How the Mideast War is Affecting the Trump-Xi Meeting

    Myron Brilliant, former Executive Vice President of the US Chamber of Commerce, says the Middle East conflict is adding uncertainty to the planned Trump-Xi meeting. Chinese officials are reportedly frustrated by the lack of progress and clear direction for the summit, and they remain concerned about President Trump’s unpredictability. However, Brilliant still expects the summit…

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    Bad weather just delays the loss by the Galaxy

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dániel Gazdag and Diego Rossi each scored to help the Columbus Crew beat the Galaxy 2-1 on Wednesday night in a game delayed for over two hours due to weather. Columbus (2-4-3) has given up just three goals in its first four home matches of the season. Gazdag scored in the 41st minute when…

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    Evaluating large language models for accuracy incentivizes hallucinations

    Large language models sometimes produce confident, plausible falsehoods (“hallucinations”), limiting their reliability1,2. Prior work has offered numerous explanations and effective mitigations such as retrieval and tool use3, consistency-based self-verification4, and reinforcement learning from human feedback5. Nonetheless, the problem persists even in state-of-the-art language models6,7. Here we show how next-word prediction and accuracy-based evaluations inadvertently reward…

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