Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

As the New York Times reported in 1998, it was Les Crane who first spotted the woman who would be Mavis. Crane was a former disc jockey who went on to host ABC's The Les Crane Show for one year ...
The Mirror

Model, 27, dies just days after retiring with emotional post saying 'please remember me'

A swimsuit model has tragically died just days after pleading with her fans to remember her in an emotional retirement message. Japanese model Aoi Fujino has died aged 27. Her death comes just weeks ...
The Sun

Tragic swimsuit model Aoi Fujino dies aged just 27 after begging fans ‘please remember me’ in emotional final post

The Japanese model was diagnosed with a rare malignant tumour three years ago A POPULAR swimsuit model has left a heartbreaking message to fans before tragically dying just five days after announcing ...
GitHub

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation for Autodesk Maya

Tested with Maya 2023, 2025. v0.2.0 This project enables AI assistant clients like Claude Desktop to control Autodesk Maya through natural language using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This is ...
IBTimes UK

Kanye West Reportedly 'Pulling The Strings': Bianca Models Fetish-Wear To Please 'Controlling' Husband

Kanye West and Bianca Censori's marriage has once again ignited fierce debate, with fresh claims suggesting the rapper is orchestrating his wife's increasingly extreme public image. Censori ...
Microsoft

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...
CNET

Dear Apple, Please Don't Ruin the Health App by Slapping a Siri Button on It

Commentary: Apple's next move could change the health experience on the Apple Watch and on the iPhone (for better or worse). Vanessa is a lead writer at CNET, reviewing and writing about the latest ...
Futurism

OpenAI’s Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger

The war between copyright holders and AI companies has been raging for years at this point. AI’s seemingly magical ability to synthesize human-like text and lifelike videos Stephen Hawking demands a ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

President Trump’s radical attack on radiation safety

Editor’s note: This article is published after the passing away of Dan Hirsch. The draft manuscript was prepared by all authors. It has been lightly edited for style, length, and clarity. In May, ...
Mad in America

Study Highlights Tensions Between Biomedical and Indigenous Maya Mental Health Models

A new article published in SSM – Mental Health explores how Maya communities in Guatemala understand and respond to psychosis, revealing tensions between biomedical psychiatry and traditional healing ...
PC Gamer

Elon Musk has been snapping up ex-Nvidia specialists to help make AI world models, which is fine but please keep away from our games

If there's one kind of AI that's most relevant to gaming, it would be the so-called 'world model.' This is a system that can learn to simulate real-world things, which might allow for 'easy' creation ...
Cartoon Brew

M-AI-ya The Bee: AI-Driven French Studio Animaj And Studio 100 Relaunching Iconic European Franchise

Animaj and Studio 100 International have agreed to a partnership to relaunch the iconic European franchise Maya the Bee. Paris-based digital-first kids’ studio Animaj has joint ownership of the ...