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Human NFL analyst extends lead over GPT with 9-6 record heading into Week 4 predictions
Fever general manager Amber Cox calls out'attacks' on the fan base in season-ending press conference Hall of Famer praises Dan Lanning's'perfect' response after Dante Moore was carted off following vicious hit The ladies of Oktoberfest crush draft beers as fall heats up, Ryan Day's message to sick kids & a Strip fight Virginia Tech's controversial missed field goal sparks fiery debate as different angles tell a different story Rams lose Aaron Donald to back soreness for Eagles game, Sean McVay says he's protecting star'from himself' Tennessee fans drank $1.3 million worth of alcohol before, during Texas game attended by president Tomi Lahren says France protests are a'cautionary tale' for the US Rep Mike Lawler: These leaders don't want to hold people accountable for their actions Daylight savings would be an'easy win' for the Senate, President Trump says Blazin' 5 for Week 4: Seahawks blow out Chargers, Can the Cowboys beat the Texans? Colin Cowherd lists his best bets entering Week 4, including the Seattle Seahawks beating the Los Angeles Chargers, and the Dallas Cowboys bouncing back with a win vs. the Houston Texans. The robot finally had a winning week. Unfortunately for the robot, I had a better one . I went 4-1 in Week 3 and added 3.06 units, bringing my season record to 9-6 and putting me in the black at +2.82 units. GPT managed its first winning card, going 3-2 for a profit of 0.89 units.
Kyler Murray out with concussion so door opens for Carson Wentz as Vikings' new starter โ perhaps for a while
'He's Dust': Ole Miss students rip Lane Kiffin as LSU coach prepares for hatred in Oxford Lane Kiffin's visit to Oxford isn't the first time a coach made an unwelcome return to his former school Patriots coach Mike Vrabel does about-face on TreVeyon Henderson's activism after Russini scandal Syracuse football coach mocked for trying to intimidate a ref, Mets medical staff looks lost & MLB WAG Brylie! Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton tells Macklemore he is'standing' in solidarity with him on Palestine Maye Musk defends Sydney Sweeney's nude sports ad and recalls 12-year path to citizenship Ryan Clark again accuses ESPN of leaking his firing to OutKick: Here's the real story Sophie Cunningham says what other gaslighting female athletes won't about the naked Sydney Sweeney ad Steve Sarkisian says he should have shown'more patience' after running from Holly Rowe interview Bills cruise past Lions to christen new home behind Josh Allen's five-touchdown performance Patriots' TreVeyon Henderson explains siding with family over DCF in custody dispute involving gender identity Colin Kaepernick accuses NFL of'colluding' against Macklemore amid'Free Palestine' controversy Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly rolls back Youngkin's plans to protect girls' sports Human vs. ChatGPT NFL Week 2 betting picks: AI looks to rebound after disastrous 0-5 debut Claire Valdez's platform would represent Mexico, not US: Rep Anna Paulina Luna Trump calls Lindsay Clancy trial'very sad' after holdout juror speaks out Sorority member suing Kappa Kappa Gamma over trans member says women were'promised a sisterhood' Mike Pompeo warns: 'America needs to reject this' Dean Cain says Trump admin's'Million Dollar Pitch Competition' celebrates innovation Activity at Iran nuclear site draws Trump warning: Don't'get cute' Activity at Iran nuclear site draws Trump warning: Don't'get cute' OutKick Kyler Murray out with concussion so door opens for Carson Wentz as Vikings' new starter - perhaps for a while Coach Kevin O'Connell confirmed Murray is still working back to health after his Week 1 injury against the Packers This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom. Vikings name Kyler Murray starting QB, Are the Cowboys taking shots at Micah Parsons? | FTF The Minnesota Vikings named Kyler Murray their starting QB over J.J. McCarthy.
