The players linked to new AFL homes ahead of pre-season supplemental selection period - Fox SportsWASHINGTON – The United States should proceed cautiously as officials consider new natural gas export terminals, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday, warning that “unfettered exports" of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, could raise wholesale domestic prices by more than 30% and increase planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Granholm's statement came as the Energy Department released a long-awaited study on the environmental and economic impacts of natural gas exports , which have grown exponentially in the past decade. The analysis found that U.S. LNG shipments drive up domestic prices and frequently displace renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. Recommended Videos Increased LNG exports also would lead to higher global greenhouse gas emissions, even with use of technology such as equipment to capture and store carbon emissions, the report said. “Today’s publication reinforces that a business-as-usual approach (to LNG exports) is neither sustainable nor advisable,'' Granholm said. The Energy Department report comes after the Biden administration paused approvals of new LNG projects in January to study the effects LNG exports have on the planet. Natural gas emits methane, a potent greenhouse gas, when burned, leaked or released. LNG is especially energy intensive, since the gas must be retrieved through underground drilling, then piped to export terminals along the East and Gulf coasts. The gas is then “superchilled” into a liquid that is taken by tanker ships to import terminals in Europe and Asia, where it is then reheated into gas and distributed for business and family use. The oil and gas industry, along with Republican allies in Congress, have decried the LNG pause as unnecessary and counter-productive, and President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end the pause on his first day in office . The pause is on hold under a federal court order , but few new terminals have been approved in the past year. The Energy Department said last week it will not decide on two major LNG export projects in Louisiana until the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission completes environmental reviews of each project. The American Gas Association called the Biden administration's pause a mistake that has resulted in uncertainty for the global market, investors and America’s allies around the world. “This report is a clear and inexplicable attempt to justify their grave policy error," said AGA president and CEO Karen Harbert. “America’s allies are suffering from the weaponization of natural gas and energy deprivation, and any limitations on supplying life essential energy is absolutely wrong-headed." Harbert said the industry group looks forward to working with the Trump administration “to rectify the glaring issues with this study during the public comment period,” which lasts until mid-February. Charlie Riedl, executive director of the Center for LNG, a pro-industry group, said Republican and Democratic administrations, as well as independent researchers, “have continually found that U.S. LNG exports provide economic, national security and climate benefits and serve the public interest." U.S. LNG “remains a vital tool for countries looking to displace dirtier fuels" such as coal and reduce their emissions, Riedl said, adding that U.S. LNG exports play a key role in meeting growing global demand for natural gas. U.S. gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The LNG pause, announced by President Joe Biden as the 2024 election year began, aligned the Democratic administration with environmentalists who fear the huge increase in LNG exports in recent years is locking in potentially catastrophic planet-warming emissions at a time when Biden has pledged to cut U.S. climate pollution in half by 2030 . “While MAGA Republicans willfully deny the urgency of the climate crisis, condemning the American people to a dangerous future, my administration will not be complacent,′′ Biden said in announcing the pause. His actions “heed the calls of young people and frontline communities who are using their voices to demand" climate action, Biden added. The White House declined to comment on the Energy Department study, referring questions to the agency.For years, tech companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Google have focused on , assuming that more training material would lead to smarter, more powerful models. Now, AI leaders are rethinking the conventional wisdom about how to train large language models. The focus on training data arises from research showing that transformers, the neural networks behind large language models, have a one-to-one relationship with the amount of data they're given. Transformer models "scale quite linearly with the amount of data and compute they're given," , a consultant at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, previously told Business Insider. However, executives are starting to worry that this approach can only go so far, and they're exploring alternatives for advancing the technology. The money going into AI has largely hung on the idea that this scaling law "would hold," Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang said at the Cerebral Valley conference this week, tech newsletter Command Line reported. It's now "the biggest question in the industry." Some executives say the problem with the approach is that it's a little mindless. "It's definitely true that