Focus on Africa - The Russian schools ready to teach Swahili

On World Swahili Day, we take at a look at how far the east African language has travelled and hear from people teaching it from Moscow to Bogotá.

Also in the pod: Since the covid 19 pandemic, there’s been growing interest in fruit bats. Our Global Health Correspondent Naomi Grimley has been given special access to a scientific research project in Ghana which aims to monitor them.

Also, we give you some more details on Threads, Meta's answer to twitting.

CBS News Roundup - 07/07/2023 | World News Round Up

A heartbreaking example of gun violence in America: an interpreter for U-S troops in Afghanistan gunned down driving a Lyft in Washington, DC. Record global heat for a 4th day. Alzheimer's game changer. CBS News Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Mayor Johnson Replaces Nearly Entire Chicago Board Of Ed

Mayor Brandon Johnson shook things up Wednesday when he replaced nearly the entire Chicago Board of Education with new appointees. The seven-seat board that was once largely filled with consultants, bankers and lawyers will now be dominated by educators and education activists. Reset gets the rundown on what this means for Chicago schools.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Beyond Bots – Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy

Today we are kicking off a special and new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.

Guest: Naré Vardanyan, CEO & Co-founder of Ntropy

Questions:

  • Tell me what a large language model is. Is there any difference between this and deep learning models?
  • What is the difference between language models and LLM's?
  • What sort of data sets were your models pre-trained on? How long does that take?
  • How does the cost of training these models factor into your offering?
  • Can you talk about latency as a key factor in this process?
  • You've told me Ntropy has been doing this since the beginning, but give me a little more - how does this fit into Ntropy's approach?
  • What is in the future for Ntropy in this space, specifically as it relates to LLM's and financial services?

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 7.7.23

Alabama

  • Alabama paying estate of Deputy Bryan Johnson $1 million after being killed in the line of duty
  • Snake causes a power outage in North Alabama
  • Federal judge says Alabama may violate 8th Amendment if they retry lethal injection on a death row inmate
  • Alabama legislators are part of delegation to Taiwan
  • Alabama men's basketball gets big man transfer
  • Alabama highway named one of the most feared road trips in the U.S.
  • Cannabis commission continues to be in legal battles

National

  • First Alzheimers drug that can slow disease progression is approved
  • Donald Trump aide pleads not guilty to mishandling classified documents
  • PFAs found to be in 45% of faucets around the U.S.
  • Ohio passes school choice program

The Best One Yet - 🎀 “Summer of Barbie” — Mattel’s movie blitz. Model A’s flying car. America’s Jobs surprise.

Mattel’s Barbie movie just put on a master class in marketing — It’s not an ad campaign, it’s an “ad champagne” Today’s Jobs Report is expected to be huge — but it’s also expected to be the most confusing, so we’re jumping into it TBOY-style.

And the “Model A” flying car just got FAA approval for a test flight — but just like the spork, the best of both worlds can actually be worse.

(FYI: Here’s that Barbie Malibu Dreamhouse Airbnb we were talking about: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/857387972692815761?source_impression_id=p3_1688703735_WWZd9Vxe9caTsIF0)

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - CARPE CONSENSUS: Web3 Isn’t Dead (And AI Hasn’t Killed It)

Featuring Mauricio Magaldi, global strategy director of crypto at 11:FS and host of “Blockchain Insider” podcast.

On “Carpe Consensus,” hosts Ben Schiller, Danny Nelson and Cam Thompson tackle the latest news in crypto.

  • [1:34] Mauricio Magaldi and the hosts navigate through a wide-ranging conversation including the internet of ownership, the use of blockchain in AI training data, global crypto hubs and CBDCs.
  • [27:50] Cam’s Corner: Popular NFT brand Azuki botched its latest mint. This mishap is yet another reminder of the precarious state of the NFT market.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Chinese Language(s)

One of the most widely spoken languages in the world is Chinese. 

In addition to being one of the most popular languages in the world, it also has some of the oldest roots and, in many respects, is completely different from every other language spoken today. 

But when we refer to the Chinese language, what exactly are we even referring to? Can we even say that there is a language called Chinese?

Learn more about the Chinese languages and what makes them unique on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - I spy: meeting Ukraine’s intelligence chief

We sit down with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and oddly charismatic. A world of electrified transport is going to need lots of nickel for batteries. We argue that, environmentally speaking, gathering it from the seafloor clearly beats mining it on land (11:12). And remembering Donald Triplett, the first person ever to be diagnosed with autism (19:25).


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