11 Rock + Metal Album Covers That Are Ideal Bathroom Decor
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Woman Kills Herself After Talking to OpenAI’s AI Therapist
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The ‘Reinvention’ of deadmau5
When I caught up with deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-August, it’s raining in Toronto and one of his three cats, Peanut, is going a little crazy…
Babymetal Just Became First Band to Reach This Chart Achievement
Babymetal just became the first all-Japanese band to land in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart with their new album 'Metal Forth.' Continue reading…
The missing piece for autonomous AI agents
Subscribe • Previous Issues Context is King: Long Live Graph-Based Reasoning Just over a year ago, we examined an emerging set of techniques known as GraphRAG. The concept was to enhance retrieval-augmented…
Every Garbage Album, Ranked
Wisconsinite drummer Butch Vig, Nebraskan guitarist Duke Erikson, and Minnesotan guitarist Steve Marker met in the late ’70s in Madison, Wisconsin. Although Erikson and Vig’s bands Spooner and Fire Town…
Horror Story Looms as Children Get Stuffed Animals Powered by AI
From Steven Spielberg's creepy "AI" (2001) to M3GAN (2022), toys imbued with artificial intelligence have been a source of fascination and terror in pop culture for decades. Now, in the…
Sanam’s Sametou Sawtan reviewed: confrontational, progressive and at times deeply beautiful
Even by Lebanon’s standards, the period from 2019 to 2021 was a turbulent period in the country’s history. In October 2019 protests against political corruption and the government’s poor handling…
Cass McCombs: “Music should be personal”
In the run-up to Interior Live Oak, his alchemically melodious new LP, Cass McCombs’ plan was to strip the songs’ arrangements to their communicative basics. “When you do that,” he…
Xiaomi Plans Europe Foray in 2027 After EV Sales Gain Pace
Xiaomi Corp. intends to sell its first electric vehicle in Europe by 2027, declaring plans to take on Tesla Inc. and BYD Co. globally after gaining traction with its year-old…