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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick walked back the recent reciprocal tariff exemption on select electronics announced in an April 12 bulletin from the United States Customs and Border Protection.On April 13, Lutnick told ABC News that the reciprocal tariff exemption was temporary until the administration established a sector tariff regime for semiconductor products, which includes phones, graphics processors, and computing chips in a “month or two.” Lutnick added:”President Trump has called out pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and autos. He called them sector tariffs, and those are not available for negotiation. They are just going to be part of making sure we ensure core…

A24Alex Garland explored the slide into fractious factionalism in Civil War. Now he turns his gaze towards the ferocity of combat in new film Warfare, which stars Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis and Charles Melton.Joseph Quinn’s excruciating howls of pain go on and on, and on and on in Warfare, continuing long after most films would have moved forward. The relentlessness of those cries, with his leg one bloody open wound, defines what is so unique and effective about this real-time 90-minute immersion into an actual US mission in Iraq.  Alex Garland, the writer and director of Civil War, and Ray…

Farmer minds his crops An optimistic outlook The fields are aflame tl;dr Medalla chugging along smoothlyClient diversity is a musteth1+eth2 (Phase 1.5 aka The Merge) end-to-end demoTesting and audits continue as we approach Phase 0 launch Medalla looking good (after some fun) A quiet testnet is a suspicious testnet. If you’ve followed Medalla at all in the past few weeks, you’ll be very aware of the major 5-day incident that occured on Friday, August 14th. Check out Prysm’s post-mortem for details on the technicals and timeline, and Ben’s recent blog posts ([1][2]) for a high-level analysis. Client teams worked through…

Doodle #6914, known as the Golden Ape Doodle for its rare appearance, has sold for 34 ETH ($61,375 USD) – marking a huge loss for its seller, noted NFT collector Pranksy.Pranksy initially purchased the NFT for 296.69 ETH ($1.11 million USD) on January 5, 2022, with his 3+ year tenure as holder of the Golden Ape Doodle now coming to an end. This is the largest single sale in the offloading of his Doodles NFTs, with Pranksy having sold 28 other Doodles via bids for 77 ETH total in the past few days.The buyer is reported to be Chinese NFT…

Nigeria is a country in a period of huge growth. With a young, connected population, its gambling industry is thriving. The online gambling industry in Nigeria is set for record profits and is expected to make unprecedented growth. As more platforms like Betway Nigeria come to the country, offering transparent, fair gaming along with a huge selection of titles, the industry is in its boom period. This is enhanced by the uptake of mobile gaming. Around 90% of internet users in the country now access the web through a mobile device. Its existing industry has recently seen a 92.8% rate…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of “parameters”—the adjustable knobs that determine connections among data and get tweaked during the training process. With more parameters, the models are better able to identify patterns and connections, which in turn makes them more powerful and accurate.But this power comes at a cost. Training a model with hundreds of billions of parameters takes huge computational resources. To train its Gemini 1.0 Ultra model, for example, Google reportedly spent $191…

Politics / April 11, 2025 I am livid over the Jewish Trump supporters who are upholding a set of values at odds with the principles that have sustained us. Ad Policy A Jewish student wears a kippah given to him by Donald Trump’s campaign during a speech before prominent Jewish donors on September 19, 2024, in Washington, DC.(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) Passover has always been a favorite Jewish holiday of mine. A seder is the time to remember the lash of oppression and the joys of deliverance. It is a time when the youngest are encouraged to question…

Imagine a coffee company trying to optimize its supply chain. The company sources beans from three suppliers, roasts them at two facilities into either dark or light coffee, and then ships the roasted coffee to three retail locations. The suppliers have different fixed capacity, and roasting costs and shipping costs vary from place to place.The company seeks to minimize costs while meeting a 23 percent increase in demand.Wouldn’t it be easier for the company to just ask ChatGPT to come up with an optimal plan? In fact, for all their incredible capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often perform poorly when…

OpenAI’s approach to safety testing for its GPT models has varied over time. For GPT-4, the company dedicated over six months to safety evaluations before its public release. For the GPT-4 Omni model, however, OpenAI condensed the testing phase into just one week to meet a May 2024 launch deadline. Reduced testing could compromise model integrity Reducing the safety testing time could severely impact the quality of the launching model, experts add. “If there are cases of any hallucination or damage due to model outputs, then OpenAI will lose people’s trust and face derailed adoption,” Jain added. “It can be…