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- 2026-08-19 funding The University of South Carolina announced a record-breaking fundraising year, raising $357.6 million in fiscal year 2026, significantly boosted by a $25 million donation from the Robert and Janice McNair Foundation. source
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University of South Carolina Shatters Fundraising Record with $357.6 Million Haul
The University of South Carolina has achieved a record-breaking fundraising year, bringing in $357.6 million in private donations for fiscal year 2026. This figure significantly surpasses their previous record of $259.7…
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Americans' overseas travel hits record highs, driven by wealth and experience
Americans are traveling overseas in record numbers, with over 56 million U.S. residents making international trips last year. Europe, in particular, saw a record nearly 24 million American visitors in 2025. This trend i…
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University of South Carolina develops AI system for academic policy assistance
Researchers have developed Carolina Guide, a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system designed to assist the University of South Carolina (USC) with academic policy inquiries. This multi-agent system incorporates ins…
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New SCAR method enhances RAG recall with adaptive chunking
Researchers have developed SCAR (Semantic Continuity-Aware Retrieval), a novel method to improve Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. SCAR addresses the issue of fixed-length chunking by adaptively expanding ne…
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Influential American Revolution historian Gordon S. Wood dies at 92
Gordon S. Wood, a highly influential historian known for his work on the American Revolution, has died at the age of 92. He passed away after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot. Wood's scholarship, inclu…
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OpenAI-affiliated researchers integrate FID into training, achieving sub-0.8 ImageNet scores
Researchers from USC, CMU, CUHK, and OpenAI have developed a new method called FD-loss that allows the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) metric to be directly incorporated into the training process of image generation mo…
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AI may be causing people to think and write more similarly, study suggests
A new analysis suggests that the widespread use of AI language models may be leading to a homogenization of thought and writing styles. As more people rely on these tools for content creation, there is a growing concern…
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Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot
The creator of Blossom, an open-source social robot platform for human-robot interaction research, has rebuilt the entire system. This rebuild includes a redesigned inner frame inspired by model kits, a refactored codeb…