See, Think, Explain: The Rise of Vision Language Models in AI
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About a decade ago, artificial intelligence was split between image recognition and language understanding. Vision models could spot objects but couldn’t describe them, and language models generate text but couldn’t “see.” Today, that divide is rapidly disappearing. Vision Language Models (VLMs) now combine visual and language skills, allowing them to interpret images and explaining them […]
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What does the “Next Generation” Require of Us?
I have developed and updated 15 resources in my four years at Climate Generation. However, the 2025 update of Next Generation Climate for grades 6-8 (NGC) felt significantly more challenging. For the first time, I faced an atmosphere of federal pushback against the validity of climate change science and education. I struggled to find alternative […]
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Why GenAI Stalls Without Strong Governance
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As companies grapple with moving Generative AI projects from experimentation to productionising – many businesses remain stuck in pilot mode. As our recent research highlights, 92% of organisations are concerned that GenAI pilots are accelerating without first tackling fundamental data issues. Even more telling: 67% have been unable to scale even half of their pilots […]
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Kuljesh Puri, SVP & GM of Communications, Media & Technology, Persistent Systems – Interview Series
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Kuljesh Puri is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications, Media & Technology at Persistent Systems. He brings over 26 years of experience across the software, telecom, and semiconductor industries, along with extensive international exposure and a passion for transformation. Before joining Persistent, Kuljesh headed the Telecom Product Engineering portfolio at Tech Mahindra. […]
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AI’s Struggle to Read Analogue Clocks May Have Deeper Significance
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A new paper from researchers in China and Spain finds that even advanced multimodal AI models such as GPT-4.1 struggle to tell the time from images of analog clocks. Small visual changes in the clocks can cause major interpretation errors, and fine-tuning only helps with familiar examples. The results raise concerns about the reliability of […]
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Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?
On a speedboat in the Arctic Ocean, a team of scientists are hurtling towards a glacier known as Blomstrandbreen, an 18-km-long river of blue and grey ice. Blombstrandbreen sits on top of Svalbard, an island located at 79 degrees north in the Arctic Ocean. The terminus of the glacier directly faces the sea – and, […]
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Svalbard: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth
In the Arctic Ocean, around 400 miles from the north pole, lies the island of Svalbard. Named after the Viking word for “cold edge”, the island lay largely undisturbed before it was used as a base for whaling in the 17th and 18th centuries and transformed into a coal-mining hub in the 20th century. Today, […]
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Neural Frames Review: The AI Video Tool Every Musician Needs
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Have you ever found yourself with a song and a vision but have no clue how to bring them together visually without burning through your savings or learning complex editing software? You have music you’re proud of, but no idea how to turn that into something people can see and feel. That’s what led me […]
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How OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini Models Are Revolutionizing Visual Analysis and Coding
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In April 2025, OpenAI introduced its most advanced models to date, o3 and o4-mini. These models represent a major step forward in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), offering new capabilities in visual analysis and coding support. With their strong reasoning skills and ability to work with both text and images, o3 and o4-mini can […]
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$1 Trillion In Economic Damage From U.S. House’s Reconciliation Bill
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Ground source heat pump scheme gets underway in Ashford
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The project requires a number of boreholes to be drilled deep underground (image credit: Ashford Borough Council). Residents in 74 homes are reported to be enjoying significant heating bill reductions thanks to ground source heat pumps (GSHP) in Appledore and Charing. A £2.2m scheme now underway is the first time that Ashford Borough Council has […]
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Data-driven pumping can cut storm overflows
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Andrew Welsh is a director at water technology firm Xylem UK. Next level data collection is transforming conventional pumping systems into insight-led assets, writes Andrew Welsh of Xylem UK, ahead of the Water Equipment Show 2025. The £12 billion drive to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) by 45% in AMP8 – the 2025-30 asset management […]
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£1million Circular Electricals Fund launches
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Funding is available for up to £150,000 per successful project. WEEE recycling charity Material Focus has launched a new £1million “Circular Electricals Fund” to support the development of a more circular electricals system in the UK. Currently too many new electrical products aren’t designed to be easily reused and recycled – and the UK needs […]
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Research will investigate risk of hidden microbial impact on CO2 storage
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The North Sea Transition Authority requires all carbon capture and storage sites to have a comprehensive ‘Measurement, Monitoring and Verification’ strategy, but microbial monitoring is not yet included in these frameworks. A new research project aims to explore how microbes in deep underground storage sites could impact the success of carbon capture and storage (CCS). […]
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AI bridges the olfactory gap: Exploring the implications of the digitization of odour
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A race is on to reverse-engineer the nose, and more broadly, the entire olfactory system, which is incredibly complex, still not fully understood, and extremely underutilized by technology, compared to sight and sound. Quite apart from the novel possibilities opened up by being able to “design” scent, or give robots “a sense of smell”, the […]
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Biogas grass silage additive proves value after two difficult seasons
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This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with FM BioEnergy Following successful trials in 2023/24 at Evesham-based Vale Green Energy’s biogas plant, a new grass silage additive from FM BioEnergy has further proved its value and adaptability this year (2024/25). Silasil Energy SG has delivered impressive results across a range of situations from […]
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Custom Fine-Tuning for Domain-Specific LLMs
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Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) is the process of taking a pre-trained model — usually a vast one like GPT or Llama models, with millions to billions of weights — and continuing to train it, exposing it to new data so that the model weights (or typically parts of them) get updated.
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AlphaEvolve: Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking Step Toward AGI
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Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent designed to autonomously discover novel algorithms and scientific solutions. Presented in the paper titled “AlphaEvolve: A Coding Agent for Scientific and Algorithmic Discovery,” this research represents a foundational step toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and even Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Rather than relying on static fine-tuning or […]