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Pope Leo declares death penalty ‘inadmissible’ as his native US plans to livestream execution

In a post on X, the American pope quoted the revised Catholic teaching on capital punishment that the death penalty attacks the inherent dignity of a human being

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Pope Leo declares death penalty ‘inadmissible’ as his native US plans to livestream execution
In a post on X, the American pope quoted the revised Catholic teaching on capital punishment that the death penalty attacks the inherent dignity of a human being
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Trump has a new target: The words Americans use

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A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system that could threaten Chinese upstarts and U.S. AI giants alike.Why it matters: The marriage of an American open-weight model and Nvidia GPUs would give individuals and companies a new, cheaper alternative to Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.Open models, designed to compete with Chinese rivals, can be harder to monitor and regulate than the Big Three so-called frontier models. Supporters of such ecosystems say their widespread availability and transparency also bring security advantages.Reflection's first model is set to be joined by other open-weight models from other Western players this month, sources tell Axios. That will bring a new competitive dimension to the AI boom.State of play: Reflection's model, set to be released soon, is expected to initially lag behind the most cutting-edge U.S. models and be competitive with top Chinese open-weight models.Sources tell Axios it will still boast powerful intelligence — capable enough to help companies build their own proprietary, low-cost AI systems.Combining a lower-tier open model with high-quality company data can yield results that rival the most expensive frontier AI systems in certain situations.A Reflection spokesperson declined to comment.The big picture: Open-weight models, the most powerful of which are almost uniformly made in China, have taken Silicon Valley by storm.As opposed to closed models like Claude and ChatGPT, open-weight models like Reflection's are generally available to be downloaded freely and can be used and customized by anyone.On platforms that serve many models, their combined market share at times has surged to take up a majority of usage. However, in the far higher-spen

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