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Shameless Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, of Covington, could spend a year in prison and be fined up to $70,000 for throwing a 'coconut-sized' rock at a protected Hawaiian seal monk.

She has waived her anonymity to speak out on what happened

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CNBC: The U.S. has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said, leaving a major technology deal in limbo as CEO Jensen Huang seeks a breakthrough in China this week. [...] Before U.S. export curbs tightened, Nvidia commanded about 95% of China's advanced chip market. China once accounted for 13% of its revenue, and Huang has previously estimated the country's AI market alone would be worth $50 billion this year. The U.S. Commerce Department has approved around 10 Chinese companies including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and JD.com to purchase Nvidia's H200 chips, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. A handful of distributors including Lenovo and Foxconn have also been approved, they said. Buyers are permitted to purchase either directly from Nvidia or through those intermediaries and each approved customer can purchase up to 75,000 chips under the U.S. licensing terms, two of them said. Despite U.S. approval, deals have stalled, as Chinese firms pulled back after guidance from Beijing, one source said. The shift in China was partly triggered by changes on the U.S. side, though exactly what changed remains unclear, the person added. In Beijing, pressure is mounting to block or tightly vet the orders, a separate fourth source said. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick echoed that view, telling a Senate hearing last month that "the Chinese central government has not let them, as of yet, buy the chips, because they're trying to keep their investment focused on their own domestic industry."

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A distraught British mother has appealed for help after her 'abusive' ex partner allegedly kidnapped their two-year-old son in Cyprus.

A crash on a busy junctions has led to disruption for motorists this evening in Chelmsford

A crash on a busy junctions has led to disruption for motorists this evening in Chelmsford

Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony

The parliamentary Labour Party is simply unable to do the 'difficult things' needed to tackle Britain's existential problems, James Tapsfield told Deep Dive.

Nicki Minaj, whose hits include Anaconda, compared the Tory leader to Thatcher and predicted there would be films made about her in the future.

They have been living together for several years and share several dogs that they featured on Instagram.

From The Hills villain to LA mayoral contender: How Spencer Pratt is inching closer to victory in Los Angeles mayoral elections

Anthropic announced today that it is partnering with the Gates Foundation to "commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years." "This commitment is central to Anthropic's efforts to extend the benefits of AI in areas where markets alone will not," the company says. Reuters reports: One area of focus is language accessibility. AI systems have performed poorly in writing and translating dozens of African languages, so Anthropic and the foundation want to support better data collection and labeling that would be released publicly to help improve models across the industry, said Janet Zhou, a Gates Foundation director. Another area under consideration is releasing so-called knowledge graphs that could help AI systems better meet the needs of teachers in sub-Saharan Africa and India, Zhou said. The public-goods focus has come from "the needs of different partners and governments, including some of the fears that they may have around proprietary lock-in and sovereignty," Zhou said. One initiative will equip research centers to use Claude to predict drug candidates for treating HPV and preeclampsia, diseases that have been less commercially attractive for pharmaceutical companies to research, Zhou and Anthropic's Elizabeth Kelly said. Anthropic [...] is embracing the work to fulfill what Kelly described as its founding mission to benefit humanity. "This announcement is really core to who we are as a company," said Kelly, who leads Anthropic's beneficial deployments team.

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The council has visted the flat 20 times but the mould keeps coming back

Ian Watkins suffered catastrophic blood loss after being slashed three times to the face and neck on October 11 last year, with one wound cutting through his voicebox and left jugular vein.

Exclusive Daily Mail photos show the sole surviving son of disgraced legal scion Alex Murdaugh enjoying a morning cup of joe at his Bluffton property just hours after the bombshell court ruling.

The 36-year-old megastar - who partied with pal Lena Dunham recently - is set to tie the knot with football star Travis Kelce in the Big Apple on July 3 Daily Mail recently confirmed.

Venezuela Fury has started her wedding day countdown, as it's revealed she will tie the knot with her boxer fiancé this weekend.

Woods, 50, was detained on March 27 after flipping his SUV while trying to overtake a truck and trailer at high speed in the billionaire enclave of Jupiter Island.

British sex killer Rurik Jutting is robably the most dangerous man I have ever encountered in my long career - certainly in a courtroom setting, writes STEPHEN WRIGHT

Eminem's troubled ex-wife Kimberly Mathers has been arrested again - just two days after appearing in court following a shock DUI crash.