By Sanskriti ShekharWalmart NASDAQ:WMT on Wednesday introduced new tools that will allow artificial intelligence agents to shop and complete transactions for customers, as the retailer seeks to position itself in the growing use of AI-powered assistants in online commerce.The move underscores Walm…
AI is moving from answering questions to taking action. Agents can use tools, access enterprise data, and carry out work across systems on our behalf or
Released on October 22, 2026, DDIA shares our latest findings from a Pre-Midterm Election Poll of 1,500 U.S. Latino Voters on AI use, trust, and impact in their lives.
Labour says the government's AI readiness is 'terrifying', then proposes banning a technology that does not exist. Meanwhile the AI already running payroll, marketing and customer service still lacks clear rules.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor update to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, delivering substantial improvements across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks. Alongside these gains, the model reduces task execution time and output length, enabling users to complete…
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Voice-controlled interaction in industrial settings is hampered by acoustic noise, which severely degrades audio-only speech recognition. Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) addresses this by fusing lip-motion cues with the audio stream, but state-of-the-art pipelines rely…
Childhood stunting remains a major public health concern in Bangladesh and reflects long-term growth failure influenced by child, maternal, household, socioeconomic, and health-service factors. This study used nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey…
Tactile sensing is an essential modality for robots performing contact-rich, dexterous manipulation, particularly under visual occlusion. While pre-trained image encoders are standard in robot learning pipelines, tactile encoders are still commonly trained from scratch from…
Recognizing hand-drawn geometric shapes is a foundational sub-problem of sketch recognition, with applications in education, human-computer interaction, and diagram digitization. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a desktop application that…