New AI Model Lets Farm Robots Identify Weeds – Then Kill Them With Lasers

You’ve probably heard about large language models, those sophisticated AI systems that power all chatbots today. Get ready for Large Plant Models (LPMs)

by ZOHAIB AHMED

You’ve probably heard about large language models, those sophisticated AI systems that power all chatbots today. Get ready for Large Plant Models (LPMs). Developed by Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based agricultural technology company, it’s essentially an AI model trained on over 150 million labeled plants for the goal of recognizing basically any weed in any field of the planet. Computer vision is fast emerging as a transformative tech in farming — another startup company recently used the tech in mushroom-picking robots…

Simplicius: Iran Cows US Navy into Submission in Hormuz Standoff

Iran has muscled its way into both cowing and overpowering the US Navy into submission in the Strait of Hormuz

by Simplicius

The biggest story of the day is that Iran has muscled its way into both cowing and overpowering the US Navy into submission in the Strait of Hormuz.

But first, let’s back up a little bit and acknowledge that the IRGC appears to have went fully “to the mattresses” in this war. They are no longer playing games, and no longer willing to compromise. They have gained momentum and achieved military, political, and propaganda initiative and are now pushing their advantage…

Iranian oil is getting through the strait, while no one else is able to traverse it.

The energy paradox: Iranian exports persist while global oil traffic grinds to a halt

by Meryl Nass

26 Reasons You Should Start a Garden in 2026

Lets explore the long list of reasons why starting/expanding a garden is the most important thing you can possibly do in 2026

by Gavin Mounsey

I want to remind you that you are capable of co-creating wonderful things on this Earth when you choose to learn from the Creator’s design and use your gifts in service of life and Creation. You did not arrive here by accident, your life is a gift from God, it is intentional, it is brimming with potential and it has meaning. When you hold a handful of heirloom seeds in your hand and look upon the fertile living earth, what you are witnessing is the invitation from the Creator to put your human gifts to good use for the benefit of all beings…

How Iran Plans to Bankrupt America – Prof. Jiang Xueqin

12 Minute Video Breaks Down Both The Iranian & US Strategies

by Prof Jiang Media

A new era of warfare is quietly reshaping global power—and it is being driven not by billion-dollar weapons systems, but by cheap drones and structural vulnerabilities. In this lecture, Prof. Jiang Xueqin examines how low-cost technologies like Iran’s Shahed drones are exposing the economic and strategic weaknesses of traditional military doctrine. When a $50,000 drone can force a defender to fire multiple $1 million missiles, the economics of war itself becomes inverted. According to Jiang, this asymmetry reveals deeper problems inside modern defense bureaucracies, where legacy Cold War thinking, expensive weapons platforms, and institutional incentives often produce systems designed more for prestige and spending than for resilience or adaptability on the battlefield…

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