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Mariah Carey disfruta del hecho de que se ha convertido culturalmente en sinónimo de Navidad, gracias en parte a la longevidad de su icónica canción “All I Want for Christmas Is You” y su ubicuidad cada año cuando llegan las fiestas.

The Burbank-based entertainment giant is accused in a class action lawsuit of negligence and other misconduct related to a data breach.

The Biden administration is reportedly not extending parole for more than 100,000 Venezuelan migrants who came to the U.S. via a controversial migrant travel program.

In Screen Gab no. 151, we fill up your streaming queue for the first weekend of October and catch up with hip hop artist and now TV star Big Freedia.

U.S. officials say the U.S. military struck over a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels.

Legendary Mets broadcaster Howie Rose had perhaps the best call of his career Thursday. When the team played it on the plane, players game him a standing ovation.

A common theme of the Dodgers' recent postseason failings has been high-powered lineups sputtering in surprise playoff eliminations.

Dolly Parton and Walmart are working together to help out relief efforts for survivors of Hurricane Helene. The storm devastated the East Coast including Florida and the Carolinas.

La presidenta mexicana Claudia Sheinbaum anunció el viernes que el ejército presentó una denuncia contra los militares implicados en el asesinato de seis migrantes ocurrido esta semana en el sur de país, un caso que ha puesto una vez más en tela de juicio la intervención de las Fuerzas Armadas en labores de seguridad pública en México.

Former President Donald Trump has vowed that he will nix Temporary Protected Status for thousands of Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio and deport them. Springfield, which has been inundated with a flood of migrants from the Caribbean nation over recent years, was jolted into the national spotlight last month after Trump, 78, amplified unsubstantiated...

Taiwan's representative to the U.S., Alexander Yui, is vowing that the island's people are ready to fight if China invades the island.

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Friday expressed concerns about whether Donald Trump and his allies will instigate political violence after the election if he loses to Kamala Harris.“Two separate questions,” Biden said when asked at a White House press conference whether he had confidence the election would be free, fair and peaceful. “I’m confident it’ll be free and fair. I don’t know whether it’ll be peaceful. The things that Trump has said, and the things that he said last time out, when he didn’t like the outcome of the election, were very dangerous.”His comments were a clear allusion to the deadly riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when insurrections sought to stop the certification of the election results.Read more at The Daily Beast.

In my role as one of Mrs. Trump’s advisers in the White House, I witnessed many of the moments that have since been drastically recast in books, tweets and interviews by ex-staffers.

Santry's saga captivated the internet this week.

A federal budget watchdog called on both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump to present voters with their plans to address the national debt.

In Arizona and other states, the activists are accusing Latino advocacy groups of registering undocumented immigrants. Canvassers are growing concerned about safety.

Tom WilliamsA reporter known for having sources embedded deep in Donald Trump’s orbit said Friday she believes the former president “would welcome” his wife’s newly-revealed stance in favor of abortion rights. Maggie Haberman, of The New York Times, said on the paper’s The Daily podcast that Melania Trump taking a public stance as bold as being in favor of abortion rights while married to Trump would “make him happy.”“I think there is a world in which this is not a hidden attempt to try to soften him,” Haberman said. “Although I imagine that he would welcome that and would make him happy, and it was simply a way for her to get her thoughts out and get attention.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

The northern lights could dazzle millions of Americans in some northern states this weekend.

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Toyota follows several major businesses that have recently announced moving away from DEI initiatives following an extensive online campaign against them by Robby Starbuck. 

Millions of Californians are still facing extreme heat advisories into the weekend. Officials are urging residents to take precautions.

A 31-year-long treasure hunt that drew in thousands of enthusiasts across France appears to have come to an end.

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A hair and makeup artist claims that country music star Garth Brooks raped her five years ago in a Los Angeles hotel. Brooks denies the claims and says he went to court to stop the woman from filing the lawsuit.

Bronny James and Parker Whitfield have gone public.

Even with a whopping 13% still undecided, North Carolina’s race for governor has swung significantly to favor Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, says a new poll this week.

Lisa Marie was 9 years old and living at Graceland with her famous father when he died of a heart attack at age 42.

In 2017, the singer alleged that she had been forced to "sleep with" people, claiming it was "bad enough" to "walk away from [her] dreams."

"The trouble with East Coast ports is they're very old, they're very inefficient," O’Leary said.

Jurors who will be picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won’t hear about the fatwa that authorities have said motivated him to act

Many of Helene’s effects are individual and heartbreaking, such as the deaths of children, grandparents and others. But the storm's impact is also so outsized that it’s clearly visible from space.

La decisión de los Dodgers de que Yoshinobu Yamamoto sea titular en el primer partido de la NLDS contra los Padres demuestra lo vulnerable que es el equipo ante otra eliminación prematura de los playoffs.

Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga and co-writer-director Todd Phillips bend the architecture of the comic-book origin story toward a musical, not all that tunefully.

The NL West showdown will be Shohei Ohtani's first MLB playoff series.

This week Travis Kelce’s mom Donna dishes on his meeting with Prince William. Queen Camila’s reportedly discouraging King Charles from reuniting with Prince Harry and there’s a royal baby on the way! In case you missed this week’s biggest news from across the pond, here’s your royal’s recap! Subscribe to our YouTube for more royal news!

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Halle Bailey and rapper DDG will no longer be part of each other's worlds — at least not romantically. The two have split up months after welcoming a baby boy.

A federal judge sentenced former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan for his role in a sprawling City Hall corruption case that also brought down a former councilmember.

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has won numerous awards, including the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for mathematics, for his advances and proofs. Right now, AI is nowhere close to his level.But technology companies are trying to get it there. Recent, attention-grabbing generations of AI—even the almighty ChatGPT—were not built to handle mathematical reasoning. They were instead focused on language: When you asked such a program to answer a basic question, it did not understand and execute an equation or formulate a proof, but instead presented an answer based on which words were likely to appear in sequence. For instance, the original ChatGPT can’t add or multiply, but has seen enough examples of algebra to solve x + 2 = 4: “To solve the equation x + 2 = 4, subtract 2 from both sides …” Now, however, OpenAI is explicitly marketing a new line of “reasoning models,” known collectively as the o1 series, for their ability to problem-solve “much like a person” and work through complex mathematical and scientific tasks and queries. If these models are successful, they could represent a sea change for the slow, lonely work that Tao and his peers do.[Read: OpenAI’s big reset]After I saw Tao post his impressions of o1 online—he compared it to a “mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate student—I wanted to understand more about his views on the technology’s potential. In a Zoom call last week, he described a kind of AI-enabled, “industrial-scale mathematics” that has never been possible before: one in which AI, at least in the near future, is not a creative collaborator in its own right so much as a lubricant for mathematicians’ hypotheses and approaches. This new sort of math, which could unlock terra incognitae of knowledge, will remain human at its core, embracing how people and machines have very different strengths that should be thought of as complementary rather than competing.This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.Matteo Wong: What was your first experience with ChatGPT?Terence Tao: I played with it pretty much as soon as it came out. I posed some difficult math problems, and it gave pretty silly results. It was coherent English, it mentioned the right words, but there was very little depth. Anything really advanced, the early GPTs were not impressive at all. They were good for fun things—like if you wanted to explain some mathematical topic as a poem or as a story for kids. Those are quite impressive.Wong: OpenAI says o1 can “reason,” but you compared the model to “a mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate student.Tao: That initial wording went viral, but it got misinterpreted. I wasn’t saying that this tool is equivalent to a graduate student in every single aspect of graduate study. I was interested in using these tools as research assistants. A research project has a lot of tedious steps: You may have an idea and you want to flesh out computations, but you have to do it by hand and work it all out.Wong: So it’s a mediocre or incompetent research assistant.Tao: Right, it’s the equivalent, in terms of serving as that kind of an assistant. But I do envision a future where you do research through a conversation with a chatbot. Say you have an idea, and the chatbot went with it and filled out all the details.It’s already happening in some other areas. AI famously conquered chess years ago, but chess is still thriving today, because it’s now possible for a reasonably good chess player to speculate what moves are good in what situations, and they can use the chess engines to check 20 moves ahead. I can see this sort of thing happening in mathematics eventually: You have a project and ask, “What if I try this approach?” And instead of spending hours and hours actually trying to make it work, you guide a GPT to do it for you.With o1, you can kind of do this. I gave it a problem I knew how to solve, and I tried to guide the model. First I gave it a hint, and it ignored the hint and did something else, which didn’t work. When I explained this, it apologized and said, “Okay, I’ll do it your way.” And then it carried out my instructions reasonably well, and then it got stuck again, and I had to correct it again. The model never figured out the most clever steps. It could do all the routine things, but it was very unimaginative.One key difference between graduate students and AI is that graduate students learn. You tell an AI its approach doesn’t work, it apologizes, it will maybe temporarily correct its course, but sometimes it just snaps back to the thing it tried before. And if you start a new session with AI, you go back to square one. I’m much more patient with graduate students because I know that even if a graduate student completely fails to solve a task, they have potential to learn and self-correct.Wong: The way OpenAI describes it, o1 can recognize its mistakes, but you’re saying that’s not the same as sustained learning, which is what actually makes mistakes useful for humans.Tao: Yes, humans have growth. These models are static—the feedback I give to GPT-4 might be used as 0.00001 percent of the training data for GPT-5. But that’s not really the same as with a student.AI and humans have such different models for how they learn and solve problems—I think it’s better to think of AI as a complementary way to do tasks. For a lot of tasks, having both