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March 30, 2025

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YouTube Pauses Monetization for 2 Fake Movie Trailer Accounts

A few days ago, it was reported major Hollywood studios were monetizing fake movie trailers that use generative AI. Seeing this, YouTube’s now decided to cut that off and paused a pair of channels best known for those trailers. Per Deadline, which initially reported on this, YouTube’s turned off the ad revenue for Screen Culture and KH Films. The former is the most famous of the two, and founder Nikhil Chaudhari was quoted throughout Deadline’s report. Some of its most famous videos have been “trailers” for Fantastic Four: First Steps and Superman. Meanwhile, KH Studio has made trailers for a Squid Game season starring Leonardo

March 30, 2025

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It was first all about attention, then it became about reasoning, now it’s all about logic. Complete, unadulterated, logic.

As reasoning is the foundation of intelligence, logic is the foundation of reasoning. While ASI will excel at various kinds of logic, like that used in mathematics and music, our most commonly useful ASI will, for the most part, be linguistic logic. More succinctly, the kind of logic necessary to solving problems that involve the languages we use for speech and writing. The foundation of this kind of logic is a set of rules that most of us somehow manage to learn by experience, and would often be hard-pressed to identify and explain in detail. While scaling will get us

March 30, 2025

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Open-sourcing Knowledge Distillation Code and Weights of SD-Small and SD-Tiny

In recent times, the AI community has witnessed a remarkable surge in the development of larger and more performant language models, such as Falcon 40B, LLaMa-2 70B, Falcon 40B, MPT 30B, and in the imaging domain with models like SD2.1 and SDXL. These advancements have undoubtedly pushed the boundaries of what AI can achieve, enabling highly versatile and state-of-the-art image generation and language understanding capabilities. However, as we marvel at the power and complexity of these models, it is essential to recognize a growing need to make AI models smaller, efficient, and more accessible, particularly by open-sourcing them. At Segmind,

March 30, 2025

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Microsoft tests new Windows 11 tool to remotely fix boot crashes

Microsoft has begun testing a new Windows 11 tool called Quick Machine Recovery, which is designed to remotely deploy fixes for buggy drivers and configurations that prevent the operating system from starting. The tool is part of Microsoft’s Windows Resiliency Initiative, which is Microsoft’s effort to enhance system stability and reduce downtime by introducing automated tools and features to detect, diagnose, and fix critical failures in Windows 11. “With system failures, devices can sometimes get stuck in the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE), severely impacting productivity and often requiring IT teams to spend significant time troubleshooting and restoring affected machines,” explains

March 30, 2025

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SNL host Mikey Madison invites her situationship to a game show

Saturday Night Live continued its love affair with hyper-specific game show parodies this week, handing host Mikey Madison the mic in a new sketch called “So Like…What Are We?” SEE ALSO: ‘SNL’ roasts Trump admin’s Signal fail in group chat Cold Open Madison plays Molly Wilson, a woman trying to define her relationship on national television. Her contestant: Jeremy (Hinge) or just Jeremy, played by Michael Longfellow, who says he’s fresh out of a long-term relationship and very much not looking for anything serious. “Oh, that’s the wrong answer,” quips Madison. “That’ll be ten thousand dollars from your personal bank

March 30, 2025

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useState Overload? How useReducer Can Make Your React State Management Easier

Introduction If you’ve been building React applications for a while, you’ve likely reached for useState as your go-to state management tool. It’s simple, intuitive, and works great for basic scenarios. But what happens when your component’s state logic grows complex? Nested useState calls, intertwined updates, and messy handlers can quickly turn your clean code into a tangled mess. That’s where useReducer comes in—a more scalable and maintainable alternative for managing complex state. In this article, we’ll explore when and why you should consider switching from useState to useReducer. 1. The Problem with useState in Complex Scenarios ✅ useState works well

March 30, 2025

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‘SNL’ goes off the rails with bizarre and funny ‘Jury Duty’ sketch

Saturday Night Live’s “Jury Duty” sketch feels like what happens when the writers have too many absurd character ideas and decide to throw them all in one room. The result is a chaotic courtroom of misfits all trying (and failing) to dodge civic responsibility, much to the dismay of Ego Nwodim’s increasingly unamused judge. SEE ALSO: ‘SNL’ roasts Trump admin’s Signal fail in group chat Cold Open Host Mikey Madison and nearly the entire cast rotate through as over-the-top jury candidates, including a male feminist, a clocked bisexual who’s pro-mass incarceration, a prank-calling radio host who impersonates Jay-Z, and the