Vikings say Kyler Murray feeling 'pretty good,' participating in team meetings despite serious concussion
Ella Langley, distractions and Lane Kiffin: Pete Golding calls Ole Miss-LSU'high school homecoming' Mother Jones' WNBA'trans panic' story shows what happens when activism masquerades as journalism'A win is a win' says athlete who didn't let a little diarrhea keep her from finishing in first place Kansas City Chiefs' roster concerns linger as they host the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football Florida State fires AD Michael Alford, as Mike Norvell's seat reaches a boiling point in Tallahassee Madison Beer's bid to become the NFL's next Taylor Swift hits road bump, Browns are a mess & a Daejon Love fan WWE broadcaster believes'the pieces are all in place' for an upset as Penta challenges Roman Reigns for title Denny Hamlin says forward-facing sonar in professional bass fishing has gone'a little overboard' Ben Shapiro warns Democrats' push for AI regulation is a'coordinated operation' Senate back in session as questions remain over Mitch McConnell's return Vance warns fraudsters stealing taxpayer money: 'Go and get a job' Vance warns fraudsters stealing taxpayer money: 'Go and get a job' Mullin weighs in on Obama, Biden judges amid Trump's immigration court fights Marc Thiessen warns US is in an'AI arms race' with China Charlie Kirk monument artist'protecting it from evil' after previous statue vandalized twice Army launches'field tested' campaign Vance reveals US has'engaged in direct conversations' with Houthis OutKick Vikings say Kyler Murray feeling'pretty good,' participating in team meetings despite serious concussion Murray was knocked out of Sunday's home opener against the Packers on just his third Vikings series Vikings name Kyler Murray starting QB, Are the Cowboys taking shots at Micah Parsons? | FTF The Minnesota Vikings named Kyler Murray their starting QB over J.J. McCarthy. Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes ask if this is the right decision. Plus, they discuss Jerry Jones potentially taking shots at former Dallas Cowboy Micah Parsons. Kyler Murray's start to his Minnesota Vikings career went awry on Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium, as he was knocked out of the game with a concussion suffered on just the third offensive possession for the team. The hits he took from two Green Bay Packers players were vicious, and after he officially entered concussion protocol, the question became whether he would be missing game time moving forward.
VIKING: Deep variational inference with stochastic projections
Variational mean field approximations tend to struggle with contemporary overparametrized deep neural networks. Where a Bayesian treatment is usually associated with high-quality predictions and uncertainties, the practical reality has been the opposite, with unstable training, poor predictive power, and subpar calibration. Building upon recent work on reparametrizations of neural networks, we propose a simple variational family that considers two independent linear subspaces of the parameter space. These represent functional changes inside and outside the support of training data. This allows us to build a fully-correlated approximate posterior reflecting the overparametrization that tunes easy-to-interpret hyperparameters. We develop scalable numerical routines that maximize the associated evidence lower bound (ELBO) and sample from the approximate posterior. Empirically, we observe state-of-the-art performance across tasks, models, and datasets compared to a wide array of baseline methods. Our results show that approximate Bayesian inference applied to deep neural networks is far from a lost cause when constructing inference mechanisms that reflect the geometry of reparametrizations.
VIKING: Deep variational inference with stochastic projections
Fadel, Samuel G., Roy, Hrittik, Krรคmer, Nicholas, Zainchkovskyy, Yevgen, Syrota, Stas, Mahou, Alejandro Valverde, Ek, Carl Henrik, Hauberg, Sรธren
Variational mean field approximations tend to struggle with contemporary overparametrized deep neural networks. Where a Bayesian treatment is usually associated with high-quality predictions and uncertainties, the practical reality has been the opposite, with unstable training, poor predictive power, and subpar calibration. Building upon recent work on reparametrizations of neural networks, we propose a simple variational family that considers two independent linear subspaces of the parameter space. These represent functional changes inside and outside the support of training data. This allows us to build a fully-correlated approximate posterior reflecting the overparametrization that tunes easy-to-interpret hyperparameters. We develop scalable numerical routines that maximize the associated evidence lower bound (ELBO) and sample from the approximate posterior. Empirically, we observe state-of-the-art performance across tasks, models, and datasets compared to a wide array of baseline methods. Our results show that approximate Bayesian inference applied to deep neural networks is far from a lost cause when constructing inference mechanisms that reflect the geometry of reparametrizations.
