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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Jan. 22 #486
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is…
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YouTube Will Soon Let Creators Make Shorts Using Their AI Likeness
YouTube is continuing to lean into AI to help make content, and that next YouTube Short you watch might not contain real footage of its creator. CEO Neal Mohan announced the latest move in this trend in his annual letter on Wednesday: Creators…
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Creative talent: Has AI knocked humans out?
Are generative artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT truly creative? A research team led by Professor Karim Jerbi from the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal, and including AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, also a…
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Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes
A pattern is emerging in the AI infrastructure world: popular open source tools are transforming into venture-backed startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The latest example is RadixArk, the commercial company behind SGLang, an…
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Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
“We argue that these attacks are straightforward to test, verify, and execute at scale,” the researchers, from the universities of New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana, and the firm Circle, wrote. “The threat model can be…
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Why Jupiter and Saturn Have Different Polar Vortices
What processes are responsible for shaping Jupiter and Saturn’s polar weather? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of…
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X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow
Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” the curated lists of suggested users to follow, have proven a popular way to help people connect with others on the social network — so popular, in fact, that X is now copying the feature.
On Wednesday, X’s…
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Sodium-based nanorods enable smart windows to block heat and save energy
Thermal management is essential for reducing future heating and cooling energy consumption. Notably, the near-infrared (NIR) component of sunlight is closely associated with heat absorption.
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To explain or not? Online dating experiment shows need for AI transparency depends on user expectation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is said to be a “black box,” with its logic obscured from human understanding—but how much does the average user actually care to know how AI works?
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