Water & Infrastructure

Siltation threatens national dams

Siltation accumulation is threatening Lesotho's dams, with Rasebale Dam in Mafeteng severely affected during the 2024 drought, prompting authorities to deploy a dredging machine to remove approximately 900,000 cubic metres of sediment. The Water and Sewage Company and government have warned that major reservoirs including Metolong and Katse dams are experiencing significant siltation due to soil erosion, and have committed to implementing a coordinated maintenance programme for all national dams.

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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