if you throw more compute at the model, if you make the model bigger, it'll get better," , the CEO of Cohere, said on the 20VC podcast. "It's kind of like it's the most trustworthy way to improve models. It's also the dumbest." Gomez advocates , which are gaining industry support for being cost-effective. Others worry this approach won't reach — a theoretical form of AI that matches or surpasses human intelligence — even though many of the world's largest AI companies are banking on it. Large language models are trained simply to "predict the next token, given the previous set of tokens," , a former Salesforce executive and CEO of AI-powered search engine , told Business Insider. The more effective way to train them is to "force" these models to translate questions into computer code and generate an answer based on the output of that code, he said. This will reduce hallucinations in quantitative questions and enhance their abilities. Not all industry leaders are sold that AI has hit a scaling wall, however. "Despite what other people think, we're not at diminishing marginal returns on scale-up," Microsoft chief technology officer Kevin Scott said in July in an interview with . Companies like OpenAI are also seeking to improve on existing LLMs. , released in September, still relies on the token prediction mechanism Socher refers to. Still, the model is specialized to better handle quantitative questions, including areas like coding and mathematics — compared to ChatGPT, which is considered a more general-purpose model. Part of the difference between o1 and ChatGPT is that or "thinking" before it answers a question. "To summarize, if we were to anthropomorphize, gpt-4 is like your super know-it-all friend who when you ask them a question starts talking stream-of-consciousness, forcing you to sift through what they're saying for the gems," Waleed Kadous, a former engineer lead at Uber and former Google principal software engineer, wrote in a blog post. "o1 is more like the friend who listens carefully to what you have to say, scratches their chin for a few moments, and then shares a couple of sentences that hit the nail on the head." One of o1's trade-offs, however, is that it requires much more computational power, making it slower and costlier, according to , an independent AI benchmarking website. Read the original article on
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In a segment on his podcast, Warriors legend Draymond Green gave his candid take on LeBron James . According to Green, while Father Time is finally catching up to the King after 21 years, he's not quite "done" being one of the best players on the planet. "Is father time catching up to him? Absolutely," said Green . "Because Father Time catches up to everyone. However, where I disagree is people are saying, 'Oh, we just saw it. Now he's done!' I disagree with that and the reason I disagree with that is that it looks like to me right now that he's a little tired. But we have to remember the [Lakers] played into the playoffs last year, they fought an uphill battle to make it there and then he comes in and does the Olympics with no time off. I think LeBron [James] has hit a little bit of a wall right now." As someone who has battled LeBron at the peak of his powers, Draymond knows all too well the kind of impact that James has on the floor. Even now, in year 22, LeBron is the center of everything for the Lakers and they need him at full strength to compete in the West. So after dragging them to the playoffs, and losing to the Nuggets in the first round, it would have been better for James to rest and prepare his body for the upcoming season. Instead, James took it upon himself to compete in the Olympic Games this summer where he logged heavy minutes as a focal point of the team. To say that LeBron has been overworked over the past six months might be an understatement at this point given his age and the frequency with which he comes to save the day for the Lakers This season, however, LeBron has been struggling to play up to his usual standards. With averages of 22.0 points, 9.1 assists, and 8.0 rebounds per game on 48.2% shooting (34.5% from three), James is having his worst scoring season in years and it has put the Lakers in a difficult position. LeBron's ongoing shooting slump is perhaps the worst of his career so far and many Lakers fans believe it's the start of his natural decline as one of the best players in the game. Draymond Green has problems of his own to worry about on the Warriors but he has defended LeBron before and it's no surprise to see him to it again here. And while Green cannot deny LeBron's losing battle against time, he will deny that his glory days are completely over. Even now, at 39 years old, LeBron James can still be an effective player for the Lakers both on the court and in the locker room. But if the team wants any hope of making a lasting run, they'll need to shift their focus to Anthony Davis and rebuild everything around him. With one or maybe two more years left, LeBron knows that the end is near but he's hoping to end things on good terms, with his team still in the championship picture. Tonight, LeBron and the Lakers will have another chance to set things right against the Miami Heat at Kaseya Center at 7:30 PM EST. Their East road trip continues on Friday, December 6th, against the Hawks at 7:30 PM EST in State Farm Arena. Finally, the Lakers are back home for their matchup against the Trail Blazers on Saturday, December 8th, at 9:30 PM EST. This article first appeared on Fadeaway World and was syndicated with permission.
