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The ceiling The cabinet door gets me every time. Someone in the kitchen leaves it open, I turn from the sink, and the corner of it finds my forehead before I know it exists. It is not clumsiness, and it…
Read NowNovara Consulting Group Insights Heather M. Grizzle Microsoft AI published its Code of Conduct for MAI models on 14 September 2026 and opened a six-week public consultation on the text. The document sets out the intended behaviors, values, and guardrails…
Read NowFor years, the dominant story in artificial intelligence was speed. Build the more capable model. Ship the agent. Beat the competitor. Raise the capital. Expand the benchmark. Get the product into the market. Governance could catch up later. Later appears…
Read Now*Confident mistranslation in sign-to-text systems, and the benchmarks that cannot see it* On 9 September 2026 the Chinese technology outlet Quantum Bit reported a method from vivo AI Lab called CAPO-SLT, from a paper titled “CAPO-SLT: Confidence-Aware Policy Optimization for…
Read NowA paper posted to arXiv on 2 September 2026 and accepted to the main conference at EMNLP describes DiscoSign, a framework for translating English text into American Sign Language gloss while keeping track of what has already been said. Its…
Read NowSynthetic signing by the minute, and the governance that stays behind when the file leaves On 9 September 2026, Signapse launched SignStream Chat, a chat-style tool in which a user types an English sentence and receives an AI-generated video of…
Read NowOn 9 September 2026, Agence France-Presse carried a report from a Nairobi secondary school for Deaf students on ZeroBionic, a Kenyan start-up whose 3D-printed robotic hands convert a teacher’s speech into signs in real time. Within two days the wire…
Read NowA 2026 Rewriting Heather M. Grizzle Originally written in 2010. Rewritten in 2026 to say what I now think the earlier essay was trying to say. H.G. Wells sends a sighted man into a valley where no one can see,…
Read NowWhat the Delaware state file in the National Deaf Education Data Index found… Delaware was supposed to be the easy one. Nineteen school districts, twenty-two charter agencies, one school for deaf children, and a state small enough that a family…
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