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How to Work Effectively with GPT-5.6

Maximize the latest OpenAI model The post How to Work Effectively with GPT-5.6 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November

Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.

Chinese AI Startup Releases Massive Open Weight Model

Kimi K3 offers enterprises a 2.8 trillion parameter open model. But for U.S.-based companies, deciding whether to use it is complicated.

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We're celebrating with TWO NIGHTS of good times: A live taping of the podcast, and a party the following night! Paid 404 Media subscribers get free and discounted access. Details below.

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.

Behind the Blog: Infinite Bowl Machine

This week, we discuss AI music, slop bowls, and the endless quest for optimization.

Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems

Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks. The closing of the company’s Series B round, announced today, folds in continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, and Y Combinator. However, a funding total doesn’t answer the key qu...

Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers

Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!

Desktops, laptops, phones, CPUs, GPUs, NAS—if you know this stuff, come work for us!

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to use the data to investigate immigration fraud.

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

Using Classical ML to Empower AI Agents

On the value of building on existing foundations The post Using Classical ML to Empower AI Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Prompt: Enterprise AI Must Prove Its Value Beyond Deployment

Organizations are moving beyond AI deployment to focus on measurable business value, workflow redesign and the governance needed to successfully scale AI.

Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far h...

Context Engineering Isn’t Enough — A Loop Engineering Experiment With No LLM Inside the Loop

Everyone is talking about loop engineering, but most discussions assume an LLM sits at the center of the loop. I wanted to isolate the architecture itself. So I built a deterministic, zero-dependency Python benchmark that replaces the model with simple rules, allowing me to measure one question d...

Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal

A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

Analog AI Is Back, But Can It Survive Its Own Noise?

AI's energy crisis is reviving an old idea: computing with physics instead of digital logic. Here's how analog chips actually work, why noise nearly killed the idea once already, and what happens when you simulate that noise yourself. The post Analog AI Is Back, But Can It Survive Its Own Noise? ...

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.

FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals

FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.