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APPLE ANNOUNCES OCT. 28 EVENT FOR TOUCH-SCREEN MACBOOK PRO

Apple will be holding a product launch event on October 28 to debut its first touch-screen MacBook. The company will also introduce a new low-end MacBook Pro with an M6 chip, a refreshed iMac, and a revamped iPad mini with a sharper screen. Apple retail stores are preparing to begin selling new products on November 6. The new touch MacBooks, which will run on M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, will have a Dynamic Island interface, as well as a sharper OLED display.

INTRODUCING CLAIRIC, A NEW SYSTEM ONE CLASS OF EXTRACTION MODELS

Clairic is an extraction model. Extraction models are a new class of System One-style models that can extract, compute, estimate, and forecast values from unstructured inputs, all at significantly higher accuracy, faster latency, and lower cost than traditional LLMs. It answers with values directly extracted from the input, computed from it, or predicted beyond it. The model can't produce a mistyped answer or hallucinate in the same way an LLM can, but it can still make mistakes.

CUTTING OUR INFERENCE BILL BY 68% BY BEING OBSESSIVE ABOUT OPTIMIZATION

Cloudflare lowered its average review cost from $2.43 to $0.77. The biggest single saving came from checking what actually reached the provider on each session's first request, and finding a way to order those messages in a way that was as consistent as possible across commits, merge requests, and repositories. Check whether each session's first request actually reads from the cache and whether reviewers still find real problems at the effort level being paid for.

AI WILL NOT AUTOMATE RADIOLOGISTS LIKE YOU THINK

Some worry about radiology being totally automated, but the more likely outcome is a future where there is more demand for services as predictive power increases. This is similar to how programming is thriving despite drastic change in the field. It may be possible one day to use radiology images to predict disease probabilities far into the future. Any domain where demand can be elastic and quality can scale with increased intelligence will similarly flourish with the development of AI.

SAUDIS AIDED FAMILY OF ENGINEER ACCUSED OF BUGGING OPENAI, PROSECUTORS SAY

Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was recently arrested and charged after a hidden recording device in one of OpenAI's offices was traced back to him. The engineer was in frequent contact with a member of the Saudi royal family, who was trying to recruit him to work in Saudi Arabia, but Alfozan had refused, saying he wanted to collect the company stock he had been promised. The Saudi government has offered to pay his bail, and a member of the Saudi military paid for his wife and infant son to fly out of the US the day after his arrest.

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