YouTube announced this week that it will now hold back ads during livestreams if chat engagement is at its peak, and if users show support with Super Chat, Super Stickers, or gift purchases. Until now, the only way to avoid seeing ads was by paying for a YouTube Premium subscription. The Google-owned platform said in … Read More “YouTube livestreams will now hold back ads during peak engagement to protect the vibe” »
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Language models don’t have very fixed beliefs and you can change their minds:…If you want to change an LLM’s mind, just talk to it for a while…Here’s some … Read More “Pragmatic AI personhood; SPACE COMPUTERS; and global government or human extinction;” »
Motorola is rumored to be working on not one, not two, but three new Edge 70 series devices, and one of them is the Edge 70 Pro. This device has already been certified in Brazil a while back, and it started leaking a lot in the past few days. We’ve seen it in a promo … Read More “Motorola starts teasing the Edge 70 Pro, confirms its colors and finishes” »
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini sidebar in Chrome for desktop is getting “Skills” for repetitive prompts. If you use the same prompt repeatedly, you can now save it as a Skill, so you don’t have to retype it entirely again. In addition to custom Skills, you can also browse the set of available … Read More “Gemini in Chrome gets a productivity hack that you must absolutely try” »
Huawei’s new extra-wide foldable phone was revealed on Monday, and it’s already drawing comparisons to the next big thing from Apple. Little is known about the Pura X Max, teased on China’s Weibo social network, but the internet is buzzing over its uncommon proportions, wide aspect ratio and similarities with the rumored iPhone Fold expected to … Read More “Huawei Teases a Wider Foldable, and the Timing Feels Very Apple-Adjacent” »
“Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we’re doing is special, but we’re the same distance from you, and I’m trying to tell you—just trust me—you are special. In all of this emptiness—this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the Universe—you have this oasis, this beautiful place … Read More “NASA chose the right crew to launch a new era of human space exploration” »
AI budgets are under the microscope and most engineering teams only cite time savings from code generation when asked if it’s working. The real impact is in production, where teams spend 70% of engineering time investigating incidents, jumping between tools, and losing time that could go toward shipping product. That operational load only grows with … Read More “Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained” »
DealHunt / Android Authority The LG UltraFine 6K monitor is currently available for $ 1,599.99, down from its previous price of $1,996.99. This represents a record 20% price drop and an excellent opportunity for anyone in need of a high-quality monitor. This monitor is built for creative professionals and features a stunning 32-inch Nano IPS … Read More “Grab the LG UltraFine 6K monitor at a record 20% discount” »
The moon has been in the news a lot this month, after the successful lunar flyby during the Artemis II mission. And while the full moon usually takes center stage as the big lunar event of any given month, unless there’s a lunar eclipse, like there was back in March, there are a few times a … Read More “What Is Earthshine? How to Spot the Lunar Marvel in the Skies This Week” »
The earliest paintings were made over 32,000 years ago — the very first forms of art and culture. They weren’t discovered until 1994, when cave explorers in France stumbled into the Chauvet Cave. More than a decade later, filmmaker Werner Herzog was allowed rare access to the highly guarded prehistoric site to shoot what would … Read More “Werner Herzog on IMAX, AI and 3D” »
