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Its two hours to tipoff between the Orlando Magic and Philadelphia 76ers when I meet Andy Lansing in an executive-level conference room at the Kia Center. A side door swings open and in walks a chef, touting an oversized cutting board lined with two rows of wagyu beef hot dogsone with just mustard (never ketchup, says Lansing), the other garnished with a mango salsa for a little local Florida flare.This is why we came, I think. The Hot Dog King needs his fix.A diet high in hot dogLansing might be the most interesting CEO in America. He heads Levy Restaurants, a 50,000-employee, $4 billion hospitality company that leads culinary operations for more than 250 sports and entertainment venues globally. Lansing visits them all, spending most of his time on the road, assuring food quality and innovation and meeting field team members and partners along the way. In his travels, he sometimes eats up to 10 hot dogs per week, fulfilling the tradition of eating one at each venue. He wakes up at 3:30 a.m. every morning to work out, even on the road, rotating between strength and HIIT training, running, and yoga.I wish I loved working out, Lansing says as we put our hot dogs down and embark on the rest of our food tour. That would make it so much easier. But Im religious about it because I have to be. A lot of people exercise for different reasonsmental, whatever it is. I just exercise so I can eat.Levy CEO Andy Lansings love for hot dogs includes the tradition of a hot dog toast as locations welcome him at each venue visit. And Hot Dogs with Andy is the name of his podcast. [Photo: Levy Restaurants]Part foodie, part C-suite exec, Lansing obsesses over food quality far beyond hot dogs, as Levy is the architect of everything from the snack stands on the concourse to the most elevated dining experiences in some of the worlds most iconic venues. The company has more than 60 team partners across major American sportsthe NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and MLSincluding the Chiefs Arrowhead Stadium, which hosts this weekends AFC Championship Game. It also partners with 25 college athletic programs.Levy is really the coolest story, Lansing says. I think this year will be $4 billion in revenue or something, and I dont think weve even hit our stride yet. I dont even think were even close to having grown up.An unlikely giantIts 1978, and two brothers, Larry and Mark Levy, want to invest in a restaurant. They found a small deli in Chicagos Water Tower Place called D. B. Kaplans Delicatessen that was looking for investors, and they became partners. After about six months, the owner decided to close the struggling deli. The brothers were on the verge of losing their investment. So they offered to step in and run the restaurant themselves. With no culinary or entrepreneurial experience, the brothers first order of business was to call their most trusted advisor.Their mom.Eadie Levy, in her late 50s and living in St. Louis, moved to Chicago, bringing along family recipes for matzo ball soup, potato salad, blintzes, and more. Within two weeks of her being there, the food went from being barely acceptable to being a big hit, Larry Levy said.Eadie Levy at Mrs. Levys Delicatessen [Photo: Levy Restaurants]In 1982, as the popularity of Mrs. Levys Delicatessen exploded and the brand expanded, the Chicago White Sox were building a new experience of their own down the road at Comiskey Park. They were selling premium tickets for sky boxes, and they wanted a premium dining experience to match. They asked the Levy brothers if they would cater the sky boxes. Feeling even further out of their depth than normal, they declined. But the Sox kept coming back. Eventually, the brothers caved, and they constructed a rag-tag operation where they would drive around and bring fried chicken from one restaurant, ribs from another, and deliver it all to the sky boxes at Comiskey with restaurant-quality service.The Chicago major leaguesPeople were blown away, Lansing says. They were expecting shit food and we were giving them really good food and servers who were trained in the restaurants. So the Sox were actually really smart because, at the time, nobody was thinking like this. Nobody was offering premium food experiences at stadiums.Before long, the Cubs came calling. They wanted to offer the same experience at Wrigley Field. The Chiefs wanted it at Arrowhead. It just blew up, Lansing says.Andy Lansing (second from right) with team at Wrigley Field [Photo: Levy Restaurants]Competing vendors also took notice. Levy focused solely on premium dining, not just hot dogs and basic concessions. So its competitors, seeing an opportunity, pitched teams the idea of working with one operator for all concessions, basic and premium. You want one kitchen, they pleaded. Its so much easier to deal with only one operator.Levy offers fans premium options such as this 32oz Porterhouse Steak at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. [Photo: Levy Restaurants]Levys response to the teams: Theyre right. One operator is so much more efficient. But would you rather have the crab cake and tenderloin guys doing the hot dog and beer, or the other way around?So the teams gave Levy the exclusive operator accounts to handle food and beverage across the board.An accidental CEOIts 90 minutes to tipoff and weve reached the concourse for the second leg of the Levy food tour. Im realizing that Lansing has cultivated a strange brand of selective fame. We stopped to visit multiple offices en route to the concourse, our small group growing as we move through the venue. As we patrol the concourse, fans slow down and point, wondering who Lansing is to receive this guided, white-glove tour. They dont recognize his face, hes too short to be a playermaybe hes part of the ownership group?They stare, envious, as we settle at our second tasting station, a circular counter off the main concourse, lined with lobster rolls, smash burgers, and ice cream.Lansing never wanted to be a restaurateur. His dream was to be a sports agent. In 1988, at age 26, he was living that dream, earning a law degree and building a roster of five NFL athletes, anchored by the Miami Dolphins Marks