Ericsson has launched a 12-month learnership programme in the Eastern Cape combining classroom and workplace training for youth in telecommunications infrastructure skills. The initiative aims to build technical capacity in the telecoms sector through practical work experience and formal education.
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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
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 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, 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