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Travis Kelce has his head in the game as the Kansas City Chiefs prep to face the Baltimore Ravens this weekend. During a Chiefs press conference Friday, Kelce answered a question about his relationship with Taylor Swift and said they are working together to ignore the headlines and conversations surrounding their relationship. “The only thing we’ve talked about is that as long as we’re happy we can’t listen to anything that’s outside noise,” he said. Kelce also said he had reflected with his brother about the…

Photo is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 Republicans, and a couple of Democrats, have been pushing back on President Biden’s $7.5 billion plan to extensively build out EV infrastructure in the US by focusing on a short-term waiver that allows federally subsidized EV chargers to include materials from China. No can do, say Republicans aiming to block the waiver – but Biden exercised his veto power, for now at least. The Republican-backed legislation was aimed at reversing the Biden’s…

In 2021, Meta restricted adults on Instagram from being able to message under-18 users who don't follow them. Now, it's expanding that rule to help protect younger teens from potentially unwanted contact. Users under 16 — or 18, depending on their country — can no longer receive DMs from anybody they don't follow by default, even if they're sent by fellow teens.This new safety measure applies to both Instagram and Messenger. For Messenger, in particular, young users will only be able to receive messages from their…

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them — Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Kate Knibbs / Wired: Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them …

“A process called reinforcement learning from human feedback is used right now in every state-of-the-art model,” to fine-tune its responses, Baum says. Most AI companies aim to create systems that appear neutral. If the humans steering the AI see an uptick of right-wing content but judge it to be unsafe or wrong, they could undo any attempt to feed the machine a certain perspective.OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood says that in pursuit of AI models that “deeply represent all cultures, industries, ideologies, and languages”…

Spirit and JetBlue planes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSpirit Airlines shares jumped about 10% Monday after the budget carrier and JetBlue said after the market closed on Friday they would appeal a federal judge's ruling blocking the airlines' planned merger on antitrust grounds."Our merger agreement with Spirit remains in effect and we still have obligations under the agreement...This is…

Former President Trump vowed Wednesday night to block the creation of a federal digital currency, calling it a “dangerous threat to freedom.” “Tonight, I am also making another promise to protect Americans from government tyranny,” Trump said at a rally in Portsmouth, N.H. “As your president, I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency.” “Such a currency would give a federal government, our federal government, the absolute control over your money,” he added. “They could take your…

The European Union's competition watchdog plans to block Amazon.com's $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot, The Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.Shares of the Roomba vacuum maker plunged nearly 40% to $14.3 in trading after the bell.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIT DelhiIITD…

“It’s a pretty unlikely pairing: taxes and reality TV.”Jill Cress is putting it mildly. And yet the chief marketing and experience officer at H&R Block is describing exactly what one of the oldest brands in tax preparation services is attempting: making a reality TV show.Or, at least, a digital, short-format spoof of one—called Responsibility Island—which will debut on Roku and YouTube in the heart of tax season, on February 16, and whose (surprisingly very funny) trailer is debuting this week at the Sundance Film…

Who says tax preparation has to be boring?Intuit, the maker of popular tax-prep software TurboTax (and many other programs), filed a lawsuit against H&R Block, one of its main competitors, claiming that H&R Block is engaging in “false and misleading marketing through which H&R Block is attempting to gain an unfair competitive advantage and tarnish TurboTax’s hard-earned reputation in the online tax-preparation space.” The lawsuit, filed on January 15 in the United States District Court for the Northern…