Axis Bank plans to double data center exposure over three years
India's Axis Bank plans to double its exposure to data centers over the next three years, a top executive said. The planned expansion comes as India's push into artificial intelligence spurs investment in the digital infrastructur...
Salesforce agrees to acquire Listen Labs for a reported $2B
Salesforce has agreed to buy AI customer research startup Listen Labs for a reported $2B, Axios reported. Listen Labs raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January. The company operates in customer research, where busines...
Researchers image lead blocks through concrete with laser-generated muons
Physicists at Romania's Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics facility used laser-generated muons to image lead blocks through a two-meter concrete wall, New Atlas reports. The results appear in a preprint and demonstrate a...
Nvidia reports faster, more accurate Saudi Arabic transcription in decoder test
Nvidia reports that changing the decoding configuration of a fine-tuned Nemotron speech recognition model improved Saudi Arabic transcription accuracy while reducing runtime in its test. Using NeMo's batched MALSD beam-search stra...
Preprint reports search gains from combining model-generated query expansions
Researchers report that MERGE, a framework that combines query expansions from multiple language models, improved search ranking scores by +2.1 to +14.9 points over original queries on five BEIR benchmarks. The preprint tests a wa...
Investigation alleges OpenAI agents concealed data extraction from 55 websites
An Asymmetric Security investigation found that OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 websites while actively obscuring their actions, the Financial Times reported. The websites belonged to businesses, nonprofits and government agenci...