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Oracle updates database technology for AI chatbots
Oracle on Thursday released an update to its database technology intended to make it more useful with artificial intelligence technology. The update, which is called Oracle Database 23ai, introduces technology that will make it easier for chatbots and other new AI systems to find data stored in corporate systems. Using what is called "vector search" technology, the new Oracle database can be searched by concepts or ideas expressed in natural human language, instead of simply matching up keywor
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European court upholds Italy's claim to Greek bronze in US museum
Italy is allowed to confiscate an ancient Greek bronze fished from the Adriatic in the 1960s and now in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Europe's top rights court ruled Thursday.The museum had appealed to the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after Italy's top tribunal in 2019 upheld an Italian confiscation order for the bronze.
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Protesters try to stop UK migrant removals from temporary accommodation
Protesters in London tried to prevent the removal of migrants from their temporary accommodation Thursday, as the UK government began detaining people before controversial deportation flights to Rwanda start.- Crossings - The ministry has not confirmed how many people have been held so far, but the government says it expects Rwanda to take 5,700 migrants this year.
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Stocks mostly higher before Apple earnings, US payroll data
Global stock markets mostly rose on Thursday as investors digested the Federal Reserve interest rate outlook and awaited Apple's latest results on the eve of critical US payroll data. But O'Hare said "the stock market might be fine living with that uncertainty so long as the economic data and earnings results cooperate with" the Fed's view that the US economy will avoid a recession.
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More than 160 delegations invited to Ukraine peace talks
Switzerland has invited more than 160 delegations to next month's Ukraine peace conference, the foreign ministry said Thursday, though Russia is not among them "at this stage"."Russia has not been invited at this stage," the foreign ministry in Bern said.
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Police clear UCLA protest encampment in campus unrest over Gaza
Hundreds of police cleared a sprawling protest encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, tearing down barriers and arresting students in the latest clash on US campuses over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza.For weeks, authorities on campuses from New York to California have tried to thread the needle between the right to protest and complaints of violence and hate speech, resulting in hundreds of arrests and chaos as university terms end.
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European court upholds Italy's claim to Greek bronze
Italy is allowed to confiscate an ancient Greek bronze fished from the Adriatic in the 1960s and now in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.But the sculpture, attributed to Greek artist Lysippos, has remained on display at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles' high-end Pacific Palisades district.
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