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NEW DELHI: South African Lungi Ngidi has returned for the Indian Premier League’s final phase, but the seamer and several of his compatriots are expected to exit the rescheduled tournament early to prepare for next month’s World Test Championship final. The IPL will resume on Saturday after India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire following days of fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours. The South Africa squad for the June 11-15 WTC final against Australia at Lord’s includes eight players who are playing in the lucrative IPL, the final for which has been moved from May 25 to June 3. South…

LAHORE: The long-aw­a­ited elections of the Pak­istan Football Feder­ation have been delayed by a week and will now be held on May 27, the PFF Nor­malisation Committee ann­ounced in the early hours of Thursday morning. Initially scheduled to be held on May 20 in Lahore, the NC said the elections were delayed due to the recent cross-border skirmishes between Pakistan and India. “We wish to inform you that due to ongoing tensions between Pakistan and India the scheduling of the FIFA and Asian Foo­tball Confederation dele­g­ations have been impac­ted,” it said in a statement. “These unforeseen and unfortunate circumstan­ces have…

xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South Africa, even in response to unrelated subjects. The strange replies stemmed from the X account for Grok, which responds to users with AI-generated posts whenever a person tags “@grok.” According to a post Thursday from xAI’s official X account, a change was made Wednesday morning to the Grok bot’s system…

KALAAT M’GOUNA, Morocco (AP) — Gloved and armed with shears, women weave through thorny brambles, clipping and tossing their harvest into wheelbarrows.“Thank God for the rain,” said rose picker Fatima El Alami. “There are roses elsewhere, but there’s nowhere like here.”She’s right. Mild temperatures, steady sunlight, and low humidity make the fields around Kalaat M’Gouna a perfect cradle for growing its signature flower: the Damask rose. Abundant precipitation and several desert downpours this year have bestowed Morocco with an exceptional yield of the flower, used for rosewater and rose oil.Pink and pungent, the roses are set to come in at…

HONOLULU (AP) — Midway while sailing across the Pacific with just his cat named Phoenix, Oliver Widger reflected on why he thinks his many followers — more than a million on TikTok and Instagram — are drawn to his story of quitting his 9-to-5 job and embarking on a journey from Oregon to Hawaii.“The world kind of sucks and, like, I don’t think I’m alone in how I felt with my work,” Widger, 29, told The Associated Press on Wednesday via Zoom. “You can be making $150,000 a year and you still feel like you’re just making ends meet, you…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican-led states are accelerating efforts to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, expanding from higher education to other government functions since President Donald Trump fully embraced the movement.Governors and lawmakers this year have about doubled last year’s actions targeting DEI initiatives, which had roughly doubled those of 2023, according to an Associated Press analysis aided by the bill-tracking software Plural.The surge comes as Trump’s executive orders seeking to halt DEI initiatives ripple through the federal government, universities and schools, despite legal challenges.“The federal attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion from the Trump administration have…

The magistrate ruled that apprehended migrants may not have been aware they were crossing into a military zone.A United States judge in the southwestern state of New Mexico has dismissed trespassing charges against dozens of migrants apprehended in a military zone recently created under President Donald Trump. The military zone is one of two so far that the Trump administration has created along the US-Mexico border, in order to deter undocumented migration into the country. Entering a military zone can result in heightened criminal penalties. As many as 400 cases have since been filed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, alleging…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month.  When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman replied that he eventually wants the model to document and remember everything in a person’s life. The ideal, he said, is a “very tiny reasoning model with a trillion tokens of context that you put your whole life into.” “This model can reason across your whole context and do it efficiently. And every conversation you’ve ever had in your life, every…

Andrei Tarasov’s criminal life is not as glamorous as you might expect from a leading criminal actor. Tarasov (aka Aels and more recently Lavander) left his native Russia because of ‘political persecution’; subsequently claiming to have been granted asylum in Ukraine. He was outspoken in his condemnation of modern Russia, saying he removed himself “Because nothing is left from the ‘great’ country I grew up in except for a bunch of clowns and the battle against America… Because the only things decreasing in price (and value) are vodka, reality, and life.” The precise date of his flight from Russia is…

On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models — SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini — to be optimized for the “entire software engineering process,” not just coding. The launch of Windsurf’s in-house AI models may come as a shock to some, given that OpenAI has reportedly closed a $3 billion deal to acquire Windsurf. However, this model launch suggests Windsurf is trying to expand beyond just developing applications to…