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Russian propaganda media Sputnik shuts down operations in Azerbaijan amid tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russian-propaganda-media-sputnik-shuts.html

Diplomatic scandal: Baku is angry with Moscow over the beatings and deaths of Azerbaijanis: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/diplomatic-scandal-baku-is-angry.html

Azerbaijan-Russia tensions escalate as Baku accuses Moscow of intentional killing of its citizens: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/azerbaijanrussia-tensions-escalate-as-baku.html

Arrests, raids, beaten and bloodied suspects — how Russia-Azerbaijan relations have unravelled: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/arrests-raids-beaten-and-bloodied.html

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models
Lian Yan, Haotian Wang, Chen Tang, Haifeng Liu, Tianyang Sun, Liangliang Liu, Yi Guan, Jingchi Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21773

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models
In the agricultural domain, the deployment of large language models (LLMs) is hindered by the lack of training data and evaluation benchmarks. To mitigate this issue, we propose AgriEval, the first comprehensive Chinese agricultural benchmark with three main characteristics: (1) Comprehensive Capability Evaluation. AgriEval covers six major agriculture categories and 29 subcategories within agriculture, addressing four core cognitive scenarios: memorization, understanding, inference, and genera…

Björn Müller, researcher at #MPSGoettingen and #IMPRS at #UniGoettingen graduate, has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements in his dissertation. The

Azerbaijan detains alleged Russian spies as relations with Moscow nosedive: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/azerbaijan-detains-alleged-russian-spies.html

I suspect we’re doing something similar to the tank classifier when we ascribe intelligence to AIs: there are patterns such as (for example) grammatical correctness which we •associate• with this abstract thing called “intelligence,” and we thus mis-infer the existence of everything else we associate with the notion of “intelligence” when we see (for example) correct grammar.
Or should we just call the machine intelligent because we classify it as intelligence because our brains, which we assume are intelligent, think it fits the pattern of intelligence? And now you see what the OP means about “begging the question of intelligence.”

Russian officer admits to downing Azerbaijani airliner in reported leak: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/russian-officer-admits-to-downing.html

Azerbaijan to file international lawsuits against Russia over downed plane, Aliyev says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/20/azerbaijan-to-file-international-lawsuits.html