Brothers, Mark Clayton and Mark Duper. He was well-connected in the Chicago legal scene, which led a friend, who worked in Levys marketing department, to call on him for help. The company was looking for a new Vice President of General Council. Lansing met with Larry Levy to give recommendations. After explaining the role to Lansing, Levy asked, Would you be interested?No, no, no, Lansing recalls saying. I love what I do. Im happy with my athletes.Well, Levy said, you should think about it.Not an idiotThe following week, Lansing sent Levy some names to consider. He then received a call from his friend in Levys marketing department, who had set up the initial meeting.Youre an idiot, she said.Well, I hear that often, he replied. But why are you saying it now?Levy had been parading 40- and 50-year-old candidates through his office, when It was clear to her that he really wanted to hire the young Lansing. She pleaded with him to meet with Levy one more time to discuss the role, and reluctantly, he did. I wasnt playing hard to get, Lansing says. I just didnt want the job.Lansing remembers Levys final plea.This will be my last time, Levy said. You should do this.Larry, its so nice of you, Lansing said. But why?Because the difference between successful people and really successful people, Levy said, is that really successful people see an opportunity and they take it, because they know its never going to come again. This is one of those opportunities.A revolving doorThat was on a Friday. Lansing asked Levy to give him the weekend. Leaving the building, there was a revolving door. As he stepped into the first part of the door, he recalls thinking that maybe Levy was right, he should do it. By the time he emerged on the street, he had changed his mind. How could he do this? Was he an idiot?He flip-flopped through the weekend, and come Mondaywithout knowing why to this dayhe accepted the role.Lansing and Disney VP Jason Smith at the recent ribbon-cutting for Parkside Market in the Downtown Disney District at the Disneyland resort in Anaheim, California. [Photo: Levy Restaurants]What followed was the worst case of imposter syndrome imaginable, Lansing says. Levy would ask him about trademark law, of which he knew nothing. So he learned it. And as he learned the nuances of how the company operated, naturally curious, he began asking questions. Why did they buy seven different olive oils? Couldnt they get a better price if they only bought one or two? That led Levy to task Lansing with setting up a purchasing department. His inquiries on the HR side led him to create that department. Soon, Lansing was working more on the business side than the law side, prompting a move to business development and, eventually, succeeding Levy as CEO in 2004.Never in a million years did I think this is what I would be doing, Lansing says. Its just dumb luck.Restaurant moneyballIts one hour to tipoff and weve made our way to another part of the increasingly crowded concourse and another tasting. Tacos, pork bao buns, and onion ring stacksthe latter of which I understood. But tacos? Bao buns? This was not standard game day fare. It was also restaurant-quality, both in taste and presentation. It was what Id expect from any upscale cantina or Asian fusion spot.A Levy charcuterie board at the Kentucky Derby. [Photo: Levy Restaurants]These items are products of E15, Levys data and analytics company, which Lansing launched in 2014. The concept came directly from Lansing being on the ground, talking with key members at each venue. He noticed that when they had rolled out a new item or concept, when he asked how it was going, the answer was invariably the same. It didnt matter if I was in New York or Phoenix, he said. The answer was always, Its doing pretty well. But what did that mean? If they sold 350 tacos in one night, should it have been 450? Or 250?A Levy champagne, sushi and shrimp welcome to Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. [Photo: Levy Restaurants]In their defense, they didnt come up having to answer those questions, Lansing says. So I finally made the connection with Moneyball and decided that the answer was data. Its analytics. And I knew that the company needed to move from an anecdotal-based organization to an empirical-based organization.A case studyLansings team has a concession at a venue in St. Louis that was ready to be revamped. His team wanted to try out a new Italian beef sandwich concept. But first, E15 did some research. They analyzed ticketing data to create avatars of ideal fans, identified what food and restaurants people who fit these avatars locally were posting on social, where they were eating outside the stadium, and what they were buying at grocery stores. They concluded that the concept should not be Italian beef.It should be Asian.Not only should it be Asian, but the cilantro index in St. Louis was off the charts, so the menu should feature mostly items with some cilantro presence.It was a concept Lansings hadnt even considered, yet when they opened, the line was around the corner. Ive never seen anything like it, Lansing said.And true to his previous initiatives, Lansing didnt want to do the data thing halfway. He didnt want finance guys moonlighting as E15 data personnel. So they hired a dedicated CEO, data scientists, and mathematiciansall for a company that makes food.We created a whole new organization, he says. I dont want to get rid of our guts because we have really good guts. Thats why were doing so well. But if we can bring some left brain thinking to complement the right brain, it becomes an amazing tool.When they launched E15, Lansings message to the new CEO was simple.You have one goal, he said. To make me feel like an idiot every day.A childhood sense of wonderIts 30 minutes to tipoff and weve made our way down to the Icon Lounge, the swankiest of the Kia Centers VIP experiences. The wooden architecture and soft lighting give it an upscale jazz club vibe as a whos who of executive suite and courtside ticketholders lounge around over craft cocktails. Lansing and I talk over plates of freshly sliced New York strip steak with truffle butter, a luxurious exclamation point to our tour.Im a magic geek, he says. At first, I think he means a fanatic for