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COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, navigating the bumpy dirt road that winds through a maze of natural gas pipelines, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should have been in school, but a bout of nausea and a dull headache kept him from class.“It happens a lot,” Amari explained from the backseat, glancing up from his Nintendo Switch. The symptoms usually show up when the sixth grader smells an odor of “rotten egg with propane” that rises from nearby natural gas wells and wafts over…

CNN  —  The tribe has spoken and the cast for Season 50 of “Survivor” has been set. Host Jeff Probst revealed the names of the 24 returning contestants who will be part of the landmark new season. Among them is Emmy-winning “White Lotus” creator and “Survivor” alum, Mike White. “I was there the night of the finale of Mike’s season, and I thought he was going to win the game, and I felt like he sabotaged it a little bit,” Probst told “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday. “This is the guy that writes and directs ‘White Lotus,’ which studies human behavior…

As Nvidia reports earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2026, which closed on April 28, the company has released numbers on how the Trump administration’s recent chip-export restrictions are affecting business. Nvidia reported that it incurred a $4.5 billion charge in Q1 due to licensing requirements impacting its ability to sell its H20 AI chip to companies in China. The chipmaker also reported that it was unable to ship an additional $2.5 billion of H20 revenue in the quarter due to the restrictions. When the U.S. licensing requirement was originally announced in April, the company said that…

Nvidia beat Wall Street’s sales expectations in its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday despite significant headwinds in China as the chip giant navigates trade restrictions.The company reported revenue of $44.06 billion, compared to estimates of $43.32 billion. In its key data center segment, Nvidia saw revenue of $39.1 billion during the quarter, lower than analysts’ expectations for $39.36 billion but up 73% year-over-year.Trading was volatile immediately after the results, with the stock up 3% in after-hours trading to about $138.41. Shares were up 0.4% year-to-date through Wednesday’s close, closing at $134.68.Nvidia didn’t waste any time mentioning what was dragging down…

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its lead in the AI race and whether the demand for AI chips will sustain. But where did DeepSeek come from, and how did it rise to international fame so quickly? DeepSeek’s trader origins DeepSeek is backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, a Chinese quantitative hedge fund…

Chinese startup DeepSeek has released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model on the developer platform Hugging Face after announcing it in a WeChat message Wednesday morning. The updated R1, which is under a permissive MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially, is a “minor” upgrade, according to DeepSeek’s WeChat announcement. The Hugging Face repository doesn’t contain a description of the model — only configuration files and weights, the internal components of a model that guide its behavior. Weighing in at 685 billion parameters in size, the updated R1 is quite hefty. (“Parameters” is synonymous with “weights.”) Without modification,…

After spending the day promoting his company’s AI technology at a developer conference, Anthropic’s CEO issued a warning: AI may eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years.”We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming,” Dario Amodei told Axios in an interview published Wednesday. “I don’t think this is on people’s radar.”The 42-year-old CEO added that unemployment could spike between 10% and 20% in the next five years. He told Axios he wanted to share his concerns to get the government and other AI companies to prepare…

Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has developed an AI model that lets users “interact” with streaming video. Available on the web in an “early demo,” the model generates and streams video frames every 40 milliseconds. Via basic controls, viewers can explore areas within a video, similar to a 3D-rendered video game. “Given the current state of the world, an incoming action, and a history of states and actions, the model attempts to predict the next state of the world,” explains Odyssey in a blog post. “Powering this is a new world model, demonstrating…

Google is celebrating 10 years of Google Photos with the launch of a redesigned editor. The redesign adds new AI features — Reimagine and Auto Frame — which were previously only available on Pixel devices, bringing the tools into the hands of more users. The Reimagine feature uses generative AI to transform objects and backgrounds in photos with text prompts. For example, you could ask to replace a gloomy sky in one of your photos with “clear blue skies.” The Auto Frame feature suggests different ways to frame a photo, whether it’s by cropping, widening, or using generative AI to…

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is joining Anthropic’s board of directors, the company announced on Wednesday. Hastings’ appointment adds a veteran Big Tech executive to one of OpenAI’s largest — and youngest — competitors in the AI race. The Netflix co-founder seems likely to help Anthropic grow from a startup into a major company, pulling from his experience sitting on the boards of Netflix, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and Meta. However, Anthropic notes that Hastings was appointed by its Long-Term Benefit Trust, an independent body at the top of the startup’s corporate governance structure that’s designed to be “financially disinterested.” The Long-Term Benefit…