New Zealand Declares Emergency in Capital After It Was Battered by Torrential Rain
There were landslides, flash floods and the closure of more than 100 schools in Wellington and the surrounding region.
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Your AI can’t read an invoice. That should worry you more than whether it can pass a math exam
When models cannot get the simple stuff right, that’s a cause for serious concern. I have been thinking about a question that nobody in enterprise software seems to want to sit with: why can the most advanced AI models in the world solve Olympiad-level mathematics but fail to reliably extract a total from an invoice?
Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, Warren Buffett react to Apple CEO move
Apple CEO Tim Cook holds an iPhone 17 pro and an iPhone air, as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, U.S. Sept. 9, 2025. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Apple announced on Monday that CEO Tim Cook will be replaced by John Ternus. Executives across the tech…
Labor to tighten child NDIS eligibility to curb spending as Queensland MP warns change is ‘failing kids’ | Disability
National disability insurance scheme service providers will be required to undergo mandatory character checks and eligibility rules will be tightened further for children under 18, as Labor moves to curb growth in the $50bn program. But the health minister, Mark Butler, faces a backlash from state counterparts as he announces major changes on Wednesday, with…
White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2026 Events On D.C.’s Big Weekend
A prevailing theme of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will be how journalists make a statement in the presence of Donald Trump, whose attacks on the media have come in the form of social media posts and outbursts, but also more serious lawsuits and regulatory action. Outside of the dinner itself, the weekend…
CJ McCollum leads late rally as Hawks stun Knicks to tie series
NEW YORK — There’s a long list of Madison Square Garden villains, players who revel in torturing New York Knicks fans in high-leverage situations. CJ McCollum became the latest addition to that list Monday night, as his fourth-quarter exploits helped the Atlanta Hawks beat the Knicks 107-106 in Game 2 to tie their first-round series….
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Clean electricity meets all new demand, curbing fossil fuels, says Ember | Energy News
Low-emissions energy sources met all new global electricity demand for the first time last year, leaving no room for fossil fuels to grow, the energy think tank Ember has found. Solar power led the charge, meeting three-quarters of the 849 TWh in new demand. Wind power met almost all the rest. Recommended Stories list of…
AI search has a trust problem. Transparency is the fix
More than half of consumers say AI search feels like a walled garden. Here’s what product builders need to do about it Nearly two out of three American adults have used an AI-powered search tool in the past six months. But here’s the stat that should keep every product builder up at night: only 15%…
FBI Director Kash Patel is paranoid & has ’bouts of excessive drinking’
As an Indian-American, I’m deeply ashamed of Kash Patel. I feel the same way about Nimrata “Nikki” Haley – what terrible examples for the Indian-American community and for the Desi community writ large. THIS is our representation in the American government? A deeply uncool loser who was put in charge of the FBI for sh-ts…