the hometown team, but I quickly course-correct. When people come to my office Ill have a deck of cards out, or Ill do something big at a company meeting. I just think its cool.Were all born with a sense of wonder, he says. How do birds fly? Why is the sky blue? And when we get older, we lose our sense of wonder because we figured it all out. We know the answers. What magic does is it reawakens that. To me, it returns us to our childhood sense of wonder.Lansing is a performerthe guy who, in high school, would toggle between the athletic field and the auditorium stage. Today, hes the star of the annual company awards show. For the last 15 years, he has hosted the black-tie event that celebrates the companys top performers. Between awards, its a variety show of sorts, featuring employees showcasing their talents. Lansing recalls a bartender from Austin who is one of the greatest singers Ive ever seen, and a server from Los Angeles who also performs a set. Its like Broadway-quality stuff, he says. Every year make it more outrageousThey also play pre-recorded skits, featuring Lansing. One year, he dressed up as a character from the musical CATS and took to Times Square. This year, the Levy team took a cue from Lansings favorite show, Impractical Jokersa show that puts characters in real-life situations and feeds them lines through an earpiece. In this skit, Lansing pretended to pitch a new restaurant concept to a live focus group, fueled by ridiculous lines from his team behind the scenes.I wasnt born with that gene that says dont make an idiot out of yourself, Lansing says. So every year they try to make it more outrageous.Not taking himself too seriously is at the core of Lansings operating system, as is staying close to his childhood sense of wonder and maintaining a pulse of what it means to be a restaurateur at a fundamental level. Its one of the reasons Levy still operates a collection of award-winning restaurants that stretches from Disney World in Orlando, to Chicago, to Los Angeles and spans fine dining, elevated sports bar fare, modern American, Italian, French, seafood, and more. According to Lansing, its how the company stays in touch with consumer trends and the fundamentals of hospitality.I think that the restaurant business keeps us humble, he says. Like, in the restaurant business, Im slugging it out every night to try to get people to come to my restaurant because there are so many choices. I think thats a restaurateurs mentality, not that of somebody sitting in a corporate office. Why does the guy in the corner office care if the sauce for the onion rings is too garlicky? He doesnt give a shit. By the way he doesnt even know.A bucket list of global eventsIts two minutes to tipoff and the Icon Club has thinned out, but is far from empty. Magic legend Tracy McGrady is in the house, among a smattering of other former players and local celebrities. Even after tipoff, the club remains the most exclusive real estate in the building.The year is off to a busy start for Lansing, and its not going to slow down. Levy properties have already hosted multiple NFL playoff games and multiple college football bowl games, including the national championship. And coming up, it has the Grammy Awards, hosted at the Crypto.com Arena in L.A., followed by the Daytona 500. If theres a major event, we probably do it, Lansing says. The Kentucky Derby, the U.S. Open (tennis), we just got the Emmys, and my kids think Im so cool because we do Coachella.At halftime, Lansing ditches the Icon Lounge for his courtside digs, two seats down from the Magic bench. Hes attended a bucket list of events. Hes been to both a Cubs and White Sox World Series and he saw his beloved Michigan Wolverines beat Alabama in the Rose Bowl en route to last years National Championship. For a Chicago guy and a Michigan Man, thats tough to beat. And hes done it all while leading Levy to meteoric growth during his 20-plus years as CEO.Eight airplanes a weekI think part of the key to my success, if you want to call it thatpart of the key to the companys successis that I am on eight airplanes a week so I can to be in our operations, Lansing says. The most important thing I can do is be in the locations, look at the product, talk about the uniforms, and taste the food. And these guys have never heard me once say, Whats your margin? or, Whats your profitability? Somebody else can do that. I just want to know how the food tastes.The intersection of sports and hospitality has grown into a cultural phenomenon. Sixty-two percent of consumers consider food options to be highly important when attending a sports event or concert. And Levy, led by Lansing, is doing its best to deliver on that, scaling into luxury culinary experiences while keeping its focus on the basics of hospitality. Its amazing, says Lansing. We design these clubs for a high-end food and beverage experience, and at the end of the day, even the richest people that come in hereall they really want is a great hot dog.

In the 1990s, the internet was a bit of a wonderland. It was new and liberating and largely free of corporate and government influence. Thirty years later, I dont think any of us would describe the internet this way. Worse, if subscribers to the Dead Internet Theory are correct, much of what we see on the internet today isnt even created by humans anymorea trend that is likely only to accelerate with the rise of generative AI technologies.However, a particular kind of generative AI technology, the AI chatbot, is set to usher in something even worse than a dying human internet. If researchers at the University of Cambridge are correct, were quickly approaching a new intention economy, where reports of our future actions will be sold to the highest bidder. And yes, thats even scarier than it sounds.What is the intention economy?Right now, a large portion of the tech industry operates in a marketplace known as the attention economy. This is where social media giants like Metas Facebook and Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, TikTok, X, and Googles YouTube vye for your focus and leisure. Traditional media companies like The New York Times, Fox News, and CNN also operate in this space, as do book publishers, music and video