5 m. ago Perfect is the enemy of good for distributed deep learning in the cloud

A new communication-collective system, OptiReduce, speeds up AI and machine learning training across multiple cloud servers by setting time boundaries rather than waiting for every server to catch up, according to a study led by a University of Michigan researcher.

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27 m. ago Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data

Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company says was trained exclusively on commercially licensed, “safe-for-work” images. The model, called F Lite, contains around 10 billion parameters — parameters being the internal components that make up the model. F Lite was developed in partnership with […]

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88 m. ago Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.

Nicolás Maduro said his regime will use the upcoming "May Day" Marxist holiday to demand the "liberation" of a two-year-old Venezuelan girl allegedly "kidnapped" by the U.S. -- whose illegal alien parents are Tren de Aragua members -- and the release of 252 Venezuelan illegals who also belong to the foreign terrorist organization and were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador. The post Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals appeared first on Breitbart.

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89 m. ago A new shape for energy storage: Cone and disc carbon structures offer new pathways for sodium

As global demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage surges, so does the need for affordable and sustainable battery technologies. A new study has introduced an innovative solution that could impact electrochemical energy storage technologies.

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1 hour ago Unequal internet: Study highlights differences between websites from developing and developed countries

The Internet may be a global phenomenon, but its often-claimed global nature is tempered by the "digital divide"—digital participation still heavily depends on economic conditions.

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2 h. ago Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues White House to Block Board Firings

The media organization said the White House emailed three of the company’s five directors on Monday, telling them that their positions had been terminated.

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2 h. ago Mapping dynamical systems: New algorithm infers hypergraph structure from time

In a network, pairs of individual elements, or nodes, connect to each other; those connections can represent a sprawling system with myriad individual links. A hypergraph goes deeper: It gives researchers a way to model complex, dynamical systems where interactions among three or more individuals—or even among groups of individuals—may play an important part.

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2 h. ago Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times

In mid-March, Meta said that its “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024. On Tuesday at its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference, Meta revealed that figure has reached 1.2 billion downloads. “We have thousands of developers contributing tens of thousands of derivative models being downloaded […]

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2 h. ago More than 50,000 Los Angeles County workers take to picket lines demanding higher pay

More than 50,000 Los Angeles County workers take to picket lines demanding higher pay  KTLA

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3 h. ago What Trump's first 100 days has meant for these truck drivers and sex workers

In Zambia, truck drivers and sex workers have high rates of being HIV positive —- and are at high risk of contracting the virus. Here's how they have been affected by the administration's policies.

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4 h. ago The Oscars have rolled out the red carpet for generative AI. And surprisingly, viewers don't seem to mind

The Oscars have entered the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Last week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences explicitly said, for the first time, films using generative AI tools will not be disqualified from the awards.

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4 h. ago Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons

Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way. While the experiments are still in the early stages, it’s possible that the company is looking to take on Duolingo with the help of Gemini, Google’s multimodal large language model. The […]

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4 h. ago Google’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languages

Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews feature available in 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched last year to give users the ability to generate a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on documents they have shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal […]

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4 h. ago LA county workers set to rally, march in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, Day 2 of SEIU's planned 48

LA county workers set to rally, march in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, Day 2 of SEIU's planned 48-hour strike  ABC7 Los Angeles

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4 h. ago Premature death linked to certain type of food, study reveals

New research has confirmed that ultraprocessed food consumption is linked to premature death in eight countries, as the U.S. pulls back on synthetic dyes.

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5 h. ago More than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers take to picket lines for 2

More than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers take to picket lines for 2-day strike  KTLA

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6 h. ago Study explores how workers are using large language models and what it means for science organizations

Researchers investigated Argonne employees' use of Argo, an internal generative artificial intelligence chatbot.

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6 h. ago May Day rallies in Los Angeles to honor International Workers' Day

May Day rallies in Los Angeles to honor International Workers' Day  Boyle Heights Beat

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7 h. ago More than 55,000 LA County workers go on strike, disrupting numerous public services

More than 55,000 LA County workers go on strike, disrupting numerous public services  USA Today

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7 h. ago Lawsuit argues Trump's wholesale transformation of government is unconstitutional

A coalition of unions, nonprofits and local governments has sued President Trump, Elon Musk and the heads of nearly two dozen agencies in an effort to block mass layoffs in the federal government.

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