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In search of good vibes OpenAI, along with competitors like Google and Anthropic, is trying to build chatbots that people want to chat with. So, designing the model’s apparent personality to be positive and supportive makes sense—people are less likely to use an AI that comes off as harsh or dismissive. For lack of a better word, it’s increasingly about vibemarking. When Google revealed Gemini 2.5, the team crowed about how the model topped the LM Arena leaderboard, which lets people choose between two different model outputs in a blinded test. The models people like more end up at the…
The spark of inspiration for “The Director,” Daniel Kehlmann’s new historical novel about a filmmaker toiling for the Nazi regime, came during the first Trump administration. Kehlmann noticed Americans taking special care about what they said and to whom they said it. The self-censorship faintly echoed stories he’d heard from his father, who was a Jewish teenager in Vienna when the Third Reich came to power.The word “Austria,” for example, was banned by the regime. Suddenly, everyone lived in Ostmark.Kehlmann, a boyish 50-year-old born in Munich, has long been fascinated by the ways that citizens accommodated Hitler’s dictatorship. He centers…
WNBA champion and Olympic gold medalist Napheesa Collier is using her platform for more than basketball. Collier is an ambassador for Level The Court, a health equity initiative by Opill, which is the first over-the-counter daily birth control pill. In collaboration with the Black Women’s Health Imperative and the WNBA, she’s working to empower young Black women to take control of their reproductive health. In our conversation, she opened up about what this movement means to her and why she’s using her platform to push the conversation forward.BHM: How did you first get involved with the Level of the Court…
The Sacramento Kings are closing in on a deal with Doug Christie to keep him as coach following an interim stint that ended with a loss in the Play-In Tournament.A person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the Kings are finalizing a multiyear contract with Christie. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team hadn’t made an announcement.ESPN first reported the decision.Christie took over the Kings after Mike Brown was fired in late December and posted a 27-24 record in his interim stint. Sacramento made it into the Play-In Tournament…
Elon Musk may skirt more than $2 billion in possible financial liabilities by exercising his influence over the federal government, according to a report Monday from Senate Democratic committee staffers.Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” has brought sweeping changes to Washington with its slash-and-burn campaign to gut agencies and purge the federal workforce. President Donald Trump has avidly supported Musk’s cuts.As he appears poised to step back from his DOGE work in the coming weeks, Democrats are accusing the world’s richest person of using his influence to “evade oversight, derail investigations, and make litigation disappear whenever he so chooses—on his terms…
[SINGAPORE] Mortgagee listings in Singapore property auctions rose in the first quarter of 2025 as distressed sales due to the last two years of high interest rates have started to enter the market, said a report by property consultancy Knight Frank on Monday (Apr 28). Mortgagee sales made up the majority of auction listings in Q1 2025, with 83 properties out of 136 total listings. Owner sales numbered 43, along with 10 listings of other types.Of the 83 listings, 37 were for residential properties, and 18 were commercial mortgagee listings. Industrial mortgagee listings numbered 26, while two sale listings were…
Apple’s iPhone 16e is among the models to be built by a new Foxconn plant in India Tata has opened a new iPhone factory in India, while a new Foxconn operation is now just days away from being operational, but it’s continuing Apple’s years of moving away from China, rather than being a response to the “reciprocal” tariffs. Tata’s new iPhone plant has been planned since 2024, when it bought Pegatron’s facility in Hosur in Tamil Nadu. That sale happened after a fire closed the factory, but Tata already owned an ex-Wistron iPhone plant and announced it would next build one…
In the glare of camera flashes on the first Monday in May, it’s easy to forget that the Met Gala isn’t just an expensive-looking celebrity parade: It’s also the opening celebration for a museum show. This year, the party will inaugurate “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” an exhibition put on by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute that traces the influence of the Black dandy over 300 years.The exhibition investigates how dandyism, a style of elevated dress once imposed upon enslaved people, was remade by Black aesthetes into a tool of social mobility and self-definition. It might take the form…
The best earbuds for teaching yoga onlineThese days, more and more people want to earn some side cash by teaching yoga. The problem is that many people aren’t experienced teachers and low-quality earbuds make the experience of listening to the recordings a total drag.If you’re planning on teaching workshops remotely or maybe just love winding down with yoga at home, we’ve got the review for best earbuds for teaching yoga online to convince you that spending on earbuds is worth every penny!The List of the best earbuds available in the market (2022)If you’re looking to teach online classes and need…
SANTA FE, N.M. — The state of New Mexico must create a remedial plan to improve K-12 education after falling short of providing an adequate public school education to Native American students and others from low-income households, a judge ruled Tuesday.The order from state district court Judge Matthew Wilson builds on a landmark 2018 ruling that spurred a multibillion-dollar spending spree on public schools in New Mexico — without yet resolving underlying failures to meet state constitutional obligations to educate an array of at-risk students, including those studying English as a second language and students with disabilities.“The defendants are ordered…