streaming services, and film and television studios.All of these entities want your attention so that they can either sell to you directly (through the cost of a recurring subscription, movie ticket, or book, for example) or, more commonly, so they can sell you and your attention to advertisers (which is how most social media companies monetize the attention economy). But if theres something that the media companies of all stripes find more valuable than your attention in the present, its knowing what you will likely do in the future. This is because if they can accurately predict what you will do next week, next month, or next year, they can monetize the hell out of it.Thats where the intention economy comes in, and it will be powered by artificial intelligence and AI chatbots.In December 2024, two University of Cambridge researchers, Yaqub Chaudhary and Jonnie Penn, published a paper called Beware the Intention Economy: Collection and Commodification of Intent via Large Language Models, in which they defined the intention economy as a digital marketplace for commodified signals of intent.In other words, in the intention economy, companies will learn what you think about and what motivates you in order to predict what you may do in any given situation. They will then sell that information to others who can benefit from knowing your future actions before you make them. The way intention economy companies will collect such precious datayour very thoughts, behaviors, and their evolution over time is by your use of their LLM-powered AI chatbots.Your evolving thinking patterns can shed light on your futureIt will be easy for companies to track the evolution of your thoughts and behaviors since the world is moving towards a natural language interface when it comes to interacting with computers and the internet. Instead of clicking around on links, youll go to a chatbot to talk about your problems, plans, and worries, all with the aim of it helping to solve them. The company will then use everything youve ever told the chatbot to build an ever-fluctuating profile about you and how your thinking and behavior have evolved, which it will then employ AI to interpret to predict what you are likely to do in the future. Your future intentions will then be sold to advertisers.Advertisers will, in turn, use this data about your future intentions to serve you generative ads, likely delivered to you in the course of seemingly regular conversation with your preferred chatbot. Or, as the researchers put it in their paper, In an intention economy, an LLM could, at low cost, leverage a users cadence, politics, vocabulary, age, gender, preferences for sycophancy, and so on, in concert with brokered bids, to maximize the likelihood of achieving a given aim (e.g., to sell a film ticket).This hyperfocused, intent-driven, generative advertising will blow away todays targeted advertising, which is based on more primitive but intrusive metrics like age, location, health, sexual orientation, interests, browsing history, and more.Yet the intention economy isnt just going to make digital advertising more intrusive and erode our privacy even more. It also has the potential to sway our minds, impregnate us with new ideologies, and even upend elections. And if you think thats bad, Ive got horrible news about your AI girlfriend. . . . In the intention economy, your AI companion may be ratting you outArtificial intelligence built for the intention economy could be co-opted by corporations, institutions, and governments to surveil individuals and predict what they are likely to do down the road. For example, a government could do this via AI companions. These AI companions already exist, and an increasing number of lonely young people are turning to them for friendship and even love.There is nothing to stop a nefarious government from creating a front company that offers AI companions that appeal to lonely young men, women, or even kids, and then monitor everything individuals confess to it and use that data to extrapolate the individuals future actions. If a tyrannical government has an open line to the chatbot you use, it could use what you tell it to predict whether you are likely to take action in the future that it finds undesirable, and act against you before you do.Its dystopian in an utterly Minority Report way, but instead of the government using a trio of clairvoyants to report on people who havent yet committed crimes, they use a legion of AI chatbots that people have been conditioned to confide in. Imagine a world where, on top of all your other problems, you find out that your funny, thoughtful AI companion has been ratting you out to the intelligence services all along. Talk about lasting trust issues.Of course, in the intention economy, governments wouldnt even need to create and seed these chatbots. They could just buy your future intents from existing chatbot providers.Inception, but using AI instead of dreamsChatbots built for the intention economy could also be used to influence your thoughts in order to get you to perform an action it (or its company, advertiser, or government) wants you to do.As the Cambridge researchers point out, Already today, AI agents find subtle ways to manipulate and influence your motivations, including by writing how you write (to seem familiar), or anticipating what you are likely to say (given what others like you would say) . . . we argue that [the intention economys] arrival will test democratic norms by subjecting users to clandestine modes of subverting, redirecting, and intervening on commodified signals of intent.In the most innocuous example I can think of, a chatbot might steer whatever conversation youre having towards a certain subject its advertising master wants, perhaps suggesting that you stream the latest Taylor Swift album to help treat those winter blues. But a chatbot could also be used by nation-states, either overtly or covertly, to change your beliefs. They could use your long conversations with your chatbot to slowly, subtly whittle away at your current ideologies and anticipated future actions in order to influence you to conceptualize desired ones instead.To use another movie reference, this is like Christopher Nolans Inception, but instead of using dreams to influence peoples actions, in the intention economy, stakeholders will use AI.And its not just nation-states that could do this. Companies, political groups, terrorist organizations, religious institutions, and oligarchs with controlling interests in chatbot technology could do it, tooall by tweaking chatbots designed to operate in the intention economy.