On January 9th, 56-year-old Peter Akemann flew his DJI Mini 3 Pro drone far beyond the legal limit of his ability to see — and into a Super Scooper water dumping plane fighting the Los Angeles Palisades wildfires, grounding it for repairs after punching a hole in its left wing. Now that authorities have traced … Read more
YouTube is expanding the availability of its dedicated community space feature to more creators on the site, giving them more opportunities to connect with their fans without needing to lean on another platform like Discord. Only available for access via mobile devices, Communities first launched during the Made for YouTube event last fall, letting the … Read more
All your AI Paint tools under one roof. Windows Insiders will soon see a Copilot icon in one more place: Paint. Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels will see the new button thanks to an update rolling out now, putting AI tools in one location. Clicking the Copilot button in the task bar will … Read more
OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this in a system card – a document outlining how an AI system works – that was released along with its new “reasoning” model, o3-mini, on Friday. Millions of Reddit users are members … Read more
To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in a wide-ranging Reddit AMA on Friday. OpenAI the company finds itself in a bit of a precarious position. It’s battling the perception that it’s ceding ground in the AI race to Chinese companies like … Read more
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DeepSeek received an order to stop serving its AI chatbot’s users in Italy, after failing to assuage concerns over its privacy policies.
The Sandman. Tom Sturridge as Dream in episode 101 of The Sandman. | Image: Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2022<br> Though Netflix is planning to bring back a number of its ongoing series in the coming months, the streamer has decided to cancel its adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. Netflix announced today that The Sandman will … Read more
Midha says R1 won’t stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more with the compute power they can obtain. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 3 Temporal Hierarchies 4 Rating Maps 5 Optimal Imprints for TL(AT) 6 Conclusion and References Appendix A. Appendix to Section 2 Appendix B. Appendix to Section 3 Appendix C. Appendix to Section 4 & Appendix D. Appendix to Section 5 Appendix C. Appendix to Section 4 … Read more
BioWare now has fewer than 100 employees after laying off “around two dozen” staffers and shifting others to different projects at EA, Bloomberg reports. The changes follow BioWare’s own “Studio Update” published this week where GM Gary McKay said the studio had “worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues … Read more
Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity. Warnings floated on social media today about an impending purge at the Centers for … Read more
The price of Bitcoin dove Friday after President Trump’s team confirmed that tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada are imminent.
MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The data set, called Unsupervised People’s Speech, contains more than a million hours of audio spanning at least 89 different languages. MLCommons says … Read more
“I think the regulatory body of El Salvador and the regulatory body of the United States will talk a lot,” Michele Crivelli said.
Some companies are blocking DeepSeek over concerns their data will end up with the Chinese government. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII is the latest in the long-running 4X strategy franchise that first debuted in 1991 on MS-DOS. The new turn-based game from Firaxis Games and the titular, legendary designer is set to release on PC and modern consoles in on February 11th, 2025 — over eight years after the last installment. Civ … Read more
NordVPN’s new protocol disguises VPN traffic as regular web browsing, trading some speed for better access in restricted networks.
The stablecoin market cap reached a new record high above $200 billion. Is it a sign that Bitcoin and altcoins will rise higher?