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Scientists are trying to unravel the mystery behind modern AI

Vox 2024-07-26
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On May 23, AI researcher Jide Alaga asked Claude, an AI assistant created by tech startup Anthropic, how to kindly break up with his girlfriend. “Start by acknowledging the beauty and history of your relationship,” Claude replied. “Remind her how much the Golden Gate Bridge means to you both. Then...

With uncertainty across the Atlantic, Europe worries about its own security

Wtop 2024-07-26
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LONDON (AP) — When Donald Trump suggested during the 2016 presidential campaign that he might not honor a U.S. commitment to defend other NATO countries if they were attacked, it triggered alarm throughout the trans-Atlantic alliance. With Trump’s “America First” rhetoric drawing cheers from...

Bitcoin Crashes To $64,000: Will This Historical Support Hold?

NewsBTC 2024-07-26
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On-chain data shows Bitcoin is retesting a historically significant support level after the latest plunge in the asset’s price has gone through. Bitcoin Is Currently Retesting The Short-Term Holder Realized Price As explained by CryptoQuant community manager Maartunn in a new post on X, BTC...

No need for an Asian NATO to counter China

Asiatimes 2024-07-26
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This article was originally published by Pacific Forum, a Honolulu-based foreign policy research institute founded in 1975. It is republished with permission. NATO heads of state gathered in Washington last week for the alliance’s 75th anniversary summit. While summit deliverables were predictable,...

A faster Gemini model debuts alongside an AI expansion to teens and more places

Crunch 2024-07-25
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What you need to know Google's July update for Gemini is packed with a brand new model and an expansion to its access.Gemini's 1.5 Flash model, previously teased during I/O 2024 brings swifter responses and the ability for it to understand more complex questions.Gemini in Messages expands to more...

VanEck Predicts Bitcoin Price Could Hit $52.38 Million, Here’s When

NewsBTC 2024-07-25
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In a new report dated July 24, 2024, from VanEck, the investment firm’s digital assets research team, headed by Matthew Sigel and Patrick Bush, sets forth an exceptional prediction: Bitcoin could soar to a value of $52.38 million per coin by 2050 in their most bullish scenario. The analysis, titled...

Thousands stranded by floods in Philippine capital as deadly typhoon prompts calls for climate action

Egypt Independent 2024-07-25
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CNN — Much of the Philippine capital remained underwater Thursday after deadly Typhoon Gaemi worsened torrential monsoon rains that lashed the country, trapping thousands of people in rising flood waters and causing widespread damage. Continuous heavy rains, massive flooding and landslides across...

Biden says time to pass torch to 'younger voices'

The New Arab 2024-07-25
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US President Joe Biden told Americans 0n Wednesday he quit the 2024 election to unite the country, saying in a historic Oval Office speech that it was time to pass the torch to "younger voices." "I revere this office. But I love my country more," the 81-year-old said in an elegiac prime-time address...

Meta unwraps biggest Llama 3 AI model with language and math gains

Business Day 2024-07-24
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New York — Meta Platforms released the biggest version of its mostly free Llama 3 artificial intelligence models on Tuesday, boasting multilingual skills and general performance metrics that nip at the heels of paid models from rivals such as OpenAI. The new Llama 3 model can converse in eight...

Genocide in Gaza and the decline of a flawed world order

Al Jazeera 2024-07-24
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The current state of the world is the tragic manifestation of history repeating itself, echoing the famous line, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In 1919, at the end of World War I, the victorious powers – Britain, France, Italy, the United...

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VanEck Predicts Bitcoin Price Could Hit $52.38 Million, Here’s When

NewsBTC | 2024-07-25
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FILE - An ethereum ATM is seen in Hong Kong, Friday, May 11, 2018. A complex software change enacted Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, to the cryptocurrency ethereum holds the potential to dramatically reduce its energy consumption — and resulting climate-related pollution. But the transition known as

Here’s Why Ethereum Price Is Falling Today

CoinGape | 2024-07-25
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FILE - Emergency services work at the site of Okhmatdyt children's hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 8, 2024. For Ukrainian competitors in Paris for the Olympics, joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. Athletes are striving to enjoy the dream of competing at one of the world’s most prestigious sports events while carrying the burden of the war back home.

