ROSS asks full Third Circuit to rehear first appeals ruling on AI training
ROSS Intelligence wants the whole court to revisit its Westlaw headnotes loss, the first US appeals ruling on fair use and AI training.
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A laptop NPU runs small, always-on AI jobs on little power. For local chatbots the GPU and its memory still decide speed. How to read the spec sheets.
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Which plans include AI note-taking, whether anything joins the call, where notes and transcripts are kept, and the admin switches to set first.
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Runway’s open Praxis-1 robot model needs an 80 GB GPU at full precision
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Box Architect will build agent workflows from a plain-language brief
Box's new tool will design, test and tune document workflows from a description. The beta reaches Enterprise Advanced this quarter, with no price yet.
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Larridin raises $30M to track what companies get for their AI spend
Pelion led the Series A for a startup that ties AI bills to shipped work. Its customer data puts the median engineer at $213 a week in billed AI coding spend.
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The AI Observer Awards will recognise AI work that was checked, shipped and still holds up a year later.
A planned programme. Nominations, jury and criteria will be published here before anyone is asked to enter.
Planned categories
- AI agency of the year
- Best AI tutorial
- Best interview
- Tool that held up