Artificial intelligence benchmarking group MLCommons on Wednesday released a fresh set of tests and results that rate the speed at which top-of-the-line hardware can run AI applications and respond to users. The two new benchmarks added by MLCommons measure the speed at which the AI chips and systems can generate responses from the powerful AI models packed with data. The …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s unemployed people will need to do more to prove they are searching for jobs to collect state benefits under a new law that will take effect later this year. A controversial bill passed by the GOP-majority Legislature on the final day of the 60-day legislative session went into law without Republican Gov. Jim Justice’s …

New York Jets owner Woody Johnson fired back at an NFL Network report, which said he had a “very heated conversation” with his head coach, Robert Saleh, at the NFL owners meetings in Orlando, Florida. “All this nonsense about a heated argument between Coach Saleh and me at the League Meeting is absolutely false,” Johnson posted to his X account …

British primatologist-turned-conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall will mark her 90th birthday next month with a series of talks. Her greatest wish is for people to start thinking more about the environment, she said in an interview last week. But in the meantime, she says she would like the gift of more years “to continue getting the message out.” “We’ve got a …

The Caitlin Clark era in Iowa City is over. The NCAA’s all-time leading scorer played in her final home game Monday, a 64-54 victory in the second round, to send the Hawkeyes to the Sweet 16 of the women’s March Madness tournament. As a No. 1 seed, Iowa hosted the first two rounds of the tournament, so Clark gave the …

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore shows that “migrants go out and do risky jobs at midnight” and as a result they “do not deserve to be treated as they are by certain insensitive, irresponsible politicians in the United States.” López Obrador made the remark as Maryland State Police …

Two individuals have been taken to the hospital after routine U.S. Army training exercises ended in a helicopter crash. The incident occurred Wednesday evening at the 28 square-mile Fort Carson in Colorado. “At approximately6:30 p.m.a single AH-64 Apache helicopter from the 4thCombat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, crashed while conducting routine training on Fort Carson,” a Fort Carson official told …

The first ambulance service in the United States reportedly rolled to the aid of patients in Cincinnati, Ohio, on this day in history, March 28, 1866. “For many years, Bellevue Hospital in New York claimed to have introduced the first citywide ambulance service in 1869, but records show Cincinnati beat them to it,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reported in 2018. It …

Chris “Mad Dog” Russo will never hold back how he feels about something sports related, and it came on Wednesday with March Madness as the topic. Russo’s biggest gripe? The games starting way too late for him on the East Coast. “Give us a chance to watch the damn thing, will you please?” Russo said in his weekly “What are …

It has been over five months since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the latest Fox News survey finds a majority continues to side with the Israelis over the Palestinians in the conflict, although fewer than last fall. Voters back the Israelis by a 31-point margin (59%-28%), unchanged since last month (59%-29%).However, the margin is much smaller than …