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Kerry Gates is a news writer for Midlandia Press. She writes about arts, automotive, travel, and fashion. She also loves to spend time with her family and friends, go on road trips, and read historical fiction.

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Matthew Stafford sits to avoid injury this time and Jimmy Garoppolo shows command

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No elbow problem. No money-related hold-in. Just a scheduled day off. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford did not practice Monday — the team’s first in pads — but coach Sean McVay shut down speculation quicker than a Stafford-delivered pass during a two-minute drill. “This was part of the plan all along,” McVay said, adding, “There’s nothing […]

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U.S. Commerce Department report endorses ‘open’ AI models

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The U.S. Commerce Department today issued a report in support of “open-weight” generative AI models like Meta’s Llama 3.1, but recommended the government develop “new capabilities” to monitor these models for potential risks. The report, authored by the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), finds that open-weight models broaden generative AI’s availability to

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Meet Team USA gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik: A new hero in glasses

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PARIS — Not all heroes wear capes. This one wears glasses. Stephen Nedoroscik’s clutch pommel horse routine during Monday’s team final clinched the United States’ first Olympic medal since 2008 and, in the process, launched a thousand internet memes. The bespectacled Olympic bronze medalist has been compared to Clark Kent, a Ken whose job is

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Apple says it took a ‘responsible’ approach to training its Apple Intelligence models

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Apple has published a technical paper detailing the models that it developed to power Apple Intelligence, the range of generative AI features headed to iOS, macOS and iPadOS over the next few months. In the paper, Apple pushes back against accusations that it took an ethically questionable approach to training some of its models, reiterating

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Jim Harbaugh will no longer assess injuries but Chargers' Rashawn Slater is cleared

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Nothing like starting Week 2 of training camp by practicing in pads. The Chargers were able to get some contact reps in for the first time Monday, making for a productive practice under the Southern California sun. But don’t ask coach Jim Harbaugh about other teams sharing the same gorgeous weather. “I wasn’t aware there

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Huang and Zuckerberg swapped jackets at SIGGRAPH 2024 and things got weird

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A fireside chat on Monday between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the SIGGRAPH 2024 conference in Colorado took a few unexpected turns. It started innocently enough, with Huang waxing positive about the capabilities of Nvidia GPUs and Zuckerberg speaking about his vision of an AI chatbot future. But by the

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Zuckerberg touts Meta’s latest video vision AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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Meta had a palpable hit last year with Segment Anything, a machine learning model that could quickly and reliably identify and outline just about anything in an image. The sequel, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg debuted on stage Monday at SIGGRAPH, takes the model to the video domain, showing how fast the field is moving. Segmentation

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Conservatives in uproar over Olympics opening ceremony scene they say mocks 'Last Supper'

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The Paris Olympics opening ceremony — held not in a stadium but along the River Seine in the middle of a summer downpour — was both an audacious, awe-inspiring spectacle and a sloppy, rain-soaked fiasco, full of dazzling highs (Celine Dion on the Eiffel Tower) and avoidable missteps (the out-of-synch Can-Can dancers who barely lifted

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Ryan Murphy learns 'it's a girl,' earns his third 100-meter backstroke Olympic medal

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PARIS —  Ryan Murphy did something Monday that hasn’t been done for half a century, swimming to a medal in the men’s 100-meter backstroke during a third consecutive Olympics. But that was only the second-best news he got on the third night of competition at the Paris Games. Because as he was standing near the medal

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