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Celebrity appearances, controversial ads and other Super Bowl takeaways

BBC News

Latin megastar Bad Bunny performed a medley of his top hits at the Super Bowl on Sunday in a star-studded show that was criticised as terrible by the US president. The Puerto Rican singer, also known as Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, was joined on stage by a host of fellow music stars including Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and Cardi B. Sitting in the stands, Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton made their first major public appearance together, after weeks of speculation about their romance. The seven-time Formula 1 world champion and the reality TV star were spotted chatting and smiling together during the game, and were caught on video by NBC News. Fellow musical superstars Lady Gaga, Cardi B and Jessica Alba joined the dancers on stage alongside Bad Bunny, who was the world's most-played artist in 2025 on Spotify, according to the streaming service. Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal and Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin also joined the performance, which was populated by a largely pan-American crowd of celebrities.


Super Bowl Tailgate Photo Essay: Bad Bunny, Big Tech, and the Big Game

WIRED

We asked attendees of Super Bowl LX's pregame festivities for their takes on the competing halftime shows, the potential for ICE actions, and the influence of Silicon Valley on the event. To say this year's Super Bowl came at a charged time in American culture and politics is, perhaps, an understatement. While the pair of teams who took the field Sunday--the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots--comprised a pretty classic matchup (no underdogs here!), the rest of the event was set to be anything but. Santa Clara's Levi's Stadium is in the heart of Silicon Valley, just a few miles from the corporate headquarters of Nvidia and AMD, whose chips are powering the AI arms race that had competitors OpenAI and Anthropic sparring via rival Super Bowl ads . There was an explosion in sports "trading" activity on sites like Kalshi and Polymarket in the lead-up to the game, even in states like California where traditional sports betting is illegal. Sunday could prove to be an extraordinary success for prediction markets, as the industry becomes more mainstream . Fresh off a historic Grammy Album of the Year win (a first for a Spanish-language album), the unapologetically political Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny headlined --a choice that sparked a perhaps inevitable MAGA backlash. Meanwhile, Turning Point USA organized an alternative program called The All-American Halftime Show, featuring the likes of Kid Rock and Brantley Gilbert. Never mind that Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, and therefore an American citizen. Rumors were even buzzing about possible actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Super Bowl. Even though the NFL and California governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that there would be " no immigration enforcement tied to the game," anti-ICE protesters were on the streets. We caught up with football fans at a tailgate five minutes away from Levi's Stadium to hear their thoughts on all the drama. Here's what they had to say.


The Biggest Star of the Super Bowl Isn't an Athlete--or Bad Bunny

Slate

With celebrity endorsements from the likes of MrBeast and Marshawn Lynch, bots are taking center stage during the big game--and it's a sign of bleak times ahead. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Nitish_Pahwa newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.


Watch Super Bowl LX ads: 10 must‑see commercials

FOX News

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Sutton's predictions v Gladiators star Apollo

BBC News

Having won only one of their past six Premier League games and drawn 2-2 at Tottenham after being 2-0 up, can second-placed Manchester City get back on track at Liverpool on Sunday? I wouldn't rule City out of anything at the moment said BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton. But the way they folded in the second half against Tottenham was a real worry. Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against AI, BBC Sport readers and a variety of guests. His guest for week 25 is Gladiators star Apollo, real name Alex Gray, who supports Newcastle . Before becoming a Gladiator, the 6ft 6in Gray played Premiership rugby for three teams and also American Football for NFL side Atlanta Falcons.


How do you solve a problem like DeepSeek?

The Guardian

There was a lot of news last week. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Donald Trump, Sam Altman, Masayoshi Son and Larry Ellison announced a 500bn initiative to expand infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence dubbed Stargate. On its heels came a press release from Meta vowing to expand its capital expenditure to 65bn in the coming year to expand its data centers.


Conditioned Language Policy: A General Framework for Steerable Multi-Objective Finetuning

Wang, Kaiwen, Kidambi, Rahul, Sullivan, Ryan, Agarwal, Alekh, Dann, Christoph, Michi, Andrea, Gelmi, Marco, Li, Yunxuan, Gupta, Raghav, Dubey, Avinava, Ramé, Alexandre, Ferret, Johan, Cideron, Geoffrey, Hou, Le, Yu, Hongkun, Ahmed, Amr, Mehta, Aranyak, Hussenot, Léonard, Bachem, Olivier, Leurent, Edouard

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Reward-based finetuning is crucial for aligning language policies with intended behaviors (e.g., creativity and safety). A key challenge here is to develop steerable language models that trade-off multiple (conflicting) objectives in a flexible and efficient manner. This paper presents Conditioned Language Policy (CLP), a general framework for finetuning language models on multiple objectives. Building on techniques from multi-task training and parameter-efficient finetuning, CLP can learn steerable models that effectively trade-off conflicting objectives at inference time. Notably, this does not require training or maintaining multiple models to achieve different trade-offs between the objectives. Through an extensive set of experiments and ablations, we show that the CLP framework learns steerable models that outperform and Pareto-dominate the current state-of-the-art approaches for multi-objective finetuning.


The Power of Summary-Source Alignments

Ernst, Ori, Shapira, Ori, Slobodkin, Aviv, Adar, Sharon, Bansal, Mohit, Goldberger, Jacob, Levy, Ran, Dagan, Ido

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Multi-document summarization (MDS) is a challenging task, often decomposed to subtasks of salience and redundancy detection, followed by text generation. In this context, alignment of corresponding sentences between a reference summary and its source documents has been leveraged to generate training data for some of the component tasks. Yet, this enabling alignment step has usually been applied heuristically on the sentence level on a limited number of subtasks. In this paper, we propose extending the summary-source alignment framework by (1) applying it at the more fine-grained proposition span level, (2) annotating alignment manually in a multi-document setup, and (3) revealing the great potential of summary-source alignments to yield several datasets for at least six different tasks. Specifically, for each of the tasks, we release a manually annotated test set that was derived automatically from the alignment annotation. We also release development and train sets in the same way, but from automatically derived alignments. Using the datasets, each task is demonstrated with baseline models and corresponding evaluation metrics to spur future research on this broad challenge.


A.I. Is Now Doing the Menial Journalism Jobs I Used to Do

Slate

In February, BuzzFeed's leadership announced that the company's storied quiz operation was pivoting to A.I. OpenAI's generative language tool ChatGPT has proven to be effective at regurgitating hackneyed cultural motifs back at its users, which makes it perfect for the platitudinal terrain of BuzzFeed quizzes. The company has gone all-in on the new revolution by adopting a text synthesis program modeled on ChatGPT's technology, tiling the website with uncanny questionnaires--all scented with the trademark unspecificity of machine learning--and published under the byline "Buzzy the Robot." Buzzy is listed on the masthead as an A.I. Creative Assistant, and I suspect that he's not a member of the union. "What If You Were A Disney Princess? This Quiz Will Answer That Question," reads one of the characteristically mangled headlines written by Buzzy.


49ers' Brock Purdy says it looks like he has 'robotic arm' amid torn UCL recovery

FOX News

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is feeling like a new man after he completed successful UCL surgery stemming from an injury he suffered against the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship. Purdy will be competing for the starting quarterback job as the 49ers will enter offseason workouts and training camp with him, Trey Lance and Sam Darnold in the room. As Purdy goes through rehab, he remarked last week about appearing to have a "robotic arm" because of the brace he's wearing.