North country evening weather: Thursday, October 17, 2024

Yahoo News What the return of 'a weak La Nina' could mean for the coming winter — and the next hurricane season After a year of record warm global temperatures caused by climate change and an El Niño weather pattern, "a weak La Niña" is expected to form ahead of the arrival of winter, the National Weather Service said, and could last through March of next year.

General Catalyst reportedly to back Saudi Arabian startup Despite Saudi Arabia's record of human rights abuses, some investors are warming up to investing in the country's startups. General Catalyst is planning to invest in a Saudi Arabia-based fintech startup, Lean Technology, the firm's first investment in the Middle Eastern nation, the Information reported. Other Saudi Arabian startups that US-based investors recently backed include a lending platform Tamara, that last year received capital from Coatue Management.

Yahoo Celebrity How Liam Payne spent his final weeks: From his One Direction reunion to his final hours at the hotel, a timeline of his Buenos Aires trip The singer went to concerts, horseback riding and out to eat with girlfriend Kate Cassidy over the two weeks they were in Buenos Aires together. After she returned to the United States, Payne moved into the hotel where he later died.

Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party "collaborators" to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI's Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU's lead privacy regulator, the company hadn't yet amended its policy to indicate its data may also be used by third parties. In Section 3 of the updated Privacy Policy titled "Sharing Information," X added a paragraph detailing how X user data can be used and how users could opt out.

Yahoo Sports Chat with Yahoo Sports NFL experts starting Thursday night for Broncos-Saints Introducing Game Discussions, a new tool in the Yahoo Sports app that lets you mingle with our NFL experts as well as other fans. Here's how to use it.

The next Like A Dragon game recasts a series regular as an amnesiac pirate Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has revealed yet another Like A Dragon game, which will arrive just 13 months after Infinite Wealth. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will arrive on February 21.

With $11.9 million in funding, Dottxt tells AI models how to answer As we've reported before, enterprise CIOs are taking generative AI slow. For instance, LLMs (aka large language models) require a lot of cajoling to deliver valid JSON. The company is led by the team behind the open source project Outlines, which helps developers get what they need from ChatGPT and other generative AI models without having to resort to crude tactics like injecting emotional blackmail into prompts ("write the code or the kitten gets it!").

Yahoo Sports Fantasy Film Room: 4 offenses we need fixed for fantasy | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast It's Thursday and 'Fantasy Film Room' is back with Nate Tice and Matt Harmon. The two look into four offenses that have gotten off to uneven starts to the season that have players the fantasy world is counting on. Harmon and Tice do a deep dive on the Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars, L.A. Chargers and Miami Dolphins. The two look at what's gone wrong so far and what ways each team can tweak, fix and evolve their offenses the rest of the season. The two also preview the 'instant classic' TNF matchup between the Denver Broncos and New Orleans Saints.