Has Trump failed to sell the Iran war to the world? Are US-Israeli attacks against Iran legal? As anticipated, it ended up being One Battle After Another's night at the 98th annual Academy Awards, with the political thriller carting away six Oscars out of a total of 13 nominations. But while Paul Thomas Anderson's magnum opus continued its march towards awards-season domination, there were moments of genuine surprise and subversion in Sunday's ceremony. Host Conan O'Brien and his fellow presenters deftly avoided mentioning President Donald Trump by name, but their barbs took direct aim at his policies since returning to office.

See the full list of nominees and winners from the 98th Academy Awards, Hollywood's biggest night.

Neural network based computer vision systems are typically built on a backbone, a pretrained or randomly initialized feature extractor. Several years ago, the default option was an ImageNet-trained convolutional neural network. However, the recent past has seen the emergence of countless backbones pretrained using various algorithms and datasets. While this abundance of choice has led to performance increases for a range of systems, it is difficult for practitioners to make informed decisions about which backbone to choose. Battle of the Backbones (BoB) makes this choice easier by benchmarking a diverse suite of pretrained models, including vision-language models, those trained via self-supervised learning, and the Stable Diffusion backbone, across a diverse set of computer vision tasks ranging from classification to object detection to OOD generalization and more.

Where were you on the day of the world's first giant robot duel? Maybe you were working at your desk, brushing your teeth, labouring over your tax return, ironing the perfect pleat in tomorrow's pants. Meanwhile, giant robots were chainsawing other to shreds in a Japanese shed. SEE ALSO: Robotics expert Dr. Ross Mead reveals the truth about your favorite movie robots The world's first giant combat robot duel just happened on Tuesday, Oct. 17, pitting America and Japan against each other in a Twitch-livestreamed battle for the ages. Representing the United States, two epic robots from MegaBots Inc., founded by Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti.

Andrew Ng, a computer scientist and co-founder of Coursera, says innovations in artificial intelligence will both create great wealth and raise ethical challenges if we want not just a wealthier society "but also a fairer society." This segment is part of a special series of video highlights from the ASU GSV Summit produced by The Chronicle. Scott Carlson is a senior writer who covers the cost and value of college.