(Reuters) – Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies and defense tech company Anduril Industries are in talks with about a dozen competitors to form a consortium that will jointly bid for U.S. government work, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The consortium, which could announce agreements with other tech groups as early as January, is expected to include SpaceX, OpenAI, autonomous shipbuilder Saronic and artificial intelligence data group Scale AI, the newspaper said, citing several people with knowledge of the matter. “We are working together to provide a new generation of defence contractors,” a person involved in developing the group told the newspaper. The consortium will bring together the heft of some of Silicon Valley’s most valuable companies and will leverage their products to provide a more efficient way of supplying the U.S. government with cutting-edge defence and weapons capabilities, the newspaper added. Palantir, Anduril, OpenAI, Scale AI and Saronic did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. SpaceX could not be immediately reached for a comment. Reuters reported earlier this month that President-elect Donald Trump’s planned U.S. government efficiency drive involving Elon Musk could lead to more joint projects between big defense contractors and smaller tech firms in areas such as artificial intelligence, drones and uncrewed submarines. Musk, who was named as a co-leader of a government efficiency initiative in the incoming government, has indicated that Pentagon spending and priorities will be a target of the efficiency push, spreading anxiety at defense heavyweights such as Boeing , Northrop Grumman , Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics . Musk and many small defense tech firms have been aligned in criticizing legacy defense programs like Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jet while calling for mass production of cheaper AI-powered drones, missiles and submarines. Such views have given major defense contractors more incentive to partner with emerging defense technology players in these areas. (Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal, Pretish M J and Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Mark Porter) Disclaimer: This report is auto generated from the Reuters news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. var ytflag = 0;var myListener = function() {document.removeEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);lazyloadmyframes();};document.addEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {if (ytflag == 0) {lazyloadmyframes();ytflag = 1;}});function lazyloadmyframes() {var ytv = document.getElementsByClassName("klazyiframe");for (var i = 0; i < ytv.length; i++) {ytv[i].src = ytv[i].getAttribute('data-src');}} Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );
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Flying on liquid hydrogen – NLR and Zepp.solutions join forces NLR takes an important step toward flying on liquid hydrogen, a promising development to make aviation more sustainable. To make this possible, the research institution has entered into an agreement with zepp.solutions to develop a fuel cell system. This collaboration is an important pillar in NLR’s ambition to conduct a demo flight in 2026. To enable this manned flight on liquid hydrogen in 2026, NLR will equip its electric-powered research aircraft, the Pipistrel Velis Electro, with a hydrogen propulsion line. A crucial element is the fuel cell system, which Zepp.solutions will develop in close cooperation with the research institution. Zepp will not only develop the fuel cell system but will also be involved in the integration into the Pipistrel and all testing activities up to the demo flight. This approach ensures that we make optimal use of each other’s knowledge and expertise, increasing the chances of success of the demo flight. NLR project leader of the showcase: “The biggest challenges, besides the physical integration, are the airworthiness and safety aspects associated with the introduction of hydrogen onboard of an aircraft. The entire trajectory up to the demo flight in 2026 provides us with valuable knowledge and insights for hydrogen technology integration and is thus a prelude to further developments and implementation of this technology in the aviation sector.” , co-founder of zepp.solutions, concurs, “We bring a lot of knowledge and experience when it comes to developing efficient and compact fuel cell systems. However, aviation does offer completely different challenges. This cooperation, and to be able to learn from each other in this way, is therefore incredibly valuable.” the latest news shaping the hydrogen market at Flying on liquid hydrogen – NLR and Zepp.solutions join forces, MIT – New climate chemistry model finds “non-negligible” impacts of potential hydrogen fuel leakage MIT study confirms the climate impacts of hydrogen, recommends leak prevention be a priority as infrastructure... Artelia Italia leads the way in hydrogen innovation for 2026 Olympics Artelia Italia S.p.A. has been commissioned by SEA and Edison S.p.A. to manage the design and permitting phase of a green hydrogen refuelling station... Unveiling the structure of a photosynthetic catalyst that turns light into hydrogen fuel Argonne and Yale researchers shed light on the structure of a photosynthetic hybrid for the first time, enabling advancements in...
