AI model improves flood forecasting with higher accuracy than current methods

New paired studies from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities show that machine learning can improve the prediction of floods. The studies, published in Water Resources Research and the Proceedings ...

Palantir's Next Big Growth Opportunity: Policing the Prediction and Sports Betting Markets?

Palantir is going to be working with Polymarket to help crack down on insider trading and other suspicious activities.

With boom in prediction markets, some lawmakers worry about how to police themselves

House and Senate ethics committees give no financial disclosure guidance on event contracts or prediction markets — unlike stock, cryptocurrency and bond trades.
Marketplace

Federal regulators might actually make rules for prediction markets

Manipulation is a big problem in sports betting. Prediction markets could be even worse. So far, the industry has largely been making up the rules as it goes.

Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans

Software demos and Pentagon records detail how chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude could help the Pentagon analyze intelligence and suggest next steps.
Scientific American

AI-designed experiments run by robots hint at a new approach to biology

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

‘Weather prophetess’ used bugs, fog to predict snow, and got it right

The Crab Orchard "weather prophetess" was popular in the Knoxville News-Sentinel, but her predictions garnered national attention through the years.
IEEE

STGN: A Spatio-Temporal Graph Network for Real-Time and Generalizable Trajectory Planning

Abstract: In dynamic and unstructured environments, mobile robots need to generate safe and efficient trajectories in real time, which poses significant challenges due to the uncertainty of ...

Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods

Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They’re also among the most difficult to predict. But Google thinks it has cracked that ...
IEEE

GAT-HDRL: Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning with Graph Attention Network for Real-Time Scheduling of Satellite Task Flows

Abstract: The rapid expansion of satellite constellations and the surge in real-time data downlink demand have forced Ground Stations (GSs) to process massive amounts of signals within very short time ...
Palm Beach Post

6 planets to align. Time, date, where to see 'planet parade' in Florida

Planet parades are how many stargazers refer to the events when the planets form a straight line and look like they're marching across the night sky. The "planetary parade" in which six planets reach ...
Seeking Alpha

Nvidia pops Q4 results, guidance blow past Wall Street's forecast

Nvidia (NVDA) shares rose 3% in extended trading on Wednesday after the semiconductor giant reported fiscal fourth-quarter results and guidance that topped Wall Street's forecast by a wide margin. For ...