Recent developments in sequence modeling have allowed continuation to be viewed as an autore-gressive task, to be modeled with a suitable tokenization scheme and a powerful sequence model like the ubiquitous Transformer [1]. A nonexhaustive list of prior work in this vein includes the Music Transformer [2], Museformer [3], FIGARO [4], and MuseCoco [5]. Most research in symbolic music modeling has so far focused on generalizing these techniques to--and improving performance on--long-sequence, multitrack, multi-instrument, and/or text-or attribute-controllable generative tasks. Typically, specialized techniques must be developed for these foundation models to handle these harder tasks, such as fine-and coarse-grained attention for long sequences [3], and text feature extraction techniques [4] and attribute augmentation [5] for controllability.

This is the moment a 60,000 robot dog takes a catastrophic fall down a flight of stairs and breaks during a botched demo. MailOnline caught the dramatic event on camera during a visit to Lyons Park, Jaguar Land Rover's battery testing facility in Coventry. Small parts scatter the floor and sparks fly as the industrial helper robot – sold by US firm Boston Dynamics – struggles to get back up. Gonzalo Ejarque-Rinaldini, technical project manager at JLR, told MailOnline that the poor pooch would need replacement parts installed before it could walk again. 'My trust in Boston Dynamics is as high as always – these machines are top class,' he told MailOnline.

It takes a lot to frighten Zee. The 35-year-old father of two rarely gets flustered: not when he first set out on the 4,000-mile journey from his family home in Pakistan to the UK more than a decade ago; not during the years he spent struggling for survival on the fringes of Britain's formal economy; not when the Home Office threatened to deport him, plunging his young family into uncertainty. But the cold, foggy, final hours of 24 January this year – they felt different. "My heart was pounding," Zee remembers. That was the night Zee and his colleagues at Amazon's BHX4 warehouse in Coventry decided to make history, abandoning their workstations and launching an unprecedented stoppage to demand higher wages. They had walked out before, in a spontaneous, ad hoc protest. But this was different: a carefully planned and legal effort, the likes of which Amazon UK had never faced. Standing in their way at the exit gates was a line of senior managers who had the power to make or break each worker's future, staring down anyone who might dare to pass. "As midnight struck, I kept catching other people's eyes: do we go, or do we stay?" Zee recalls. "We didn't know what would happen if we crossed that threshold. But we did know that somebody, somewhere had to be the first to try."

"This is a picket line," says Rachel Fagan emphatically. The GMB union's Midlands regional organiser stands in front of a line of striking workers several rows deep at Amazon's vast BHX4 warehouse in Coventry, during industrial action designed to embarrass the online behemoth during a high-profile sales event. About 900 workers at the Coventry warehouse are taking three days of strike action from 11 July to 13 July, coinciding with its Prime Day sales event on Tuesday and Wednesday. Along the picket line, one worker holds up a placard carrying the union's familiar refrain: "I am not a robot." The latest industrial action will bring the total strike days at Amazon to 22 since January, when the first UK strikes in the history of the company took place.

From Harry Potter to The Jetsons, flying cars have been staple features of science fiction blockbusters for years. And with the futuristic vehicles rapidly getting closer to becoming a reality, the world's first vertiport has opened this week. The Air-One vertiport is located in Coventry and will be a hub for drones and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts, including flying cars and taxis. The site will serve as a blueprint for more than 200 vertiports planned worldwide over the next five years, according to Urban-Air Port, the UK-based developer of Air-One. 'The opening of Air-One is a momentous moment – the starting gun for a new age of transport, an age of zero-emission, congestion-free travel between and within cities that will make people healthier, happier and more connected than ever before,' said Ricky Sandhu, Founder and Executive Chairman of Urban-Air Port.

Want the best Coventry and Warwickshire news delivered straight to your inbox? An adaptable industrial robot that can'think' like a human has been developed at an engineering centre on the edge of Coventry. However anyone concerned about the seemingly unstoppable advance of artificial intelligence and the prospect of robots taking over the world can be assured it is purely something to make manufacturing more efficient. The new invention, with the decision-making capability of a human operator, has been developed by robotics experts at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) located in Ansty Park. Using a combination of machine learning and visual recognition, the robot can be taught to make assembly decisions based on the components put in front of it.

The race to conquer the driverless car market has stepped up a gear, with the first ever tests of an autonomous vehicle built in Britain on the country's public roads. Jaguar Land Rover is leading the pack with its'major landmark' trial, which aims to help vehicles react in a similar way to people. The pilot project is part of a government-backed bid to encourage more widespread use of automated cars by 2020. The race to conquer the driverless car market has stepped up a gear, with the first ever tests of an autonomous vehicle built in Britain on the country's public roads. The UK Autodrive project is the UK's largest trial of connected and autonomous vehicle technology.