With Thanksgiving approaching, the New York State Departments of Health and Agriculture and Markets are providing food safety tips to help prevent foodborne illness and ensure a safe and enjoyable holiday with family and friends. “The holiday season is a time for family, friends and food,” State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said. “The Thanksgiving meal is often the most elaborate meal cooked all year, which could be a contributing factor in mistakes that could lead to foodborne illness. We want to ensure that New Yorkers stay healthy by taking simple food safety precautions and encourage everyone preparing meals to follow this advice to keep your loved ones free from foodborne illness.” Department of Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball said, “There’s no question that one of the best ways to spend the holidays is by sharing delicious meals with family, friends and loved ones, so taking the proper steps to keeping our food safe is important not just for you but for everyone around you. This holiday season, we urge you to keep yourselves and your loved ones safe by handling, storing, and preparing the delicious, festive foods that make the season so special with care!” The Departments urge consumers to become familiar with the following food safety tips to avoid potential illness: Tip 1: Don’t wash the turkey. Many people believe they should wash their turkey before cooking. However, washing the turkey can spread bacteria, contaminating kitchen surfaces as water may splash onto the counter, cutting boards and utensils that are being used for other food items. Cooking your turkey thoroughly to an internal temperature of at least 165°F by baking, boiling, broiling, frying or grilling will kill any bacteria on the turkey, therefore, washing is unnecessary. Tip 2: Use the refrigerator, the cold-water method or the microwave to defrost a turkey. Defrosting a turkey should be done in the refrigerator, in cold water, or in the microwave. The safest method for thawing food is the refrigerator because the turkey will defrost at a consistent, safe temperature. It will take 24 hours for every five pounds for a turkey to thaw in the refrigerator. To thaw in cold water, submerge the bird in its original wrapper in cold tap water, changing the water every 30 minutes. If using a microwave, check the manual for specific directions as they may vary depending on the unit. Cold water and microwave thawing can also be used if the turkey did not entirely defrost in the refrigerator. Tip 3: Keep work areas clean and don’t cross contaminate. Always wash hands, utensils and cutting boards in hot, soapy water before preparing food and after handling raw meat. Keep meat, chicken, turkey, seafood and eggs separate from all other foods during preparation and while in storage. Tip 4: Use a food thermometer. Use a food thermometer to check the meat’s internal temperature and make sure the turkey is fully cooked. Test three parts of the turkey: the innermost part of the thigh, the innermost part of the wing and the thickest section of the breast. Each of these should reach at least 165°F to confirm the turkey is safely and properly cooked. Cooking a home-stuffed turkey is riskier than cooking one that is not stuffed. Even if the turkey itself has reached the safe minimum internal temperature of 165 °F, the stuffing may not have reached a temperature high enough to destroy bacteria that may be present. Bacteria can survive in stuffing that has not reached 165 °F, possibly resulting in foodborne illness. Because bacteria can multiply in the stuffing when the bird is stuffed and kept in the refrigerator before cooking, it’s best to stuff the turkey immediately before putting it in the oven. Tip 5: Never store food outside, even if it’s cold Leaving food outside is unsafe. Both wild and domestic animals can access food left outdoors, either eating it or contaminating it. Additionally, even in cooler weather, direct sunlight can cause food to warm up and enter the “danger zone” (above 40°F), which promotes bacterial growth. To keep leftover Thanksgiving food safe, store it at a temperature below 40°F, either in the refrigerator or a cooler with ice and be sure to carve and refrigerate the turkey within two hours after cooking. Tip 6: Turkey leftovers are good in the refrigerator for up to four days. Turkey leftovers can be kept in the refrigerator for up to four days. For longer storage, freeze leftovers in airtight containers or freezer bags and use frozen leftover turkey within four months. When reheating leftovers, ensure they reach an internal temperature of 165°F as measured with a food thermometer. Additionally, hunters who harvest, prepare and serve their own wild game should carefully follow the advice on the Department’s website ( https://on.ny.gov/494owZ1 ) to reduce foodborne illness and other health risks. 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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Every week — sometimes every day—a new state-of-the-art AI model is born to the world. As we move into 2025, the pace at which new models are being released is dizzying, if not exhausting. The curve of the rollercoaster is continuing to grow exponentially, and fatigue and wonder have become constant companions. Each release highlights why this particular model is better than all others, with endless collections of benchmarks and bar charts filling our feeds as we scramble to keep up. Eighteen months ago, the vast majority of developers and businesses were using a single AI model . Today, the opposite is true. It is rare to find a business of significant scale that is confining itself to the capabilities of a single model. Companies are wary of vendor lock-in, particularly for a technology which has quickly become a core part of both long-term corporate strategy and short-term bottom-line revenue. It is increasingly risky for teams to put all their bets on a single large language model (LLM). But despite