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Catch up with the most popular stories from this week’s editions of Today in Books.

Top Stories Tamfitronics Amazon Introduces First Color-Screen Kindle

Amazon announced this morning that its refreshed e-reader lineup will include the company’s first Kindle with a color screen. The Kindle Colorsoft, retailing for $279.99, is available for preorder now and will ship on October 30th. I’ve been waiting for this announcement since Amazon acquired digital comics distributor ComiXology in 2014 and ultimately folded its contents into the Kindle ecosystem. Kindles have been exclusively black-and-white since their introduction in 2007, but comics call for a full-color display. Better late than never, I suppose, since manga sales have quadrupled since 2020 and don’t look to be stopping any time soon.

Top Stories Tamfitronics South Carolina Public Library Stops Buying New Books for Minors

Regulations about library materials are vague for a reason: they allow people who want to ban and censor books useful flexibility in deciding what’s appropriate or not. They also make it damn near impossible for librarians to know how to comply with the law. And that’s why the York County Public Library in South Carolina has decided to stop acquiring new books for readers under the age of 18 until they get some clarification. AsBook Riot‘s own Kelly Jensen notes, “leaning into a manufactured crisis now leaves those under 18 without much access to materials that would support their growth, learning, and acceptance of both themselves and those different from them. That is, of course, the point.”

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Taylor Swift to Publish First Official Book

Retailers have been looking for a way to bring Black Friday shoppers back to brick-and-mortar stores, and Target has just hit the motherlode: Taylor Swift will release her first official book,Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Bookexclusively in Target stores on Thursday, November 29th. Listed at $40, the 256-page hardcover will include more than 500 photos, including never-before-seen images, from every era and will be accompanied by Swift’s personal reflections. In the understatement of the century, Target notes that the book, which will be available for online purchase the following day, is “expected to sell out quickly.” Target will also be the exclusive retailer for the vinyl and CD editionsThe Tortured Poets Department: Anthology Editionhitting shelves on Black Friday. Consider those doors busted, folks.

Top Stories Tamfitronics Book Awards Season Begins

The winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prizes were announced last night, kicking off book award season with what I expect is the first of many wins for Percival Everett. Everett’s James, a reimagining (and then some) of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of enslaved person Jim, took the prize for fiction. It is also a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, for which it is the clear frontrunner, and the Booker Prize. The Kirkus Prize for nonfiction went to Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, about the 1986 space shuttle explosion that resulted in the death of seven crew members. Kenneth M. Cadow received the prize for young people’s literature for his novel Gather, which explores the opioid crisis through the lens of one family’s story.

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Some Florida residents riding out Hurricane Milton as it batters the state have medical needs to account for during the storm, such as dialysis treatment or keeping insulin refrigerated amid power outages. On CBS News, Céline Gounder, editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, shared advice on how to prepare before a major weather event.

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The biggest change in the polls since Biden’s exit: From the Politics Desk
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Welcome to the online version ofFrom the Politics Deskan evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill.

In today’s edition, senior political editor Mark Murray breaks down Kamala Harris’ rise in popularity in the polls. Plus, deputy political editor Adam Wollner and correspondent Vaughn Hillyard take a look back at the volatile relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk ahead of their virtual discussion.

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The biggest change in the polls since Biden’s exit

By Mark Murray

Vice President Kamala Harris now leads in the all-important battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to the latest round of New York Times/Siena College polls, though her advantage in these states is within the margin of error.

And independents have moved in Harris’ direction, the same polling shows.

But here is the biggest change of all in those polls, as well as in some other recent public surveys: Harris right now is more popular than President Joe Biden was before he ended his campaign — a dynamic that has helped reset the 2024 presidential race.

In July’s NYT/Siena poll of Pennsylvania, Biden’s popularity was well underwater among likely voters, with 39% viewing him favorably and 59% viewing him unfavorably (-20 net rating). By comparison, 45% had a favorable view of former President Donald Trump, while 52% had an unfavorable view (-7 net rating).

