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Hands-on with the Claude AI app: It's pleasant to use, but janky

Anthropic's Claude is arguably the best consumer-facing large language model at the moment, with its top-tier version having bested OpenAI's GPT-4 in at least one major benchmark test and on a popular LLM user evaluation site. So it's only natural that Anthropic would take advantage of the halo effect by releasing a Claude iOS app. 

After all, if Anthropic had kicked this can down the road a few months, it most likely would have been releasing an app to promote a language model that had just...

Mashable

TikTok is avoiding Apple commissions for App Store purchases

In 2020, Apple banned the popular video game Fortnite from the App Store. The game's publisher, Epic Games, attempted to get around paying Apple its 30 percent commission for in-app purchases of the game's V-Bucks currency. In response to Fortnite's workaround that sent users outside of the App Store to make a purchase, Apple kicked the game out of the App Store.

Fast forward to 2024 and it looks like TikTok has now deployed a similar tactic in its iOS app. The question now though: is TikTok...

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Tim Bontemps

NBA: Refs missed Maxey travel on 4-point play

Officials missed a travel on 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey with 25.4 seconds to go in Tuesday's Game 5 win over the Knicks, the NBA said on Wednesday.

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Jess Bidgood

How Six-Week Abortion Bans Went From Fringe to Reality

Even opponents of abortion saw such curbs as too controversial just over a decade ago. Times have changed.

The Verge

Umar Shakir

Snapchat will soon let you edit your messages after sending

Edit messages, AI Bitmoji fashion, and reminders round out the new Snapchat update. | Image: Snap

Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a “your” vs. “you’re” typo or other embarrassing errors. Snapchat is also getting emoji reactions, map reactions, and a new AI-powered reminders function.

The edit message feature does have a short window: you need to act within five minutes of...

ESPN.com

Kyle Bonagura

Coach Prime, son belittle CU transfer, FCS player

Colorado coach Deion Sanders and QB Shedeur Sanders, his son, clapped back to a former player, another FCS player and other critics on social media.

Wired Top Stories

Sofia Barnett

How Sidechat Fanned the Flames of University Campus Protests

Amid tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social media app Sidechat has become a hotbed of vile rhetoric.

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Marcus J. Moore

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Bass

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz.

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Alice Callahan and Dani Blum

Bird Flu Highlights Concerns Around Raw Milk

Testing suggests that pasteurization inactivates the virus. But what about raw milk and cheese?

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Claire Fahy

Veteran Collected Benefits After Lying About Purple Heart, U.S. Says

Sharon Toney-Finch, who served in Iraq in 2010, was charged with fraudulently claiming to have a Purple Heart and with defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Alan Rappeport

Giant Pandas Are Returning to San Diego, China Announces

“Panda diplomacy” has represented an area of cooperation between the United States and China despite tension over weighty issues of trade and national security.

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Ruth Graham

United Methodist Church Reverses Ban on Practicing Gay Clergy

In a meeting on Wednesday, church leaders also voted to allow L.G.B.T.Q. weddings.

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Anna Martin, Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang, Davis Land, Jen Poyant, Daniel Ramirez, Dan Powell, Diane Wong, Pat McCusker, Rowan Niemisto and Marion Lozano

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Emily Ratajkowski Can Take Care of Herself, but a Little Help Would Be Nice

Why the model and writer wants to blow up gender roles in dating, without chivalry having to die.

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Julian E. Barnes

Will Hamas Say No?

We explain why a cease-fire hasn’t happened.

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Erin M. Sorrell, Monica Schoch-Spana and Meghan F. Davis

Dairy Workers Are the Most Vulnerable Population to Bird Flu

We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.

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Ross Douthat

Biden Is Still Losing. His Campaign Should Stop Acting Like He Isn’t.

It’s good to have a reality check every few months.

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Daniel Currell

2024 Was the Year That Broke College Admissions

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity

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Tracey Tully, Rachel Wisniewski and Erin Schaff

The Most Decorated Battleship in U.S. History Gets an Overdue Face-Lift

It has been 34 years since the Battleship New Jersey was last pulled out of the water for maintenance.

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