“Gladiator II” asks the question: Are you not moderately entertained for roughly 60% of this sequel? Truly, this is a movie dependent on managed expectations and a forgiving attitude toward its tendency to overserve. More of a thrash-and-burn schlock epic than the comparatively restrained 2000 “Gladiator,” also directed by Ridley Scott, the new one recycles a fair bit of the old one’s narrative cries for freedom while tossing in some digital sharks for the flooded Colosseum and a bout of deadly sea-battle theatrics. They really did flood the Colosseum in those days, though no historical evidence suggests shark deployment, real or digital. On the other hand (checks notes), “Gladiator II” is fiction. Screenwriter David Scarpa picks things up 16 years after “Gladiator,” which gave us the noble death of the noble warrior Maximus, shortly after slaying the ignoble emperor and returning Rome to the control of the Senate. Our new hero, Lucius (Paul Mescal), has fled Rome for Numidia, on the North African coast. The time is 200 A.D., and for the corrupt, party-time twins running the empire (Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger), that means invasion time. Pedro Pascal takes the role of Acacius, the deeply conflicted general, sick of war and tired of taking orders from a pair of depraved ferrets. The new film winds around the old one this way: Acacius is married to Lucilla (Connie Nielsen, in a welcome return), daughter of the now-deceased emperor Aurelius and the love of the late Maximus’s life. Enslaved and dragged to Rome to gladiate, the widower Lucius vows revenge on the general whose armies killed his wife. But there are things this angry young phenom must learn, about his ancestry and his destiny. It’s the movie’s worst-kept secret, but there’s a reason he keeps seeing footage of Russell Crowe from the first movie in his fever dreams. Battle follows battle, on the field, in the arena, in the nearest river, wherever, and usually with endless splurches of computer-generated blood. “Gladiator II” essentially bumper-cars its way through the mayhem, pausing for long periods of expository scheming about overthrowing the current regime. The prince of all fixers, a wily operative with interests in both managing gladiators and stocking munitions, goes by the name Macrinus. He’s played by Denzel Washington, who at one point makes a full meal out of pronouncing the word “politics” like it’s a poisoned fig. Also, if you want a masterclass in letting your robes do a lot of your acting for you, watch what Washington does here. He’s more fun than the movie but you can’t have everything. The movie tries everything, all right, and twice. Ridley Scott marshals the chaotic action sequences well enough, though he’s undercut by frenetic cutting rhythms, with that now-familiar, slightly sped-up visual acceleration in frequent use. (Claire Simpson and Sam Restivo are the editors.) Mescal acquits himself well in his first big-budget commercial walloper of an assignment, confined though he is to a narrower range of seething resentments than Crowe’s in the first film. I left thinking about two things: the word “politics” as savored/spit out by Washington, and the innate paradox of how Scott, whose best work over the decades has been wonderful, delivers spectacle. The director and his lavishly talented design team built all the rough-hewn sets with actual tangible materials the massive budget allowed. They took care to find the right locations in Morocco and Malta. Yet when combined in post-production with scads of medium-grade digital effects work in crowd scenes and the like, never mind the sharks, the movie’s a somewhat frustrating amalgam. With an uneven script on top of it, the visual texture of “Gladiator II” grows increasingly less enveloping and atmospherically persuasive, not more. But I hung there, for some of the acting, for some of the callbacks, and for the many individual moments, or single shots, that could only have come from Ridley Scott. And in the end, yes, you too may be moderately entertained. “Gladiator II” — 2.5 stars (out of 4) MPA rating: R (for strong bloody violence) Running time: 2:28 How to watch: Premieres in theaters Nov. 21. Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.
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