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South Africa has had its first draft national artificial intelligence policy removed following the discovery of fictitious citations in the document that appeared to be AI generated.The recall, which has emerged after the draft policy’s phony references were exposed, is more than a bureaucratic blip; it’s precisely the sort of gaffe that might cause a person to drop their mug halfway to their lips.You have to ask yourself: Wait, the policy that is meant to regulate AI just got undermined by AI? That’s embarrassing, to be sure, but also instructive in that it’s a cautionary tale.South African communications and digital…
For something that’s supposed to help us recharge, weekends can feel surprisingly high-pressure. There’s always that underlying expectation to do something meaningful, especially when it comes to family time. Maybe it’s taking the kids out, planning an enriching activity, or just making sure the time feels “well spent.” But between busy schedules and rising costs, not every weekend can (or should) be a complicated outing. Instead, fostering routines that are easy to replicate on a weekly basis is more sustainable in the long run. Because the truth is, making weekends special doesn’t always mean doing more. Sometimes, it’s just about…
YouTube’s search bar is evolving. “Ask YouTube” turns your video hunts into AI chats. But is it saving you time or just killing creator creativity? The traditional search bar is slowly becoming a relic of the past. And the latest to join the demolition crew is YouTube. Google is currently testing a feature called “Ask YouTube,” a conversational AI chatbot that replaces your usual scroll through thumbnails with a curated, back-and-forth dialogue. We’ve all been there: typing “how to fix a leaky faucet” and then spending ten minutes skimming through five different videos to find the one part where they…
The following is a joint announcement by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and IBM.IBM and MIT today announced the launch of the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, advancing their long-standing collaboration to shape the next era of computing. The new lab expands its scope to include quantum computing, alongside foundational artificial intelligence research, with the goal of unlocking new computational approaches that go beyond the limits of today’s classical systems.The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab builds on a distinguished history of scientific excellence at the intersection of research and academia. Evolving from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, which originated in 2017…
(Official UWOTC-CWA image) The team developing a video game based on Magic: The Gathering announced on Tuesday that they’ve unionized, describing the move as part of an attempt to improve working conditions at Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast and create better games. United Wizards of the Coast, operating in partnership with the Communications Workers of America, specifically represents the team working on Magic: The Gathering – Arena, an online adaptation of the long-running collectible card game. UWOTC-CWA says it represents “the collective labor of over a hundred game designers, programmers, producers, artists, QA, and more.” “We believe that, through…
If you’ve finished Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 and immediately wanted more, Netflix heard you. The animated series has officially been renewed for season 2, and it is returning to Netflix this fall. For context, Tales From ’85 is a spin-off of the original Stranger Things franchise, set in the winter of 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana. It follows the Hawkins Investigators Club as they face paranormal threats in an animated format separate from the live-action series. What happened at the end of Tales From ’85 season 1? [Spoiler warning: please skip this section if you have not finished season 1…
We’re excited to announce day-0 support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Clarifai. Available now on Clarifai Reasoning Engine, Nano Omni brings fast multimodal reasoning to developers building agentic systems, delivering throughput of 400+ tokens per second. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is a 30B A3B multimodal reasoning model built for workloads that span documents, images, video, and audio. With a 256K context window and support for text, image, video, and audio inputs with text output, it gives developers a single model for handling rich multimodal context inside agentic workflows. That makes it a strong fit for sub-agents in…
Texas Instruments graphing calculators have helped many a student with algebra, pre-calculus and upside-down anatomical slang. Now, the company is back with an upgrade for the modern world, the TI-84 Evo. The new device lets you get your math on with a faster processor, a new icon-based home screen and a redesigned keypad.TI is marketing it as something akin to the Light Phone of calculators. Unlike calculator apps on phones or computers, the “distraction-free” TI-84 Evo is a single-purpose device “designed to do one thing exceptionally well — math.” Without notifications, social media apps or even Wi-Fi, there’s less to…
OpenAI has a goblin problem.Instructions designed to guide the behavior of the company’s latest model as it writes code have been revealed to include a line, repeated several times, that specifically forbids it from randomly mentioning an assortment of mythical and real creatures.“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query,” read instructions in Codex CLI, a command-line tool for using AI to generate code.It is unclear why OpenAI felt compelled to spell this out for Codex—or indeed why its models might want to…
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. To solve today’s Connections: Sports Edition, it would help if you followed the recent NFL draft, or at least the first round of picks. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but…