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☆ Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new large language model as A.I. race heats up
  + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Meta has trained and will release a new large language model to researchers, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday. Large language models underpin applications such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing AI, and Google 's unreleased Bard. "LLMs have shown a lot of promise in generating text, having conversations, summarizing written material, and more complicated tasks like solving math theorems or predicting protein structures," Zuckerberg wrote on Friday. Jerry: "George, if you had one of these, would you wear it?" "Meta is committed to this open model of research and we'll make our new model available to the AI research community," Zuckerberg wrote.
☆ China is getting rid of its 'grandpa' fighter jets, but they may make a comeback for a one-way mission against Taiwan
  + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
China's last J-7 fighter jets may leave active service this year, according to Chinese state media. China's air force may convert some J-7s into drones, which could be used in an attack on Taiwan. (Between its air force and navy, China now has the world's third-largest aviation force, according to the Pentagon.) A J-7 fighter at the People's Liberation Army Aviation Museum in Beijing in December 2013. UCAVs make it possible for China's air force "to use relatively cheap, capable, low-risk airframes as a first-in asset to either strike or soften Taiwan's air defense systems," Rice added.
☆ Satellite images show Russia is making a big gamble on how it plans to defend territory near Crimea from Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Russian forces have set up defensive lines and positions in territory leading toward Crimea. Close-up view of Russian defensive positions in Novotroitsky, Ukraine, captured on November 15, 2022. Ukraine's tanks and tracked vehicles could cut through fields and bypass them or assault the Russian positions from their more vulnerable flanks. Beyond this, Barros said that in establishing these defensive lines, Russian forces are also limiting themselves in their ability to conduct offensive operations in the area. Since late summer, advancing Ukrainian forces have managed to liberate thousands of square miles of territory from under Russian occupation.
☆ EXCLUSIVE Trinidad asks U.S. to allow Venezuelan gas imports for LNG plant
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Curtis Williams Marianna Parraga | Curtis Williams | Marianna Parraga | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
If approved, its gas could restart an idled liquefaction train with a 500 million cubic feet per day (cf/d) capacity at Trinidad's flagship Atlantic LNG project. The facility is a venture mainly including Shell (SHEL.L), BP and state-owned National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC). YEARS OF WORK AHEADTrinidad is Latin America's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, with installed capacity to process 4.2 billion cf/d into LNG, petrochemicals and power. Even if Washington granted Trinidad's request, it could take years of investment and development to bring Venezuelan gas to Trinidad and boost LNG to Europe. That project follows an amended production sharing contract for the Manatee gas field in Trinidad, which extends to Venezuela's Loran field.
☆ 'House of the Dragon' closes a chapter, but not before touching on a painful trope
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
The following contains spoilers about the fifth episode of "House of the Dragon," which premiered Sept. 18. (CNN) "House of the Dragon's" fifth episode is actually significant for logistical reasons, essentially marking the end of the chapter before the show time jumps ahead, featuring older versions of some characters and somewhat shuffling the deck. The strides made in terms of greater inclusion have coincided with debate about how those characters are portrayed and the fates that they meet, giving rise to a much-discussed trope known as "Bury Your Gays." The phrase refers to a history in which gay characters have disproportionately died as a plot device, creating the impression they are more expendable in the eyes of storytellers. (The series plays on HBO, which, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros.
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