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US-backed commander says his Kurdish-led group wants a secular and civil state in post-Assad Syria
US-backed commander says his Kurdish-led group wants a secular and civil state in post-Assad Syria
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding's latest open-source Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model surpassed DeepSeek-V3 to become the top-ranked non-reasoning model from a Chinese developer, according to a third-party benchmarking and ranking platform, highlighting the rapid pace of Chinese firms' advance in the emerging technology. Alibaba Cloud's Qwen2.5-Max, launched during the Lunar New Year holiday, has climbed to seventh place on Chatbot Arena, a benchmarking project developed by
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“One possible failure mode for XRPL is if all the validators think something's wrong with the network, all refuse to send any validations,” the Ripple CTO explained.
The regulator first opened an investigation into the adult-only subscription site in May last year.
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Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.
Alphabet's Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of U.S. businesses scaling back diversity initiatives. "In 2020, we set aspirational hiring goals and focused on growing our offices outside California and New York to improve representation," Fiona Cicconi, Alphabet's chief people officer, said in the memo on Wednesday, a copy which was reviewed by Reuters. "...but in the future we will no longer have aspirational goals."
Australia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices on the advice of security agencies, a top official said Wednesday, citing privacy and malware risks posed by China's breakout AI program.TikTok was banned from government devices in 2023 on the advice of Australian intelligence agencies.
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said.
Censori, 30, shocked onlookers by appearing naked on the red carpet in see-through dress on Sunday night
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Office manager Oliver White, 27, died by suicide the next day ‘as a direct result’ of the robbery in which he was tied up and put in headlock, jurors were previously told
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The incident comes a week after an American Eagle regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington D.C.
President Donald Trump declared Tuesday the United States could “take over” the war-torn Gaza Strip and said he was willing to put American troops on the ground to do it. “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The president said the U.S. would “level the site” and “create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the ar
Japanese police said they have arrested seven people suspected of running an illegal sex business that reportedly targeted tourists in Tokyo's busy red-light district.A Tokyo police spokesman told AFP on Wednesday that seven people, including a Brazilian national, had been arrested for running prostitution businesses under the guise of massage parlours for men in the central Kabukicho red-light district.
Donald Trump’s aides rejected a request from Elon Musk to bring in a foreign national to help gut the federal government, according to a new report, as the president has sought to make it clear who’s in charge. The world’s richest man wanted Baris Akis, a Turkish-born venture capitalist who holds a green card, to join his DOGE initiative, an advisory committee that calls itself the “department” of government efficiency, The Atlantic reported on Tuesday. The law typically doesn’t allow noncitizen
CAIRO (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia said it would not establish ties with Israel without the creation of a Palestinian state, contradicting President Donald Trump's claim that Riyadh was not demanding a Palestinian homeland when he said the U.S. wants to take over the Gaza Strip. In a shocking announcement, Trump said on Tuesday the United States would take over the war-ravaged enclave after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and develop it economically. Saudi Arabia rejects any attempts to displace the Palestinians from their land, Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that its stance towards the Palestinians is not negotiable.
This is the incredible moment a teenager stuck in quicksand on the island of Gulangyu, China on February 1 is able to escape by remaining calm and carefully following instructions.
Ferrari have added to their ranks ahead of Lewis Hamilton’s debut in scarlet red in Australia next month