How Trump’s Kennedy Center takeover could change the arts
President Trump’s plans to police DEI language and control the Kennedy Center show an intent to use the government’s enormous ...
AI’s English focus puts many countries at a disadvantage. A new EU project aims to fix that for 32 languages
An ambitious new AI project has begun to take shape in Europe, with the aim of developing open-source AI models that support ...
Meta Platforms (META): Expanding AI to Underserved Languages With UNESCO Partnership
We recently published a list of 10 AI News Updates You Should Not Miss. In this article, we are going to take a look at where ...
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Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.
The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.
Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict
This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...
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Mexico keeps finding clandestine graves, but the government no longer shares the statistics
The discovery of dozens of illegal burials in Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí and elsewhere this year by activists and local ...
El País in English4d
Trump fuels the Israeli far right’s historic dream of Gaza ‘transfer’
The US president’s proposal to expel Gazans is backed from the political center to the euphoric ultra-nationalists: 82% of ...
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How Oakland Unified is helping immigrant students fill education gaps
Oakland Unified is trying out a new curriculum developed just for students who did not attend school for at least two years ...