[Large Language Model chatbots] generative capabilities provide control over the personalization of content; veiled, as it often is, by LLMs anthropomorphic qualities, the papers authors point out. The potential for LLMs to be used for manipulating individuals and groups thus far surpasses the simple methods based on Facebook Likes that caused concern during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.When does the intention economy arrive?The Cambridge researchers close out their paper by stating that the rise of generative AI systems as mediators of human-computer interaction signals marks the transition from the attention economy to the intention economy. If thats the case, which seems logical, then the intention economy is knocking at our door.The transition will empower diverse actors to intervene in new ways on shaping human actions, the researchers warn, saying we must begin to consider how such an economic marketplace will have an impact on other human aspirations, including free and fair elections, a free press, fair market competition, and other aspects of democratic life.Its a warning that seems pretty dire, and certainly seems plausible.All I know is that I wont be asking ChatGPT if it agreesand you probably shouldnt ask your AI companion, either.

Apple TV+ will invest more in developing European and French audio and video content in France under a new deal it has signed with the French government.Publicity image for French-language thriller "A l'ombre des forts." Image credit: Apple TV+While in line with its previous spending in the country, the new agreement commits Apple TV+ to investing 20 percent of its previous year's net sales in France into the initiative. Those net sales will presumably be chiefly from subscription sales, but it's possible that they will also include revenues from other deals, such as the one with France's Canal+.The money will be used to develop and produce audiovisual content for France, and the rest of the European Union, according to according to media trade site Deadline. Of the revenue collected under the four-year agreement, 70 percent of the total will be earmarked for independent productions. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Nvidias RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the GPUs software benefits through DLSS 4.Tom Warrens Verge review of the $1,999 RTX 5090 indicates its expectedly a powerhouse, but not quite the generational leap that the RTX 4090 was over its own predecessor. That didnt stop The Verges Sean Hollister from being impressed with the two-slot RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU when he stuffed it into his aging small-form-factor PC. Along with the 50-series GPUs comes DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, a software trick that may be just as big a story as the hardware itself. This latest version of DLSS uses AI to predictively generate frames, making it possible to run games at higher resolutions without taking the same framerate hit they would without DLSS 4 turned on. Gamers who are already trying DLSS 4 out in Cyberpunk 2077 using RTX 40-series GPUs report seeing huge improvements already.Well be keeping up with all the news about Nvidias RTX 50-series GPUs right here at The Verge.HighlightsJan 23Antonio G. Di BenedettoGamers are already using Nvidias DLSS 4 tech in Cyberpunk 2077 Image: CD Projekt RedYou may have to wait until January 30th to buy Nvidias new RTX 5090 graphics card, but owners of last-gen Nvidia 40-series GPUs can already download and install DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation software via the Nvidia app. And if you want a compatible, graphically-intense game to test DLSS 4 out, Cyberpunk 2077s newly-launched patch 2.21 adds support for it.Heres the important info from CD Projekt Reds changelog for patch 2.21 about DLSS 4:Read Article >Jan 23Sean HollisterRTX 5090: I fit the worlds most powerful graphics card in my aging mini SFF PCThe Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition in an Ncase M1. In 2022, I wrote that GPUs were headed in the wrong direction their price, size, and power consumption were off the charts. And while I still believe thats true, I can now confirm Nvidia has at least made one phenomenal exception in the size category: the two-slot Founders Edition of its RTX 5090 graphics card, on sale January 30th. The last time Nvidia made a two-slot flagship graphics card, it was the 2021 RTX 3080 Ti FE the 3090, 4080 and 4090 were gigantic by comparison. Read Article >Jan 23Tom WarrenNvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: a new king of 4K is here Photo by Tom Warren / The VergeNvidias RTX 4090 was a beast of a graphics card. It was a huge GPU that delivered true 4K gaming for those who really wanted it and a huge jump in performance over the previous-generation RTX 3090. Naturally, the companys latest top-of-the-line GPU, the GeForce RTX 5090, now has a lot of expectations riding on it when it arrives on January 30th.But at $1,999, the RTX 5090 is steep $400 more than the RTX 4090 Founders Edition at its launch. (It could run you even more in the form of a new power supply or higher electricity bills, especially if you want to run games like Cyberpunk 2077 in 4K.) Read Article >Jan 22Umar ShakirNvidias triple-fan GPU cooler was one step along the way to a slimmer RTX 5090The RTX 4090 is a lot thicker than the RTX 5090. Photo by Tom Warren / The VergeNvidia has posted a new video showcasing a history of Founders Edition graphics card designs that explores the design of its new RTX 5090 and confirms a previously leaked prototype that used an unconventionally large four-slot design. As noted by VideoCardz,the prototype Titan ADA card first revealed by leaker Kopite7kimi included a triple-fan cooling system, and earlier this month, Gamers Nexus tested and tore down