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How LLMs are taught to reason, the downsides of “chain of thought”, how models might solve problems without reasoning, and evaluating LLMs for general reasoning (Melanie Mitchell/AI: A Guide …)

Melanie Mitchell / AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans: How LLMs are taught to reason, the downsides of “chain of thought”, how models might solve problems without reasoning, and evaluating LLMs for general reasoning — What should we believe about the reasoning abilities of today’s large language models?

Filing: FTX’s estate has now marshalled ~$7B in assets, including $1.5B in cash, $1.16B in solana, $560M in bitcoin, and $200M in properties in the Bahamas (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: Filing: FTX’s estate has now marshalled ~$7B in assets, including $1.5B in cash, $1.16B in solana, $560M in bitcoin, and $200M in properties in the Bahamas — The company says it paid billions to executives including founder Sam Bankman-Fried before filing for bankruptcy last year. — Register Now

Qualcomm extends iPhone modem deal amid Apple chip delays

Qualcomm will continue to supply iPhone 5G modems for the next three years. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It looks like Apple could still be relying on Qualcomm modem chips for its next few generations of iPhones. On Monday, Qualcomm announced the two companies had extended a modem supply agreement (that

WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, offering a clue for how Meta plans to comply with the EU’s DMA interoperability rules (WABetaInfo)

WABetaInfo: WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, offering a clue for how Meta plans to comply with the EU’s DMA interoperability rules — WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.19.8.

UK-based Open Cosmos, which builds “sustainable” low-earth orbit satellites and a platform to manage their data, raised $50M, taking its total funding to $57M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Open Cosmos, which builds “sustainable” low-earth orbit satellites and a platform to manage their data, raised $50M, taking its total funding to $57M — Satellites have come into focus as a critical way — and sometimes the only way — to deliver communications …

Gaming conglomerate Embracer Group might sell the studio behind Borderlands

A screenshot from the game Borderlands 3. | Image: Gearbox Software Embracer Group is reportedly looking at selling off Gearbox Entertainment, the maker of Borderlands, as the gaming conglomerate searches for ways to make money following the collapse of a major funding deal earlier this year. Reuters reports that Embracer is already shopping the studio

AI voices are taking over the internet

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge You may not think of it this way, but you probably hear AI voices all the time. When you’re talking to Alexa or Siri, that’s a model trained on human speech to be able to say almost anything. Did you ever have a celebrity give you directions on

Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2) review: big, beautiful screen, tough, durable, and incredible satellite support, but no solar charging, pricey, and kind of embarrassing (Adrienne So/Wired)

Adrienne So / Wired: Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2) review: big, beautiful screen, tough, durable, and incredible satellite support, but no solar charging, pricey, and kind of embarrassing — Garmin’s top-of-the-line outdoor watch is a great alternative to the Apple Watch Ultra, especially if you don’t have an iPhone.

Who is the Apple Watch Ultra really for?

Maybe, the Ultra is just for anyone who wants it. When I first saw the Apple Watch Ultra, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Apple’s sizzle reel had weatherbeaten explorers trekking up snow-capped mountains, running across deserts, and diving into the depths of the ocean. This was an Apple Watch for the intrepid

Apple’s Lightning connector was the first great port — and USB-C might be the last

RIP Lightning. You were proprietary, which was annoying, but you were so easy to plug in. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Lightning connector really only had two jobs: be tiny and be foolproof. Apple developed the new port for the iPhone 5, which at the time was simultaneously the largest,

A Myanmar official says a powerful ethnic militia arrested and repatriated over 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations (Associated Press)

Associated Press: A Myanmar official says a powerful ethnic militia arrested and repatriated over 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations — One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias has arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals …

Apple admits its in-house 5G modems are still years away, taps an old friend to fill the void

Apple has reportedly signed a multi-year deal with Qualcomm as its own 5G modems remain AWOL.

Nintendo and DeNA tell Mario Kart Tour users that the mobile game will not be updated after October 4, signaling Nintendo’s lessening focus on mobile titles (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Nintendo and DeNA tell Mario Kart Tour users that the mobile game will not be updated after October 4, signaling Nintendo’s lessening focus on mobile titles — NO NEW TRACKS OR DRIVERS WILL BE RELEASED FROM NEXT MONTH — Nintendo and DeNA have confirmed that they will soon stop

Apple Pay support finally comes to PayPal users with these cards

PayPal credit and debit card owners can now use Apple Pay for the first time.

Beis The Diaper Pack Review (2023): Practically Perfect

The Béis Diaper Pack was my most trusted companion for the first year of parenthood.

The Apple Event Quiz

Note: This content is not displaying properly in Apple News. Please use this link instead. Apple’s product events have always been more than sales pitches — they’re essentially technology entertainment: presentations that run as long as feature films and make bold promises about how technology is changing and why Apple’s new products are (supposedly) the

Teradata adds ask.ai generative AI assistant to VantageCloud Lake

Teradata is adding a generative AI assistant, dubbed ask.ai, to its VantageCloud multicloud analytics platform to help employees analyze and visualize data and metadata, map tables for joining, and generate code, among other functions. VantageCloud Lake, which was introduced by the company in August last year, is a self-service, cloud-based platform especially suited for ad-hoc,

An interview with Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, the new biography, why Musk agreed, the Twitter acquisition, Musk being “driven by demons”, surprises, and more (Gillian Tett/Financial Times)

Gillian Tett / Financial Times: An interview with Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, the new biography, why Musk agreed, the Twitter acquisition, Musk being “driven by demons”, surprises, and more — The writer tells Gillian Tett what he learnt during two years spent with ‘total access’ to the tech tycoon

Qualcomm says Apple extended its modem deal for three more years, covering “smartphone launches in 2024, 2025, and 2026”; the prior deal was set to end in 2023 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Qualcomm says Apple extended its modem deal for three more years, covering “smartphone launches in 2024, 2025, and 2026”; the prior deal was set to end in 2023 — – Pact between the companies had been scheduled to end this year — The iPhone maker has been trying to create its own components

PSA: Some Pixel owners still can’t dial 911 during an emergency

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Users continue to report various issues with calling 911 emergency services on several Google Pixel smartphones. These incidents have continued to occur after a possibly related bug was highlighted and fixed in January 2022. Back in late 2021, reports had emerged of a weird bug on Google Pixel devices

Microsoft ends software support for the original Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft ends software support for the original Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates — On its third birthday, the original Surface Duo is no longer supported by Microsoft. — What you need to know

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