ATLANTA: Americans wanted a summer of fun. They got a giant Donald Trump cage fight instead. Team USA’s ejection from the World Cup at the hands of Belgium on Monday underlined the souring of the national mood already underway since divisive July Fourth celebrations. It was about more than the 4-1 score or occasionally embarrassing…
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a…
Stablecoin-settled perpetual contracts tied to traditional financial assets topped $1.1 trillion in trading volume during the first half of 2026, according to Binance Research, underscoring the growing role of stablecoins in tokenized financial markets. According to Binance Research, stablecoins are increasingly being used to settle TradFi-linked perpetual contracts, a market that’s grown to roughly 11%…
The nominees for the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards were unveiled Wednesday — and while we won’t know the winners until September, The Pitt and Hacks dominated the nominations. The Emmy nominations were presented by Emmy winners Liza Colón-Zayas from The Bear and Somebody Somewhere star Jeff Hiller. The Pitt leads all nominees with 25 nods, while…
ANKARA: US President Donald Trump threatened fresh military strikes against Iran, saying the United States could launch another attack “tonight” while renewing his insistence that Tehran must never obtain a nuclear weapon. Speaking alongside Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a news conference at the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump said the United States had carried out heavy…
Ground staff pull on the covers during the fifth and final day of the second Test between Sri Lanka and West Indies. Photo: AFP/File LONDON: West Indies completed their first home Test series triumph for four years when the second and final match against Sri Lanka petered out into a tame, rain-affected draw on the…
NVIDIA has released Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B), a unified audio-text large language model. It understands and generates both audio and speech. It also keeps the text intelligence of its backbone. The checkpoints, along with a smaller Audex-2B, are released under a noncommercial license. Most multimodal models pay a text tax. When labs…
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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The constable in training killed in a traffic collision Tuesday will be remembered for his “tremendous potential,” Durham police say. In an update on social media Wednesday, Durham police identified the cadet as 27-year-old Tyrone Magbitang. “Tyrone was a compassionate, dedicated, and service-driven individual who believed deeply…
The US consulates in Lahore and Karachi are set to resume regular consular services from July 20, 2026, the US Embassy in Islamabad said in a statement on Wednesday. The consulates will provide services to US citizens as well as process non-immigrant visa applications. US consular services in Lahore and Karachi were suspended in March…
