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Business & Finance

China’s DeepSeek has some big AI claims; not all experts are convinced

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek rocked markets this week with claims its new AI model outperforms OpenAI’s and cost a fraction of the price to build. The assertions — specifically that DeepSeek’s large language model cost just $5.6 million to train — have sparked concerns over the eyewatering sums that tech giants are currently spending […]

Sports

How Jayden Daniels convinced the Commanders he’d be a star

ASHBURN, Va. — Back in the spring, well before Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels had been named the starter, veteran teammates such as tight end Zach Ertz and wide receiver Terry McLaurin had a feeling the rookie would excel in the NFL. By the end of training camp, they were certain. “I was telling everyone […]

Science

The Hero Who Convinced His Fellow Ornithologists of the Obvious: Stop Shooting Birds and Watch Them Instead

Two ivory-billed woodpeckers in one of the historic photographs that Arthur Allen captured in the field in 1935. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Arthur Allen carefully packed his camera and luggage at his home in Ithaca, New York. He would soon head south to the backwood swamps of Osceola County, Florida, […]

Politics

How California Got Convinced to Lock More People Up

California voters chose harsher sentencing, the continuation of forced labor in prisons, and tough-on-crime prosecutors this week in overwhelming numbers. Proposition 36, a bill that upgrades a raft of petty theft and drug crimes from misdemeanors to felonies, was approved by 70 percent of voters in the initial counts. It is designed to incarcerate thousands […]