The annual festival will open the week of the United Nations’ International Mother Language Day (Feb. 21) and will take place in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the ...

Purrs of contentment. Soulful eyes locked on yours over dinner. Valentine's Day? Not for pet owners. For those of us who share our lives with animals, this is a daily—if not exactly ...

Languages are more than just words; they're windows into diverse cultures and global connections. With this established, at least one of the 30 languages listed in this gallery is spoken by most of ...

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...

This repo contains evaluation code for the paper "CartoMapQA: A Fundamental Benchmark Dataset Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Cartographic Map Understanding" ArXiv version CartoMapQA offers a ...

Google’s ATLAS study reveals how languages help each other in AI training, offering scaling laws and pairing insights for better multilingual models.

The next step in the evolution of generative AI technology will rely on ‘world models’ to improve physical outcomes in the real world. Tesla’s viral videos show its Optimus humanoid robot serving ...

Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at NYU, explains the differences between large language models and "world models" — and why he thinks the latter are key to achieving artificial general intelligence.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee State Board of Education will consider cutting the high school world language graduation requirement in half following a new proposal. Board Chair Robert Eby ...

The iOS 26 release brought a slew of new updates to Apple's mobile interface, and one app that received a nice bit of attention is Apple Maps. A new Visited Places feature lets you quickly pinpoint ...

As of 2025, the world is home to more than 7,000 spoken languages, reflecting the incredible diversity of human culture and communication. Yet despite this vast number, only a small fraction of these ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...