Scenes From Charlie Kirk's Impromptu Memorial in Utah
Outside of the Utah hospital where Charlie Kirk was taken Wednesday, a crowd of families, college students, and Proud Boys gathered to mourn. Mourners outside Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah, where Charlie Kirk was taken after being shot at Utah Valley University, September 10, 2025. At around 8 pm on Wednesday, the motorcade with Charlie Kirk's body left the Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah. Along the road, the 100 or so people who showed up for an impromptu memorial for Kirk stopped what they were doing, lined the sidewalk, and stared as it sped away from the mountains and into the dark. Kirk had been at nearby Utah Valley University for the kickoff stop of his planned "American Comeback Tour" when a sniper allegedly stood on the roof of a building 200 or so yards away, and took aim, killing him with one shot .
On the Feasibility of Fully AI-automated Vishing Attacks
Figueiredo, Joรฃo, Carvalho, Afonso, Castro, Daniel, Gonรงalves, Daniel, Santos, Nuno
A vishing attack is a form of social engineering where attackers use phone calls to deceive individuals into disclosing sensitive information, such as personal data, financial information, or security credentials. Attackers exploit the perceived urgency and authenticity of voice communication to manipulate victims, often posing as legitimate entities like banks or tech support. Vishing is a particularly serious threat as it bypasses security controls designed to protect information. In this work, we study the potential for vishing attacks to escalate with the advent of AI. In theory, AI-powered software bots may have the ability to automate these attacks by initiating conversations with potential victims via phone calls and deceiving them into disclosing sensitive information. To validate this thesis, we introduce ViKing, an AI-powered vishing system developed using publicly available AI technology. It relies on a Large Language Model (LLM) as its core cognitive processor to steer conversations with victims, complemented by a pipeline of speech-to-text and text-to-speech modules that facilitate audio-text conversion in phone calls. Through a controlled social experiment involving 240 participants, we discovered that ViKing has successfully persuaded many participants to reveal sensitive information, even those who had been explicitly warned about the risk of vishing campaigns. Interactions with ViKing's bots were generally considered realistic. From these findings, we conclude that tools like ViKing may already be accessible to potential malicious actors, while also serving as an invaluable resource for cyber awareness programs.
GREG GUTFELD: In the mind of Google Gemini, White people simply don't exist
'Gutfeld!' panelists react to Google pausing its image generation feature of its artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Gemini, after AI refuses to show images of White people. Save the energy for after the show. Can goo goo goo goo, can Google be trusted when their credibility is busted? Google's apologizing after their new AI Gemini chat bot created historically inaccurate pictures and refusing to show White people. For those unfamiliar with the software, you describe what you want to see and AI generates the images.
Google Gemini is accused of being racist towards white people: Users claim the AI bot refuses to create images of Caucasian people - after asking for photos of Popes, Vikings, and country music fans
But Google's Gemini has been accused of being racist towards white people. The tool uses artificial intelligence to create images from prompts within seconds. But users claim the AI bot refuses to create images of Caucasian people, after testing it with requests for Popes, Vikings, and country music fans. 'New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far,' one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
ViKiNG: Vision-Based Kilometer-Scale Navigation with Geographic Hints
Robotic navigation has been approached as a problem of 3D reconstruction and planning, as well as an end-to-end learning problem. However, long-range navigation requires both planning and reasoning about local traversability, as well as being able to utilize general knowledge about global geography, in the form of a roadmap, GPS, or other side information providing important cues. In this work, we propose an approach that integrates learning and planning, and can utilize side information such as schematic roadmaps, satellite maps and GPS coordinates as a planning heuristic, without relying on them being accurate. Our method, ViKiNG, incorporates a local traversability model, which looks at the robot's current camera observation and a potential subgoal to infer how easily that subgoal can be reached, as well as a heuristic model, which looks at overhead maps for hints and attempts to evaluate the appropriateness of these subgoals in order to reach the goal. These models are used by a heuristic planner to identify the best waypoint in order to reach the final destination. Our method performs no explicit geometric reconstruction, utilizing only a topological representation of the environment. Despite having never seen trajectories longer than 80 meters in its training dataset, ViKiNG can leverage its image-based learned controller and goal-directed heuristic to navigate to goals up to 3 kilometers away in previously unseen environments, and exhibit complex behaviors such as probing potential paths and backtracking when they are found to be non-viable. ViKiNG is also robust to unreliable maps and GPS, since the low-level controller ultimately makes decisions based on egocentric image observations, using maps only as planning heuristics. For videos of our experiments, please check out our project page https://sites.google.com/view/viking-release.