 million, down 8.1%….
