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The Independent
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Is there any better place to people-watch than a GP waiting room?
Voices Poetry This week, poet and artist reflects on Western beauty standards as she people watches in a waiting room
Hindustan Times
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Carrie Underwood returns to Sunday Night Football: Here's what she has in store
Carrie Underwood is set to return for a 13th year singing on NBC's Sunday Night Football, as per a recent announcement. Known for her iconic track 'Waiting All Day for Sunday Night', the eight-time Grammy winner's return comes as a welcome surprise to fans. This year marks the network's 20th year of the NFL primetime broadcast. Carrie Underwood is an eight-time Grammy winner(X/@carrieunderwood) Carrie Underwood set to return to Sunday Night Football A social media post read,'@carrieunderwood will once again perform the Sunday Night Football opening for a 13th consecutive season!' Created in collaboration with NBC's creative team, Underwood performed the iconic sports anthem at The Resorts World Theatre in Las Vegas, where she hosted her Reflection residency for about three years up until this past April, as reported by Billboard. This performance tried to create a revamped visual and musical experience for its viewers. 'We had a blast shooting the new opening at The Resorts World Theatre again,' Underwood revealed in a public statement, as reported by Billboard. 'As always, Tripp and the creative team continue to raise the bar, bringing the high energy and stunning visuals that the Sunday Night Football audience has come to expect year after year. I can't wait for the world to see it!' Significance of Carrie Underwood's performance As primetime's number one TV show for 14 years running, it's safe to say that Sunday Night Football holds a lot of weight. 'For the 20th season of SNF, we wanted to set the tone for the night by reimagining the anthem sound in a way that plays to Carrie's powerhouse vocals, while visually creating a seamless blend of stylized shots and behind-the-scenes moments evoking the national roadshow that is Sunday Night Football, week after week in the fall,' creative director Tripp Dixon added on. The evening broadcasts will start airing from September 7 as Lamar Jackson's Baltimore Ravens take on Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills. - With inputs from Stuti Gupta
Time of India
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Carrie Underwood's ‘Sunday Night Football' role confirmed as NBC makes important announcement fans waited for
Carrie Underwood's return for 'Sunday Night Football' (Getty Images) Carrie Underwood is set to electrify television screens once again this fall as she returns to open NBC's Sunday Night Football for the 13th consecutive season. As the network celebrates the 20th year of its iconic NFL primetime broadcast, Underwood is bringing not just her powerhouse vocals, but also a revitalized version of the anthem fans have come to love-- beginning September 7 on NBC and Peacock. Carrie Underwood Returns for 13th Season of 'Sunday Night Football' Though her return might not have come as a surprise, NBC has taken steps to ensure this year's opening is far from routine. Underwood, an eight-time Grammy winner, collaborated with NBC's creative team at The Resorts World Theatre in Las Vegas-- also the site of her record-setting residency Reflection—to craft a reimagined visual and musical experience for viewers. 'For the 20th season of SNF, we wanted to set the tone for the night by reimagining the anthem sound in a way that plays to Carrie's powerhouse vocals,' explained Tripp Dixon, the long-time creative director behind the SNF open. 'We also aimed to create a seamless blend of stylized shots and behind-the-scenes moments evoking the national roadshow that is Sunday Night Football, week after week in the fall.' Underwood herself echoed that excitement, highlighting both the fun and ambition behind the new production. 'We had a blast shooting the new opening at The Resorts World Theatre again,' she shared. 'As always, Tripp and the creative team continue to raise the bar, bringing the high energy and stunning visuals that the Sunday Night Football audience has come to expect year after year. I can't wait for the world to see it!' The NFL's biggest stage meets music's brightest voice With Sunday Night Football holding its title as primetime TV's No. 1 show for a record-breaking 14 years, NBC is clearly betting big on continuity and fan engagement. And what better way to kick off the new season than with a showdown between two MVPs? The SNF opener features a must-watch playoff rematch as Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens face off against Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Tokyo's Kissaten Serve Nostalgic Brews Epicure Asia Read More The game—and Underwood's thrilling introduction-- will set the tone for yet another highly anticipated NFL season. As the spotlight returns to the gridiron, Carrie Underwood's presence ensures that Sunday Night Football will once again open with energy, elegance, and the kind of star power only she can bring. FAQs: 1. Will Carrie Underwood return for Sunday Night Football in 2025? Yes, Carrie Underwood will return for her 13th consecutive season opening Sunday Night Football. 