10 h. ago Jay Leno admits why he let Jimmy Kimmel humiliate him on his own show: 'My mistake'

Jay Leno reflected on the origin of his feud with Jimmy Kimmel who "humiliated" him during a 2010 episode of "The Jay Leno Show" and said not cutting the segment was "my mistake."

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26 h. ago The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

Move over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. Its meteoric rise to a $300 billion valuation has spurred many employees to leave the AI giant to create startups of their own. The hype around OpenAI is so […]

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27 h. ago Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s

Instagram Edits, Meta’s newly released video creation app, had a bigger debut than its direct competitor, ByteDance’s CapCut, once did. The new app, which today helps users craft videos for Instagram reels, stories, and other social posts, was downloaded an estimated 702,900 times on iOS devices during its first two days on the market. That’s […]

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46 h. ago Katy Perry shuts down Blue Origin space flight critics as Gayle King reveals crew's next mission

Katy Perry responded to backlash over her Blue Origin space mission, as she stood firm on her decision to join the historic all-female crew. TV host Gayle King revealed to Fox News Digital at the TIME100 Gala the flight crew's next mission.

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49 h. ago Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design

Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages. By the company’s estimation, it’s been a big success. AI Overviews is now used by more than 1.5 billion users monthly across over 100 countries. AI Overviews compiles results from around […]

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52 h. ago REAL ID sees nationwide state government compliance ahead of deadline, but it wasn't always that way

Several states originally objected to REAL ID requirements, but all have since come into compliance ahead of the deadline, according to federal officials.

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54 h. ago Washington Street paving project to cost about $200K more than estimated

Washington Street paving project to cost about $200K more than estimated  eagletimes.com

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64 h. ago Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Thursday highlighting how little researchers understand about the inner workings of the world’s leading AI models. To address that, Amodei set an ambitious goal for Anthropic to reliably detect most AI model problems by 2027. Amodei acknowledges the challenge ahead. In “The Urgency of Interpretability,” the CEO says Anthropic has […]

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65 h. ago Americans are protesting the Trump administration. Do they work?

When you think of a successful protest movement, most Americans probably think of the American Civil Rights movement, and the March on Washington in 1963.Martin Luther King, Jr. standing behind a podium on the steps of the Lincoln memorial delivered his most famous speech and a line that would come to define the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act just nine months after the March. A year after that Johnson signed the National Voting Rights Act of 1965.The quest for equality continues. In the decades since that bright summer day in August 1963, many other Americans have tried to use the model of protest to achieve their political goals. But do protests work?For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

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65 h. ago OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT deep research tool

OpenAI is bringing a new “lightweight” version of its ChatGPT deep research tool, which scours the web to compile research reports on a topic, to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users, the company announced Thursday. The new lightweight deep research, which will also come to free ChatGPT users starting today, is powered by a version […]

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67 h. ago What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too

An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.

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68 h. ago OpenAI wants its ‘open’ AI model to call models in the cloud for help

For the first time in roughly five years, OpenAI is gearing up to release an AI system that’s truly “open,” meaning it’ll be available for download at no cost and not gated behind an API. TechCrunch reported on Wednesday that OpenAI is aiming for an early summer launch, and targeting performance superior to open models […]

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68 h. ago OpenAI may be developing its own social platform but who’s it for?

OpenAI is reportedly building its own X-like social network. The project is still in the early stages, but there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that contains a social feed, The Verge reports. A social app would give OpenAI its own unique, real-time data that X and Meta already use to help train […]

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68 h. ago SNL's Bowen Yang says he didn't originally want to portray JD Vance, jokingly calls him 'pope killer'

Bowen Yang, a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" said Thursday that he thought there would be a better person to play JD Vance on SNL, and joked, "the guy's a pope killer."

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69 h. ago David Thomas, Pere Ubu's defiantly original leader, dies at 71

Formed in 1975, Pere Ubu embodied the industrial decay and hardscrabble ethics of Cleveland. Thomas tied together the band's sound with uncompromising vocals that exuded steely menace and unfettered anguish.

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2 d. ago Linda Evangelista left traumatized and in therapy after botched cosmetic procedure permanently damaged body

Linda Evangelista credited therapy for helping her change the way she views her body after CoolSculpting left the model "brutally disfigured."

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2 d. ago Review & setlist: ROLE MODEL’s ruby red shoes brought him back to Boston

The New England native had his young, mostly female crowd swooning during his rescheduled show at MGM Music Hall Wednesday night. The post Review & setlist: ROLE MODEL’s ruby red shoes brought him back to Boston appeared first on Boston.com.

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2 d. ago A new way to measure uncertainty provides an important step toward confidence in AI model training

It's obvious when a dog has been poorly trained. It doesn't respond properly to commands. It pushes boundaries and behaves unpredictably. The same is true with a poorly trained artificial intelligence (AI) model. Only with AI, it's not always easy to identify what went wrong with the training.

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2 d. ago The ongoing effect of United States tariffs on the model train industry

The ongoing effect of United States tariffs on the model train industry  trains.com

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2 d. ago Former OpenAI Employees Urge State AGs to Block Sam Altman's Shift to For

A group of former OpenAI employees is calling on the attorneys general of California and Delaware to prevent the company from transitioning from a nonprofit to a for-profit company, citing concerns over the control and accountability of its powerful AI technology. The post Former OpenAI Employees Urge State AGs to Block Sam Altman’s Shift to For-Profit Status appeared first on Breitbart.

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