Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing ...
Business Today

Scaling up Indian CA firms: ICAI issues exposure draft on Code of Ethics

In a move aimed at supporting the government’s vision of creating a domestic Big Four-type firm, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has proposed significant changes in its Code of ...
IEEE

UniPar: A Unified LLM-Based Framework for Parallel and Accelerated Code Translation in HPC

Abstract: Translating programs between various parallel programming languages is an important problem in the high-performance computing (HPC) community, with implications for industry and academia.
The New York Times

London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.

About 80,000 phones were stolen in the British capital last year. The police are finally discovering where many of them went. By Lizzie Dearden and Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Sirens ...
The New York Times

MacKenzie Scott Gives $40 Million to Help Preserve Black History

The gift is twice the amount Ms. Scott contributed to the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund in 2021. The action fund is the largest privately funded resource in the United States ...
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Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code

The Gemma-based model generated and validated a new cancer-therapy hypothesis in human cell experiments. It identified silmitasertib as a conditional amplifier that boosts immune visibility of tumors.