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Dog attack victim remains in ICU

A 12-year-old Basotho boy remains in intensive care at a Bloemfontein hospital after being mauled by five German Shepherds at the residence of former IEC commissioner Tšoeu Petlane, sustaining severe facial injuries that required specialist treatment unavailable in Lesotho. The family has launched a fundraising campaign that has raised over M100,000 so far, as the mounting medical bills continue to accumulate daily, while the dog owner has not yet made a financial contribution toward treatment.

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How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

GPT-Live is a system designed to enable continuous voice interaction with AI through a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture. The system was built over a six-month development period to support faster and more natural conversations. Source: OpenAI

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

Palantir's CEO Alex Karp commented on the AI industry following the company's strong financial quarter with $1 billion in profit. Karp expressed concerns about the trustworthiness of AI frontier labs for enterprise deployment. Source: TechCrunch

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS has enabled Superblocks, a vibe-coding (low-code/no-code AI development) tool, to be embedded into private AWS cloud environments for customers. This development represents a move toward decoupling applications from underlying AI models in enterprise deployments. Source: TechCrunch

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

DesignArena, a platform that crowdsources human evaluations for AI models, has raised $7.9 million in funding. The platform serves 5.3 million users globally and provides evaluation data to frontier AI laboratories. Source: TechCrunch

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How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models