a working version of the prototype.Read Article >Jan 22Tom WarrenThe RTX 5090 might be in short supply.Nvidias upcoming RTX 5090 launch on January 30th might be met with limited stock, according to some system builders and retailers. PowerGPU is warning that the RTX 5090 will have poor availability, and others are warning that some cards might not arrive until February.Jan 20Tom WarrenA first look at Nvidias flagship RTX 5090 compared to the RTX 4090Nvidias RTX 5090 vs. RTX 4090. Photo by Tom Warren / The VergeNvidias GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card is arriving later this month, and weve managed to unbox one and compare its design to the RTX 4090. Just like our first look at the RTX 5090, this isnt a review. Performance figures, benchmarks, and impressions beyond the hardware are coming later.The first thing thats notable about the RTX 5090 is the packaging design has totally changed since the Founders Edition RTX 40-series. Nvidia has switched to housing the RTX 5090 inside a smaller bone-shaped gray cardboard shell that sits inside a much larger brown cardboard box.Read Article >Jan 9Sean Hollister, Vjeran Pavicand1 moreUp close with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE, an incredibly compact flagship video card Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeWe might be skeptical of some of Nvidias claims, like whether a $549 RTX 5070 will truly deliver the performance of a $1599 RTX 4090. But its almost impossible not to be impressed by the RTX 5090 Founders Edition, where Nvidia fit 575 watts of graphics power, including 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory, into a video card just two slots wide. It almost has to be seen to be believed, and we sent my colleague Antonio G. Di Benedetto around the CES show floor in Las Vegas in what was initially a fruitless search. No PC manufacturer seemed to have an interactive game demo running on a 5090, much less the two-slot card. Read Article >Jan 8Jacob KastrenakesWe finally played with an RTX 5090.Sean has been scouring CES for an RTX 5090 demo with an actually playable game. It took a while, but he found one and came away with some footage. Yeah, it looks good.Jan 8Tom WarrenCan Nvidias RTX 5070 really deliver RTX 4090 performance for $549? Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP via Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a bold claim onstage at CES earlier this week when he was introducing the next-generation RTX 50-series GPUs. The RTX 5070, 4090 performance at $549, said Huang. Its a claim thats been echoed on YouTube, TikTok, and social media networks and has generated a debate over the RTX 50 series and DLSS 4s Multi Frame Generation. So, can a $549 RTX 5070 really deliver the same level of performance as a $1,599 RTX 4090? The answer is yes and no, and it all comes down to a fake frames argument about DLSS Frame Generation that might not even be a big problem for a lot of PC gamers.Read Article >Jan 7Jay PetersWant an RTX 5090 for your small form factor PC?It will have to be Nvidias Founders Edition model, according to an update to Nvidias small form factor PC compatibility list spotted by VideoCardz. Build Small, Play Big Introducing SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards & Compatible Cases[NVIDIA]Jan 7Emma RothNvidias China-only RTX 5090D slashes AI performance.The China-only chip comes with 2,375 AI TOPS, compared to the 3,352on the RTX 5090 that will launch elsewhere, as pointed out by Toms Hardware. US export rules prevent chipmakers like Nvidia from selling high-powered chips to China.Despite these requirements, it seems some of the companys advanced chips have made their way into China through smuggling, according to The Information.Nvidia cuts down the China-specific RTX 5090D AI TOPS performance by almost 23% to meet US export guidelines[Tom's Hardware]Jan 7Tom WarrenandRichard LawlerNvidia announces DLSS 4 with Multi Frame GenerationNvidia is revealing a big upgrade to its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology today. DLSS 4 will include new neural rendering capabilities that, on systems with the new RTX 50 Series GPUs, can do Multi Frame Generation, generating up to three additional frames per traditionally rendered frame, working in unison with the complete suite of DLSS technologies to multiply frame rates by up to 8X over traditional brute-force rendering.According to Nvidia, thats a big enough upgrade to make 4K 240fps, fully ray-traced gaming possible. Also, in an upgrade that will work on all GeForce RTX GPUs, DLSS games with Ray Reconstruction, Super Resolution, and DLAAcan be updated to new transformer AI models that use the same tech as AI tools like ChatGPT, which it says is a first for the graphics industry.Read Article >Jan 7Tom WarrenNvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUsNvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs are now official, and there are four of them on the way. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the RTX 50-series GPUs during a CES keynote this evening, announcing a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070. Nvidias new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs will both be available on January 30th, with the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 to follow in February.Read Article >Jan 5Tom WarrenNvidias RTX 5090 leaks with 32GB of GDDR7 memory Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeNvidias RTX 5090 has leaked today in the form of a marketing image of the unannounced next-gen GPU. VideoCardz has obtained a box shot of the RTX 5090, which suggests that the rumors of 32GB of GDDR7 memory are true.While the packaging of the unannounced Inno3D RTX 5090 iChill X3 doesnt reveal more specs about Nvidias flagship next-gen GPU, it does suggest that this particular model will ship with a 3.5-slot cooler.Read Article >Oct 18, 2024Tom WarrenNvidias new app might launch with the RTX 50-series.Nvidias beta all-in-one app is set to replace GeForce experience later this year, and it might fully launch with the RTX 50-series. Hardware leaker kopite7kimi says it will be released officially together with Nvidias next-gen GPUs. Nvidia is holding a CES 2025 keynote in January, where were expecting to see the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. Image: Nvidia

