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Georgia Tech and Amazon announced an AI and robotics hub focused on warehouse logistics. The partnership brings together academic research and Amazon’s network of distribution centers, though the announcement does not detail investment amounts or a results timeline.

Cloudflare announced that the entire Deno team is joining the company to build Cloudflare celld, a platform that combines the Workers model with Durable Objects. Deno Deploy will stop operating in six months, and JSR is moving its infrastructure to Cloudflare.

Cactus introduced the Whistle model, a 16.9 MB speech recognition system that runs on CPU without an internet connection. It transcribes seven languages, marks per-word timestamps, and shares the C++ engine with Cactus’s Needle text model. On an Apple M4 Pro it decodes at 1,319 tokens per second, ahead of Whisper base and Moonshine tiny v2.

Chrome 155 natively decodes JPEG XL with jxl-rs, a decoder rewritten in Rust that eliminates memory errors from the previous C++ codec. Google recommends testing it alongside AVIF.