this fragmentation, many model providers still champion the view that AI will be a winner-takes-all market. They claim that the expertise and compute required to train best-in-class models is scarce, defensible and self-reinforcing. From their perspective, the hype bubble for building AI models will eventually collapse, leaving behind a single, giant artificial general intelligence (AGI) model that will be used for anything and everything. To exclusively own such a model would mean to be the most powerful company in the world. The size of this prize has kicked off an arms race for more and more GPUs, with a new zero added to the number of training parameters every few months. We believe this view is mistaken. There will be no single model that will rule the universe, neither next year nor next decade. Instead, the future of AI will be multi-model. Language models are fuzzy commodities The Oxford Dictionary of Economics defines a commodity as a “standardized good which is bought and sold at scale and whose units are interchangeable.” Language models are commodities in two important senses: But while language models are commoditizing, they are doing so unevenly. There is a large core of capabilities for which any model, from GPT-4 all the way down to Mistral Small, is perfectly suited to handle. At the same time, as we move towards the margins and edge cases, we see greater and greater differentiation, with some model providers explicitly specializing in code generation, reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or math. This leads to endless handwringing, reddit-searching, evaluation and fine-tuning to find the right model for each job. And so while language models are commodities, they are more accurately described as fuzzy commodities . For many use cases, AI models will be nearly interchangeable, with metrics like price and latency determining which model to use. But at the edge of capabilities, the opposite will happen: Models will continue to specialize, becoming more and more differentiated. As an example, Deepseek-V2.5 is stronger than GPT-4o on coding in C#, despite being a fraction of the size and 50 times cheaper. Both of these dynamics — commoditization and specialization — uproot the thesis that a single model will be best-suited to handle every possible use case. Rather, they point towards a progressively fragmented landscape for AI. Multi-modal orchestration and routing There is an apt analogy for the market dynamics of language models: The human brain. The structure of our brains has remained unchanged for 100,000 years, and brains are far more similar than they are dissimilar. For the vast majority of our time on Earth, most people learned the same things and had similar capabilities. But then something changed. We developed the ability to communicate in language — first in speech, then in writing. Communication protocols facilitate networks, and as humans began to network with each other, we also began to specialize to greater and greater degrees. We became freed from the burden of needing to be generalists across all domains, to be self-sufficient islands. Paradoxically, the collective riches of specialization have also meant that the average human today is a far stronger generalist than any of our ancestors. On a sufficiently wide enough input space, the universe always tends towards specialization. This is true all the way from molecular chemistry, to biology, to human society. Given sufficient variety, distributed systems will always be more computationally efficient than monoliths. We believe the same will be true of AI. The more we can leverage the strengths of multiple models instead of relying on just one, the more those models can specialize, expanding the frontier for capabilities. An increasingly important pattern for leveraging the strengths of diverse models is routing — dynamically sending queries to the best-suited model, while also leveraging cheaper, faster models when doing so doesn’t degrade quality. Routing allows us to take advantage of all the benefits of specialization — higher accuracy with lower costs and latency — without giving up any of the robustness of generalization. A simple demonstration of the power of routing can be seen in the fact that most of the world’s top models are themselves routers: They are built using Mixture of Expert architectures that route each next-token generation to a few dozen expert sub-models. If it’s true that LLMs are exponentially proliferating fuzzy commodities, then routing must become an essential part of every AI stack. There is a view that LLMs will plateau as they reach human intelligence — that as we fully saturate capabilities, we will coalesce around a single general model in the same way that we have coalesced around AWS, or the iPhone. Neither of those platforms (or their competitors) have 10X’d their capabilities in the past couple years — so we might as well get comfortable in their ecosystems. We believe, however, that AI will not stop at human-level intelligence; it will carry on far past any limits we might even imagine. As it does so, it will become increasingly fragmented and specialized, just as any other natural system would. We cannot overstate how much AI model fragmentation is a very good thing. Fragmented markets are efficient markets: They give power to buyers, maximize innovation and minimize costs. And to the extent that we can leverage networks of smaller, more specialized models rather than send everything through the internals of a single giant model, we move towards a much safer, more interpretable and more steerable future for AI. The greatest inventions have no owners. Ben Franklin’s heirs do not own electricity. Turing’s estate does not own all computers. AI is undoubtedly one of humanity’s greatest inventions; we believe its future will be — and should be — multi-model. Zack Kass is the former head of go-to-market at OpenAI . Tomás Hernando Kofman is the co-Founder and CEO of Not Diamond . DataDecisionMakers Welcome to the VentureBeat community! DataDecisionMakers is where experts, including the technical people doing data work, can share data-related insights and innovation. If you want to read about cutting-edge ideas and up-to-date information, best practices, and the future of data and data tech, join us at DataDecisionMakers. 