Carlos Alcaraz celebrates his victory over Tommy Paul of the US during their US Open round-of-16 match. Photo: AFP NEW YORK: Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz posted his most convincing win in his injury return at the US Open, downing Tommy Paul in straight sets on Sunday to line up a quarter-final clash with Ben Shelton….
A deadly plane crash in Miami on Sunday left a trail of “utter devastation,” the National Transportation Safety Board said as it began its investigation into the incident. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy told a news conference Monday the plane was arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Amazon-contracted Boeing 767-300 overran runway 30 on landing,…
NEW YORK: American Frances Tiafoe swept previous former champion Daniil Medvedev in straight units Sunday to advance to the quarter-finals of the US Open. A two-time semi-finalist at New York’s Flushing Meadows, the Eleventh-seeded Tiafoe defeated seventh-seeded Medvedev of Russia 7-6 (7/1), 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) to achieve the quarter-finals for the fourth time in 5…
Robot manipulation datasets have grown far slower than the models trained on them, mostly because collection stays closed and centralized. Expert operators gather demonstrations on lab hardware, process them offline, and ship a fixed benchmark that never grows again. A research team from Axis Robotics, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, NTU… is proposing a different shape…
This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers. Discretion advised. Brian Clark doesn’t like to call himself “lucky,” but he says he’s grateful he’s alive after escaping the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. “I prefer to think about it as fortunate and blessed,” Clark told Global News. As people prepare to…
Pakistan’s Nashra Sandhu (left) celebrates taking a wicket with captain Fatima Sana during their ACC Women’s T20 Asia Cup match against Hong Kong, China, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on September 7, 2026. — ACC DUBAI: Pakistan secured a place in the semi-finals of the ACC Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2026 with…
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, the second checkpoint in the MiniCPM5 series and the follow-up to MiniCPM5-1B. It is a dense causal language model with 2,516,756,480 parameters, of which 1,981,982,720 sit outside the embeddings. It uses 42 layers, grouped-query attention with 16 query heads and 2 key/value heads, and a native context window of 131,072 tokens….
Left-arm spinner pulls off 6-7 as Pakistan seal an enormous win over Hong Kong in ladies’s continental cricket occasion Pakistan Ladies stormed into the semi-finals of the Ladies’s Asia Cup with a commanding 72-run victory over Hong Kong Ladies on Monday, powered by a record-breaking spell from left-arm spinner Nashra Sandhu. Chasing 144 for victory…
AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF — and, as of last week, terms like “opaque recurrence,” the reasoning technique in…
NEW YORK: Aryna Sabalenka saved her US Open three-peat bid alive Sunday, charging into the US Open quarter-finals with a confidence boosting victory over difficult American Taylor Townsend. Sabalenka took all the things the multi-faceted Townsend threw at her to emerge with a 6-4, 6-3 victory, profitable the final 5 video games to push her…
