The Alibaba office building in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on Aug 28, 2024. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba Cloud launched Thursday its latest AI model in its “Qwen series,” as large language model competition in China continues to heat up following the “DeepSeek moment.” The new “Qwen2.5-Omni-7B” is a multimodal model, which…
Recently imported brand new unregistered Honda cars are parked in a storage yard at the Port of Bristol on January 15, 2025 near Bristol, England. Anna Barclay | Getty Images Shares of Asia’s automakers fell after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he will impose tariffs on cars not made in the country. Japanese automakers Toyota…
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Watch: How the Signal group chat fallout unfolded in 36 hours A discussion by high-ranking US security officials about US air strikes on Yemen has been published in full by the Atlantic magazine. The group chat on the Signal app mistakenly included the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. After…
Bayern Munich left-back Alphonso Davies suffered a torn ACL while playing in the Concacaf Nations League for Canada, and now his agent, Nedal Huoseh, is criticizing Canada Soccer for their treatment of his client. “I am very disappointed. Alphonso was not 100 percent after the Mexico game [in the semifinals] and it was planned that…
Pizza parties and iPads are being offered to pupils as incentives to improve school attendance, according to a new report which says sanctions alone are less likely to work. While some schools in England are using fines, detentions and letters home to crack down on absence, others prefer a rewards-based approach, with prize draws for…
Niger’s military ruler has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transitional period of five years. Gen Abdourahamane Tchiani has led the country since 2023, after he deposed Niger’s elected President, Mohamed Bazoum. On Wednesday, Gen Tchiani took the presidential office under a new charter that replaces the West African country’s constitution. He…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 26, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters After President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would impose 25% tariffs on “all cars that are not made in the United States,” he said his key advisor,…
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora said Wednesday that newly acquired free agent Alex Bregman will play third base this season, with incumbent Rafael Devers moving to designated hitter. “We all are in the winning business, and he understands that,” Cora told WEEI-AM. “It’s like everything, right: You don’t have to agree with it, but…
By his own recognition, Gérard Depardieu acts in a world that is no longer his own. On day three of his sexual assault trial in Paris, the French cinema star admitted that he was given to “rude” and “vulgar” language no longer regarded as acceptable. It got to the point a few years ago, he…
The opening night of the Melbourne international comedy festival was abandoned after the death of an audience member. The man suffered a medical emergency at the Palais theatre in St Kilda on Wednesday night, festival organisers said. The man was sitting at the back of the theatre and audience members attempted to give him CPR…