AIs and humans doing different things will be most promising.Wong: You’ve also said previously that computer programs might transform mathematics and make it easier for humans to collaborate with one another. How so? And does generative AI have anything to contribute here?Tao: Technically they aren’t classified as AI, but proof assistants are useful computer tools that check whether a mathematical argument is correct or not. They enable large-scale collaboration in mathematics. That’s a very recent advent.Math can be very fragile: If one step in a proof is wrong, the whole argument can collapse. If you make a collaborative project with 100 people, you break your proof in 100 pieces and everybody contributes one. But if they don’t coordinate with one another, the pieces might not fit properly. Because of this, it’s very rare to see more than five people on a single project.With proof assistants, you don’t need to trust the people you’re working with, because the program gives you this 100 percent guarantee. Then you can do factory production–type, industrial-scale mathematics, which doesn't really exist right now. One person focuses on just proving certain types of results, like a modern supply chain.The problem is these programs are very fussy. You have to write your argument in a specialized language—you can’t just write it in English. AI may be able to do some translation from human language to the programs. Translating one language to another is almost exactly what large language models are designed to do. The dream is that you just have a conversation with a chatbot explaining your proof, and the chatbot would convert it into a proof-system language as you go.Wong: So the chatbot isn’t a source of knowledge or ideas, but a way to interface.Tao: Yes, it could be a really useful glue.Wong: What are the sorts of problems that this might help solve?Tao: The classic idea of math is that you pick some really hard problem, and then you have one or two people locked away in the attic for seven years just banging away at it. The types of problems you want to attack with AI are the opposite. The naive way you would use AI is to feed it the most difficult problem that we have in mathematics. I don’t think that’s going to be super successful, and also, we already have humans that are working on those problems.The type of math that I’m most interested in is math that doesn’t really exist. The project that I launched just a few days ago is about an area of math called universal algebra, which is about whether certain mathematical statements or equations imply that other statements are true. The way people have studied this in the past is that they pick one or two equations and they study them to death, like how a craftsperson used to make one toy at a time, then work on the next one. Now we have factories; we can produce thousands of toys at a time. In my project, there’s a collection of about 4,000 equations, and the task is to find connections between them. Each is relatively easy, but there’s a million implications. There’s like 10 points of light, 10 equations among these thousands that have been studied reasonably well, and then there’s this whole terra incognita.[Read: Science is becoming less human]There are other fields where this transition has happened, like in genetics. It used to be that if you wanted to sequence a genome of an organism, this was an entire Ph.D. thesis. Now we have these gene-sequencing machines, and so geneticists are sequencing entire populations. You can do different types of genetics that way. Instead of narrow, deep mathematics, where an expert human works very hard on a narrow scope of problems, you could have broad, crowdsourced problems with lots of AI assistance that are maybe shallower, but at a much larger scale. And it could be a very complementary way of gaining mathematical insight.Wong: It reminds me of how an AI program made by Google Deepmind, called AlphaFold, figured out how to predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins, which was for a long time something that had to be done one protein at a time.Tao: Right, but that doesn’t mean protein science is obsolete. You have to change the problems you study. A hundred and fifty years ago, mathematicians’ primary usefulness was in solving partial differential equations. There are computer packages that do this automatically now. Six hundred years ago, mathematicians were building tables of sines and cosines, which were needed for navigation, but these can now be generated by computers in seconds.I’m not super interested in duplicating the things that humans are already good at. It seems inefficient. I think at the frontier, we will always need humans and AI. They have complementary strengths. AI is very good at converting billions of pieces of data into one good answer. Humans are good at taking 10 observations and making really inspired guesses.

The FBI launched its Highway Serial Killings Initiative in 2009 after analysts noticed a pattern of murdered women – most living transient lifestyles involving drug abuse and prostitution.

There are currently no recommendations for anyone to be vaccinated against bird flu and federal health officials note this is being done out of "an abundance of caution."

New York Republican Congressman Michael Lawler is embroiled in controversy over a 2006 Halloween costume, when he dressed in blackface as Michael Jackson.

The new Knicks center-forward and his girlfriend, Jordyn Woods, stirred buzz that they might be engaged when she showed off a massive diamond on her ring finger.

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ReutersA former go-go dancer involved in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged “freak-offs” said that Donald Trump, Diana Ross, and Paris Hilton were among the A-list celebs to attend the musician’s now-infamous parties. Adria Sheri English, 46, made the revelation in an interview with the Daily Mail on Friday, where she also alleged that she was “pimped out” by Combs and ordered to have sex with high-profile party guests—encounters she claims were secretly recorded and held by Diddy as “blackmail.”“He would send them in a room with me or another sex worker, record it, and then hold that over that celebrity or that influential person’s head and then basically use me,” she said. “It was like high-class temping, if you will.”Read more at The Daily Beast.