AEW and Ring of Honor star Lee Moriarty welcomes Katsuyori Shibata's challenge for Pure Championship Giants vs. Red Sox betting preview: Logan Webb and Sonny Gray both locked in for under play NCAA wins Tenth Circuit'stay', but faces more eligibility lawsuits from 2022 class athletes in chaotic time Jacob Misiorowski's MLB-leading ERA and WHIP make Milwaukee Brewers the pick against Atlanta Braves Texas AG Ken Paxton sends message to WNBA amid'concerns' over treatment of Sophie Cunningham supporters NFL to NCAA? Courtroom chaos Is giving pro athletes a bizarre path back to college, and it's only just begun Another sex toy was thrown during a WNBA game, and Dream's Angel Reese absolutely lost it AEW star Willow Nightingale shares how she's able to keep her joyful personality going Peyton Manning's freshman son makes his debut, but freak running back steals the show How Kirk Cousins and Fernando Mendoza are building'great' relationship through Raiders work, faith and more IndyCar star Alex Palou reflects on White House, Oval Office visit with Trump: 'incredible experience' I was a sports columnist at the Seattle Times for 11 years. BREAKING: Iran's president calls for END of war Sophie Cunningham calls for'bold' commissioner amid women's sports debate Are American workers really using AI? Gen. Jack Keane details US military strategy as Trump warns of Iran's nuclear threat ISIS indoctrinating Americans with'ease,' ex-NYPD detective warns Caitlyn Jenner joins'Fox News @ Night' to address the WNBA's ongoing debate regarding transgender players. After former NBA player Royce White satirizes the league's policy, Jenner praises his stance and argues that biological males should be excluded from female divisions. She emphasizes that protecting women's sports and Title IX remains essential to maintaining fairness in competition. For a league that's built on being pro-trans in sports, it remains a mystery as to why a WNBA team hasn't kicked the tires on French basketball phenom Julie Tetart, especially a team that might have to face Angel Reese in the playoffs.

OpenAI had been working with the US government over a preview of the GPT 5.6 model. OpenAI had been working with the US government over a preview of the GPT 5.6 model. Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic's Mythos OpenAI is staggering the release of its latest AI model after a request from the US government, in a move echoing the launch of Anthropic's Mythos product. Sam Altman, the chief executive of the company behind ChatGPT, told staff this week that GPT 5.6 would be released in a limited preview to a small group of partners, according to the tech publication The Information. Altman said the federal government had asked for a staggered release.

Expect big announcements from the likes of Samsung, Sony, NVIDIA and many more. CES doesn't start until January, but whispers of the products and announcements that could be in store for tech's biggest annual conference have already started to take shape. The CES 2026 show floor is officially open from January 6 through 9, although the show kicks off with events on Sunday January 4 and a host of press conferences on Monday. As always, product demos, announcements and networking will be happening at the Las Vegas Convention Center and surrounding hotels all over the city. As usual, Engadget will be covering the event in-person and remotely, bringing you news and hands-ons straight from the show floor.

CES 2026 preview: What to expect from tech's biggest conference in January Expect big announcements from the likes of Samsung, Sony, NVIDIA and many more. CES doesn't start until January, but whispers of the products and announcements that could be in store for tech's biggest annual conference have already started to take shape. The CES 2026 show floor is officially open from January 6 through 9, although the show kicks off with events on Sunday January 4 and a host of press conferences on Monday. As always, product demos, announcements and networking will be happening at the Las Vegas Convention Center and surrounding hotels all over the city. As usual, Engadget will be covering the event in-person and remotely, bringing you news and hands-ons straight from the show floor.

