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“We knew we needed to find an issue that the candidates were comfortable talking about,” said Terry Schilling, the president of American Principles Project, a social conservative advocacy group. “And we threw everything at the wall.”

Alpaca was developed on Meta AI's LLaMA 7B model and generated training data with a method known as self-instruct

I think one of the safest ways to move forward with this technology is to make sure that it is not in too few hands."

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"Gehry responded with a public resignation from the project, and at that point, Diane Disney Miller—daughter of Lillian and Walt—intervened. “We promised Los Angeles a Frank Gehry building, and that’s what we intend to deliver,” she declared. There would be no further funding from the Disney family if Gehry was not kept on as the architect. Broad backed down, and in 1999, more than a decade after he won the commission, Gehry was finally given free rein over the project."

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Ukraine’s forces have lost a large share of their most experienced soldiers, having suffered an estimated 120,000 casualties. Purportedly leaked US intelligence documents have suggested that the counteroffensive could fall “well short” of Kyiv’s goals.

Yet Ukraine’s army has been underestimated before, such as when it defied western military assessments last year and pushed back Russian forces from around the capital and then the northeastern city of Kharkiv. Russia has also lost almost twice as many men since the full-scale invasion, according to western assessments. Moreover, Ukrainian troops are better equipped and trained than their foes.

“If the Ukrainian attack is hard and fast and gets behind the Russians, the frontline will unravel and the Russians will run . . . just as they did during the counter-offensive around Kharkiv,” said Glen Grant, a former British army officer and adviser to the Ukrainian parliament’s defence committee.