Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal language model capable of seamlessly integrating text and speech inputs and outputs. As such, it competes directly with OpenAI’s GPT-4o (also natively multimodal) and other multimodal models such as Hume’s EVI 2, as well as dedicated text-to-speech and […]

Federal prosecutors on Friday argued against a request by Mayor Eric Adams that a judge to throw out a bribery charge against Mr. Adams, saying they had clearly described his alleged quid pro quo for luxury travel and that a jury should decide the issue. In a 25-page filing, prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office […]

Richard Allen was armed with a gun when he came across teenage friends Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German near a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017, then used “power and the fear” to force them “down the hill” before slitting their throats, prosecutors said in their opening statement Friday in his […]

A New York man pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony charge of civil disorder for storming the U.S. Capitol while armed with a knife on Jan. 6, 2021, as supporters of former President Donald J. Trump sought to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. The man, Christopher D. Finney, 32, of […]

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details about the premiere episode of Matlock on CBS. Although Matlock has returned to the screen in name, that’s about where the similarities end with the new reboot. CBS chief marketing officer Mike Benson recently explained why the Kathy Bates-led reboot of the 1986-’95 legal drama ventures so far away […]

Anne Curtis's daughter Dahlia donned a Filipiniana outfit for United Nations Day.

Filipino EXO-Ls and Soondingies can meet and greet Chen up close for as low as ₱4,000.

The pop star returned to the stage following a two-month break. Her record-breaking tour concludes in Vancouver, Canada, in December.

A man charged with killing two teenage girls in a small Indiana community forced them off a hiking trail before cutting their throats, a prosecutor said Friday.

Sony brought out stars including Tom Hardy and Aaron Taylor-Johnson to show off the beginning of one franchise, and the end of another, while 'Karate Kid' got its first trailer.