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State trust lands send millions to carceral facilities and programs every year.

Ottawa Asks to Jail Migrants, Asylum Seekers Despite Rights Violations

New technology is not just making shopping more challenging for workers and consumers—it’s poised to rip off the most vulnerable.

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achieve over 90% accuracy on popular benchmarks like MMLU, limiting informed measurement of state-of-the-art LLM capabilities. In response, we introduce Humanity's Last Exam, a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge, designed to be the final closed-ended academic benchmark of its kind with broad subject coverage. The dataset consists of 3,000 challenging questions across over a hundred subjects. We publicly release these questions, while maintaining a private test set of held out questions to assess model overfitting.

Donald Trump repealed the infamous TikTok ban that took effect briefly, buying more time for a buyout of the app’s parent company. However, depending on whose hands it falls into, the bill’s purpose to ban it may have been fulfilled.

• Scientists found unusually high concentrations of nickel, manganese, and cobalt in marsh soils near Vistra Corp.’s (NYSE $VST) energy storage facility in Moss Landing, California, after a lithium-ion battery fire burned for several days.
• The company had said that no harm to the public from chemical exposure had been detected, citing air quality tests conducted by the EPA and a third-party consultancy.
• People living close to the fire site report symptoms ranging from burning eyes and sore throat to headaches and nosebleeds. Several say they have experienced a “metallic taste.”
• The investigation into what caused the fire is ongoing. An emergency response plan published by Vistra shows the company may have significantly underestimated the risk of a fire at its facility.
• Monterey County officials have declared a state of emergency and started collecting soil and water samples in the area around the Vistra facility to test for toxins. Residents have started taking their own soil samples and are planning to send them to an independent lab for testing.
• A bill introduced in the California State Assembly in response to the fire aims to put stronger restrictions on battery storage facilities in the state. If passed, it could derail Vistra’s 600-megawatt project near San Luis Obispo.