It’s too late at night to eat, but you’ll still enjoy this Easter egg. Turns out if you drop Valve’s Steam Controller it will let out the legendary Wilhelm Scream — an unavoidable sound if you, like Dwight Schrute, have seen over 240 films. PCGamer verified this tiny joy, citing this Reddit post from RF3D19.
As originally reported by The Daily Princetonian and The Atlantic, Princeton University just decided to end a 133-year tradition of professors leaving the room when students are taking exams.
The dean of the faculty claimed in the proposal to amend the rules that both students and professors had “the perception that cheating on in-class exams has become widespread”, thanks in part to “the advent of generative artificial intelligence products.” At least AI has reinvigorated one job: student chaperone.
Elon Musk may have done more long-term reputational damage to the OpenAI CEO.
Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkPad X13 Gen 7, launching this month with Intel Panther Lake and AMD Gorgon Point chips. The X13 starts at $1,499 and weighs as little as 2.03 pounds / 0.93kg. Lenovo also boasts the X13 scores a 9/10 repairability rating from iFixit.
New ThinkPad L14 and L16 models are launching alongside the X13, primarily for enterprise deployments.
It’s partnering with an AI company called Simile and is “independently validating” the company’s method. “Our goal is to learn whether AI systems and emerging methods can help deepen, not replace, our understanding of how humans think and behave,” according to Gallup. Gallup also notes that its goal isn’t to use the methodology to substitute “for work that requires the rigor of probability-based sampling.”
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Star Wars is making its long-awaited return to theaters with The Mandalorian and Grogu next week, but the galaxy far, far away still has a home on streaming. Disney announced that season 2 of Mando spinoff Ahsoka will premiere in early 2027. That’s more than three years removed from when the show debuted.
During its annual upfront presentation today, Disney announced that Avatar: Fire and Ash will stream on Disney Plus beginning June 24th.
Last year, EchoStar agreed to offload 65Mhz of its spectrum to SpaceX for its direct-to-cell service, while AT&T snapped up 50Mhz of its spectrum to build out its 5G network. Now it’s official, with the FCC noting that SpaceX will be able to use its spectrum for “terrestrial, space-based, and hybrid network architectures.”
As the AI adoption in the legal field ramps up, Anthropic has announced that its AI chatbot can now connect to many of the apps used by lawyers, including DocuSign, Box, Thomson Reuters, Harvey, and more. “Claude reviews contracts, surfaces case law, and drafts across the tools your team already uses,” according to Anthropic.
Kolter laid out OpenAI’s different safety groups: the safety systems team, which works on guardrails and evaluations; the preparedness team, which deals with OpenAI’s preparedness framework; the alignment team, which helps train models on ways that “align with human values”; the model policy team, which develops the model spec; and other teams focusing on investigations. When speaking about the controversial dissolution of OpenAI’s superalignment team and AGI readiness team, he said some of that research is being done by other teams.