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After more than a year of investigating the domestic violence killings of four Aboriginal women, the Northern Territory’s coroner Elisabeth Armitage has handed down her final report. More funding, specialist training for frontline workers and a peak body for the domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) sector in the Northern Territory are some of the 35 recommendations from Judge Armitage, who said the recommendations were nothing “radical”: rather, something that the DFSV sector has been fighting for for a long time. Judge Armitage described the “plague of DV” as “our horror” and “our national shame”. “Domestic and family violence is present in our homes, on our streets, in our shopping centres and parks, on our beaches and at our bus stops. It is happening right now,” Judge Armitage as she handed down the report in Alice Springs today. “Right now, 000 calls are being made and first responders – police cars and ambulances – are being dispatched. “Given the recent loss of life, and the extent of the horror, no further delay can be tolerated.” For the last 12 months, Judge Armitage has been investigating the deaths of four Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory: Kumarn Rubuntja, Kumanjayi Haywood, Ngeygo Ragurrk and Miss Yunupiŋu. Judge Armitage read out the horrific stories of these women and the years of violence and abuse they endured before their untimely deaths. “This is not just an unfolding tragedy for those families most directly affected,” Judge Armitage said. “It is an existing tragedy for our community and our agencies and institutions that work to serve our community. It affects the Norther Territory every single day.” Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are disproportionately affected by violence: they are 31 times more likely to be hospitalised, and eight times more likely to die from DFSV, than non-Indigenous women. It’s even worse in the Northern Territory, which has the highest rates of DFSV in the country. In fact, the Northern Territory’s rate of intimate partner homicide is seven times that of the national average. Since the year 2000, DFSV has taken the lives of 87 women in the Northern Territory – 82 of these women are First Nations women. According to police, there has been a 117 per cent increase of DFSV in the last 10 years, and they project it will increase another 73 per cent in the decade to come. Judge Armitage said that since June this year, eight Indigenous women, and one sister-girl, have died allegedly from DFSV. “Statistics are numbers, but the people they count are not,” Judge Armitage said. “All of these women were daughters and sisters and aunties, and some of them were mothers. Together, their stories help us understand the nature of the problem.” In Judge Armitage’s report, one of the key recommendations from the 35 included a major boost in funding, especially to frontline services, emergency service responders and women’s shelters. Earlier this year, a Senate inquiry into the high rates of missing and murdered First Nations women and children in the Northern Territory heard from several advocacy and legal organisations funding for frontline services is: the Senate committee heard that the NT receives just 1.8 per cent of Australia’s domestic violence funding, despite having some of the worst domestic and family violence rates not just in the country, but around the world. Other recommendations from Judge Armitage included establishing a peak body that would represent and advocate for the sector on a national level, as well as a rollout of specialist training for frontline workers – like healthcare workers and police – delivered by experts in the space. The NT government is yet to respond to Judge Armitage’s recommendations.NFL issues security alert to teams, players' union following recent burglaries
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A little over two years ago Optus was in a buoyant mood as it welcomed tennis player Ash Barty – who had retired about five months earlier – into the corporate fold. Barty, the company said in a 2:30am release on August 17, 2022, had signed on to become Chief of Inspiration at Optus. No, seriously. “The partnership will see Barty feature in a mix of content initiatives, employee engagement programs and community-focused campaigns aimed at connecting Australians together and inspiring them to say ‘yes’ to their dreams, goals, and ambitions.” Optus said in the release that the CEO at the time, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, “believes Barty epitomises the brand’s values and that the partnership will demonstrate the power of Yes to all Australians”. “At Optus, we pride ourselves on our role in keeping Australians connected to what matters most – from everyday life through to times of national crisis, we support communities and businesses to thrive in the digital age. Daniel Ricciardo, Optus. “Ash is a true Australian icon and role model – her performance on the courts epitomised a challenger spirit, determination and strength, while her community work has demonstrated the power of optimism in action. We’re thrilled to bring this partnership to life and inspire more Australians to enable their tech futures and unlock the power of ‘yes’.” Barty was quoted as saying she had “decided to prioritise Ash Barty the person, over Ash Barty the tennis player, and in doing so I’ve realised I can help so many more people through my charity work, my role as the National Indigenous Tennis Ambassador, and now with Optus as their Chief of Inspiration. “It’s very humbling that my story has inspired so many