The development of autonomous machine learning (ML) agents capable of end-to-end data science workflows represents a significant frontier in artificial intelligence. These agents must orchestrate complex sequences of data analysis, feature engineering, model selection, and hyperparameter optimization, tasks that require sophisticated planning and iteration. While recent work on building ML agents has explored using large language models (LLMs) for direct code generation, tool-augmented approaches offer greater modularity and reliability. However, existing tool-use benchmarks focus primarily on task-specific tool selection or argument extraction for tool invocation, failing to evaluate the sophisticated planning capabilities required for ML Agents. In this work, we introduce a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating tool-augmented ML agents using a curated set of 61 specialized tools and 15 tabular ML challenges from Kaggle. Our benchmark goes beyond traditional tool-use evaluation by incorporating an in-memory named object management, allowing agents to flexibly name, save, and retrieve intermediate results throughout the workflows. We demonstrate that standard ReAct-style approaches struggle to generate valid tool sequences for complex ML pipelines, and that tree search methods with LLM-based evaluation underperform due to inconsistent state scoring. To address these limitations, we propose two simple approaches: 1) using shaped deterministic rewards with structured textual feedback, and 2) decomposing the original problem into a sequence of sub-tasks, which significantly improves trajectory validity and task performance. Using GPT-4o, our approach improves over ReAct by 16.52 percentile positions, taking the median across all Kaggle challenges. We believe our work provides a foundation for developing more capable tool-augmented planning ML agents.

Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) spend up to 30% of work time searching manuals, a documented efficiency bottleneck in MRO operations where every procedure must be traceable to certified sources. We present a compliance-preserving retrieval system that adapts LLM reranking and semantic search to aviation MRO environments by operating alongside, rather than replacing, certified legacy viewers. The system constructs revision-robust embeddings from ATA chapter hierarchies and uses vision-language parsing to structure certified content, allowing technicians to preview ranked tasks and access verified procedures in existing viewers. Evaluation on 49k synthetic queries achieves >90% retrieval accuracy, while bilingual controlled studies with 10 licensed AMTs demonstrate 90.9% top-10 success rate and 95% reduction in lookup time, from 6-15 minutes to 18 seconds per task. These gains provide concrete evidence that semantic retrieval can operate within strict regulatory constraints and meaningfully reduce operational workload in real-world multilingual MRO workflows.

Repetitive strain injury (RSI) affects roughly one in five computer users and remains largely unresolved despite decades of ergonomic mouse redesign. All such devices share a fundamental limitation: they still require fine-motor motion to operate. This work investigates whether predictive, AI-assisted input can reduce that motion by replacing physical pointing with ranked on-screen suggestions. To preserve user agency, we introduce Preview Accept Discard (PAD), a zero-click interaction paradigm that lets users preview predicted GUI targets, cycle through a small set of ranked alternatives, and accept or discard them via key-release timing. We evaluate PAD in two settings: a browser-based email client and a ISO 9241-9 keyboard-prediction task under varying top-3 accuracies. Across both studies, PAD substantially reduces hand motion relative to trackpad use while maintaining comparable task times with the trackpad only when accuracies are similar to those of the best spell-checkers.

DIY Tech Hacks iOS 26 adds a new app to your iPhone. Here's how to use it. You're not imagining it--there is a new app on your iPhone. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Apple's big iOS 26 software update for 2025 has now reached millions of iPhones, and brought with it a bunch of new features and an updated visual interface.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. AI-powered link previews are a great way to see ahead so you don't end up clicking on malicious links. Starting with version 138 (released back in April), Firefox has had a new-yet-still-deactivated option that uses "artificial intelligence" to display a mini preview of the destination page for a link. The feature determines the content of the page in question and displays a pop-up, and this preview can help to avoid potential scams and malware when navigating unsolicited links. The AI feature works locally on your PC and, according to Mozilla, doesn't use a cloud service.

The big smart home manufacturers have been leaking like sieves as of late, giving us juicy early previews of their super-secret upcoming releases. Philips Hue recently fell victim to its own leak that revealed its entire fall product lineup, and now Google appears to have unwittingly shared images of its new Nest cam hardware. First, a quick recap: Google had already teased--intentionally--a new Gemini smart speaker during its Pixel event a couple of weeks back, and just days ago it promised an upcoming Google Home update on October 1, complete with a partial image of what appears to be a new Nest camera. Instead, it seems Google may have inadvertently left images of its new Nest hardware in the Google Home app following a recent update. The images, which were spotted by Android Authority and appear to have been subsequently yanked from the app, don't reveal anything startlingly new about the new Nest cams, aside from the fact that they exist.