2. When does the new Sunday Night Football season begin on NBC? The new season begins on September 7, 2025, with a primetime matchup between the Ravens and the Bills. 3. How many years has Sunday Night Football ranked No. 1 in primetime? Sunday Night Football has been the No. 1 primetime TV show for 14 consecutive years. Also Read: Tom Brady blames football sacrifices for family rift in emotional letter, takes veiled shot at Gisele Bündchen Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
WIRED
16-07-2025
- Business
- WIRED
Former Top Google Researchers Have Made A New Kind of AI Agent
Jul 16, 2025 9:02 AM The mission? Teaching models to better understand how to build code will lead to superintelligent AI. Photo-Illustration:A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company's data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and a small step towards much smarter AI. The new agent, called Asimov, was developed by Reflection, a small but ambitious startup confounded by top AI researchers from Google. Asimov reads code as well as emails, Slack messages, project updates and other documentation with the goal of learning how all this leads together to produce a finished piece of software. Reflection's ultimate goal is building superintelligent AI—something that other leading AI labs say they are working towards. Meta recently created a new Superintelligence Lab, promising huge sums to researchers interested in joining its new effort. I visited Reflection's headquarters in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg, New York, just across the road from a swanky-looking pickleball club, to see how Reflection plans to reach superintelligence ahead of the competition. The company's CEO, Misha Laskin, says the ideal way to build supersmart AI agents is to have them truly master coding, since this is the simplest, most natural way for them to interact with the world. While other companies are building agents that use human user interfaces and browse the web, Laskin, who previously worked on Gemini and agents at Google DeepMind, says this hardly comes naturally to a large language model. Laskin adds that teaching AI to make sense of software development will also produce much more useful coding assistants. Laskin says Asimov is designed to spend more time reading code rather than writing it. 'Everyone is really focusing on code generation,' he told me. 'But how to make agents useful in a team setting is really not solved. We are in kind of this semi-autonomous phase where agents are just starting to work.' Asimov actually consists of several smaller agents inside a trench coat. The agents all work together to understand code and answer users' queries about it. The smaller agents retrieve information, and one larger reasoning agent synthesizes this information into a coherent answer to a query. Reflection claims that Asimov already is perceived to outperform some leading AI tools by some measures. In a survey conducted by Reflection, the company found that developers working on large open source projects who asked questions preferred answers from Asimov 82 percent of the time compared to 63 percent for Anthropic's Claude Code running its model Sonnet 4. Daniel Jackson, a computer scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says Reflection's approach seems promising given the broader scope of its information gathering. Jackson adds, however, that the benefits of the approach remain to be seen, and the company's survey is not enough to convince him of broad benefits. He notes that the approach could also increase computation costs and potentially create new security issues. 'It would be reading all these private messages,' he says. Reflection says the multiagent approach mitigates computation costs and that it makes use of a secure environment that provides more security than some conventional SaaS tools. In New York, I met with the startup's CTO, Ioannis Antonoglou. His expertise training AI models to reason and play games is being applied to having them build code and do other useful chores. A founding engineer at Google DeepMind, Antonoglou did groundbreaking research on a technique known as reinforcement learning, which was most famously used to build AlphaGo, a program that learned to play the ancient board game Go to a superhuman level using . Reinforcement learning, which involves training an AI model through practice combined with positive and negative feedback, has come to the fore in the past few years because it provides a way to train a large language model to produce better outputs. Combined with human