people, but the reality is there are millions of everyday Australians who have the courage and commitment to say ‘yes’ just like I did. I welcome the opportunity to encourage more people to say yes to the things they love.” Alas, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin was gone about a year later, following the infamous Optus Outage. And now, the deal with Ash Barty has ended, with the Australian Financial Review reporting that both Barty and F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo had removed their roles with Optus from LinkedIn. “A spokeswoman confirmed both had left shortly before the start date of incoming chief executive Stephen Rue, who arrived from the NBN in September,” the paper said. “‘The decision was taken as we looked to rebuild customer trust and focus on the fundamentals that we know are important to them – a resilient network, great value products and services, and simple, efficient customer service’.” Ricciardo joined Optus in 2020 as Chief of Optimism. No, seriously. Oops. At 12:30am on September 18, 2020 (these people work around the clock!) Optus announced the “unique two-year partnership that will see Daniel inspire optimism for Optus staff and customers as he brings a fresh and upbeat approach to a range of business and customer facing initiatives”. “Daniel is a world-class, globally renowned go-getter who understands the importance of unrelenting high-performance, innovation through technology, testing and learning and communication and teamwork,” said an Optus marketing type at the time. “It’s his appreciation of precision, accountability and flawless execution that we will tap into to engage and energise our amazing people and customers. “Just like our 5G network, Daniel is all about speed and performance and is the perfect partner to work with.” Optus stated that “Ricciardo is excited to partner with a brand that represents his core values and aspirations”. That deal, which was extended beyond its initial two years, has now expired. A PR video on the Optus website featuring Barty and Ricciardo has the message: “Playback Denied: Unavailable.” Last week we reported on the latest Roy Morgan research into Australia’s most trusted and distrusted brands. For the sixth consecutive quarter Optus was the country’s most distrusted brand, ahead of Woolworths and Coles. We also reported on how a sloppy NBN service was impacting the ChannelNews office in North Sydney.
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party is ready to introduce motions as early as today that would help the Liberals pass legislation to create their promised GST holiday but only if they separate it from their parallel promise to send $250 cheques to working Canadians. Singh said his party would open the procedural "gates" including motions to extend the sitting hours of the House of Commons to debate and pass the legislation in time for it take effect as promised on Dec. 14. Last week, the Liberals brought forward a plan to pause the GST on items like premade grocery items, beer and wine, toys and other holiday staples. The pause would last for two months. Singh says the NDP supports this idea, but oppose the associated $250 working Canadians benefit that is supposed to be mailed in the spring to anyone who earned an income up to $150,000 last year. Singh wants the benefit expanded to include non-working seniors and people who rely on disability benefits who did not have a working income in 2023. The Liberals have put the GST and benefit cheque bill on notice in the House of Commons but have been unable to introduce it because of an ongoing filibuster by the Conservatives over an unrelated matter of privilege. A Conservative motion demanding the government turn over unredacted documents to the RCMP on a green technology fund has been debated since late September, preventing any bills or other motions from being introduced or debated. The Conservatives insist that debate will continue until the documents are given to the RCMP or the NDP join them and the Bloc Québécois to vote non confidence in the government. At least two parties would need to support a motion to end or pause that debate. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last week that both the GST holiday and the $250 cheques are aimed at helping people struggling with the cost of living. The rebate as planned would be issued to an estimated 18 million Canadians in the spring and cost around $4.7 billion. The government has issued notice of the legislation but hasn't introduced it in the House yet. It also has put on notice a motion calling for debate on the bill, when it is introduced, to be limited to one 10-minute speech per party, and undergo just one vote for all the required stages of debate. Some Liberal MPs said Wednesday they think their government should consider expanding the eligibility for the benefit cheques. After the Liberal caucus meeting Seniors Minister Steven MacKinnon said the government has created a number of benefits to help low-income seniors. But Milton MP Adam van Koeverden said he wants to see more ambition in helping seniors and Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Marcus Powlowski said if the government can afford to include seniors in the payments it absolutely should. The Bloc Québécois is also calling on the government to offer the rebate to seniors who are fully retired. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called the measure a "tiny, two month tax trick" and says if Trudeau cared about affordability he'd get rid of the carbon tax. