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Hong Kong CNN  —  Is xiaolongbao a bao or a dumpling? What exactly are “husband-and-wife lung slices” made of? With international travel to China on the rise, thanks much in part to its friendlier tourist visa policies, foreigners will inevitably encounter some amusing restaurant menu translations as they experience the country’s culinary delights. But those who attempt to come up with English names for these dishes aren’t to be blamed for the often unusual and occasionally alarming results. Nor are the translation apps. According to Isaac Yue, an associate professor of translation at the University of Hong Kong and a…

UPS is cutting 20,000 jobs and closing some facilities as the delivery company reduces the amount of Amazon packages it handles. The company said it plans to conduct the layoffs before the end of the year and close 73 facilities in buildings it owns or leases by the end of June — with more closings to possibly to come at a later date. “The actions we are taking to reconfigure our network and reduce cost across our business could not be timelier,” CEO Carol Tomé said in a statement on Tuesday. “The macro environment may be uncertain, but with our…

At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API. Available in limited preview, the Llama API lets developers explore and experiment with products powered by different Llama models, per Meta. Paired with Meta’s SDKs, it allows developers to build Llama-driven services, tools and applications. Meta didn’t immediately share the API’s pricing with TechCrunch. The rollout of the API comes as Meta looks to maintain a lead in the fiercely competitive open model space. While Llama models have racked up more than a billion downloads to date,…

Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews feature available in 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched last year to give users the ability to generate a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on documents they have shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal briefs. The idea behind the feature is to give users another way to digest and comprehend the information in the documents they have uploaded to the app. With this expansion, more people can use Audio Overviews in their preferred language. Google notes that up until…

Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way. While the experiments are still in the early stages, it’s possible that the company is looking to take on Duolingo with the help of Gemini, Google’s multimodal large language model. The first experiment helps you quickly learn specific phrases you need in the moment, while the second experiment helps you sound less formal and more like a local. The third experiment allows you to use your camera to learn new words based on your surroundings. Image…

Terrence Howard insists he isn’t homophobic even while revealing he turned down a Marvin Gaye biopic because he “could not” portray the late Grammy winner’s rumored gay identity. The Oscar nominee, 56, told Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast this week that he was approached by “Empire” co-creator Lee Daniels to play the “Sexual Healing” crooner. “Well you know what happened with that, I was over at Quincy Jones’ house and I’m not dropping names, I’m just giving credibility,” said Howard. “So I’m asking Quincy, I’m hearing rumors that Marvin was gay … and was he gay? And Quincy’s like, yes.…

After integrating Meta AI into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, Meta is rolling out a standalone AI app. Unveiled at Meta’s LlamaCon event on Tuesday, this app allows users to access Meta AI in a standalone app, similar to the ChatGPT app and other AI assistant apps. To win over users, Meta is trying to leverage what makes it different from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic — Meta already has a sense of who you are, what you like, and who you hang out with based on years of data that you’ve likely shared on Facebook or Instagram. Meta’s AI…

Amazon denied Tuesday reports it plans to display the additional cost of President Trump’s tariffs in product listings after the White House slammed the idea as “hostile and political.” Trump even called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to personally warn him not to go ahead with the reported plans highlighting tariff costs, CNN reported. Tim Doyle, a spokesman for the online retail giant, said the idea of breaking out tariff costs “was never approved and is not going to happen.” The report in Punchbowl News may have stemmed from a tentative plan by Amazon’s recently launched, low-cost Haul service  that “considered…

On Tuesday, Meta is hosting its first-ever LlamaCon AI developer conference at its Menlo Park headquarters, where the company will try to pitch developers on building applications with its open Llama AI models. Just a year ago, that wasn’t a hard sell. However, in recent months, Meta has struggled to keep up with both “open” AI labs like DeepSeek and closed commercial competitors such as OpenAI in the rapidly evolving AI race. LlamaCon comes at a critical moment for Meta in its quest to build a sprawling Llama ecosystem. Winning developers over may be as simple as shipping better open…

This article contains spoilers for the One Piece manga. Summary Logia devil fruits are hard to counter without Haki. Armament Haki can negate devil fruit abilities. Conqueror’s Haki is the ultimate counter to devil fruits. Haki has become an integral part of the One Piece story alongside Devil Fruits, both making for an amazing power system. Haki comes in different types, with different levels of mastery shown by various characters. With Haki, there are also powerful Devil Fruita, and Oda has consistently shown that both Devil Fruits and Haki are important to the story. However, Haki has also proven to…