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NEW YORK — New York City politicians are calling on Whoopi Goldberg to apologize for suggesting on air that a local bakery had declined to make “The View” co-host a batch of desserts for her birthday because of her political beliefs.Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella was among the local leaders and supporters who joined Holtermann’s Bakery owner Jill Holtermann at a news conference Friday in front of the 145-year-old institution in the city borough of Staten Island.The Republican said the actor and comedian had “besmirched and defamed” the bakery by “making stuff up to suit their needs.”“Not everybody wakes…

In Part 1 of this series, we defined the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework to augment large language models (LLMs) with a text-only knowledge base. We gave practical tips, based on hands-on experience with customer use cases, on how to improve text-only RAG solutions, from optimizing the retriever to mitigating and detecting hallucinations. This post focuses on doing RAG on heterogeneous data formats. We first introduce routers, and how they can help managing diverse data sources. We then give tips on how to handle tabular data and will conclude with multimodal RAG, focusing specifically on solutions that handle both text…

The NVIDIA app — officially releasing today — is a companion platform for content creators, GeForce gamers and AI enthusiasts using GeForce RTX GPUs. Featuring a GPU control center, the NVIDIA app allows users to access all their GPU settings in one place. From the app, users can do everything from updating to the latest drivers and configuring NVIDIA G-SYNC monitor settings, to tapping AI video enhancements through RTX Video and discovering exclusive AI-powered NVIDIA apps. In addition, NVIDIA RTX Remix has a new update that improves performance and streamlines workflows. For a deeper dive on gaming-exclusive benefits, check out…

Batter Tilak Varma broke the legendary Virat Kohli’s record for the most runs scored by an Indian player in a T20I bilateral series. Varma achieved this milestone during the fourth and final T20I against South Africa in Johannesburg. Tilak delivered a stunning performance, smashing an unbeaten 120 runs off just 47 balls, including nine fours and 10 sixes, at an extraordinary strike rate of 255.32. With a century in the previous match as well, Tilak concluded the series as the top run-scorer and was awarded the ‘Player of the Series’. He amassed 280 runs in four matches at…

An attorney representing two women who were witnesses in the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling for the release of the committee’s report, telling ABC News that one of his clients testified that she witnessed the Florida congressman having sex with a minor.”My client testified to the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed Matt Gaetz having sex with a minor,” Florida attorney Joel Leppard told ABC News.”As the Senate considers former Rep. Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general, several questions demand answers,” Leppard said. “What if multiple credible witnesses provided evidence of behavior that would constitute…

WASHINGTON — The House has passed legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people, pushing it one step closer to becoming law.The Social Security bill on Tuesday won bipartisan support in the House, 327-75, in what is now the lame-duck period for Congress. The bill now heads to the Senate, where passage is not assured despite considerable support.Here’s what to know about the legislation and what could happen next.Decades in the making, the bill would repeal two federal policies — the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset — that currently limit Social Security payouts…

Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo have been selected as 2025 Rhodes Scholars and will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. next fall. In addition to MIT’s two U.S. Rhodes winners, Ouigbo and Nair, two affiliates were awarded international Rhodes Scholarships: Chen for Rhodes’ China constituency and Hector for the Global Rhodes Scholarship. Hector is the first Haitian citizen to be named a Rhodes Scholar.The scholars were supported by Associate Dean Kim Benard and the Distinguished Fellowships team in Career Advising and Professional Development. They received additional mentorship and guidance from the…

From call centers to factories to hospitals, AI is sweeping Japan. Undergirding it all: the exceptional resources of the island nation’s world-class universities and global technology leaders such as Fujitsu, The Institute of Science Tokyo, NEC and NTT. NVIDIA software — NVIDIA AI Enterprise for building and deploying AI agents and NVIDIA Omniverse for bringing AI into the physical world — is playing a crucial role in supporting Japan’s transformation into a global hub for AI development. The bigger picture: Japan’s journey to AI sovereignty is well underway to support the nation in building, developing and sharing AI innovations at…

Former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly wants India captain Rohit Sharma to play the 1st Test against Australia, starting November 22 in Perth. Rohit became a dad for the second time on Friday as his wife gave birth to a baby boy. Rohit didn’t travel to Australia with the rest of the team after communicating to the BCCI that he might not be available for the 1st Test as he due delivery date was closer to the game at the Optus Stadium. The Indian team management has been on the hunt to find…

Today, development of generalizable AI models requires access to sufficient data and compute resources, which may create challenges for some researchers. Democratizing access to technology across the research community can advance the development of generalizable AI models. By applying the core software development concept of modularity to AI, we can build models that are powerful, efficient, adaptable, and transparent.  Until recently, AI models were primarily built using monolithic architecture. Though powerful, these models can be challenging to customize and edit compared to modular models with easily interpretable functional components. Today, developers employ modularity to make services more reliable, faster to…