Variety

NBA Turns All-Star Weekend Activities into a Content Factory for 200-Plus Creators Who are Converging on Los Angeles

YouTube star Jesser and others to be integrated into NBA events and telecasts as league looks to combat media fragmentation to reach Gen Z and beyond The NBA is turning its All-Star weekend events ...
WTSP

Man dead after tractor-trailer does illegal U-turn into his car on I-75: FHP

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — A Manatee County man is dead after being hospitalized with serious injuries when a tractor-trailer did an illegal U-turn and crashed into his car, according to the Florida ...
Microsoft

One Model, All Roles: Multi-Turn, Multi-Agent Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Conversational Social Intelligence

This paper introduces OMAR: One Model, All Roles, a reinforcement learning framework that enables AI to develop social intelligence through multi-turn, multi-agent conversational self-play. Unlike ...
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...
Wired

What’s Happening With Alexa+?

If Alexa’s in your home, you might’ve been one of many users this month who were suddenly moved from the original Alexa to the new AI-powered Alexa+ voice assistant. Amazon announced in early January ...