Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared not just on quality but also on cost and time per task. For agent-based applications, those metrics often tell you more than raw token pricing. The article Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data appeared first on The Decoder .
After a terrorist attack, public attention tends to focus primarily on the perpetrator. But what about the victims? What support can they expect? And what lies ahead for them?
A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with little to no editing. The article One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .
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A rapidly spreading wildfire in the High Fens nature reserve near Belgium's border with Germany has scorched around 2,700 hectares and forced hundreds of people to evacuate.
Kyiv mayor says attack has caused fires in at least two districts; Ukraine hits Russian rocket facility in long-range strike. What we know on day 1,636 Russian forces launched a missile attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in at least two districts of the Ukrainian capital, the city’s mayor said. Kyiv’s military administration said one person had been injured. Witnesses reported explosions in the city amid air alerts that sounded after 2am. Mayor Vitali Klitschko, writing on Telegram, said falling debris had caused a fire in a non-residential part of a northern suburb. Several cars were on fire, and another fire had broken out in an area just south of the city centre, he said. Unofficial Telegram channels posted photos of what were described as market stalls ablaze. Russia has in recent weeks been staging intensive air attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Ukraine says long-range strikes hit a Russian military airfield and a rocket centre that supports Russia’s nascent Starlink-style satellite internet network . President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said Flamingo cruise missiles struck the rocket facility, about 900km from Ukraine’s border, as part of Kyiv’s campaign to pressure Moscow to end the war by targeting sites deep inside Russia. “It is important that Russia’s war potential be reduced. Peace is needed, and this must be evident in Russia – through concrete damage to specific facilities,” Zelenskyy wrote on X. He said the airfield hosted aircraft used to attack Ukraine. Ukraine’s armed forces said direct hits were recorded at the airfield in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region and the Progress rocket centre in Samara region, sparking fires at both sites. The Samara plant produces rockets used to launch satellites for the Rassvet broadband network, which Russia is developing as an alternative to SpaceX’s Starlink . Starlink operates in Ukraine but not in Russia, giving Kyiv an advantage in drone operations and battlefield communications. In Samara region, local officials said air defences had repelled a “massive missile attack”. “Samara’s industrial infrastructure sustained localised damage,” Ivan Noskov, head of the regional capital, said in an online post. Emergency services were working at the scene, he said. Russia has asked Washington and Ankara to explain reports of possible plans to transfer to Kyiv a “substantial arsenal” of US weapons and ammunition held by Turkey , a spokesperson for Russia’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. Such a transfer would cause “serious harm … to our bilateral relations with Washington and Ankara,” the spokesperson said in a statement. A Russian strike on an apartment block in south-eastern Ukraine on Saturday killed a three-month-old baby and wounded 11 people, local officials said. Drones hit the building in the town of Marhanets, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration. Russia’s defence ministry on Saturday said in the past 24 hours its drones and missiles had struck Ukrainian logistics centres and energy and transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army, as well as assembly workshops for long-range drones and drone boats. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has told Russian president Vladimir Putin in a letter that he was “proud” of their countries’ strong ties , state media reported. North Korea has become a key ally of the Kremlin, sending troops to support Moscow’s war effort in return for economic benefits and military technology, analysts say. Kim added that he had a “firm belief” that Russia would thrive and defend its “territorial integrity” under Putin’s “wise leadership”. In a letter to Kim delivered on Friday to mark Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule at the end of the second world war, Putin said relations between the two countries had reached the “unprecedentedly high level of comprehensive strategic partnership” . “Our states are actively cooperating in all the sectors while making concerted efforts to ensure the regional security and stability,” the Russian leader said. The exchange of letters follows Ukraine’s accusation this month that Moscow had launched North Korean ballistic missiles in a strike that killed at least nine people and wounded dozens. Kyiv has also recently said that up to 50,000 North Korean troops are due to deploy to Russia, although it has provided no evidence to back the claim or a timeframe for the deployment. Continue reading...
Tehran said the three pilots "were captured alive" by Qatari forces after their fighter jets were shot down in the early days of the US-Israel war with Iran. Qatar has denied Iran's claims.
The attempted crossings come two weeks after around 72,000 people rushed into the Spanish North African exclave from Morocco. Calls for another mass crossing had been circulating on social media this week.