Severance season two review: Even before the finale, innie rights and humanity made for a stronger show

If you think about it, Severance's "innies" — the people trapped in an endless cycle of office work — should genuinely hate their "outies" — their other halves who exist [...]

Severance season two review: Innie rights and humanity made for a stronger show

If you think about it, Severance's "innies" — the people trapped in an endless cycle of office work — should genuinely hate their "outies" — their other halves who exist [...]

Why your LLM bill is exploding — and how semantic caching can cut it by 73%

Our LLM API bill was growing 30% month-over-month. Traffic was increasing, but not that fast. When I analyzed our query logs, I found the real problem: Users ask the same questions in different ways.& [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Book 6 series launches at CES with Intel’s newest chips and a refined design

In addition to huge TVs, compact projectors, Trifolds and more, Samsung announced a new family of laptops at CES called the Galaxy Book 6 series. The company says it’s focused on what matters and on [...]

Adam Scott Sympathizes With Your Agonizing Severance Season 2 Wait

io9 talked to the star of the hit Apple TV+ series ahead of its January 17 return. [...]

Apple greenlights Severance season three

After a season that resolved a few key mysteries but still perplexed fans and raised the personal stakes for everyone’s favorite macrodata refiners, it’s not a huge shock that Apple has renewed on [...]

Meta researchers introduce 'hyperagents' to unlock self-improving AI for non-coding tasks

Creating self-improving AI systems is an important step toward deploying agents in dynamic environments, especially in enterprise production environments, where tasks are not always predictable, nor c [...]

Apple acquires Severance and will produce future seasons in-house

Apple’s in-house studio will be producing the future seasons of Severance, according to Deadline. The company has reportedly acquired the show’s IP and all rights from its original studio, Fifth S [...]

Black Forest Labs' new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient

To create coherent images or videos, generative AI diffusion models like Stable Diffusion or FLUX have typically relied on external "teachers"—frozen encoders like CLIP or DINOv2—to prov [...]