RFK Jr. appears on his way to being Trump’s health secretary after a party-line vote from NPR Selena Simmons-Duffin
RFK Jr.’s nomination cleared the Senate Finance Committee by a 14-13 party line vote. (Image credit: Kevin Dietsch) Read More
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi from Paresh Dave, Zoë Schiffer, Makena Kelly
The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.
Treasury Secretary Bessent, tapped to run CFPB, orders staff to halt work from NPR Laurel Wamsley
Staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed by email to cease much of their work. Bessent, a wealthy Wall Street investor, replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday. (Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Read More
Pope Francis pens prayer thanking hospital staff, as he shows ‘mild improvement’ from NPR Joe Hernandez
The Holy See Press Office said the pontiff has shown “a good response to the therapies.” He was hospitalized on Feb. 14 for a case of bronchitis. (Image credit: Christopher Furlong) Read More
k-Means and Hierarchical Clustering
Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method used to group similar instances (data points) into clusters without having prior labels for these groups. The idea is that data in one cluster is more similar to each other than to those in other clusters. Let’s delve into two of the most popular clustering algorithms: k-Means and…
Swedish woman convicted of genocide for IS crimes against Yazidis from the BBC
Ishaq joined so-called Islamic State in Syria and held nine Yazidi women and children captive as slaves.Read More
President Trump pauses Ukraine military aid from NPR NPR Washington Desk
The news comes just days after a disastrous meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Image credit: Andrew Harnik) Read More
Google hub in Poland to develop AI use in energy and cybersecurity sectors from ABC
Google and Poland have signed a memorandum for developing the use of artificial intelligence in the country’s energy, cybersecurity and other sectorsRead More
The 75th Berlin Film Festival kicks off with ‘The Light’ shining on politics from The Independent Louise Dixon
The Berlin International Film Festival is kicking off with the world premiere of Tom Tykwer’s “The Light.”
Emma Raducanu reveals what went wrong in ‘harsh’ thrashing by Iga Swiatek from The Independent Eleanor Crooks
The former US Open champion was hammered 6-1 6-0 at the Australian Open as her serve and backhand faltered