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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Oct. 25
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s the longest one of the week, and some... Read more
Oh, you thought AI was just in your browser and on your phone? Well, the AI is coming from inside the house. The Verge’s Jen Pattison Tuohy and Google’s Anish Kattukaran both join the show to discuss last week’s Google smart home news, including the company’s big bet on... Read more
DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks
The US Department of Homeland Security is seeking to develop a new mobile surveillance platform that fuses artificial intelligence, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless networking into a single system, according to federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED. The technology would mount on 4×4 vehicles capable of reaching remote areas... Read more
Thinking Machines challenges OpenAI's AI scaling strategy: 'First superintelligence will be a superhuman learner'
While the world's leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of the industry's most secretive and valuable startups delivered a pointed challenge to that orthodoxy this week: The path forward isn't about training... Read more
A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions
In turn, the delay in network state propagations spilled over to a network load balancer that AWS services rely on for stability. As a result, AWS customers experienced connection errors from the US-East-1 region. AWS network functions affected included the creating and modifying Redshift clusters, Lambda invocations, and Fargate... Read more
Who is Ossi Ketola and what is his net worth? Duel Casino owner claims X accounts banned
Duel Casino owner and infamous online personality Ossi Ketola, has caused another round of online drama after being banned on X, formerly Twitter. The Elon Musk-owned platform didn’t provide a reason for the ban, but the platform also took down the @duel account, Ketola’s business handle. In an announcement... Read more
Why Starlink Sends So Many Copyright Warnings to Its Users
If you’re new to Starlink, don’t be surprised if you get a notice warning you about your copyright infringement, regardless of whether you’ve downloaded copyrighted material or not.  These types of notices aren’t unique to Starlink, but as a professional lurker on ISP sub-Reddits, I’ve found the satellite provider... Read more
Say this for OpenAI: it’s very good at raising money, and it’s very good at getting attention. David and Jake are joined by The Verge’s Hayden Field to talk about OpenAI’s demo day, the company’s app store plans, why it’s trying to build every possible ChatGPT feature all at... Read more
OpenAI’s Sora Loses Its Top App Store Ranking to Dave’s Hot Chicken
Since its launch on September 30, OpenAI’s Sora app has dominated the iOS App Store charts, thanks to its easy breezy AI video generation and an initially loose interpretation of copyright laws. On Friday, its reign came to an end. Your new champion is … Dave’s Hot Chicken. Yes!... Read more
Mistral launches its own AI Studio for quick development with its European open source, proprietary models
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be "studio" environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded French AI startup Mistral launched its own Mistral AI Studio, a new production platform designed to... Read more