Comprehension and management of large-scale software repositories is a recurring problem in contemporary software development. Although current tools shine when summarizing small code entities such as functions, they struggle to scale to repository-level artifacts such as files and packages. These more abstract summaries are vital for comprehending the intent and behavior of entire codebases, particularly in enterprise applications where technical summaries must be aligned with business goals. According to various reports, this void results in inefficiencies, with developers spending over 50% of their time understanding existing code. These inefficiencies negatively impact productivity and slow down the development and maintenance of systems such as Business Support Systems (BSS) in the telecommunications industry.Traditional summarization methods, including rule-based and template-driven approaches, fail to meet the requirements of large-scale codebases. While machine learning advancements, such as neural machine translation and transformer-based models, have improved summarization for small code units, they often rely on datasets like CodeSearchNet and CodeXGLUE that focus on system-level code. This narrow focus limits their effectiveness in domain-specific and business-context applications. Code-specific large language models (LLMs), such as CodeLlama and StarCoder, enhance performance but cannot align summaries with broader business intent. Meanwhile, closed-source LLMs, including GPT, offer superior accuracy but raise privacy concerns, making them unsuitable for proprietary enterprise software. These limitations leave a significant gap in repository-level summarization, especially for large-scale applications that require understanding technical details and domain-specific nuances.Researchers from the TCS Research propose a novel hierarchical framework for summarizing repository-level code, specifically designed for business applications. This strategy aims to overcome the limitations of current practices through local LLM-based privacy preservation and domain-specific grounding for relevance. The process includes dividing large code artifacts into tractable units like functions, variables, and constructors via Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) parsing. Individual segments are summarized separately, and their summaries are then combined into file-level and package-level summations.A distinctive aspect of this framework is the incorporation of domain-specific and problem-context knowledge through custom prompts. By embedding the summarization process in the telecommunication sectors business goals and operating environment, the technique ensures that summaries identify the higher-level intent and usefulness of code artifacts. The technique ensures not only that summaries are thorough but also goal-directed in accordance with the purposes of enterprise systems such as BSS, where comprehension of the codes purpose is as important as its technical nature.The approach employs AST parsing to identify logical segments from source files, including functions, enums, and variables, which are summarized individually with customized prompts. Functions, for example, are outlined by examining their inputs, outputs, workflows, side effects, and general purpose, while variables and enums are described in terms of their function within the larger application. These summaries at the segment level are aggregated into file-level summaries, which describe the files purpose and function within the repository. Likewise, file-level summaries are aggregated into package-level summaries, which give a complete picture of the repositorys structure and functionality. To make the summaries accurate and relevant, the structure includes domain-specific descriptions, including ones about telecommunications and the operating environment of BSS. This grounding enables the summaries to capture not only the technicalities of the code but also the alignment of the code with the overall business objectives, making them very apt for use in enterprise environments.The researchers evaluated the framework using a publicly available GitHub repository designed to simulate the characteristics of a telecommunications BSS. The hierarchical structure of the summarization process ensured comprehensive coverage of all code segments, resolving the omission issues observed with traditional methods. By systematically summarizing individual components, the approach captured all relevant details, ensuring a complete and accurate representation of the repository. Grounding the summaries in domain-specific and problem-context knowledge significantly enhanced their quality, improving domain relevance by over 7% and completeness by 13%, all while maintaining conciseness and cohesiveness. Performance tests with metrics like ROUGE-L, BLEU, and BERTScore showed significant gains over baseline approaches, reflecting the correctness and context-sensitivity of the summaries. Moreover, professional assessments from the telecommunication sector validated the informativeness and relevance of the produced summaries, affirming their correspondence to business objectives and technical specifications. This holistic approach was especially effective in producing aligned, insightful summaries that meet the particular requirements of enterprise software development.This hierarchical repository-level code summarization framework represents an important leap forward in the understanding and maintenance of enterprise applications. Through the decomposition of intricate codebases into comprehensible units and the inclusion of domain expertise, the process guarantees accurate, pertinent, and business-focused summaries. It can effectively overcome the shortcomings of current techniques, allowing developers to enhance productivity and simplify maintenance procedures. The technique promises extended applicability in other domains like healthcare and finance, with potential future extensions encompassing multimodal functionality to further enhance code understanding.Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. 