Nearly 20 years into her music career Wonder Girls’ Sunmi is staying humble, but persistent.
Gone are the days of starting your Goodreads reviews with “more like a 3.75, but rounding up.” The site has finally added fractions of a star to its rating system, which many of its competitors, like StoryGraph, have supported for quite some time.
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Maybe the thi— no, fou— wait, fifth time’s the charm for WB.
Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire announced the decision to honor the French-Tunisian music producer on Friday. In a post on Instagram, he said, “By naming a square in Paris after him, we pay tribute to a truly great artist. But we also affirm that rap, electronic music, and popular culture are integral to our shared heritage.”
Tiny pickup trucks might just become a thing in the US if the California-based startup Telo has its way.
The FCC has been cracking down on some Chinese test labs that improperly helped authorize gadgets for import into the US — now, it wants to get rid of Chinese labs altogether starting December 2028, only authorizing labs if they have a reciprocal economic relationship with the US. It’ll vote on October 29th; you can read the whole argument here.
The actions Anthropic observed from its Claude AI include “Claude submitting a sensitive form on a real website when it should not have,” and the company detailed how Claude gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide.
Axios also says that, according to a State Department official, Anthropic contacted the department and said a model in testing submitted “19 non-immigrant visa applications in August and one application in May.” In a statement to Axios, the Trump administration’s Super Intelligence Force says that “SI companies must immediately disclose incidents involving their models and follow with swift, decisive action to remedy any and all harm.”
Trump today announced that Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator, will be his new press secretary, and three small bets were placed yesterday and today about her appointment, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The two bets placed today for approximately $74 and $80 happened at about 1:41PM ET, which was shortly before press reported on the appointment, and are “expected to pay out $3,689 and $4,023,” the WSJ says.
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Apparently, after large language models and agents, we’re now in the age of “decision models,” as Microsoft has announced Microsoft-Decision-1 just days after OpenAI highlighted its new Decisions API.
The point of these models is to choose something quickly and efficiently, like figuring out which AI model to use or what is in an image being analyzed by AI, and Microsoft claims its new tech beat out the others in tests to determine their speed and accuracy.
