NJ Assembly panel advances state-level voting rights act

The John Lewis Voter Empowerment Act would boost voting language access and impose preclearance on communities with a history ...
InfoWorld

8 old programming languages developers won’t quit

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...
VentureBeat

Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without sacrificing quality

Enterprises that want tokenizer-free multilingual models are increasingly turning to byte-level language models to reduce brittleness in noisy or low-resource text. To tap into that niche — and make ...
Wired

For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...
Electronic Design

Vision-Language-Action Model Opens Level 4 Frontier for Autonomous Driving

Safely achieving end-to-end autonomous driving is the cornerstone of Level 4 autonomy and the primary reason it hasn’t been widely adopted. The main difference between Level 3 and Level 4 is the ...
EurekAlert!

How your brain understands language may be more like AI than we ever imagined

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...
Quanta Magazine

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...
The New York Times

Cars to Fighter Jets: China’s New Export Curbs May Level a Heavy Blow Worldwide

Broad restrictions could cause supply interruptions for arms makers, as well as manufacturers in the semiconductor, automotive and other sectors. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Shanghai From cars ...
UNHCR

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Conference on Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar

Madam President, Delegates, Civil Society Representatives and Colleagues, I recently visited Myanmar. I saw how a country already dealing with a devastating humanitarian crisis was still reeling from ...
webtv.un.org

PGA Remarks at the High-Level Meeting on theHigh-Level plenary meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth

On Sunday morning, just before the High-Level Week started, I had the pleasure of joining some young leaders on a ‘Youth Run’. At first, frankly speaking I was a bit worried about keeping up with ...
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PGA Remarks at the Closing of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women

This was a special day. Today we celebrated the undeniable progress we have made over the past three decades, which I heard from so many of you today: from stronger legal protections against violence ...