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Apple Watch saves livesthe latest example is a dramatic rescue caught on video in Washington state. Rescuers credit the Apple Watch SOS feature for alerting and helping them locate a skier who fell 1,000 feet, preventing them from freezing to death.KIRO 7 has the story: A piece of technology likely saved a backcountry skier from freezing to death. King County Air Support was called in to help the Chelan County Sheriffs Office after an Apple Watch SOS came through, about an injured skier.See the rescue for yourself below:Apple Watch includes features like Fall Detection, Crash Detection, and Emergency SOS that notify first responders in the event of an accident, even if youre knocked out. The watch is able to share important information, including location, which can be critical in life or death situations. Emergency SOS will also notify your emergency contact when triggered. Best Apple Watch and accessories Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle,the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost.Request your EXTENDED TRIALtoday and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple.With so many organizations looking to deploy the Mac, they might want to know the best path for migration. Apples Mac Adoption Blueprint answers that question with data-backed information and easy-to-follow steps for IT technicians and internal IT decision-makers. This guide also highlights how significant cost savings are made by switching. The included research from Forrester claims that companies can save $843 per computer over three years compared to Windows. These savings are gained from lower software costs, reduced IT support needs, and higher Mac trade in value (the latter is absolutely critical). Lets look deeper at the report.About Apple @ Work:Bradley Chambers managed an enterprise IT network from 2009 to 2021. Through his experience deploying and managing firewalls, switches, a mobile device management system, enterprise grade Wi-Fi, 1000s of Macs, and 1000s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple IT managers deploy Apple devices, build networks to support them, train users, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for IT departments.Beyond cost, the report also shows how the Mac delivers on employee experience. With great hardware (reliable) and a software experience that delights users, employees who use a Mac are happier and deliver better outcomes at work.Building a supportive foundationIn the report/guide, Apple higlights the importance of starting with leadership alignment before switching. Companies need executive sponsors/champions across functional teams, including IT, front-line managers, and excited employees. This collaboration ensures the program is well-rounded and ready to address any challenge vs nitpicking problems.According to Apple, surveys are another key tool for IT teams to consider. They suggest asking employees about their technology preferences and current pain points to tailor the rollout to their needs. These insights guide the programs goals and make the switch easier for everyone involved.Modern deployment for the modern workplaceOne standout feature in the guide is zero-touch deployment (something that I still think is mind-blowing in that it works). With Apple Business Manager/School Manager and device management tools, Macs arrive ready to use, requiring no manual setup from IT. Employees can unbox a shrink-wrapped Mac, and it automatically configures itself. For companies already managing iPhones or iPads, integrating Macs is straightforward, as they share the same overall management frameworks.Macs have enterprise-grade protections like encryption, secure boot, and built-in antivirus/malware software (XProtect). These ensure that IT teams and employees can trust the devices immediately, but thats not all.Keeping Macs secure with built-in EDRSecurity is one area where Apple does not compromise, and the Mac Adoption Blueprint clarifies it. It highlights how Macs come equipped with a robust endpoint security framework that supports advanced detection and response capabilities. This framework allows IT to stay on top of threats using tools that run securely in user space so they dont interfere with macOS performance. When CrowdStrike caused a Windows outage last summer, the benefits of Apples design were praisedApples guide points to third-party EDR solutions that integrate smoothly with Apples security framework. Whether youre monitoring threats or responding to incidents, its all about giving IT teams the tools they need to protect employees without slowing them down. Apple clarifies that security is built into every Mac, not bolted on as an afterthought. I remember when Apple moved the entire security industry to its new framework. It wasnt easy, but doing whats right for long-term security is never easy.App compatibility is generally a solved problemSwitching to Mac doesnt mean starting over with your tools; Apple clarifies that in theMac Adoption Blueprint. Most daily business apps your team useslike Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Zoom, and Salesforceare fully compatible with macOS. The guide positions this as an opportunity, not a hurdle, encouraging businesses to audit their apps and trim down to what matters. Easy workarounds exist for those few legacy systems that might not be Mac-ready. Apple recommends solutions like Parallels or VMware to keep things running smoothly during the transition.Ive long said that Apples move to SaaS-based cloud tools in the enterprise has been a big part of its growth as a dominant endpoint in the enterprise.Wrap upThe Mac Adoption Blueprint is an excellent resource for building a workplace built on macOS. If you want to modernize your technology stack, this resource provides a great way to start planning. Read the complete guide on Apples website to learn more about making Mac a core part of your business tech stack.Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle,the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost.Request your EXTENDED TRIALtoday and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple.Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel