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China's Alibaba Unveils AI Brains Designed To Power The Next Generation Of Robots Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering, Chinese firm Alibaba has launched its first embodied AI model family, which links large language models with real-world robotic actions. The Qwen-Robot suite includes three distinct models, each targeting a different layer of physical intelligence.Unitree/YouTube The Qwen-Robot suite was developed by Alibaba's Tongyi Lab and is undergoing pilot testing with selected Alibaba Cloud enterprise clients. The suite comprises three models focused on navigation, manipulation, and world modeling for robots operating in physical environments. Alibaba said...

Pentagon Prepares A-10 Warthog Surge As Mideast Fleet Set To Double The Department of War is preparing to double its fleet of Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, better known in the aviation community as "Warthogs," in the Middle East in the very near term, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The surge of additional Warthogs, as many as 18, on top of the roughly dozen A-10s already operating in the region, has already been used to sink Iranian boats in the Hormuz chokepoint and strike Iran-backed militias in Iraq, according...

US Bombing Campaign Effectiveness In Doubt As Iranians Rebuild At Rapid Pace Neocon war hawks thought that Iran's defense capabilities could be obliterated through shock and awe style heavy bombing raids, such as during the opening days and weeks of Operation Epic Fury, but just like pretty much every other assumption about how things would go in the little Iran "excursion" - they are once again proven wrong. Several fresh reports from both American and Israeli sources say that Iran is rebuilding damaged and destroyed facilities at much faster-than-expected pace. This...