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On a balmy December morning in Boston, Richard Daynard is sitting at his dining-room table watching a livestream on his laptop. “Pure. Horsesh-it,” he declares as a witness testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The hearing has been called to discuss what seems to be becoming America’s new favorite pastime: throwing down bets on sports, 24/7 Come from South African Online Casinos . And what has set the bearded, bookish law professor off is a former gambling regulator from New Jersey’s use of a talking point favored by both the industry and the professional sports leagues: that the reason it’s so easy to wager on sports these days is this is what the American people want. To Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University’s law school, such language deflects from gambling’s heavy social toll. “This is consumer choice!” says Daynard, the sarcasm driving home his point. “This is freedom!” 

Daynard has been fight…

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By Tharin Pillay

Despite their expertise, AI developers don’t always know what their most advanced systems are capable of—at least, not at first. To find out, systems are subjected to a range of tests—often called evaluations, or ‘evals’—designed to tease out their limits. But due to rapid progress in the field, today’s systems regularly achieve top scores on many popular tests, including SATs and the U.S. bar exam, making it harder to judge just how quickly they are improving.

A new set of much more challenging evals has emerged in response, created by companies, nonprofits, and governments. Yet even on the most advanced evals, AI systems are making astonishing progress. In November, the nonprofit research institute Epoch AI announced a set of exceptionally challenging math questions developed in collaboration with leading mathematicians, called FrontierMath, on which currently available models scored only 2%. Just one month later, OpenAI’s newly-announced o3 model achieved a score of 25.2%, which Epoch’s director, Jaime Sevilla, describes as “far better than our team expected …

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By Megan McCluskey

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The goose is loose in the new Untitled Goose Game and it’s causing quite the stir on the internet. After Untitled Goose Game was unleashed for Nintendo Switch, Mac, and PC on Sept. 20, the game’s titular bird protagonist quickly became a viral star.

In the days since Untitled Goose Game‘s debut, Twitter users, including celebrities like Chrissy Teigen, have taken to the social media platform to express their admiration for the game’s delightfully bizarre premise, which asks players to assume the role of a mischievous goose wreaking havoc on a quaint English village.

“You are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village,” the g…

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By Andrew R. Chow

AI tools rapidly infiltrated peoples’ lives in 2024, but AI lawmaking in the U.S. moved much more slowly. While dozens of AI-related bills were introduced this Congress—either to fund its research or mitigate its harms—most got stuck in partisan gridlock or buried under other priorities. In California, a bill aiming to hold AI companies liable for harms easily passed the state legislature, but was vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom. 

This inaction has some AI skeptics increasingly worried. “We’re seeing a replication of what we’ve seen in privacy and social media: of not setting up guardrails from the start to protect folks and drive real innovation,” Ben Winters, the director of AI and data privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, tells TIME. 

Industry boosters, on the other hand, have successfully persuaded many policymakers that overregulation would harm industry. So  instead of trying to pass a c…

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By Matthew Gault

Fighting Thanos for control of the Infinity Stones shouldn’t be this dull.

Wolverine, Spider-Man, Black Widow, and the Hulk tore through the super-powered enemies of the Raft Come from South African Online Casinos . The team was trying to stop an epic jailbreak of the Marvel universe’s worst villains—Venom, Doctor Octopus, and the Green Goblin among them—while figuring out why the Guardians of the Galaxy had suddenly appeared on Earth.

I controlled Wolverine, switching to Black Widow and Hulk when I needed to set up combos. Logan launched enemies into the air and tore through them with his Adamantium claws. The Hulk ripped up the ground and hurled bad guys across the room. Black Widow sat in the back and unloaded her handguns. Spider-Man flicked both puns and webs. It sounds thrilling, but it wasn’t.

