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Fast-Tracking the UAE-Ecuador BIT: Executive Decrees, Constitutional Limits, and Democratic Resistance to ISDS

In December 2025, President Noboa signed a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that re‑introduces ISDS into a legal order which, since 2008, has constitutionally ...
MLB

Altuve undergoes procedure to relieve right foot discomfort (source)

HOUSTON -- Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, who was bothered by a sore right foot in the final two weeks of the regular season, underwent a minor skin aspiration Monday, a source told MLB.com. He ...
cryptopolitan

Take-Two, Roblox and Unity crash after Google launches Project Genie AI

Gaming stocks plunged Friday with Take-Two down 10%, Roblox down 12%, and Unity dropping 21% after Google launched Project Genie AI Project Genie lets users create interactive 3D worlds from text or ...
TechSpot

Google expands access to Project Genie, its AI tool that turns photos and text into explorable worlds

What just happened? Google's most exclusive AI tool right now isn't a chatbot or an image generator – it's a world builder. The company has expanded access to Project Genie, an experimental system ...
Road to VR

Google’s Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR’s Future

DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time. Now, Google has released an ...
Mashable

Meet Project Genie from Google, a 'world model' it calls a stepping stone to AGI

An example of a virtual world created by Project Genie. Credit: Google Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual worlds.
Federal Register

Oglethorpe Power Corporation; Notice of Revised Procedural Schedule for the Proposed Project Relicense

This site displays a prototype of a “Web 2.0” version of the daily Federal Register. It is not an official legal edition of the Federal Register, and does not replace the official print version or the ...
IEEE

TexPro: Text-Guided PBR Texturing with Procedural Material Modeling

Abstract: In this paper, we present TexPro, a novel method for high-fidelity material generation for input 3D meshes given text prompts. Unlike existing text-conditioned texture generation methods ...
PBS

Judge clears way for New York offshore wind project, handing industry another victory against Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge Thursday cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction, a victory for the developer who said a Trump administration order to pause it ...
Reuters

A bridge too far? Sicily project tests limits of Italy's ambitions

Italy's auditors reject flagship Messina bridge plan Court opposition could force new tender and delay project Rome touts GDP and job gains, critics cite environmental risks Investors watch to see if ...
Nature

The Venus project

Afrodi sat on the very edge of her seat. They were here, they were finally here. Like the rest of her team, her eyes were glued to the full-wall screen. Venus: the final frontier. Not that the public ...