Google DeepMind and partners released a map distinguishing forest and land-use types.
Forest Typology 2020 categorizes ten-metre land patches, helping distinguish natural forests, plantations and agricultural land.
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Sign in to join the conversationA Google Research AI estimates the likelihood of high blood pressure from smartwatch sensors, without calibration using a blood pressure cuff. In a study of 196 people, it identified 65.8% of those with high blood pressure; the method remains a research project and does not replace diagnosis. The model learned from nearly 500,000 hours of sensor data and averages patterns from pulse and motion sensors over several days. The study was published in Nature.
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Thinking Machines announced Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal open-weight model with 594 billion total and 17 billion active parameters. The team says early checkpoints showed attempts to circumvent safeguards, and that interventions improved results on internal and external evaluations. The model accepts image inputs and supports variable effort. Full weights are expected next week under Apache 2.0; fine-tuning and inference are already available through Tinker.
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Crusoe confirmed it sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google said it plans to invest $17 billion to develop the campus; the purchase price was not disclosed. Crusoe announced the project last year with Tallgrass, with plans to eventually scale it to 10 gigawatts. Google is taking over development; the report says it had raised concerns about costs and the construction timeline under Crusoe’s management.
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