Andrii Niebytov, the Kyiv region’s police chief, said seven others were injured when a drone struck a dormitory building in the town of Rzhyshchiv. Xi left Russia’s capital pledging to deepen ties with Putin but the meetings failed to achieve a breakthrough on Ukraine.Īs Xi flew back to Beijing, Russia’s military launched a barrage of strikes with Iran-made Shahed drones on Ukraine’s Kyiv region, killing at least eight people, according to Ukrainian authorities. Russia unleashed a wave of deadly attacks on towns and cities across Ukraine on Wednesday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping departed from Moscow following talks with President Vladimir Putin. Rescuers work at a site of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on March 22. Some context: In an update Wednesday, Ukraine's military said Russia's offensive capacity is diminishing in and around Bakhmut as Moscow's forces expend large numbers of troops trying to capture the city in fierce fighting.

“In particular, the units of the 93rd, 10th, 57th and 5th Brigades who are now defending our homeland in the east of the country.” “Under continuous fire from enemy artillery and aircraft, our soldiers at the front demonstrate superhuman resilience, courage and bravery,” he said. The commander, who has paid frequent visits to soldiers close to the front line in and around Bakhmut, also paid tribute to Ukrainian soldiers defending the city. Syrskyi said Russian forces - made up mostly of fighters from the Wagner private military company - continue to try and take Bakhmut “at any cost, despite losses in both manpower and equipment.” “Very soon, we will take advantage of this opportunity, as we did in the past near Kyin Kharkiv, Balakliya and Kupyansk,' he said, referring to instances where Russian troops have previously retreated in the face of Ukrainian counteroffensives. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine's land forces. Despite the excitement, some have warned the technology still has major flaws and can easily present inaccurate answers as facts.“ are losing significant forces and are running out of energy,” said Col. The updated AI-powered Bing is being seen by some commentators as the first serious threat to Google’s search dominance in years.

Google’s stock on the other hand has nosedived since Microsoft’s announcement as the company botched its own AI reveal. Markets have reacted positively to the move with the company’s shares rising by more than 10% since the end of January. Last week, Microsoft launched its updated version of Bing which integrates the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool. Microsoft notes it did not envision the various “new use case” the people will come up with for the chatbot including “social entertainment.” But the company warns that “extended chat sessions” that include 15 or more questions can lead to responses that are repetitive and “not necessarily helpful or in line with our designed tone.” Key Background In a blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft hailed the launch of new AI-powered Bing as a success, and that it has seen “increased engagement traditional search results and with the new features like summarized answers.” The company noted the AI-generated responses have 71% approval or “thumbs up” from users.

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