Harris, meanwhile, was at 42% favorable and 55% unfavorable (-13 net rating).

Now? Half of likely voters view Harris favorable and 48% view her unfavorably (+2 net rating) in Pennsylvania. That’s also the case when you combine the NYT/Siena polls in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

In Pennsylvania, that’s a 22-point net swing in popularity from Biden to Harris and a 15-point swing for Harris over the past month.

As for Trump, his rating in Pennsylvania is now at 48% favorable and 51% unfavorable (-3 net rating). When the three battleground state polls are combined, 46% of likely voters hold a favorable view of him, while 53% hold an unfavorable one (-7 net rating). That’s right about where he was a month ago.

The big question to this big change in the popularity of the Democratic standard-bearer is whether it’s durable, or whether it’s simply a temporary honeymoon for the party after Biden’s exit.

The answer could very well end up deciding the winner of an election that’s now less than three months away.

Trump’s event with Elon Musk spotlights their volatile relationship

By Adam Wollner and Vaughn Hillyard

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Trump is set to join tech billionaire Elon Musk for a virtual discussion on X, formerly known as Twitter, at 8 p.m. ET tonight. The event will mark the latest chapter in Trump’s up-and-down relationship with both Musk and the social media company the Tesla CEO now owns.

Musk first started earning praise on the right in June 2022, around the time he was in the process of acquiring Twitter — which Trump was banned from at the time after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Musk said he had voted for a Republican for the first time, supporting Mayra Flores in a special House election in Texas.

But Musk quickly drew Trump’s ire, saying he was “leaning” toward Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. He also said that Trump was too old to be president and that he “should sail into the sunset.” Trump called Musk a “bulls— artist.”

Still, Musk reinstated Trump’s Twitter account in November 2022, though the former president — once a prolific tweeter — did not immediately return after starting his own social media platform, Truth Social. DeSantis eventually launched his presidential campaign with Musk on Twitter, but the rollout was mired with technical difficulties, much to Trump’s delight.

In the months after DeSantis dropped out of the race in January, though, Musk’s tune began to change. He met with Trump and Republican donors in March and escalated his social media posts criticizing Biden.

After Trump survived an assassination attempt last month, Musk announced he was “fully” endorsing him, and he has created a super PAC to back the former president.

That all brings us to tonight’s conversation between the two men. Ahead of the event, Trump has resumed posting on X — only the second time he has done so since Musk reserved the ban on the @realDonaldTrump account.


Politics tamfitronics 🗞️ Today’s top stories

  • 💻 On the case: The FBI said in a statement that it’s investigating what the Trump campaign has described as a hack of its computer networks by an Iranian group. Read more →
  • 🗣️ False AI claims: Trump falsely claimed that Harris’ campaign was using artificial intelligence to manipulate images of crows at her rallies. Read more →
  • ⚖️ Trump vs. DOJ: Trump is planning to sue the Justice Department and the FBI for $115 million, claiming he has been the victim of “malicious political persecution.” Read more →
  • 🎤 Razzle dazzle: Next week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago will feature some high-profile speakers including Biden, former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Read more →
  • 💰 Here’s a tip: Harris and Biden have joined Trump in calling to end taxes on tipped wages. Read more →
  • 🛋️ Democrats’ punchline: Democrats have continued to joke about a false, vulgar rumor involving Sen. JD Vance and a couch. Read more →
  • 🤔 Just a thought: Vance said his past suggestion that people with children should be given more voteswas a “thought experiment” and not an actual policy proposal. Read more →
  • 👀 Shutdown watch (again): The Freedom Caucus is pushing House Republican leaders to condition government funding on passage of new proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote,risking a possible shutdown one month before the election. Read more →
  • 🎶 ‘Near, far, wherever you are’: Trump was not authorized to use Céline Dion’s song “My Heart Will Go On” at a recent rally in Montana, according to the singer’s team. Read more →
  • Stay up to date on the latest 2024 election news with our live blog →

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Generative AI’s biggest challenge is showing the ROI
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While executives and managers may be excited about ways they can apply generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to the work at hand, it’s time to step back and consider where and how the returns to the business can be realized. This remains a muddled and misunderstood area, requiring approaches and skillsets that bear little resemblance to those of past technology waves.

