Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

As the New York Times reported in 1998, it was Les Crane who first spotted the woman who would be Mavis. Crane was a former ...

Fundamental raises $255M Series A with a new take on big data analysis

Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of ...
PCMag

Why AI Is Reshaping Computer System Design, And Just About Everything Else

At CES, what stood out to me was just how much Nvidia and AMD focused on a systems approach, which may be the most ...
MIT Technology Review

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.
Wired

AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...
Bleeping Computer

Google is testing a new image AI and it's going to be its fastest model

Google is testing a new image AI model called "Nano Banana 2 Flash," and it's going to be faster than the Nano Banana Pro. This model is part of Gemini's Flash lineup, which is the company's fastest ...
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Some of the worst computer models ever made

Some of the worst computers ever built or used in real life. Trump threatens pollsters after New York Times survey shows sagging disapproval Off-ice drama prompts NBC to fire Olympics skating ...
Yahoo! Sports

ESPN's Computer Model Changed Its National Title Prediction

The first round of the 2025-26 College Football Playoff is in the books. It went mostly chalk in the first round this year. Alabama came from behind to take down Oklahoma on Friday night. On Saturday, ...
Yahoo! Sports

ESPN's Computer Model Predicts Winner Of College Football Playoff

The 2025-26 College Football Playoff field is set. The 12-team College Football Playoff field was unveiled on ESPN on Sunday afternoon. Indiana earned the No. 1 overall seed, while Miami was the last ...
The Verge

I just want AI to rename my photos

On The Vergecast: What happens when the AI models get access to your computer. On The Vergecast: What happens when the AI models get access to your computer. is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host ...
WPBF

Tracking Jerry: Computer models and maps

WPBF 25 First Warning meteorologists are tracking Tropical Storm Jerry.It formed Tuesday morning over the tropical central Atlantic Ocean. The WPBF 2025 Hurricane Season ForecastInteractive radar: ...