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Earlier this week, Meta landed in warm water to achieve a high score on the crowdsourced benchmark LM Arena using an experimental, unpublished version of the Llama 4 Maverick model. The incident prompted LM Arena maintainers to apologise, change their policies and acquire the unchanged vanilla maverick. After all, it’s not very competitive. The unfixed Maverick “Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128e-Instruct” was ranked under the models that included As As As As Friday’s As As As As As As Andopenai’s GPT-4O, Openai’s GPT-4O, and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro. Many of these models were a few months ago. The release version of Llama 4 was…
Al Jazeera takes a closer look at the clash between Premier League champions, Manchester City bogey team Crystal Palace.WHO: Manchester City vs Crystal PalaceContents: English Premier LeagueLocation: Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UKWhen: Saturday 12:30pm (11:40 GMT) Follow the Al Jazeera Sport’s live text and photo commentary stream. Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said he “feels out of good” after Jack Grelish and Phil Foden were abused in separate incidents in a 0-0 draw at local rival Manchester United last weekend. The man was charged with assault after being told that Grealish was slapped by his supporters when he left the field.…
TALHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Police departments at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus. That is a major change in school policy. Previously considered a “sensitive place.” Under federal government policies, the Trump administration has withdrawn it to segregation from such law enforcement activities. This change will come as federal officials do. Revoke visas for international students And use what critics say New tactics with ambiguous justification In Push out some students Country.Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, the University of Florida in Gainesville, and the University…
This week, Google held the Google Cloud Cloud Next Conference at Las Vegas, unveiling a number of new features, including the next-generation AI processing chip called Ironwood and the latest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash. They also announced a long list of AI startups that have signed to use the cloud. Among them are some of the most viewed startups in the world. As previously reported, this list includes Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup founded by Openai co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. It also includes: Anysphere creates Uber and the popular AI-powered code editor cursors. Google says Cursor…
A group of professors specializing in copyright law submitted an Amicus brief in support of authors who allegedly trained the Lama AI model in e-books without permission. The summary, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the San Francisco Division in the Northern District of California, calls Meta’s fair use defense “a breathtaking request for greater legal privilege than the court has recognized human authors.” “The use of copyrighted works to train generative models is not “transformative.” This is because using works for that purpose is not related to using them to educate human authors. [authors’] “The use of…
A US immigration judge determined that the deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil could progress a month after a graduate student at Columbia University was detained for his involvement in the pro-Palestinian protest. Judge Jamie Commans said at the end of a nearly two-hour hearing in Louisiana’s US state on Friday, the government was “established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable.” Halil, a permanent resident of the United States, can appeal the decision. “Mahmoud has been subject to the due process charade, a serious violation of his rights to a fair hearing, and weaponisation of immigration law to…
a Doctoral students at Tufts University A person detained by immigration officers from Turkey said she was talking to her mother on her phone shortly after she left Massachusetts when she was surrounded by several men. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was moved to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center in Basil, Louisiana, provided her with an updated account on what happened to her. When she walked along the street In a document filed by an attorney in federal court on Thursday, March 25th. Ozturk is in it Several people with connections to American universities Who is Attendance demonstration or Publicly…
The court hearing on the sale of assets of bankrupt electric truck startup Nicola to Lucid Motors went smoothly on Friday. No objections have been raised to the deal, and Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Hollan approved it verbally without hesitation. That is, the lawyer piped up the Zoom call and piped up towards the end of the hearing. The lawyer said his client “has some concerns” about how the auction process is carried out. They could be addressed at a later date, he said, but he emphasized that he does not want client silence to be “opposed to us in…
A new shipbuilding startup called Blue Water Autonomy has emerged from Stealth with the promise to develop a naval vessel without a captain. The Boston, Massachusetts-based company has raised $14 million seed rounds from Eclipse, Riot and impatience ventures. The startup was founded in 2024 by Irobot, a former member of the US Navy and a leader of Amazon Robotics. Blue Water Autonomy is on a growing list of startups using their splurge on defence investments. Defense technology funding set new records in 2024, led by Andrill’s $1.5 billion Series F round and Salonick. The startup says it has developed…
Forty men of various nationalities arrive at an Italian naval vessel in the port of northern Shenzin, Albania.Italy sent 40 asylum seekers to Albania awaiting deportation. There, they will be kept in Italian detention centres until they are repatriated to their home countries. The rest of the European Union was closely monitored and was opened in October last year. However, in an attempt to save the costly programs plagued by legal challenges, the Italian government decided in late March to act as a repatriation facility to retain immigrants as they are primarily sent back to their home countries. Italian media…