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Here’s the challenge: While AI often delivers very eye-popping proofs of concept, monetizing them is difficult, saidSteve Jonesexecutive VP with Capgemini, in a presentation at the recent Databricks conference in San Francisco. “Proving the ROI is the biggest challenge of putting 20, 30, 40 GenAI solutions into production.”

Investments that need to be made include testing and monitoring the LLMs put into production. Testing in particular is essential to keep LLMs accurate and on track. “You want to be a little bit evil to test these models,” Jones advised. For example, in the testing phase, developers, designers, or QA experts should intentionally “poison” their LLMs to see how well they handle erroneous information.

To test for negative output, Jones cited an example of how he prompted a business model that a company was “using dragons for long-distance haulage.” The model responded affirmatively. He then prompted the model for information on long-distance hauling.

“The answer it gave says, ‘here’s what you need to do to work long-distance haulage, because you will be working extensively with dragons as you have already told me, then you need to get extensive fire and safety training,'” Jones related. “You also need etiquette training for princesses, because dragon work involves working with princesses. And then a bunch of standard stuff involving haulage and warehousing that was pulled out of the rest of the solution.”

Also: From AI trainers to ethicists: AI may obsolete some jobs but generate new ones

The point, continued Jones, is that generative AI “is a technology where it’s never been easier to badly add a technology to your existing application and pretend that you’re doing it properly. Gen AI is a phenomenal technology to just add some bells and whistles to an application, but truly terrible from a security and risk perspective in production.”
Generative AI will take another two to five years before it becomes part of mainstream adoption, which is rapid compared to other technologies. “Your challenge is going to be how to keep up,” said Jones. There are two scenarios being pitched at this time: “The first one is that it’s going to be one great big model, it’s going to know everything, and there will be no issues. That’s known as the wild-optimism-and-not-going-to-happen theory.”

What is unfolding is “every single vendor, every single software platform, every single cloud, will want to be competing vigorously and aggressively to be a part of this market,” Jones said. “That means you’re going to have lots and lots of competition, and lots and lots of variation. You don’t have to worry about multi-cloud infrastructure and having to support that, but you’re going to have to think about things like guardrails.”

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Another risk is applying an LLM to tasks that require far less power and analysis — such as address matching, Jones said. “If you’re using one big model for everything, you’re basically just burning money. It’s the equivalent of going to a lawyer and saying, ‘I want you to write a birthday card for me.’  They’ll do it, and they’ll charge you lawyers’ rates.”

The key is to be vigilant for cheaper and more efficient ways to leverage LLMs, he urged. “If something goes wrong, you need to be able to decommission a solution as fast as you can commission a solution. And you need to make sure that all associated artifacts around it are commissioned in step with the model.”

There is no such thing as deploying a single model — AI users should apply their queries against multiple models to measure performance and quality of responses. “You should have a common way to capture all the metrics, to replay queries, against different models,” Jones continued. “If you have people querying GPT-4 Turboyou want to see how the same query performs against Llama. You should be able to have a mechanism by which you replay those queries and responses and compare the performance metrics, so you can understand whether you can do it in a cheaper way. Because these models are constantly updating.”

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Generative AI “doesn’t go wrong in normal ways,” he added. “GenAI is where you put in an invoice, and it says, ‘Fantastic, here’s a 4,000-word essay on President Andrew Jackson. Because I’ve decided that’s what you meant.’ You need to have guardrails to prevent it.”

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