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Barcelona regained the La Liga Liga title from rival Real Madrid, earning a 2-0 victory with neighbour Espanyol.Barcelona won their 28th Spanish League title after Ramin Yamal starred in a 2-0 victory at Crosstown rival Espanyol. Yamal scored in the 53rd minute of a tight match on Thursday. At that time, the teenage futures passed two defenders along the edge of the area before whipping one of their current left-footed curlers into the corner of the net. Fermin Lopez scored to win the victory in stop time, but Yamal’s strike stole the headline and was the perfect high for a…
On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced its first family of AI software engineering models (the launch of the first family of SWE-1). The startup says it has trained a new family of AI models (SWE-1, SWE-1-LITE, and SWE-1-MINI) to optimize it not only for coding but for “the entire software engineering process.” The launch of Windsurf’s in-house AI model may come as a shock to some, considering Openai reportedly shut down a $3 billion deal to acquire Windsurf. However, the launch of this model suggests that Windsurf is about to expand not…
The US president claims he sealed $10 trillion worth of transactions during his visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.President Donald Trump welcomed deep ties between the United States and the United Arab Emirates, saying the latter would invest $1.4 trillion in the former artificial intelligence sector over the next decade. Trump said Thursday in a meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan that he had attacked a series of lucrative technology, business and military deals on the last foot of his tour of the Gulf region’s three country. Sheikh Mohammed said the United…
Apple says that the warning message displayed next to the EU App Store list that uses third-party payment systems is not actually new. According to many recent reports, Apple added a warning with a red exclamation point next to an app that proved to not use its own “private and secure payment system.” This message appeared to be intended to discourage users from using external payment mechanisms, as is currently permitted under the new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). However, the iPhone makers confirmed with TechCrunch that these user discussion screens have been live on the EU App…
AI video startup Hedra has made it easy for anyone to generate Lifelike digital characters and raised $32 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz’s infrastructure fund. Existing investors including A16Z Speedrun, Abstract and Index Ventures took part in the round. Matt Bornstein of A16Z is also on the board. In the latest round, Hedra’s total will be increased to $43 million, bringing the company to a valuation of around $200 million. The company, quietly launched in 2023, is behind some of the more unexpected uses of AI video technology these days, like the virus trends of AI-generated…
When Max Cohen and Cameron Behar set out to launch a startup together during the pandemic, they decided to focus on healthcare, the most important sector of the era. But neither Cohen nor Behar had a healthcare background (previously worked for Google and Facebook), they had to think long and hard about how to contribute to the sector that dominated the national consciousness of the time. Telehealth was also very popular, but was very popular that year, but the duo realized that not all patients could offer remotely. So, Cohen and Behar built Sprinter health to fill that gap and…
The United Nations emphasizes compliance with the principles of neutrality and independence in providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to Gaza.The UN says it will not take part in the humanitarian operation of US aid in Gaza as Israel has vowed to promote efforts without being involved in the delivery of aid. “This particular distribution plan is not in line with our fundamental principles, including fairness, neutrality and independence. We will not participate in this,” Deputy United Nations spokesman Farhan Hak told reporters Thursday. The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will begin work in Gaza by the end of May under aid plan…
Toronto – Canada has quietly become a global leader in digital assets.Canada was one of the first countries to enact crypto rules starting with the 2014 Money Laundering Anti-Money Laundering Guidelines. The country has repeatedly evolved its regulatory guidance in recent years. Its clarity of regulations has made Toronto a launchpad for blockchain growth, and Wall Street is gaining attention.Robin HoodThe recent acquisition of Canadian Crypto Firm Wonderfi, owner of BitBuy and Coinsquare, plugs into Canada’s established user base.”Canada is a very attractive market for us,” said Johann Carblatt, Robin Hood’s crypto chief. “We have over 30 million users using…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York University has used its graduation speech to condemn the attacks on Israeli Palestinians and said it would deny a diploma to students, which he described as “conspiracy to this genocide.”Logan Rozos’ speech On Wednesday, it sparked a wave of condemnation from pro-Israel groups for graduates at NYU’s Gallatin School. In a statement, NYU spokesman John Beckman apologized for the speech, accusing students of misusing their platform “to express his personal and unilateral political views.””He lied about the speech he was trying to deliver and violated the commitment he made to follow our rules,” Beckman…
A lawyer who has admitted to using false quotes created in a continuing legal battle with music publishers by the Claude AI chatbot of humanity, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday. Claude hallucinated the quote with “inaccurate titles and inaccurate authors.” Humanity’s lawyers explain that their “manual citation check” did not catch it or that several other errors caused by Claude’s hallucination. Humanity apologised for this error, calling it “an honest quoting error, not an authority production.” Earlier this week, lawyers representing Universal Music Group and other music publishers accused the human expert witness…