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Can AI speed up aspects of the scientific process? Microsoft appears to think so. At the company’s Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic AI to “transform the [scientific] discovery process,” according to a press release provided to TechCrunch. Microsoft Discovery is “extensible,” Microsoft says, and can handle certain science-related workloads “end-to-end.” “Microsoft Discovery is an enterprise agentic platform that helps accelerate research and discovery by transforming the entire discovery process with agentic AI — from scientific knowledge reasoning to hypothesis formulation, candidate generation, and simulation and analysis,” explains Microsoft in its release.…

Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to build AI-powered apps on Windows devices. On Monday during its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced Windows AI Foundry, a rebranding and expansion of the Windows Copilot Runtime service the company launched last May. Microsoft describes Windows AI Foundry as a “unified platform for local AI development” — a way to fine-tune, optimize, and deploy the AI models underpinning Windows apps. Microsoft increasingly sees AI, whether running locally or in the cloud, as a major profit driver, despite the high costs associated with developing tentpole models. In January, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said…

A 13-year-old boy sought for giving a teen Bronx murder suspect the gun used to shoot an innocent 16-year-old girl was arrested Monday, police sources said. The boy was tracked to a family friend’s home on E. 166th St. near Tinton Ave., about two blocks south of the murder scene, and taken into police custody. He has not yet been charged. Police have been looking for him since Evette Jeffrey was struck by a stray bullet last Monday afternoon in a gang-related shooting at Home St. and Tinton Ave. Police the next day arrested a 14-year-old boy for murder —…

Former Siri head John Giannandrea pushed Apple to choose Google’s Gemini chatbot over ChatGPT for the first chatbot integration with Siri last year, according to a Bloomberg report looking at Apple’s uneven AI efforts. Giannandrea, an ex-Google executive who was demoted in a leadership reshuffle in March, thought that OpenAI’s bot wouldn’t have staying power and wasn’t protective of sensitive personal data. Despite these concerns, Apple announced ChatGPT’s integration at WWDC in 2024 and made the feature available to users in December. Apple’s integration lets users tap ChatGPT in instances where Siri isn’t able to answer a question. Last year,…

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Summary Thomas Andre’s tough upbringing shaped him into a fearsome brawler, leading him to global fame. Sung Il-Hwan, one of Korea’s first S-rankers, disappeared then emerged as one of the strongest hunters. While Sung Il-Hwan showed great psychological strength, Thomas Andre had a more fulfilling hunter career. Solo Leveling features several interesting characters who are driven by unique motivations and values that shape their life choices and define their journeys throughout the series. A handful of them have very strong personalities and leave viewers in awe whenever they make an appearance. Thomas Andre and Sung Il-Hwan are perhaps two such…

Key takeaways:The XRP (XRP) price is flashing warning signs as a bearish technical pattern resolves on lower timeframes, coinciding with massive long liquidations and decreasing open interest.XRP H&S pattern hints at a 14% price dropXRP price action has formed a head-and-shoulders (H&S) pattern on its four-hour chart since May 9, projecting a likely down-move.The head-and-shoulders pattern is a bearish reversal pattern that can signal a change in trend. It consists of three peaks: a higher peak (head) and two lower peaks (shoulders). It is resolved when the price breaks below the neckline (the line connecting the lows of the left and…

A man with a knife was shot to death on the sidewalk behind a Harlem NYPD precinct stationhouse, police said Monday. The victim was behaving irrationally when he approached with a knife two men walking past the 28th Precinct stationhouse on Frederick Douglass Blvd. near W. 123rd St. about 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, police sources said. Surveillance video from a nearby deli shows the victim moving aggressively toward one of the men before they move in opposite directions. That’s when one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the victim in the head. Medics rushed the victim to…

The upcoming Gaming in Spain Conference, scheduled for June 26 at the Auditorio ECIJA in Madrid, will once again bring together regulators, legal experts, and industry leaders for a day of insights, discussions, and cross-border collaboration. This year’s event reflects a broadened scope, with a strong focus not only on Spain’s regulated market but also on key developments across Latin America.Focus on Spain’s Changing Regulatory LandscapeThe agenda, still being finalized, features multiple sessions centered around Spain’s evolving approach to gambling regulation. Among the highlighted presentations is “Algorithms, Advertising & Deposit Limits: Outlines and Obligations,” led by Mikel Arana, Director General…

A 57-year-old man was killed and a woman wounded by stray bullets in a Bronx street shooting, police said Monday. Kevin Jennings was shot in the head outside a deli on E. 188th St. near Marion Ave. in Fordham around 6:45 p.m. Sunday, cops said. A 34-year-old woman was blasted in the left leg. Blood on the ground the morning after Kevin Jennings was fatally shot in the head and a 34-year-old woman was hit in the left leg outside a deli on E. 188th St. near Marion Ave. in the Bronx. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News) “I…