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By Ali Kucukgocmen and Bulent UstaKARABURUN, Turkey (Reuters) – At his farm tucked away in an idyllic valley near the Aegean Sea, beekeeper Huseyin Ceylan helps people recover from ailments by having them inhale air from hives.Ceylan says people come regularly in late spring to Karaburun, in Turkey’s Aegean coastal province of Izmir, mainly to supplement conventional treatment with traditional “apitherapy,” a term derived from the Greek for bees.Guests tend to stay several days in cabins in lush greenery, inhaling air from beehives for up to three hours a day, which Ceylan says helps with issues from allergies to migraines.The…

In the construction industry, managers can easily become disconnected from what’s happening on-site. Among the many tasks to juggle are staying apprised of costs, communicating with all stakeholders, and assessing risk related to aspects like contractor billing and performance. Buildots wants to change all of that through AI and computer vision. Founded in 2018 by Roy Danon, Aviv Leibovici and Yakir Sudry, the Chicago startup offers a platform that tracks construction progress by processing images captured from 360-degree cameras mounted on managers’ hard hats. The system doesn’t just observe; it also forecasts. Teams can use a chatbot to ask questions…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian comedian and actor Magda Szubanski, best known for roles in the television sitcom “Kath and Kim” and the movie “Babe,” announced on Thursday she had been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer.The 64-year-old Melbourne resident posted on social media that she had started treatment for stage four mantle cell lymphoma, which she described as a “rare and fast-moving blood cancer.”“It’s serious, but I’ve started one of the best treatments available (the Nordic protocol), and I’m lucky to be getting absolutely world-class care here in Melbourne,” Szubanski posted.“I won’t sugar-coat it: it’s…

To comply with the U.S.’ restrictions on exporting advanced semiconductor technology to China, chipmakers Nvidia and AMD will soon begin selling new GPUs made for AI workloads in China, Taiwanese tech publication DigiTimes reported, citing supply chain sources. Nvidia plans to sell a stripped-down AI GPU, code-named “B20,” while AMD is looking to target AI workload needs with its new Radeon AI PRO R9700 workstation GPU, DigiTimes reported, adding that the companies will likely start selling these AI chips in China from July. Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Nvidia is working on a new budget AI chip built on…

COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, navigating the bumpy dirt road that winds through a maze of natural gas pipelines, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should have been in school, but a bout of nausea and a dull headache kept him from class.“It happens a lot,” Amari explained from the backseat, glancing up from his Nintendo Switch. The symptoms usually show up when the sixth grader smells an odor of “rotten egg with propane” that rises from nearby natural gas wells and wafts over…

CNN  —  The tribe has spoken and the cast for Season 50 of “Survivor” has been set. Host Jeff Probst revealed the names of the 24 returning contestants who will be part of the landmark new season. Among them is Emmy-winning “White Lotus” creator and “Survivor” alum, Mike White. “I was there the night of the finale of Mike’s season, and I thought he was going to win the game, and I felt like he sabotaged it a little bit,” Probst told “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday. “This is the guy that writes and directs ‘White Lotus,’ which studies human behavior…

As Nvidia reports earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2026, which closed on April 28, the company has released numbers on how the Trump administration’s recent chip-export restrictions are affecting business. Nvidia reported that it incurred a $4.5 billion charge in Q1 due to licensing requirements impacting its ability to sell its H20 AI chip to companies in China. The chipmaker also reported that it was unable to ship an additional $2.5 billion of H20 revenue in the quarter due to the restrictions. When the U.S. licensing requirement was originally announced in April, the company said that…

Nvidia beat Wall Street’s sales expectations in its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday despite significant headwinds in China as the chip giant navigates trade restrictions.The company reported revenue of $44.06 billion, compared to estimates of $43.32 billion. In its key data center segment, Nvidia saw revenue of $39.1 billion during the quarter, lower than analysts’ expectations for $39.36 billion but up 73% year-over-year.Trading was volatile immediately after the results, with the stock up 3% in after-hours trading to about $138.41. Shares were up 0.4% year-to-date through Wednesday’s close, closing at $134.68.Nvidia didn’t waste any time mentioning what was dragging down…

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its lead in the AI race and whether the demand for AI chips will sustain. But where did DeepSeek come from, and how did it rise to international fame so quickly? DeepSeek’s trader origins DeepSeek is backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, a Chinese quantitative hedge fund…

Chinese startup DeepSeek has released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model on the developer platform Hugging Face after announcing it in a WeChat message Wednesday morning. The updated R1, which is under a permissive MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially, is a “minor” upgrade, according to DeepSeek’s WeChat announcement. The Hugging Face repository doesn’t contain a description of the model — only configuration files and weights, the internal components of a model that guide its behavior. Weighing in at 685 billion parameters in size, the updated R1 is quite hefty. (“Parameters” is synonymous with “weights.”) Without modification,…