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AI everywhere but the gas pedal: OmniPredict touts social foresight, IBM bolts copilot to Db2; Vegas nixes 78% HOA hike; father–son chomp Hungry Hungry Hippos record
Analysts: Most Automakers Will Tap the Brakes on AI by 2030
Analysts say the AI stampede in auto land slows down within five years, with only about 5% of carmakers keeping up heavy AI spending by the end of the decade. Translation: the hype lane stays crowded, but the profitability exit keeps getting missed. Flashy demos can swerve around reality, balance sheets cannot.
IBM Straps an AI Copilot to Db2's Console
IBM is grafting an Intelligence Center onto its 42-year-old Db2, pitching a single console to wrangle on-prem, cloud, and containerized deployments. After a burst of fall updates, Big Blue wants Db2 to look like one brain managing sprawling estates. Nothing says modern like giving your legacy database an AI chaperone and hoping it behaves at family gatherings.
OmniPredict Aims to Give Self-Driving Cars Social Foresight
Researchers at Texas A&M and KAIST unveiled OmniPredict, an AI system that forecasts pedestrian behavior with high accuracy to help autonomous vehicles navigate people, not just pavement. It is not mind reading, it is better anticipation. If the accuracy holds on real streets, that is a meaningful safety upgrade, already more substance than most glossy AV hype reels.
Las Vegas Residents Overturn HOA's 78 Percent Fee Hike
In Bavington Court, the Richmond Park HOA tried to jack monthly dues from 275 dollars to 490 dollars starting in January. Residents organized, used a little-known Nevada rule, needed 137 signatures, and brought 151. The near 500 dollar spike is dead for now, dues stay at 275, and only a modest 22.50 increase will go to a vote. Neighbors, many seniors and low-income families, pointed to broken lights, limited pool access, cars getting hit, and reportedly just 11,000 dollars in reserves. Special assessments can still appear without a vote, Nevada caps nothing, and fees could be back next year, but this round proves clipboards beat bureaucracy, and transparency costs less than sticker shock.
Father and Son Nab Hungry Hungry Hippos World Record
A serial record-breaker and his young son set the fastest two-person time to clear Hungry Hungry Hippos. Intergenerational bonding now comes with marbles, plastic hippos, and a stopwatch. Finally, a sport where fast reflexes and family chaos are both features, not bugs.
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