New York City saw its snowiest day in over two years after a winter storm swept across the Northeast on Tuesday, hitting parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts as well.
The big picture: The storm put over 40 million people under weather alerts across the region while forcing school closures, disrupting travel and causing power outages.
A new open-source generative AI model can follow instructions in more than 100 languages.
Why it matters: Most models that power today's generative AI tools are trained on data in English and Chinese, leaving a massive gap of thousands of languages — and potentially limiting access to the powerful technology for billions of people.
More than a fifth of the 1,189 migratory species the United Nations monitors are threatened with extinction and 44% are showing population declines, a landmark UN report warns.
Threat level: The biggest threats to creatures including elephants, snow leopards, sea turtles, whales, songbirds and butterflies are habitat loss from human activity and overexploitation, per the UN's State of the World's Migratory Species report, published on Monday.
