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When Soccer Players Turn Into Runway Models

Fashion has long been linked to soccer, offering the game’s biggest stars a chance to express themselves.

Sports - The New York Times - 12 hours ago

Hurricane Milton payouts likely to hit $36bn, according to risk modellers

Storm underlines growing risks from extreme weather to southern states in US

Business - Financial Times - October 15

German space chief defends Europe investment model against Draghi’s proposal

Former Italian PM recommended abolishing ‘georeturn’ principle in report to European Commission

World - Financial Times - October 16

Meta under fire for ‘polluting’ open-source

Open Source Initiative chief criticises tech group for using the term to describe its Llama models

Business - Financial Times - October 17

Trump tops Harris in Nate Silver’s model weeks out from election

Former President Trump has taken a narrow lead over Vice President Harris in pollster Nate Silver’s prediction model just weeks out from Election Day. While the race remains essentially a toss-up, ...

Politics - The Hill - October 17

Chinese AI groups get creative to drive down cost of models

01.ai, Alibaba and ByteDance have cut ‘inference’ costs despite Washington curbs on accessing cutting-edge chips

World - Financial Times - October 19

Au pair program is a model for solving our child and elder care problems

Congress has an opportunity to create a new paradigm for employment based on an existing, successful federal program

Politics - The Hill - October 20

Italy's Meloni tries to rescue Albania refugee model with new decree

World - Yahoo News - October 21

Anthropic says latest AI model can control users’ computers

Start-up backed by Google and Amazon says tool can act like a ‘human collaborator’

Business - Financial Times - October 22

Anthropic Just Released Its Most Advanced Small AI Model Yet

The company’s new artificial intelligence system can move your cursor for you.

Business - Inc. - October 22

OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X

A pair of researchers at OpenAI has published a paper describing a new type of model — specifically, a new type of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) — that increases the speed at which ...

Tech - VentureBeat - October 23

Nvidia doubles down on India with Hindi language model and major partnerships

Nvidia on Thursday announced a slew of partnerships with major Indian firms and launched a Hindi language model.

Business - CNBC - October 24

The enterprise verdict on AI models: Why open source will win

While closed models like OpenAI's GPT-4 dominated early adoption, open source models have since closed the gap in quality, and are growing at least as quickly in the enterprise, according to ...

Tech - VentureBeat - October 24

Cohere launches new AI models to bridge global language divide

Cohere released two new open weight AI models from its Aya initiative that looks to expand LLM performance for languages other than English.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 24

Dan Osborn Is Building a Model for Taking on Republicans in Red States

Nebraska’s Senate race is far closer than anyone predicted.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 25

The Menendez brothers built a green space in prison. It’s modeled on this Norwegian idea

Erik and Lyle Menendez launched an ongoing beautification initiative in the prison where they are serving life sentences for the 1989 killings of their parents

World - ABC News - October 26

Monique Knowlton, ’60s-Era Model and Provocative Gallerist, Dies at 87

A Vogue cover girl in the early 1960s, she later pivoted to contemporary art, opening a gallery where being “outrageous counts as a plus,” one critic wrote.

Lifestyle - The New York Times - October 26

What's the Best iPhone to Buy or Avoid Right Now? (2024)

The iPhone 16 range is here, along with Apple Intelligence. Here are all the details on Apple's current iPhone lineup to help find the right model for you.

Tech - Wired - October 29

D.C. police investigate assault of gay model as a hate crime

A 22-year-old gay man was assaulted by multiple people in Washington, D.C., after not saying "excuse me" to one of the assailants, according to police.

Meta’s Llama Used to Develop AI Model for China’s Military

Researchers connected to the People’s Liberation Army created a chatbot model based on Meta’s Large-Language Model AI.

Business - Inc. - 4 days ago

Model Y Is Getting a Mutt Makeover, Joining the List of Cars Designed for—and by—Dogs

Tesla’s coming Model Y refresh may have been delayed to make it more Fido friendly, but it’s by no means the first car to be created with canines in mind.

Tech - Wired - 3 days ago

Best MacBooks (2024): Which Model Should You Buy?

New MacBooks are here. Having a hard time choosing which Apple laptop to buy? Let us help.