A study submitted to arXiv on 2 Jun 2026 compares transformer models BERT, RoBERTa, and BART for text summarization, examining their architectures, pretraining strategies, and suitability for extracti…
A Coyote Media opinion piece proposes redirecting the $389 billion invested in San Francisco's AI industry since 2017 to fund Bay Area public transit, citing chronic delays and funding deficits. The a…
A developer built a text summarizer using Hugging Face Transformers, leveraging the pipeline API and the facebook/bart-large-cnn model to condense long text into concise summaries with minimal code. T…
A new AI method using prefix control tokens and BART fine-tuning for ad headline generation claims a 25.82% increase in Rouge-L and a 5.82% boost in estimated click-through rates over previous baselin…
A new AI method using prefix control tokens with BART fine-tuning boosts ad headline click-through rates by 5.82% and Rouge-L scores by 25.82%, giving advertisers customizable control over headline ge…
Researchers propose COBART, a method combining prefix control tokens with BART fine-tuning for ad headline generation, achieving a 25.82% improvement in Rouge-L and a 5.82% increase in estimated CTR o…
A woman attempting to evade the fare at a San Francisco BART station became trapped beneath one of the transit system's new fare gates, as captured in a viral video. BART officials say the gates have …
Independent researcher Younes Naghibi released a paper introducing TreeNets, a method that reduces large language model size by combining neural networks with decision trees. The approach includes a T…
A woman attempting to evade a BART fare became stuck under entry gates at a San Francisco station, with a BART employee filming the incident that went viral. BART Director Liz Ames said fare evasion h…
An Alameda County jury convicted Victor Frieson III of murder and torture for killing his girlfriend, artist Zoe Reidy Watts, in Oakland. Prosecutors presented evidence that Frieson attacked Watts aft…
Team HSA_CORAL submitted to the FinCausal 2026 shared task on extracting cause-effect relations from financial narratives via extractive question answering in English and Spanish. Their best system, G…
The Valley Transportation Authority carried 37,642 passengers to the World Cup match at Levi's Stadium on June 13, surpassing Super Bowl LX ridership by over 6,000. Fans cited convenience, cost saving…
State Sen. Aisha Wahab led early returns with 42.63% of the vote in a special primary election to fill the remainder of former Rep. Eric Swalwell's term in California's Congressional District 14, afte…
Voters in California's 14th Congressional District head to the polls Tuesday in a special election to temporarily replace former Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations. Th…
Bay Area voters may face a 0.5% sales tax increase to subsidize BART and other transit agencies due to lower ridership, but one Alameda resident argues the region should first consolidate its 27 separ…