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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…
The rise of vibe coding is pushing software teams to build faster than ever before, but enterprise buyers demand systems that can survive audits and operational risk. The result is a new kind of software race, one where the finish line is no longer a working demo but a defensible system of record. Enterprise automation company Appian Corp. is now aiming to turn AI-assisted creation into a governed workflow, according to Medhat Galal (pictured), senior vice president of engineering at Appian. That means speed alone is no longer the benchmark — rigor is. “It takes the right level of rigor from the…
Beijing just blocked Meta’s $2B Manus’ deal, citing national security. Is this the end of global AI exits? The tech war just got very real. The global tech tug-of-war just hit a whole new level of “it’s complicated.” In a move that feels like a scene straight out of a geopolitical thriller, China has officially stepped in to block Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an AI startup that’s essentially the poster child for agentic AI. If you haven’t been following the Manus saga, here’s the gist: the company claims to have built the world’s first truly general AI agent-…
This is so “peak 2026” – writing an equality policy to ensure people treat our AI bot with the same respect as they do their human counterparts. It’s intentionally a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it’s there for a purpose: we simply don’t have the capacity to deal with every request we get, and we need Bruce to be the coalface of support. I did wonder, when having ChatGPT create this, whether there’s some deeper psychology behind the importance of interacting politely with bots, or indeed whether there will ever be an actual (like, serious) standard or law around treating bots with…
A modder has turned a Game Boy Color into something you can wear on your wrist, and it’s not just borrowing the look. This is an actual, playable retro console slapped onto your wrist. YouTuber LeggoMyFroggo managed to squeeze a fully functional Game Boy Color into a wristwatch-sized form factor, creating one of the more bizarre yet impressive retro builds in recent memory. LeggoMyFroggo How’d he cram a Game Boy Color into a tiny watch? In the YouTube video, modder Chris Hackmann called the project “Time Frog Color”. Rather than going for a simpler route of relying on emulation, the…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and President Greg Brockman as photographed through the windows of the federal courthouse in Oakland as they arrived for jury selection in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Did Microsoft knowingly help OpenAI abandon its nonprofit mission? That question sits at the center of a trial starting here this week, pitting the world’s richest man against the AI nonprofit he helped found and the tech giant that bankrolled its transformation. It’s being called the “AI Trial of the Century,” with Elon Musk and Sam Altman in…