Gisèle Pelicot’s ex-husband jailed for 20 years in mass rape trial
The convictions bring to an end France’s largest ever rape trial, which has shocked the country and world.
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Putin admits Russian inflation is an ‘alarming signal’ and the economy is ‘overheating’
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Here’s what you need to know about the Pelicot trial
Judges have delivered verdicts on the defendants in a case that turned a 72-year-old woman into a feminist icon.
Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel says stock sell-off is ‘healthy’ as cautious Fed gives investors a ‘reality check’
Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel expects the Fed to pare back the number of rate cuts next year, with just one or…
Microsoft Open Sourced MarkItDown: An AI Tool to Convert All Files into Markdown for Seamless Integration and Analysis
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Bank of Japan holds rates at 0.25%, yen weakens
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GitHub’s AI Programming Copilot Goes Free for VS Code Developers
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Chinese self-driving trucking company pivots to generative AI for video games
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Alibaba AI Research Releases CosyVoice 2: An Improved Streaming Speech Synthesis Model
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Microsoft AI Research Open-Sources PromptWizard: A Feedback-Driven AI Framework for Efficient and Scalable LLM Prompt Optimization
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Syria not a threat to world, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa tells BBC
In an interview with Jeremy Bowen, the leader of the rebel group HTS says sanctions on Syria should be lifted.
Fed cuts by a quarter point, indicates fewer reductions ahead
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its decision on interest rates.
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Microsoft AI Introduces SCBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Context Methods in Large Language Models
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How Fastweb fine-tuned the Mistral model using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod as a first step to build an Italian large language model
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Here’s what a blockbuster Nissan-Honda merger could mean for the auto industry
Nissan and Honda are understood to be exploring a blockbuster merger as the two rival companies seek to stay competitive on…
Russia detains Uzbek man over general’s killing in Moscow
A 29-year-old Uzbekistan citizen has been detained over the death of Kirillov and his assistant, state media says.
UK inflation rises to 2.6% in November, in line with expectations
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ProteinZen: An All-Atom Protein Structure Generation Method Using Machine Learning
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EnzymeCAGE: A Deep Learning Framework Designed to Predict Enzyme-Reaction Catalytic Specificity by Encoding both Pocket-Specific Enzyme Structures and Chemical Reactions
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Hong Kong records first rise in new listings since 2020, as Beijing’s policy pivot refuels optimism
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Infinigence AI Releases Megrez-3B-Omni: A 3B On-Device Open-Source Multimodal Large Language Model MLLM
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Google Released State of the Art ‘Veo 2’ for Video Generation and ‘Improved Imagen 3’ for Image Creation: Setting New Standards with 4K Video and Several Minutes Long Video Generation
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Japan’s Honda and Nissan to reportedly begin merger talks
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Simplify multimodal generative AI with Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
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How TUI uses Amazon Bedrock to scale content creation and enhance hotel descriptions in under 10 seconds
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Technology Innovation Institute TII-UAE Just Released Falcon 3: A Family of Open-Source AI Models with 30 New Model Checkpoints from 1B to 10B
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Nvidia falls deeper into correction territory as Broadcom rally continues
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This AI Paper from Microsoft and Novartis Introduces Chimera: A Machine Learning Framework for Accurate and Scalable Retrosynthesis Prediction
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Germany’s auto giants were already reeling. Now Trump wants to turn them into American companies
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Bomb that killed general reportedly hidden in electric scooter
Lt Gen Igor Kirillov was reportedly leaving a residential block when a nearby scooter exploded.
Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video Understanding
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Waymo to begin testing in Tokyo, its first international destination
The Alphabet-owned company has struck deals with major Japan-based robotaxi operators to begin testing in 2025.
North Korean troops killed fighting Ukraine, says US
These would be the first reported casualties since North Korea sent troops to support Russia in October.
UBC Researchers Introduce ‘First Explore’: A Two-Policy Learning Approach to Rescue Meta-Reinforcement Learning RL from Failed Explorations
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Indonesia’s protectionist policies aimed at attracting tech investment may backfire, economists warn
“I call it pseudo-protectionism,” said Bhima Yudhistira, executive director of the Center of Economic and Law Studies.
Llama 3.3 70B now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
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Teacher and teenaged student killed in Wisconsin school shooting
Officials say the suspect, a teenaged student at the school in Madison, is also among the dead.
China wants to dominate in AI — and some of its models are already beating their U.S. rivals
Chinese AI models are already hugely popular and are keeping pace with — and even surpassing — some U.S. rivals,…
Microsoft AI Research Introduces OLA-VLM: A Vision-Centric Approach to Optimizing Multimodal Large Language Models
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AWS re:Invent 2024 Highlights: Top takeaways from Swami Sivasubramanian to help customers manage generative AI at scale
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses confidence vote, clearing the way for February election
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France’s new prime minister gets a baptism of fire after surprise Moody’s downgrade
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