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Republican senator urges Trump to back US open-weight AI models amid industry debate | 92.7 The Van WYVN | Holland's Classic Hits
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (298+ words) WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Republican Senator Jim Banks is urging the Trump administration to develop incentives to encourage U.S. tech companies to develop open-weight AI models, according to a letter released on Friday, adding to a growing debate over the industry’s…...
Explainer-How climate change and El Niño supercharged Typhoon Dolphin
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (684+ words) By Ethan Wang and Ryan Woo BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Typhoon Dolphin unleashed extreme rain across eastern, central and northern China, far from the coast where it made landfall on Sunday following a two-week journey across the Pacific Ocean. Its longevity…...
Heatwaves could cost France €10-15 billion, environment minister says
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (161+ words) PARIS, Aug 12 (Reuters) – The heatwaves that have hit France in recent months could result in €10 billion to €15 billion ($17 billion) in direct and indirect costs, French environment minister Monique Barbut said on Wednesday. Barbut cited estimates from France’s national statistics agency,…...
Dogs can distinguish between emotions in a human face, study shows
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (265+ words) BERLIN, Aug 11 (Reuters) – A peek inside dogs’ brains revealed man’s best friend can distinguish emotions in people’s faces, researchers at the University of Vienna have found, providing what they said was the first ever evidence of such an ability. In…...
Oman says grounded tanker oil spill covers 400 square km
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (628+ words) By Menna AlaaElDin, Jonathan Saul and Kate Abnett Aug 10 (Reuters) – Leaking crude oil from a tanker grounded off a nature reserve in Oman has created a slick covering almost 400 square kilometres, the country’s government said on Monday. The Caroline Bezengi…...
Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (676+ words) Aug 10 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI to better compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday and said more would follow soon. The…...
Wildfires near Spokane, Washington, wind down as evacuees begin to return
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (456+ words) Aug 9 (Reuters) – Many evacuees among the tens of thousands forced to flee a cluster of wildfires near Spokane, Washington, were allowed back to their homes on Sunday as firefighters stepped up efforts to extinguish the remaining hot spots. Despite another…...
ByteDance targets mega AI model that could match Mythos scale, FT reports
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (291+ words) Aug 7 (Reuters) – ByteDance is training an AI model with as many as 10 trillion parameters that could be close to the size of Anthropic’s cutting-edge Mythos system, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. With…...
Hungary expects Danube to rise but nuclear plant still facing output curbs
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (355+ words) BUDAPEST, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Water levels on the Danube river are expected to temporarily rise thanks to rains in Austria, but the situation at the Paks nuclear plant remains “difficult”, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said in a Facebook video on…...
Why were there no tiny dinosaurs? You might blame the mammals
1+ week, 1+ day ago (687+ words) WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Everyone knows dinosaurs got really big. Some of the long-necked plant-eaters were the largest land animals ever on Earth, as shown by Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 to 90 tons and upwards of 100 feet (30 meters) long. But how about tiny dinosaurs,…...