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Canceled the Google account for my small business... Less money going to AI bullshit and Google's evil practices.
And I let them know.
(I had to click through a lot of screens where they tried to get me to stay, offered discounts, or offered to archive data for a few dollars a month. No thanks.)
#noAI

NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's "content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/m…

The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal
In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.

#DJT expected to quickly run to pals in #SCOTUS to overturn 3 judge panel's ban in US Court of International Trade to resume his chaotic #WhiteHouse wank off of tariff tirades that many experts agree exceeds executive branch authorit…

Court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs
Trump imposed tariffs on most of the countries in the world in an effort to reverse America’s massive and longstanding trade deficits. He earlier plastered levies on imports from Canada, Chin…

NGPU-LM: GPU-Accelerated N-Gram Language Model for Context-Biasing in Greedy ASR Decoding
Vladimir Bataev, Andrei Andrusenko, Lilit Grigoryan, Aleksandr Laptev, Vitaly Lavrukhin, Boris Ginsburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22857

NGPU-LM: GPU-Accelerated N-Gram Language Model for Context-Biasing in Greedy ASR Decoding
Statistical n-gram language models are widely used for context-biasing tasks in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, existing implementations lack computational efficiency due to poor parallelization, making context-biasing less appealing for industrial use. This work rethinks data structures for statistical n-gram language models to enable fast and parallel operations for GPU-optimized inference. Our approach, named NGPU-LM, introduces customizable greedy decoding for all major ASR mod…

US, Germany agree to deliver 5 Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/us-germany-agree-to-deliver.html

O que leva o YouTube a achar que eu tenho qualquer interesse em luta livre?! Que algoritmo burro!
Mesmo que seja conteúdo impulsionado, é burrice. O cara paga para esse conteúdo chegar a quem tem boas chances de consumí-lo, não pra alguém cujo perfil de uso deixa bem claro que não se interessarš por isso.
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Jazzaria – Lost Insight
#acoustic

Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

Optimizing ASR for Catalan-Spanish Code-Switching: A Comparative Analysis of Methodologies
Carlos Mena, Pol Serra, Jacobo Romero, Abir Messaoudi, Jose Giraldo, Carme Armentano-Oller, Rodolfo Zevallos, Ivan Meza, Javier Hernando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13875

Optimizing ASR for Catalan-Spanish Code-Switching: A Comparative Analysis of Methodologies
Code-switching (CS), the alternating use of two or more languages, challenges automatic speech recognition (ASR) due to scarce training data and linguistic similarities. The lack of dedicated CS datasets limits ASR performance, as most models rely on monolingual or mixed-language corpora that fail to reflect real-world CS patterns. This issue is critical in multilingual societies where CS occurs in informal and formal settings. A key example is Catalan-Spanish CS, widely used in media and parli…

EU considering proposals to speed Russian gas phaseout by 1 year, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/eu-considering-proposals-to-speed.html