US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation

Getty Images Lawmakers in the US have passed the country’s first major national cryptocurrency legislation. It is a major milestone for the once fringe industry, which has been lobbying Congress over regulation for years and poured millions into last year’s election, backing candidates that included Donald Trump. The bill sets up a regulatory regime for…

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Evaluating generative AI models with Amazon Nova LLM-as-a-Judge on Amazon SageMaker AI

Evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) goes beyond statistical metrics like perplexity or bilingual evaluation understudy (BLEU) scores. For most real-world generative AI scenarios, it’s crucial to understand whether a model is producing better outputs than a baseline or an earlier iteration. This is especially important for applications such as summarization, content generation,…

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Balenciaga opens first Quebec store at Royalmount

Balenciaga opened on Thursday its first-ever Quebec location at Royalmount, Montreal’s new luxury shopping destination.  Balenciaga opens first Quebec store at Royalmount. – Balenciaga The 380-square-meter space houses the latest Balenciaga collections across men’s and women’s ready-to-wear, footwear, bags, jewelry, eyewear, and accessories, offering Quebec shoppers full access to the brand’s design language. The store’s…

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