Top EU diplomat says Pakistan a major regional power, ‘important partner’ – Pakistan

The European Union’s (EU) top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, on Monday termed Pakistan a major regional power and an important partner of the EU as the two sides held a strategic dialogue in Islamabad. Kallas, who serves as vice-president of the Euro­pean Commission and the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy (HR/VP), is…

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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model with 6× Tokens Per Forward Over Qwen3-8B

NVIDIA researchers have released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a language model family that unifies three decoding modes in one architecture. The model supports autoregressive (AR) decoding, diffusion-based parallel decoding, and self-speculation decoding. It is available in 3B, 8B, and 14B parameter sizes. The family includes base, instruct, and vision-language variants. Sequential Decoding Limits Throughput Standard autoregressive (AR) language…

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Crews in water-logged Metro Vancouver put together for subsequent drenching

Crews in water-logged Metro Vancouver put together for subsequent drenching

With one other drenching of rain attainable in elements of British Columbia, crews are working quick to scrub up final week’s mudslides – to make sure the subsequent drenching doesn’t affect the infrastructure that provides water to properties and companies in Metro Vancouver. Earlier this week, a mudslide blocked Pipeline Street close to Coquitlam, limiting…

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