TV Tonight: A Wonderful Goodbye to Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman | TV and radio

TV Tonight: A Wonderful Goodbye to Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman | TV and radio

πŸ”₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Television & radio,Culture βœ… Main takeaway: Strictly Come Dancing: Finale7pm, BBC OneBrace yourselves: this is going to be a waltz of emotions. The three finalist couples - the energetic Karen Carney and Carlos Go, the flawless Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin, and George Clarke and Alexis Warr - take to the floor one last time, with songs including a Texas classic and the Killers, before the winner raises the glitter ball trophy. But then it was time for Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly to sign off. After…
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Known uses voice AI to help you go on more personal dates

Known uses voice AI to help you go on more personal dates

✨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: AI,Apps,forerunner,voice AI,AI dating βœ… Here’s what you’ll learn: Celeste Amadon and Asher Allen were working on an app that uses artificial intelligence to book restaurant appointments when they stumbled upon a bigger idea that would encourage people to meet in person. Now it is attracting investors. The duo created an AI-powered onboarding system for their app, which helped them learn more about users without them having to fill out a form. What they found: People loved talking, which increased the length of their onboarding session with the app, which averaged…
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Yaya Toure: An interview with the Manchester City legend

Yaya Toure: An interview with the Manchester City legend

✨ Read this trending post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: Kelly: I had particularly great times at both Barcelona and Manchester City. What was that period at Manchester City, in particular, like? Yaya: I think that's something I'm really proud of, to be honest. At first, it was very difficult. The fact that the fans and the media also were wondering more about the income I would bring to the club. So those few people would also question my arrival at City, because they thought it wasn't the right move to make, and I'm thrilled to…
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Enrolling in the external content links program for users in the US

πŸ”₯ Read this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Key idea: Developers currently using links to app downloads or transactions need to enroll in this program and meet these requirements by January 28, 2026. In the future, Google intends to apply a service fee on successful transactions and downloads completed via external content links. At this time, however, Google is not assessing these fees and is therefore not requiring developers in this program to report these transactions or downloads to Google. The external content links program allows developers of Google Play-distributed apps to link users in the…
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Paul vs. Joshua: The Briton wins in the sixth round of a heavyweight mismatch

Paul vs. Joshua: The Briton wins in the sixth round of a heavyweight mismatch

πŸ’₯ Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: British heavyweight Anthony Joshua needed six rounds to stop boxing novice Jake Paul, who spent most of the contest in survival mode in one of the most notable mismatches in the history of the sport.Joshua, a two-time world champion, looked increasingly frustrated as Paul danced around the ring for long periods, refusing to engage, before Joshua finally asserted himself by knocking down the YouTuber turned two-time boxer in the fifth round.Paul fell again in the sixth, before Joshua landed a powerful, clean right hand,…
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The family of a North Carolina woman detained by immigration officers shares their story

The family of a North Carolina woman detained by immigration officers shares their story

πŸš€ Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: immigration detention,immigraton,North Carolina πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: Jeff Bennett: Among the tens of thousands arrested in the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, many are convicted of violent crimes, but nearly three-quarters of those in ICE custody have no criminal record. That's according to reports by TRAC, a nonpartisan data collection platform.Amna Nawaz recently spoke with the family of a young woman, a young woman arrested by federal immigration officers in North Carolina. Amna Nawaz: Last month, Border Patrol arrested 23-year-old Fatima Isela Velasquez Antonio at her work…
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Yann LeCun confirms his new startup ‘Global Model’, reportedly seeking a valuation of more than $5 billion

Yann LeCun confirms his new startup ‘Global Model’, reportedly seeking a valuation of more than $5 billion

πŸ”₯ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: AI,Startups,AMI Labs,Nabla,world models,Yann LeCun πŸ“Œ Key idea: Renowned artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun confirmed on Thursday that he has launched a new startup β€” the worst-kept secret in the tech world β€” though he said he would not run the new company as its CEO. His startup is called Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) and it has hired Alex LeBrun, co-founder and CEO of medical transcription AI startup Nabla, as its CEO. Nabla revealed LeBrun's new job in a press release, and LeCun confirmed it in a short post on LinkedIn.…
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England World Cup draw: Can artificial intelligence help Thomas Tuchel win the 2026 tournament?

England World Cup draw: Can artificial intelligence help Thomas Tuchel win the 2026 tournament?

✨ Explore this trending post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: In addition to the coaches and physiotherapists who sit alongside coach Thomas Tuchel on the bench, the England squad includes groups of analysts, data scientists and in-house software development teams.They use different AI tools – some purchased from external technology companies, others created within the FA – to analyze data, find interesting information, and create presentations that are used in meetings to make complex information understandable to coaches and players.The idea is that England players will then be able to make better decisions on…
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2025 LLM Year in Review

2025 LLM Year in Review

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: 19 Dec, 2025 2025 has been a strong and eventful year of progress in LLMs. The following is a list of personally notable and mildly surprising "paradigm changes" - things that altered the landscape and stood out to me conceptually. 1. Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)At the start of 2025, the LLM production stack in all labs looked something like this: Pretraining (GPT-2/3 of ~2020) Supervised Finetuning (InstructGPT ~2022) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF ~2022) This was the stable and proven…
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Mohamed Salah: Explaining the personality of the Liverpool striker after the Arne Slot dispute – written by Jurgen Klopp and more

Mohamed Salah: Explaining the personality of the Liverpool striker after the Arne Slot dispute – written by Jurgen Klopp and more

πŸ’₯ Discover this trending post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: When Salah first moved to England - where he signed for Jose Mourinho's Chelsea after impressing for Basel in Switzerland - he struggled to impose his personality in a team full of established stars, and lacked self-confidence.β€œWhen I first met him, he was 21, and he was very innocent,” says former colleague Mark Schwarzer. β€œHe was coming to London – a big city, a different culture – and I think he was a bit shy.β€œWhen he signed, he walked into a changing room full…
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