Meet the Sad Wives of AI

Though things keep changing, some analyses suggest that women are about 20 percent less likely than men to use generative AI. “It’s a function not of gender per se,” Rodgers suggests, “but of the occupations that women hold.” Women are disproportionately represented in jobs—education, health care, social services—that right now use AI less. The result…

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JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines

JetBrains released Mellum2, open-sourcing the weights under the Apache 2.0 license. The first version of Mellum was a completion-focused 4B dense model. Mellum2 is its successor: a general-purpose model specialized in software engineering. It covers code generation and editing, debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use and function calling, agentic coding, and conversational programming assistance. JetBrains team…

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China tells US to ‘cease brandishing judicial stick’ towards Cuba

China tells US to ‘cease brandishing judicial stick’ towards Cuba

BEIJING: China stated it supported Cuba and urged the US to “cease brandishing the judicial stick” towards the nation, after Washington indicted the Caribbean island’s former chief Raul Castro on homicide fees. The US fees towards the 94-year-old former president — introduced Wednesday — fueled hypothesis that President Donald Trump will attempt to topple the…

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