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AI Researchers Push to Open Up ‘Black Box’ of Language Models Amid Rapid Growth in AI Capabilities
A coalition of AI researchers has launched a new large language model that can serve as an antidote to systems such as GPT-3, which are considered close systems. BLOOM, for the BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model, can work across 46 languages, including Arabic, Spanish and French — unlike most systems that are fo...
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TikTok Has Its Arab Spring Moment in the US as Teen Activism Overtakes Dance Moves
Just a few months ago, 17-year-old Taylor Cassidy was spending hours flailing her arms in an attempt to pick up the latest dance move the "Renegade." That all changed as Cassidy watched videos by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and eventually began creating video skits on TikTok to illustrate the racial injustice she and her friends face on a daily basis.
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New Zealand Refuse To Tour Pakistan Citing Security Reasons
The Black Caps are scheduled to travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to play Pakistan for a full tour in October-November.
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UAE, Bahrain Lose 45 Troops on Black Day for Yemen Coalition
The UAE said 45 of its soldiers engaged in a Saudi-led campaign against Shiite rebels in Yemen were killed in an accidental explosion that the insurgents claimed was caused by rocket fire.
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Painting That Helped Save Nelson Mandela's Life May Fetch USD 1.5 Million
A painting that helped fund South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's legal defense when he was on trial for treason in the early 1960s has been found in a London apartment where it was being used as a notice board.
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In Sydney Siege, Gunman Demands Islamic State Flag, Say Reports: 10 Developments
The police in Sydney launched counter-terror protocol as an armed man held several people hostage inside a popular cafe on Monday morning and forced some of them to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window, sparking a security lock-down in the heart of Australia's commercial capital. The gunman has allegedly warned that fo...
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Sydney Hostage Crisis: Police Negotiators in Contact with Gunman
An armed man held several hostages inside a popular cafe in Sydney on Monday morning and forced some of them to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window, sparking a security lock-down in the heart of Australia's commercial capital. Hours later, five people ran out of the building that was under siege.
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Sydney Hostage Crisis: 3 People Have Come Out of Cafe, Say Police
A gunman took an unknown number of hostages inside a popular cafe; in Sydney on Monday morning and forced some of them to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window, sparking a security lock-down in the heart of Australia's commercial capital. The Australian police have confirmed that three people have come out using the sid...
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Veiled Saudi woman poet blasts clerics on live TV
Covered head-to-toe in black, a Saudi woman lashed out at hard-line Muslim clerics' harsh religious edicts in verse on live TV at a popular Arabic version of "American Idol."
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AI Researchers Push to Open Up ‘Black Box’ of Language Models Amid Rapid Growth in AI Capabilities
A coalition of AI researchers has launched a new large language model that can serve as an antidote to systems such as GPT-3, which are considered close systems. BLOOM, for the BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model, can work across 46 languages, including Arabic, Spanish and French — unlike most systems that are fo...
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TikTok Has Its Arab Spring Moment in the US as Teen Activism Overtakes Dance Moves
Just a few months ago, 17-year-old Taylor Cassidy was spending hours flailing her arms in an attempt to pick up the latest dance move the "Renegade." That all changed as Cassidy watched videos by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and eventually began creating video skits on TikTok to illustrate the racial injustice she and her friends face on a daily basis.
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New Zealand Refuse To Tour Pakistan Citing Security Reasons
The Black Caps are scheduled to travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to play Pakistan for a full tour in October-November.
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UAE, Bahrain Lose 45 Troops on Black Day for Yemen Coalition
The UAE said 45 of its soldiers engaged in a Saudi-led campaign against Shiite rebels in Yemen were killed in an accidental explosion that the insurgents claimed was caused by rocket fire.
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Painting That Helped Save Nelson Mandela's Life May Fetch USD 1.5 Million
A painting that helped fund South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's legal defense when he was on trial for treason in the early 1960s has been found in a London apartment where it was being used as a notice board.
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In Sydney Siege, Gunman Demands Islamic State Flag, Say Reports: 10 Developments
The police in Sydney launched counter-terror protocol as an armed man held several people hostage inside a popular cafe on Monday morning and forced some of them to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window, sparking a security lock-down in the heart of Australia's commercial capital. The gunman has allegedly warned that fo...
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Sydney Hostage Crisis: Police Negotiators in Contact with Gunman
An armed man held several hostages inside a popular cafe in Sydney on Monday morning and forced some of them to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window, sparking a security lock-down in the heart of Australia's commercial capital. Hours later, five people ran out of the building that was under siege.
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Sydney Hostage Crisis: 3 People Have Come Out of Cafe, Say Police
A gunman took an unknown number of hostages inside a popular cafe; in Sydney on Monday morning and forced some of them to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window, sparking a security lock-down in the heart of Australia's commercial capital. The Australian police have confirmed that three people have come out using the sid...
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Veiled Saudi woman poet blasts clerics on live TV
Covered head-to-toe in black, a Saudi woman lashed out at hard-line Muslim clerics' harsh religious edicts in verse on live TV at a popular Arabic version of "American Idol."
