The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-time scaling techniques to increase the accuracy of model responses, such as drawing multiple reasoning samples from a model at deployment. To bridge this gap, researchers at University…
The Carnival Miracle cruise ship is anchored of the Big Island of Hawaii on Jan. 14, 2024. Kevin Carter | Getty Images The global cruise industry is reporting record demand and renewed consumer enthusiasm, but the leaders helming the world’s largest cruise companies say the sector is also facing some of the most complex challenges…
Ukraine has damaged or destroyed so much Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the past two weeks that it has prompted Russia to issue a warning to European countries and industries against funding its long-range drone production. The warning came after Ukraine reached a new series of agreements with European defence companies this week. “We…
The distant moon Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar films is a feast of sci-fi world-building. Dragonlike creatures prowl the skies. Supersmart whalelike beasts write poetry under the sea. And a splendid variety of jungle plants glows multicolor in the dark. Cameronʼs famously stunning visual effects can make these ecosystems appear vivid enough to touch. But…
LIV Golf appears to be dying on the vine but doesn’t want to say so. Amid several reports that the Saudi-backed Public Investment Fund will cease its abundant funding of LIV Golf after the 2026 season, officials with the four-year-old PGA Tour competitor chose to focus on the fact that the show will go on…
Natalie Portman‘s next role? V for Very Pregnant. The Black Swan actress and boyfriend Tanguy Destable are expecting their first baby together, she confirmed to Harper’s Bazaar. Portman is also mom to 14-year-old son Aleph and 9-year-old daughter Amalia with ex-husband Benjamin Millepied. “Tanguy and I are very excited,” she the outlet in an interview shared April…
A buildup of leveraged hedge fund bets in Treasuries has left investors exposed to abrupt position shifts that could amplify stress across global bond markets, according to Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok.
Marie-Thérèse had moved to the US after reuniting with her long-lost love, an American man who died in January.
Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. The threat is real and growing fast. The most dramatic example came in early 2024, when engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after an employee in…
Microsoft is pulling back from efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere. But the nascent industry’s proponents say they are thinking in decades, not years.
