Author: Olsi
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced it will pause shipments of its UK-made cars to the United States this month, while it figures out how to respond to President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on imported cars. As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions, including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans,” JLR said in a statement sent to various media. The British company, famous for its sports-luxury vehicles, said the U.S. market was an important market for its brands, noting that it…
Peter Diamandis, a futurist with degrees from both MIT and Harvard, has spent much of the past two decades evangelizing a vision of an “abundant future” driven by exponential technologies that will lengthen our lives. The serial entrepreneur and founder of organizations like the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University has also cultivated close ties with some of the world’s most influential business minds, including Elon Musk. Admirers subscribe to his optimistic forecasts and data-backed arguments that technology has already lifted billions out of poverty and improved global living standards. They also buy his books. Critics argue that his techno-utopian vision…
One of the new flagship AI models Meta released on Saturday, Maverick, ranks second on LM Arena, a test that has human raters compare the outputs of models and choose which they prefer. But it seems the version of Maverick that Meta deployed to LM Arena differs from the version that’s widely available to developers. As several AI researchers pointed out on X, Meta noted in its announcement that the Maverick on LM Arena is an “experimental chat version.” A chart on the official Llama website, meanwhile, discloses that Meta’s LM Arena testing was conducted using “Llama 4 Maverick optimized…
The British Broadcasting Corporation has filed a complaint with a UK antitrust regulator complaining that aggregators like Apple News and Google News minimize credit for the stories they feature. Apple Insider reports that the BBC is asking the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to require Apple and Google to more prominently credit news sources. And while the CMA’s decision would theoretically apply only to UK publications, any change made by the aggregators would presumably affect other publishers too. If audiences derive value from our content and services but attribute that value to gatekeepers instead of the BBC, then that undermines…
This month sees a very special birthday: the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. The venerable old space telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, so now is the perfect time to celebrate this beloved instrument and the contributions it continues to make to science and our understanding of space. Even though newer telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope are more powerful than Hubble, it still fulfills an important role as an optical space telescope — meaning that it looks primarily in the same wavelengths that the human eye can see. Webb looks in the infrared portion of…
How did Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg get added to a Signal group chat with Trump administration officials discussing their plans for an airstrike in Yemen? The simplest explanation: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz had Goldberg saved as a contact in his phone and accidentally added him. Indeed, when Waltz first claimed that Goldberg’s phone number was “sucked in” from another contact, Goldberg scoffed, This isn’t ‘The Matrix. But according to the Guardian, an internal investigation conducted by the White House’s information technology office concluded that something more complicated taken place, with an iPhone auto-suggestion playing a key role: After Goldberg…
Microsoft has released a browser-based, playable level of the classic video game Quake II. This functions as a tech demo for the gaming capabilities of Microsoft’s Copilot AI platform — though by the company’s own admission, the experience isn’t quite the same as playing a well-made game. You can try it out for yourself, using your keyboard to navigate a single level of Quake II for a couple minutes before you hit the time limit. In a blog post describing their work, Microsoft researchers said their Muse family of AI models for video games allows users to “interact with the…
You’ll need to spend a significant amount of cash if you want a desktop PC that can handle heavy workloads, but fortunately, there are desktop computer deals that will let you pocket some savings along the way. You should consider going for the Dell Precision 3680 Tower Workstation, which is on sale for $1,519 instead of $1,649. The $130 discount may not look like much, but you can consider it as a bonus for this powerful PC. Hurry with your purchase to make sure you don’t miss out! Dell Precision 3680 Tower Workstation The Dell Precision 3660 Tower Workstation is…