With uncertainty across the Atlantic, Europe worries about its own security

Wtop | 2024-07-26
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Protesters set out empty plates to protest hunger aimed at G20 leaders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the country that will host the next G20, Thursday, July 25, 2024.

US rejects plan for G20 deal to tax super-rich

The Daily Tribune - Bahrain | 2024-07-26

Gaza

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Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive before a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2024.

Harris tells Netanyahu 'it is time' to end Gaza war and bring hostages home

Naharnet | 2024-07-26
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Smoke rises following Israeli bombardments in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, July 22, 2024.

Kamala Harris tells Netanyahu 'it is time' to end war in Gaza

The Philadelphia Inquirer | 2024-07-26
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Elon Musk, center, stands up to applaud Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks during a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024.

Netanyahu receives standing ovation from US lawmakers despite war crimes in Gaza

Anadolu Agency | 2024-07-25
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An Israeli soldier secures the entrance to the West Bank city of Hebron, a day after a deadly shooting attack that killed an Israeli woman and seriously wounded a man near the city, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. The Israeli military said that overnight, its forces conducted large-scale searches and arrest raids throughout the West Bank, interrogating 20 Palestinians, confiscating illegal vehicles and arresting an additional 13 suspects near Hebron.

How Israel is shrinking Gaza’s ‘safe zones’

Al Jazeera | 2024-07-25

Ukraine

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Ukrainian soldiers from the 3rd Spartan Task Force Brigade are taking part in tactical and medical training exercises at an undisclosed location in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, July 22, 2024.

Agreement with Russia is 'deal with the devil,' adviser to Ukrainian president says

The Daily Gazette | 2024-07-26
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers of the 71st Jaeger Brigade fire a M101 howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline, near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, March 22, 2024. Much of what NATO can do for Ukraine, and indeed for global security, is misunderstood. Often in the public mind, the alliance is thought of as the sum of all U.S. relations with its European partners, from imposing sanctions and other costs on Russia to sending arms and ammunition. But as an organization its brief is limited to the defense by military means of its 32 member countries and a commitment to help keep the peace in Europe and North America.

Ukraine holds the front line, seeks Chinese mediation for talks with Russia

Al Jazeera | 2024-07-25
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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi gestures during an event hosting Mahmoud al-Aloul, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of Palestinian organisation and political party Fatah, and Mussa Abu Marzuk, senior member of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

China’s hosting Palestinian and Ukrainian delegations this week. But can it play peace broker in global conflicts?

CNN | 2024-07-25
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In this image taken from video released by the Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry Dmytro Kuleba, left walks with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi before a meeting in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, July 24, 2024.

Chinese FM urges political settlement of Ukraine crisis in talks with Ukrainian counterpart

Xinhua | 2024-07-24

Climate Change

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Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, October 3, 2019.

China quietly taking the lead in climate diplomacy

Asiatimes | 2024-07-26
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Secretary-General Briefs Press on Extreme Heat

UN chief urges global action to tackle extreme heat

Manila Bulletin | 2024-07-26
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In this Monday, Aug. 31, 2020 file photo, an overhead screen displays a map showing the flight route of an El Al plane from Israel en route to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

This oil capital wants to be a hub for climate tech

CNN | 2024-07-25
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File - Women learn how to prepare Spaghetti that will boost their families' nutrient intake with orange-fleshed sweet potato, in Kaltungo Poshereng Nigeria, Sunday, June 2, 2024. More than a dozen women gathered this week in Kaltungo's Poshereng village where they are learning at least 200 recipes they can prepare with those local foods which, in the absence of rain, are grown in sand-filled sacks that require small amounts of water. The training session mirrored the struggles of households who are more challenged amid Nigeria's worst cost of living crisis.