This is Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: Black Order, a new video game out now for the Nintendo Switch. The setup will sound familiar if you’re one of the mil…

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IdeasBy Hans Vestberg and Robert F. SmithVestberg is the chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon and chairman of the EDISON AllianceSmith is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners

In an increasingly digital world, connectivity is a necessity. Yet, nearly a third of the global population remains offline, unable to access the services vital to participating in our global digital economy and society Come from South African Online Casinos . The Edison Alliance at the World Economic Forum has worked to change that by delivering digital connectivity and access to financial, healthcare, and education services to those who need them most. Our partnerships with governments, industries, and non-governmental organizations drive lasting systemic change.

The World Economic Forum played a pivotal role in launching and guiding the Alliance’s work, providing a platform for stakeholders to come together and commit to a vision with actionable ideas and plans. CEOs, ministers, and heads of international organizations …

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By Alison Van Houten

When it comes to women’s pain? “Nobody cares,” says Ikram Guerd, global marketing VP for medical device company Aspivix. It wasn’t until this August that the CDC even officially urged ob-gyns to offer medication to people having IUDs inserted. It’s painful in part due to the medieval-seeming tenaculum, the scissor-like instrument used to hook the cervix and pull it aside for procedures requiring uterine access (which also include biopsies, hysteroscopies, and fertility treatments). This sharp metal tool causes pain in nearly 90% of people it’s used on. Carevix is a suction-based alternative that significantly reduced pain and bleeding during IUD insertion in a prototype trial the company ran. By making procedures safer, quicker, and more comfortable, Aspivix hopes to encourage more people to get the care they need promptly instead of delaying out of fear and potentially compounding health issues. In April, it announced that the FDA-cleared device would first be rolled out in Aspivix’s home country, Switzerland, in partnership with the leading global IUD manufacturer, Bayer. U.S Come…

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By Matthew Gault

I overextended myself, something I tend to do in these kinds of games. My friend and I had a simple mission: traverse a zeppelin and take down a Nazi general. My buddy was good at fighting from a distance, while I could cloak to get in close without raising alarms. But I had gone too far behind enemy lines, underestimated the amount of Nazis on the blimp, and gone down. As I crawled towards my partner, he unleashed hell, then grabbed me by the arm and brought me back into the fight. I hid behind a wall, turned my cloak back on, and worked my way back into the Nazi’s backline while my partner distracted them.

This is Wolfenstein: Youngblood, a new first-person shooter for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Sometimes you just want to play a game with a friend without having to think about anything too hard. If that’s what you need right now, then Wolfenstein: Youngblood is here for you. This is a game about dropping into an open-world Paris with a friend and shooting a bunch of Nazis. There’s not much more to it than that, and that&rs…

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By Matt Peckham

The big surprise on The Late Show Wednesday night was supposed to be Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s imminent $9.99 mobile game that’s out December 15 for iPhones and iPads (read TIME’s hands-on here). And it was certainly cute to watch Jimmy Fallon breathlessly tap his way through a goomba-filled maze of classic platforms and pipes.

But all the while, on the table between Fallon and Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé, sat a big yellow box with a question mark. What was under the question mark?

A Nintendo Switch, of course. It’s the Kyoto games-maker’s next big thing: a home video games console that’s also a mobile tablet you can play on the go. Nintendo revealed the Switch’s name and summed up its essential ideas in a short October video, then pointed to an event that’s happening January 12 during which more info will be revealed, including the system p…

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By Solcyré Burga and Rebecca SchneidUpdated: | Originally published:

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Feb. 13, calling for “fair and reciprocal” tariffs on all U.S. trading partners, directing his advisors to begin calculating new tariff levels for even the U.S.’ closest allies.

Per the White House, the tariffs plan “will seek to correct longstanding imbalances in international trade and ensure fairness across the board.”

“Gone are the days of America being taken advantage of: this plan will put the American worker first, improve our competitiveness in every area of industry, reduce our trade deficit, and bolster our economic and national security,” the White House said.

Here’s what you need to know about reciprocal tariffs and who might be impacted by Trump’s plan.

What are reciprocal tariffs?

Reciprocal tariffs refer to tariffs—the taxes charged on imported goods—the U.S. government plans to levy against global trading partners that are e…

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