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Apple is moving forward with plans to roll out advertising on its Maps platform, appearing on devices like iPhones and the web version of the app as early as this summer.Bloomberg first reported on Apple’s plans last October, and now Apple has confirmed it’s a reality and part of a new platform called Apple Business, launching April 14, offering advertising opportunities across not only Maps but also Mail, Wallet and Siri.The advertising system, as far as Maps goes, would work similarly to Google Maps advertising. Slots would be available for brands or businesses to purchase and would be tied to search results in…

Soft plastics are notorious for jamming sorting machines, slipping through processing lines, and wreaking havoc on the environment. They’re also not accepted in most municipal curbside recycling programs.Facilities for recycling these types of plastic exist, but getting waste to these locations clean and free of what some call “wishful recycling” items (compostable cups, plastic utensils) is such a challenge that the majority of soft plastics, even the bags recycled at the front of grocery stores, end up in the trash. The SPC is what Arbouzov calls a “pre-recycling device,” designed to simplify this stream and deliver plastic that’s contained, traceable,…

An entire S$150 million industry is being built around fresh pet food in Singapore For decades, the answer to feeding your pet was simple: open a bag of kibble, scoop some into a bowl, and that’s it—you were done. Dry kibble has always dominated the global pet food market, and Singapore is no exception. It is cheap to produce, easy to store, and heavily marketed. For most pet owners, it has simply always been “the way.” But increasingly, pet owners are asking harder questions. What exactly goes into those brown pellets? What is their nutritional value? And why do so…

Key Takeaways Hybrid Infrastructure Risk Assessment helps organizations identify security gaps across cloud and on-premise environments. Hybrid cloud risk assessment requires visibility across workloads, networks, and identities. A strong risk assessment framework for hybrid infrastructure connects infrastructure risk with real operational behavior. Mitigating risks of non-human identities in hybrid and multi-cloud environments Most organizations didn’t design their infrastructure to become hybrid. It happened gradually.A few workloads moved to the cloud first. Development teams adopted new services. Meanwhile, some systems stayed exactly where they were — inside internal data centers — because moving them wasn’t practical.Over time the environment expanded.Now many…

Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced new artificial intelligence-powered capabilities for its Guardicore Segmentation platform that are aimed at improving zero-trust security in hybrid and multicloud environments. The new capabilities use AI to discover, understand and explain application behavior and then generate precise, enforcement-ready policies to allow organizations to accelerate segmentation initiatives, strengthen controls with confidence and stay ahead of increasingly automated, AI-driven threats. The release seeks to address the issue whereby, as workloads rapidly evolve, attackers can exploit lateral movement faster than security teams can react. Akamai argues that legacy microsegmentation tools leave customers guessing and afraid to enforce controls.…

In a bold challenge to the dominant trajectory of artificial intelligence, Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta, has raised over $1 billion for his new startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI). The Paris-based company is pursuing an alternative vision for AI – one that prioritizes understanding the physical world. AMI’s core mission is to develop “world models” – AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and interacting with real-world environments. This approach stands in contrast to the prevailing strategy embraced by companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which focus on scaling large language models (LLMs). LeCun has consistently argued that…

Watching OpenClaw do its thing must be like watching the first plane take flight. It's a bit rickety and stuck together with a lot of sticky tape, but squint and you can see the potential for agentic AI to change the world as we know it. And I don't think that's hyperbolic. A lot of what people claim to have done with it is hyperbolic, and as with all new tech, the challenge is to cut through the noise and find the value. Stay tuned for more on that, as I've already found some really useful applications for it to…

Ali Farhadi speaks at the Tech Alliance State of Technology annual luncheon in Seattle, May 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is hiring a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington, including former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi, GeekWire has learned. Farhadi, Hanna Hajishirzi, and Ranjay Krishna are expected to join Mustafa Suleyman’s organization at Microsoft while retaining their faculty positions at the UW’s Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. Also joining is Sophie Lebrecht, the former Ai2 chief operating officer. The move follows Farhadi’s departure from Ai2,…

Most explainers on retail media describe what it is and call it a day. This one goes further: who’s actually in the room, what each player wants, and why the whole thing works when it works. Retail media is one of those terms that gets thrown around in planning meetings by people who have slightly different definitions of it in their heads and nobody stops to compare notes. So before the strategy conversation: what is it, who builds it, who buys it, and what does each party actually get out of it. The short version A retailer has customers. Those…

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