Wednesday’s court appearance included a brief disagreement over whether McIver would be able to travel oversees for personal reasons. Adams had said an agreement before her noted she could travel only for official business, but McIver’s attorney, former United States Attorney for New Jersey Paul Fishman, said she had a vacation planned.
Based in Montreal, where she is also a computer science professor at McGill University, Pineau has been the face of Meta’s “open-source” approach to building AI systems, such as its flagship large language model called Llama, in which core components are publicly released for others to use or modify.Her announcement comes ahead of the company’s debut of a new LlamaCon AI conference on April 29.
In 2023, she began directing Meta’s AI research division, formerly known as Facebook AI Research, which had been founded a decade earlier by a group that included pioneering AI researcher Yann LeCun. LeCun stepped down as the group’s director in 2018 but remains Meta’s chief AI scientist.WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. forto give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
The order was announced as White House officials believed they werefor the app’s operations to be spun off into a new company based in the U.S. and owned and operated by a majority of
, with China’s ByteDance maintaining a minority position, according to a person familiar with the matter.
But Beijing hit the brakes on a deal Thursday after Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs around the globe, including against China. ByteDance representatives called the White House to indicate that China would no longer approve the deal until there could be negotiations about trade and tariffs, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive details of the negotiations.halted more than a year of the latest Israel-Hezbollah fighting, providing the country with some respite though not a complete end to hostilities.
Christians take part in the traditional Palm Sunday procession in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Christians take part in the traditional Palm Sunday procession in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Since the ceasefire, Israel has carried out almost daily airstrikes that have killed scores of civilians and members of the militant Lebanese Hezbollah group. Israel has said that its strikes in Lebanon are in response to ceasefire violations by Hezbollah and to prevent the group from rearming. Hezbollah started launching attacks on Israel a day after the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, 2023, with the Palestinian militants’ attack on southern Israel.A Christian Lebanese family poses for a photo during Palm Sunday Mass at the Maronite Church of St. George in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)