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An anonymous reader shares a report: An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn't disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from some in the AI community.
Epoch AI, a nonprofit primarily funded by Open Philanthropy, a research and grantmaking foundation, revealed on December 20 that OpenAI had supported the creation of FrontierMath. FrontierMath, a test with expert-level problems designed to measure an AI's mathematical skil
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The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures on stage Monday. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has long said he would grant pardons to January 6 defendants. Read more ›
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Melania Trump wore a boater-style hat by the American designer Eric Javits to her husband's inauguration ceremony. Hats by Javits typically cost between $225 and $1250. Read more ›
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TikTok US ban reversal hinges on Trump’s proposed 50-50 joint venture. Supreme Court decision and Congressional opposition create uncertainty. The dramatic 13-hour shutdown of TikTok in the US on January 19, 2025, followed by its swift restoration, has created a complex tapestry of political manoeuvring, technological implications, and national security debates that continue to shape... Read more » Read more ›
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance both used Bibles with sentimental value to take the oath of office. Read more ›
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Photo by Kevin Lamarque - Pool/Getty Images Vivek Ramaswamy has stepped down from co-leading President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to the Associated Press. The official line as to why Ramaswamy is moving on is that he plans to run for elected office — he reportedly intends to run for Ohio governor. “Vivek Ramaswamy played a critical role in helping us create DOGE,” spokesperson Anna Kelly says... Read more ›
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Ramaswamy's departure ahead of an expected gubernatorial bid in Ohio means Elon Musk will be the sole leader of DOGE. Read more ›
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Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term in 2025, eight years after his first inauguration in 2017. His family's roles have changed significantly. Read more ›
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Three separate lawsuits allege that DOGE violates the transparency rules of a 1972 law. Read more ›
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Altadena, California was the home of the esteemed Afrofuturism pioneer who wrote Parable of the Sower. Read more ›
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Star Trek's next major project has nearly arrived—and we're here with what you need to know before beaming in. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were sworn in on January 20. Photos of Inauguration Day show the biggest moments from the event. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump announced multiple immigration executive orders on his first day in office, which could have negative economic impacts. Read more ›
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Texas is different from my home Australia in many ways and the guns, portions, and local pride have given me culture shock. Read more ›
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Powerhouse Animation's Samuel Deats and Adam Deats discuss the creation of Netflix's first successful video game adaptation. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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The 2018 Swedish release from Spanish writer-director Adrián García Bogliano is now streaming on Shudder. Read more ›
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On his first day in office, Trump reiterated his promise to tariff and tax foreign countries, but did not officially impose any. Read more ›
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Excitement continues to mount ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds' release next month, but if there's one big question mark around the whole thing, it's just what sort of performance improvements Capcom has been cooking up since its rather wobby public beta. And the publisher has now given a brief update on performance, alongside confirmation it's "looking into" lowering the game's recommended GPU requirements on PC. Read more Read more ›
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Meta is cutting roughly 5% of its staff through performance-based eliminations and plans to hire new people to fill their roles this year, according to a company memo. From a report: As of September, Meta employed about 72,000 people, so a 5% reduction could affect roughly 3,600 jobs. "I've decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster," Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said in the... Read more ›
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ChatGPT can now schedule reminders and recurring tasks -- but only if you're a ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Pro subscriber. TechCrunch reports: With tasks, users can set simple reminders with ChatGPT such as, "Remind me when my passport expires in six months," and the AI assistant will follow up with a push notification on whatever platform you have tasks enabled. Users can also now set recurring requests to ChatGPT, such... Read more ›
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A new law is being considered by New York's state legislature, reports a local news outlet. "if passed, will require anyone buying a 3D printer to pass a background check. If you can't legally own a firearm, you won't be able to buy one of these printers..." It is illegal to print most gun parts in New York. Attorney Greg Rinckey believes the proposal is an overreach. "I think this... Read more ›
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OpenAI's "reasoning" AI model, o1, has exhibited a puzzling behavior of "thinking" in Chinese, Persian, or some other language -- "even when asked a question in English," reports TechCrunch. While the exact cause remains unclear, as OpenAI has yet to provide an explanation, AI experts have proposed a few theories. From the report: Several on X, including Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue, alluded to the fact that reasoning models like... Read more ›
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Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin reports: AT&T has stopped offering its 5G home Internet service in New York instead of complying with a new state law that requires ISPs to offer $15 or $20 plans to people with low incomes. New York started enforcing its Affordable Broadband Act yesterday after a legal battle of nearly four years. [...] The law requires ISPs with over 20,000 customers in New York to offer... Read more ›
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A county transit police detective fed a poor-quality image to an AI-powered facial recognition program, remembers the Washington Post, leading to the arrest of "Christopher Gatlin, a 29-year-old father of four who had no apparent ties to the crime scene nor a history of violent offenses." He was unable to post the $75,000 cash bond required, and "jailed for a crime he says he didn't commit, it would take Gatlin... Read more ›
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SpaceX conducted its seventh test flight of the Starship rocket on Thursday with mixed results. The upper stage was lost nine minutes after launch, but the Super Heavy booster successfully landed back at the launch site, marking a second successful recovery. CNBC reports: SpaceX said in a post on X that the ship broke up during its ascent burn and that it would "continue to review data from today's flight... Read more ›
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Roseltorg, Russia's main electronic trading platform for government and corporate procurement, confirmed it was targeted by a cyberattack claimed by the pro-Ukraine hacker group Yellow Drift. The group allegedly deleted 550 terabytes of data, causing significant operational delays and client concerns. The Record reports: The company initially confirmed last Thursday that its services had been temporarily suspended, without providing further details. In a recent Telegram statement, Roseltorg disclosed that i Read more ›
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Executives and researchers leading Meta's AI efforts obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 model while developing Llama 3, according to internal messages unsealed by a court in one of the company's ongoing AI copyright cases, Kadrey v. Meta. From a report: "Honestly... Our goal needs to be GPT-4," said Meta's VP of Generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, in an October 2023 message to Meta researcher Hugo Touvron. "We have 64k GPUs coming!... Read more ›
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Programmers have found ways to run the 1993 first-person shooter Doom on an array of unexpected platforms, and now a PDF file joins that list. Developer ading2210's DoomPDF project shows the game operating within a document format primarily designed for static content display. The creator says he drew inspiration from pdftris, another PDF-based game port by Thomas Rinsma. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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