Tokens are small units of text, roughly equivalent to words, that AI models process. AT&T's Ask AT&T platform handles massive volumes, with reports of 5-9 billion tokens daily, driving high-scale AI operations.

AT&T achieved up to 90% cost reduction by fine-tuning small language models (SLMs) with proprietary knowledge, improving efficiency over larger models while maintaining accuracy at scale.

The EPA's decision does not literally assign zero value to individual human lives. Rather, it means the agency will no longer quantify and include the monetary benefits of lives saved or health improvements in its cost-benefit analyses for pollution regulations. Specifically, the EPA stopped calculating the dollar value of health benefits—such as prevented asthma attacks, hospitalizations, and premature deaths—when weighing these benefits against industry compliance costs. Economists clarify that the 'value of a statistical life' refers to the value assigned to slightly reducing death risk across large populations, derived from labor market studies showing workers demand higher wages for riskier jobs. The practical effect is that regulators now only count industry costs in their analyses while excluding quantified health benefits, which critics argue skews decision-making in favor of less stringent pollution controls.

Environmental economists and public health experts argue that excluding quantified health benefits creates a fundamentally imbalanced analysis. As one expert explained, 'Considering costs without considering benefits is like trying to cut a piece of cloth with one blade of the scissors: The cut is likely going to be inaccurate and rough.' Historically, the Clean Air Act has demonstrated exceptional benefit-to-cost ratios—often cited as 30 to 1 or higher—meaning the economic value of health improvements far exceeds compliance costs. Research shows that reductions in PM2.5 pollution have added 1.4 years to average American life expectancy since 1970. By removing health benefits from the equation while retaining industry costs, critics contend the analysis will likely result in weaker pollution standards, leading to higher air pollution levels and increased illness and deaths, particularly among vulnerable populations including children, elderly people, and those with chronic respiratory conditions.

The NVIDIA Vera CPU is a custom-designed processor with 88 Olympus cores, optimized for AI factories, featuring full Armv9.2 compatibility, high-bandwidth LPDDR5X memory, and NVLink-C2C connectivity for coherent integration with Rubin GPUs.

HBM4 is the next-generation high-bandwidth memory standard used in Rubin GPUs, enabling 288 GB capacity per GPU with significantly higher bandwidth and efficiency compared to prior HBM generations, supporting massive-scale AI training and inference workloads.

The Defense Production Act (DPA) is a law that grants the government authority to compel companies to produce or provide goods and services deemed critical to national security. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to invoke Title I of the DPA, which represents the statute's core compulsion power, to force Anthropic to remove usage restrictions on its AI models. While the DPA was originally designed for physical goods like steel and tanks, invoking it against software and AI safety guardrails would constitute a significant legal escalation. Legal experts note that Anthropic could potentially challenge such an invocation in court by arguing that custom software for classified government applications does not qualify as a commercially available product subject to expedited production requirements under the DPA.

Anthropic has maintained firm restrictions prohibiting its Claude AI model from being used for autonomous lethal weapons systems (fully autonomous weapons without human control) and mass surveillance of American citizens. These restrictions were part of Anthropic's original contractual agreement with the Pentagon. However, Defense Secretary Hegseth's January 2026 AI strategy memorandum directed that all Defense Department AI contracts incorporate standard 'any lawful use' language within 180 days, directly conflicting with Anthropic's safeguards. The Pentagon argues it should not be constrained by a company's usage policies when making operational decisions, while Anthropic contends these restrictions are essential for responsible AI deployment. The dispute represents a broader conflict over whether technology companies or the U.S. government should set the terms for military AI applications.

Dynamic Island is an interactive UI element around the front-facing camera cutout on iPhones, which dynamically expands to display Live Activities like music playback, deliveries, or sports scores, allowing quick interactions without taking full screen space. On the rumored MacBook Pro M6 with OLED touchscreen, expected late 2026, it would replace the current notch with a hole-punch design, adapting macOS Live Activities and notifications around it, with a revamped interface optimized for both touch and cursor inputs.

Reports on the touchscreen MacBook Pro M6 do not mention Face ID, the iPhone's facial recognition security using infrared sensors in the TrueDepth camera system integrated into the Dynamic Island area; existing MacBook Pros use Touch ID fingerprint sensors instead. This absence leaves security reliant on Touch ID or passwords, potentially disappointing users expecting iPhone-like biometric convenience, though Apple may adapt macOS UI for touch-optimized context menus without confirming Face ID integration.

Contrary to the article's claim, the 1991 Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese is available for free ad-supported streaming on YouTube Free and can be rented or purchased on platforms like Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango at Home, and Google Play; it is also on AMC+ and Philo.

The film follows attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), who withheld evidence that led to the conviction of violent offender Max Cady (Robert De Niro); after 14 years in prison, Cady is released and seeks revenge by stalking and terrorizing the Bowden family.

Episodes of Survivor 50 are available for free on Global TV in Canada, starting a day after airing and lasting one week; viewers outside Canada can use a VPN like NordVPN to connect to a Canadian server and access Global TV without a subscription.

Using a VPN to access geo-restricted content like Global TV is generally legal in most countries for personal use, though it may violate streaming service terms; reputable VPNs like NordVPN provide secure, encrypted connections to protect privacy.