Social Media and AI Demand Your Attention All the Time. This New Documentary Says That’s Bad

Social Media and AI Demand Your Attention All the Time. This New Documentary Says That’s Bad

“Do you remember the world before cell phones?” The question comes up early in Your Attention Please, a documentary premiering this week at Southwest in Austin, Texas. And it hit me harder than I expected. As a 27-year-old tech journalist, I realized that I don’t have many vivid memories of life before smartphones. My youth … Read more

How to Design a Distributed Decision Agent with Partial Deliberation, Online Reprogramming, and Centralized Functional Adaptation for Dynamic Environments

How to Design a Distributed Decision Agent with Partial Deliberation, Online Reprogramming, and Centralized Functional Adaptation for Dynamic Environments

@dataclass class AgentConfig: horizon: int = 6 replan_on_target_move: bool = True replan_on_obstacle_change: bool = True max_steps: int = 120 think_latency: float = 0.02 act_latency: float = 0.01 risk_gate: float = 0.85 alt_search_depth: int = 2 @dataclass class StreamingDecisionAgent: cfg: AgentConfig world: DynamicGridWorld start_time: float = field(init=False, default_factory=time.time) step_id: int = field(init=False, default=0) current_plan: List[Coord] = … Read more

ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Gemini help organize violence, the report said

ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Gemini help organize violence, the report said

Eight out of 10 popular artificial intelligence chatbots have helped impersonating researchers plan violent crimes in more than half of the responses, according to a new report from the Center for Counting Digital Hate (CCDH). A joint test by CNN and CCDH tested ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Snapchat My … Read more

Everyone’s Crazy About Timothée Chalamet For Playing Opera And Ballet—So How Will It Affect The Oscars?

Everyone’s Crazy About Timothée Chalamet For Playing Opera And Ballet—So How Will It Affect The Oscars?

When Timothée Chalamet decided to bring up opera and ballet during his Variety and CNN interview with Matthew McConaughey, he probably didn’t think much of it at all. “I love people—and I’ve done it myself—whatever you want to talk about is, hey, we’ve got to keep the theaters alive,” McConaughey said. “You know, we have … Read more

iPhone 17E vs. Galaxy S25 FE vs. Pixel 10A: Comparing Cheap Phones

iPhone 17E vs. Galaxy S25 FE vs. Pixel 10A: Comparing Cheap Phones

Just like last year iPhone 16EApple’s latest announcement iPhone 17E positioned as an entry-level supplement to iPhone app. Starting at $599, the 17E has a few upgrades over the 16E: double the base storage to 256GB, an upgraded A19 processor and MagSafe compatibility. Watch this: The iPhone 17E Packs More Features for the Same Price … Read more

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Super: 120B Parameter Open-Source Hybrid Mamba-Attention MoE Model Delivers 5x Higher Throughput for Agentic AI

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Super: 120B Parameter Open-Source Hybrid Mamba-Attention MoE Model Delivers 5x Higher Throughput for Agentic AI

The gap between proprietary boundary models and more transparent open source models is closing faster than ever. NVIDIA has officially pulled back the curtain Nemotron 3 Superan incredible 120 billion parameter model built specifically for multi-agent applications. Released today, Nemotron 3 Super it sits nicely between the lightweight parameter of the 30 billion Nemotron 3 … Read more