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 27, 2024. David Baxter, The Canadian PressATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old . The Carter Center said the 39th president died Sunday afternoon, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023, lived most of their lives. The center said he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. As reaction poured in from around the world, President Joe Biden mourned Carter’s death, saying the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” and he lost a dear friend. Biden cited Carter’s compassion and moral clarity, his work to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless and advocacy for the disadvantaged as an example for others. “To all of the young people in this nation and for anyone in search of what it means to live a life of purpose and meaning – the good life – study Jimmy Carter, a man of principle, faith, and humility,” Biden said in a statement. “He showed that we are a great nation because we are a good people – decent and honorable, courageous and compassionate, humble and strong.” Biden said he is ordering a state funeral for Carter in Washington. A moderate Democrat, Carter ran for president in 1976 as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad grin, effusive Baptist faith and technocratic plans for efficient government. His promise to never deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter said. Carter’s victory over Republican Gerald Ford, whose fortunes fell after pardoning Nixon, came amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over race, women’s rights and America’s role in the world. His achievements included brokering Mideast peace by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David for 13 days in 1978. But his coalition splintered under double-digit inflation and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His negotiations ultimately brought all the hostages home alive, but in a final insult, Iran didn’t release them until the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, who had trounced him in the 1980 election. Humbled and back home in Georgia, Carter said his faith demanded that he keep doing whatever he could, for as long as he could, to try to make a difference. He and Rosalynn co-founded The Carter Center in 1982 and spent the next 40 years traveling the world as peacemakers, human rights advocates and champions of democracy and public health. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, Carter helped ease nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiate cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, the center had monitored at least 113 elections around the world. Carter was determined to eradicate guinea worm infections as one of many health initiatives. Swinging hammers into their 90s, the Carters built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The common observation that he was better as an ex-president rankled Carter. His allies were pleased that he lived long enough to see biographers and historians revisit his presidency and declare it more impactful than many understood at the time. Propelled in 1976 by voters in Iowa and then across the South, Carter ran a no-frills campaign. Americans were captivated by the earnest engineer, and while an election-year Playboy interview drew snickers when he said he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times,” voters tired of political cynicism found it endearing. The first family set an informal tone in the White House, carrying their own luggage, trying to silence the Marine Band’s traditional “Hail to the Chief" and enrolling daughter, Amy, in public schools. Carter was lampooned for wearing a cardigan and urging Americans to turn down their thermostats. But Carter set the stage for an economic revival and sharply reduced America's dependence on foreign oil by deregulating the energy industry along with airlines, trains and trucking. He established the departments of Energy and Education, appointed record numbers of women and nonwhites to federal posts, preserved millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness and pardoned most Vietnam draft evaders. Emphasizing human rights , he ended most support for military dictators and took on bribery by multinational corporations by signing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He persuaded the Senate to ratify the Panama Canal treaties and normalized relations with China, an outgrowth of Nixon’s outreach to Beijing. But crippling turns in foreign affairs took their toll. When OPEC hiked crude prices, making drivers line up for gasoline as inflation spiked to 11%, Carter tried to encourage Americans to overcome “a crisis of confidence.” Many voters lost confidence in Carter instead after the infamous address that media dubbed his “malaise" speech, even though he never used that word. After Carter reluctantly agreed to admit the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979. Negotiations to quickly free the hostages broke down, and then eight Americans died when a top-secret military rescue attempt failed. Carter also had to reverse course on the SALT II nuclear arms treaty after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Though historians would later credit Carter's diplomatic efforts for hastening the end of the Cold war, Republicans labeled his soft power weak. Reagan’s “make America great again” appeals resonated, and he beat Carter in all but six states. Born Oct. 1, 1924, James Earl Carter Jr. married fellow Plains native Rosalynn Smith in 1946, the year he graduated from the Naval Academy. He brought his young family back to Plains after his father died, abandoning his Navy career, and they soon turned their ambitions to politics . Carter reached the state Senate in 1962. After rural white and Black voters elected him governor in 1970, he drew national attention by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Carter published more than 30 books and remained influential as his center turned its democracy advocacy onto U.S. politics, monitoring an audit of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. After a 2015 cancer diagnosis, Carter said he felt “perfectly at ease with whatever comes.” “I’ve had a wonderful life,” he said. “I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” Sanz is a former Associated Press reporter.
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