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Beyond the Surface: Uncovering Implicit Locations with LLMs for Personalized Local News
Katz, Gali, Sitton, Hai, Gonen, Guy, Kaplan, Yohay
News recommendation systems personalize homepage content to boost engagement, but factors like content type, editorial stance, and geographic focus impact recommendations. Local newspapers balance coverage across regions, yet identifying local articles is challenging due to implicit location cues like slang or landmarks. Traditional methods, such as Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Knowledge Graphs, infer locations, but Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new possibilities while raising concerns about accuracy and explainability. This paper explores LLMs for local article classification in Taboola's "Homepage For You" system, comparing them to traditional techniques. Key findings: (1) Knowledge Graphs enhance NER models' ability to detect implicit locations, (2) LLMs outperform traditional methods, and (3) LLMs can effectively identify local content without requiring Knowledge Graph integration. Offline evaluations showed LLMs excel at implicit location classification, while online A/B tests showed a significant increased in local views. A scalable pipeline integrating LLM-based location classification boosted local article distribution by 27%, preserving newspapers' brand identity and enhancing homepage personalization.
Google goes NUCLEAR: Tech giant will use nuclear reactors to generate the vast amounts of energy needed to power its AI data centres
With its Gemini chatbot and Pixel AI phone software, it's fair to say Google has an obsessive focus on artificial intelligence. But all that advanced computational power requires millions of computers, known as'servers', housed inside data centres across the world that operate 24/7. Now, in an attempt to cater to its vast AI needs, Google is going nuclear. The tech giant has signed a deal with California-based nuclear firm Kairos Power to build new nuclear reactors to supply its US data centres with energy. Although the location of these reactors is yet to be revealed, Google said the first will be operational in 2030, with more to follow by 2035.
Can AI answer your money questions? We put chatbots to the test
NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) - Face it, we could all use a little help with our money. So who better to ask for personal finance advice than a couple of the most powerful chatbots on the planet? Both OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard are dominating headlines recently, for their generative capabilities and vast storehouses of information. Each has far more processing power than, say, any individual personal finance writer (ahem). What is one great business idea?
Texas woman accused of stabbing online date to avenge Iran's Soleimani reportedly banned from college classes
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A Texas woman accused of stabbing her online date in a Nevada hotel-casino in March 2022 for retaliation of the 2020 death of an Iranian military leader has been banned from attending classes at the University of Texas in Dallas while on house arrest, according to reports. Nika Nikoubin, 22, was charged with attempted murder, battery with a deadly weapon and burglary in March 2022, according to KLAS in Las Vegas. Nikoubin reportedly met a man on a dating website and the two rented a room together at the Sunset Station hotel.
TX was not alerted when suspect in a NV stabbing moved to Dallas after posting bail, police claims
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Texas authorities claim Nevada law enforcement failed to inform them when a woman accused of stabbing a man inside a Las Vegas-area hotel room in an apparent act of revenge relocated to Dallas. Nika Nikoubin, 22, has been on house arrest in Texas since at least June 2022 after posting bond and being released from a Las Vegas jail, court records show. She has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and battery in connection with the March 5, 2022, stabbing at a casino-hotel southeast of Las Vegas.
Robots? Some Companies Find Only Humans Can Do the Job
Companies have been trying out automatons to serve food in restaurants, make home deliveries or do chores in stores, partly in hopes of easing the worker shortage. Among the disenchanted, FedEx Corp. said last month it was powering down Roxo, its last-mile delivery robot, to prioritize several "nearer-term opportunities," a spokeswoman said. Inc. said it was ending field tests of Scout, its home-delivery robot, after learning that some aspects of its "unique delivery experience" weren't "meeting customers' needs," a company spokeswoman said. And over the summer, DoorDash Inc. said it was shutting down its Chowbotics business -- best known for Sally, the salad-making robot -- roughly 18 months after buying it. "While we gained valuable insights into how to better serve this market, we concluded our current approach was not meeting our very high thresholds for continued investment," a DoorDash spokesman said.
Robots? Some Companies Find Only Humans Can Do the Job
Among the disenchanted, FedEx Corp. said last month it was powering down Roxo, its last-mile delivery robot, to prioritize several "nearer-term opportunities," a spokeswoman said. Inc. said it was ending field tests of Scout, its home-delivery robot, after learning that some aspects of its "unique delivery experience" weren't "meeting customers' needs," a company spokeswoman said. And over the summer, DoorDash Inc. said it was shutting down its Chowbotics business--best known for Sally, the salad-making robot--roughly 18 months after buying it. "While we gained valuable insights into how to better serve this market, we concluded our current approach was not meeting our very high thresholds for continued investment," a DoorDash spokesman said. Companies have entertained hopes that the growing variety of robots could help them not only weather the worker shortage, but speed up labor-intensive tasks, improve customer service by reducing the number of things the human workers have to do, and as an added bonus, position their brands as innovative and forward-leaning.
Ontrak Names Judith Feld, MD Chief Medical Officer
Ontrak, Inc. (NASDAQ: OTRK) ("Ontrak Health" or the "Company"), a leading AI-powered and telehealth-enabled healthcare company, today promoted Judith Feld, MD, to Chief Medical Officer replacing Robert Accordino, MD, who is leaving Ontrak Health to focus on his private practice. Dr. Feld begins immediately in the role and will report to Brandon LaVerne, Co-President and Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Feld joined Ontrak in 2019 as National Medical Director and was promoted to Chief Clinical Strategy Officer earlier this year. She has been instrumental in developing Ontrak Health's new evidence-based clinical model that engages hard to reach members on behalf of health plans through a whole-person approach to care and treatment. Dr. Feld brings over 30 years of experience to the role and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, from whom she received the APA's Bruno Lima Award for Disaster Relief for her volunteer work in New Orleans with first responders following Hurricane Katrina.
Artificial Intelligence Drug RandD Market Scope and overview, To Develop with Increased Global Emphasis on Industrialization 2029
New Jersey (United States) – A2Z Market Research published new research on Global Artificial Intelligence Drug R&D covering the micro-level of analysis by competitors and key business segments (2022-2029). The Global Artificial Intelligence Drug R&D explores a comprehensive study on various segments like opportunities, size, development, innovation, sales, and overall growth of major players. The research is carried out on primary and secondary statistics sources and it consists of both qualitative and quantitative detailing. Various factors are responsible for the market's growth trajectory, which are studied at length in the report. In addition, the report lists down the restraints that are posing threat to the global Artificial Intelligence Drug R&D market.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Fintech Market See Huge Growth for New Normal
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Fintech Market research is an intelligence report with meticulous efforts undertaken to study the right and valuable information. The data which has been looked upon is done considering both, the existing top players and the upcoming competitors. Business strategies of the key players and the new entering market industries are studied in detail. Well explained SWOT analysis, revenue share and contact information are shared in this report analysis. It also provides market information in terms of development and its capacities.