EDMONTON – After 14 mostly unspectacular but always steady NHL seasons, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins remains an important piece of the puzzle for Edmonton Oilers as they attempt once more to take a run at the elusive Stanley Cup. Drafted No. 1 overall by the Oilers in 2011, the Burnaby, B.C., native remains Mr. Versatility. He can…
The photo collage features Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed (left) and Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan. — AFP/File Pakistani spinner Abrar Ahmed has risen to the top of the ICC T20I bowling rankings, becoming the world’s No 1-ranked bowler in the latest update. Abrar climbed to the top of the rankings with 736 rating points, dethroning Afghanistan’s…
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family. The team states it performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work. It also costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads at default settings. On Anthropic’s own benchmarks, it leads in agentic coding,…
Pakistan’s top squash players cruise into the pre-quarter-finals while Sana Bahadar bows out after a five-game battle KARACHI: Pakistan’s top squash players Noor Zaman and Mohammad Ashab Irfan blasted their way into the pre-quarter-finals of the men’s singles squash event at the 20th Asian Games at Nagoya Kinjo Futo Arena on Wednesday. Noor defeated Aero…
Kyutai has released Voice of Reason, 2 open-weight speech-to-speech models that solve math problems out loud. Both start from GLM-4-Voice-9B and add supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). There is no transcription step and no separate text LLM in the loop. On spoken GSM8K, accuracy climbs from 27.3% for the base model to 77.1%….
China’s Boheng Zhang celebrates after his horizontal bar to win gold within the Males’s Staff Closing. Picture: REUTERS NAGOYA: Zhang Boheng produced one other highly effective show on the Asian Video games gymnastics competitors on Wednesday as China took revenge for his or her Olympic defeat to Japan to beat the hosts in a conflict…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something that heads of state on trade missions don’t typically do. In front of roughly 250 founders, investors and operators, he said openly that he doesn’t have answers to many of the AI questions leaders around…
Pakistan’s France-based eventer finishes sixteenth out of 32 riders in cross nation with 55.90 penalty factors Pakistan’s premier equestrian Usman Khan on Wednesday full his Asian Video games journey. France-based eventer completed sixteenth out of 32 riders within the particular person eventing cross nation occasion with 55.90 penalty factors. As many as six riders eradicated…
Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It needs no training. It targets a common production job: picking one answer from a fixed set instead of writing a sentence. Is it deployable? Yes, it installs from PyPI, ships under Apache-2.0, and has transformers…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The fire at the ECCO recycling landfill site in Calgary’s southeast continues to burn after igniting two weeks ago. The Calgary Fire Department has been working on containment and suppression operations in order to snuff out the blaze. Clean fill materials have been brought to the site…