Conflict, economic instability, and extreme weather hinders efforts to reduce global hunger: UN

Madhyamam | 2024-07-24

Health

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Women who rarely have sex are at an increased risk of dying, study finds

PsyPost | 2024-07-25
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Campaign posters promoting President Nicolas Maduro, who is running for a third term, hang from utility poles in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Venezuela is set to hold its presidential election on July 28.

Venezuela heads for presidential vote: What does the religious landscape look like?

Naharnet | 2024-07-24
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A young woman cools down under a shower at Biarritz beach, southwestern France, Wednesday, July 25, 2018 as the hot weather continues across the country.

Are cold showers good for you? What the science says

CNN | 2024-07-24
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Diabetes

Here’s how sleep is linked with risk of Type 2 diabetes

Gulf Today | 2024-07-23

Science

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A global map of Mercury's surface created from images obtained by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The colors are not what the eye would see, but are related to compositional variations on the surface. Credit:

Mercury may have 10-mile thick layer of diamonds beneath its surface, NASA craft discovers

New York Post | 2024-07-25
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NASA’s Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away

Webb directly images giant exoplanet that isn’t where it should be

Ars Technica | 2024-07-25
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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. This long-duration photograph was taken at night from the orbital complex as it soared 258 miles above western China.

NASA and Boeing Will Provide Status of Crew Flight Test Mission Currently Aboard Space Station

Space Coast Daily | 2024-07-24
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The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also known as the common chimpanzee, robust chimpanzee, or simply chimp

Chimp conversations can take on human-like chaos

Popular Science | 2024-07-23

Business

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Moët & Chandon is a French fine winery and co-owner of the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE

The world’s biggest luxury brands are hurting as Chinese shoppers rein in spending

CNN | 2024-07-26
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Wall Street sign

Stock market today: Global shares tumble after a wipeout on Wall Street as Big Tech retreats

Springfield News-Sun | 2024-07-25
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File - A branch of The People's Bank of China, the central bank of the People's Republic of China and responsible for carrying out monetary policy and regulation of financial institutions in mainland China.

China lowers MLF interest rate to reduce financing costs

China Daily | 2024-07-25
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Homeplus Centum city branch 20180331 114454

A 134-year-old home goods retailer filed for bankruptcy and is closing more than 70 stores

CNN | 2024-07-24

AI

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This is a macro of a silicon wafer. Each square is a chip with microscopic transistors and circuits

UK AI chip company exits stealth mode, raises $15m seed funding

Eweekly | 2024-07-26
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President and CEO of Nvidia Corporation Jensen Huang delivers a speech during the Computex 2024 exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, June 2, 2024.

Nvidia stock price falls in a not-so-magnificent week for AI-forward tech giants

Fast Company | 2024-07-25
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Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta and formerly known as Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California, March 23, 2021.

Meta must do more to address non-consensual, deepfake porn, Oversight Board says

CNN | 2024-07-25
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The adoption of AI is not a call for a change in human behavior. Instead, it is a challenge to think about how we interact with the world around us. AI can make some tasks easier, but it cannot change the underlying structure of the world.

Does AI adoption call for a change in human behavior?

Fast Company | 2024-07-23

Cryptocurrency

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What factors affect the value of Bitcoin

Bitcoin World | 2024-07-26
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Dogecoin’s Potential Surge: Analyst Predicts A 44% Upside

NULLTX | 2024-07-26
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HSBC, North Sydney

HSBC Australia starts blocking payments to crypto exchanges

Cryptopolitan | 2024-07-25
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FILE - An ethereum ATM is seen in Hong Kong, Friday, May 11, 2018. A complex software change enacted Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, to the cryptocurrency ethereum holds the potential to dramatically reduce its energy consumption — and resulting climate-related pollution. But the transition known as

Here’s Why Ethereum Price Is Falling Today

CoinGape | 2024-07-25