training, reinforcement learning can train an LLM to provide more coherent and pleasing answers to queries. With additional training, reinforcement learning helps a model learn to perform a kind of simulated reasoning, whereby tricky problems are broken into steps so that they can be tackled more effectively. Asimov currently uses open source models but Reflection is using reinforcement learning to post-train custom models that it says perform even better. Rather than learning to win at a game like Go, the model learns how to build a finished piece of software. Tapping into more data across a company should . Reflection uses data from human annotators and also generates its own synthetic data. It does not train on data from customers. Big AI companies are already using reinforcement learning to tune agents. An OpenAI tool called Deep Research, for instance, uses feedback from expert humans as a reinforcement learning signal that teaches an agent to comb through websites, hunting for information on a topic, before generating a detailed report. 'We've actually built something like Deep Research but for your engineering systems,' Antonoglou says, noting that training on more than just code provides an edge. 'We've seen that in big engineering teams, a lot of the knowledge is actually stored outside of the codebase.' Stephanie Zhan, a partner at the investment firm Sequoia, which is backing Reflection, says the startup 'punches at the same level as the frontier labs.' With the AI industry now shooting for superintelligence, and deep pocketed companies like Meta pouring huge sums into hiring and building infrastructure, startups like Reflection may find it more challenging to compete. I asked Reflection leaders what the path to more advanced might actually look like. They believe an increasingly intelligent agent would go on to become an oracle for companies' institutional and organizational knowledge. It should learn to build and repair software autonomously. Eventually it would invent new algorithms, hardware, and products autonomously. The most immediate next step might be less grand. 'We've actually been talking to customers who've started asking, can our technical sales staff, or our technical support team use this?' Laskin says.
The South African
04-07-2025
- The South African
HONOR 400 and 400 PRO Enter the Spotlight with Premium Features Built to Rival the Best in Their Class
The hype is real. The newly launched HONOR 400 and HONOR 400 PRO have officially arrived in South Africa, bringing a bold, AI-led vision to the mobile experience. It immediately impresses with camera hardware that pushes the boundaries. This includes thoughtful software tools and high-performance design, engineered for users who want more from every moment. This is a design that rivals the sleekness of flagship devices at twice the price. At the heart of the HONOR 400 PRO is a 200MP Ultra-Clear Main Camera, designed to bring out rich detail and dynamic range. So, whether capturing a milestone portrait, a city skyline, or a quick snap at a weekend braai, it's ready to roll. Real-time enhancements powered by AI Portrait Snap ensure your photos reflect natural movement and emotion, while tools like AI Erase and Remove Reflection simplify edits without the need for apps. For those who want more from a single image, the new Image-to-Video feature turns a photo into a short, dynamic clip ready for sharing. The Pro model includes a dedicated 50MP telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom and up to 50× AI SuperZoom, perfect for capturing subjects at a distance, from wildlife in Pilanesberg to front-row action at the stadium. The base HONOR 400 goes the distance, offering 30× AI SuperZoom through its 200MP main lens and the same suite of AI-powered tools. The new Image-to-Video feature turns a photo into a short, dynamic clip ready for sharing. Image: Supplied The performance isn't just behind the camera. The HONOR 400 PRO runs on the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset, while the HONOR 400 features the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3. Both are supported by MagicOS 9.0. With up to 12GB RAM and RAM Turbo expanding memory to 24GB, everyday use remains responsive, even with demanding apps and multitasking. Visuals are delivered with pristine presence through a vibrant AMOLED display, 6.55″ on the HONOR 400 and 6.7″ on the PRO. This includes a peak brightness of up to 5000 nits for clear viewing in bright sun. A robust 6000mAh silicon-carbon battery supports 80W wired SuperCharge on the HONOR 400 and adds 100W wired + 50W wireless charging on the HONOR 400 PRO. IP65-rated durability and SGS Five-Star Drop Resistance certification ensure resilience on the go. The HONOR 400 and 400 Pro is going to continue to grab the attention of creators, professionals, students or families. It delivers flagship tech without the flagship price tag, a smart and welcome step forward in everyday performance, design and AI-powered photography.
