I generally am uninterested in generative AI that’s too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there’s a modern AI thing that’s so glitchy and broken that it’s strangely compelling. There’s this generative AI knockoff of Minecraft that fails so hard at being Minecraft that it becomes something else. Trained on…
For almost a decade, Michał Januszewski has been thinking about what fish are thinking about. Michał is part of Google Research, which has been working with collaborators at HHMI Janelia and Harvard University to build one of the most ambitious datasets in brain activity research yet: a dataset that tracks both the neural activity and…
Rachel Reeves said this week she had “listened” to voters. If that is the case, she will know all too well that they are not impressed: not just over her calamitous winter fuel payment policy, but over her performance since taking office. As she prepares to set out her spending review on Wednesday, Labour’s first…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Commission’s powerful competition directorate is blocking a push that would allow governments to subsidise the production costs of clean energy technologies, flaring tensions between EU officials enforcing state-aid rules and those working on…
Topline Lawyers representing R. Kelly, the disgraced R&B singer serving decades in prison for racketeering and child sex crimes, have made multiple allegations in recent days that prison staff are attempting to kill him, which prosecutors slammed as “fanciful” and “deeply unserious,” as the singer pleads President Donald Trump for a pardon. Singer R. Kelly’s…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! RICHMOND, Va. – EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears was officially named the Republican Party’s gubernatorial nominee on Tuesday evening, and during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, she described herself as “not a very conventional candidate.” She said her goal is to reach voters across…
This post is based on a technical report written by Kazuki Fujii, who led the Llama 3.3 Swallow model development. The Institute of Science Tokyo has successfully trained Llama 3.3 Swallow, a 70-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) with enhanced Japanese capabilities, using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. The model demonstrates superior performance in Japanese language tasks, outperforming…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., doesn’t envision, nor want, the U.S. military becoming directly involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran, but that hinges on whether the Islamic Republic rejoins the negotiating table. “Dismantling Iran’s nuclear program is what this is all…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK environment secretary has “stepped up” preparations to plunge Thames Water into special administration as he signalled he would reject demands from the ailing company’s creditors to exempt it from key environmental laws. The…
GERMANS ARE a brooding bunch. After all, their language gave the world “angst”. After five years of trouble some may even be feeling a sense of Niedergeschlagenheit (literally, beaten-downness). Covid-19 was followed in 2022 by war in Ukraine, soaring energy prices and cooling Chinese demand for German wares. Europe’s biggest economy last grew year on…
