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A Hugging Face item titled Falcon-Emirati concerns a large language model said to have learned the Emirati dialect, the culture, and the nuance. The available context provides no further details, so its capabilities, training, or release status cannot be confirmed.

Six researchers report that a VR scene generation system which carries users' previous corrections forward cut the average number of fixes a user had to make from 8.52 to 5.62. The result was measured across a 42-person study, and the researchers say they have published it.

A bottom-up, company-level analysis presented at the inaugural Solar Manufacturing USA event forecasts domestic U.S. module production through the end of 2027. It finds that real domestic module supply depends on firm cell access and project-level commitments rather than top-line capacity headlines.

Japanese trading company Sumitomo Corporation has invested in a utility-scale renewable energy park in Karnataka, India, developed by Indian independent power producer Hero Future Energies. The hybrid project will combine 500MW of solar PV and wind power, co-located with a 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

OpenAI's MCP Extensions enables developers to hook their plugins into key surfaces of the ChatGPT user experience. Plugins can now take a panel, a sidebar entry or a file viewer of their own instead of only answering in chat, and Canva, Figma and Adobe have already shipped one each.

Australian energy company Origin Energy has referred its new battery energy storage project, Eraring BESS North, for assessment under Australia's EPBC Act. The company is targeting construction of what it calls the 'Southern Hemisphere's largest battery storage complex'.

Valve published two fixes for a virtual keyboard that would not appear, one of which names Skyrim VR outright. However, two owners posting in Valve's own SteamVR bug report forum say the problem persists: in Skyrim VR and Fallout 4 VR, the keyboard does not come up and the games still soft-lock.

Intel's Arc B390 is the GPU named in five of the company's launched processors, yet it has no product page on Intel's site. Intel's download page for Arc graphics driver 32.0.101.9034 lists the products the driver supports and links each to its specification database entry; the Arc B390's product page returns a 404.

Three games on Steam's global best-seller chart — Dragon's Dogma 2, CONTROL Resonant and The Blood of Dawnwalker — are rated Unsupported on Steam Deck but Verified on Steam Machine, spanning the full width of Valve's compatibility ladder in one step, according to Valve's per-title compatibility endpoint read for all 100 chart entries.

MIT researchers found that a ketogenic diet increased small-intestinal tumors in cancer-prone mice while reducing colon tumors. They traced the higher risk not to ketones but to intestinal stem cells burning the diet's high fat, which sped cell multiplication; the finding comes from mouse models, not human evidence.

Facepunch Studios explained in its Livestock announcement on Steam why adding more animals to Rust should not cost server frames: the game includes a ceiling on how much NPC work fits into a single frame. The studio also says its new navmesh is at least twice as fast.

The third-party iPhone app OpenGlasses, which runs a non-Meta AI on Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses, has rebranded as Avenkin. According to MIXED, its professional tier now includes a face blur that the wearer cannot switch off; the solo developer says the project is independent of Meta and Anthropic.

Intel's release notes for Arc graphics driver 32.0.101.9034 add Game On support for Gears of War: E-Day on Arc B-series and A-series GPUs and on Core Ultra processors with built-in Arc graphics, while also logging the game as a known issue on three of the covered product families.

Nature Medicine describes MAGIC, an international network for evaluating generative artificial intelligence in global health. The feed provides no further details on its members, methods, or current status.

A report covers extended follow-up of an in vivo BCMA CAR-T therapy for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. No further context was provided beyond the headline, so the specific findings and conclusions of this follow-up cannot be confirmed from the available information.

Teradyne has invested in Bright Machines, and the two companies plan to integrate Teradyne's robotics and test technologies with the Bright Machines manufacturing platform, aiming to bring robotics to AI infrastructure manufacturing, according to The Robot Report.

Ency Software and robot manufacturer Estun have begun a technology partnership aimed at giving European users of Estun robots a smooth, fully integrated way to program and simulate their automation cells. Two new Estun robots were delivered to Ency Software's R&D center in Cyprus for integration and testing.