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New York — Some 580,000 glass coffee mugs are being recalled across the U. S. after dozens of burn and laceration injuries were reported by consumers. According to a Thursday notice from the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the now-recalled JoyJolt-branded “Declan Single Wall Glass Coffee Mugs” can crack or break when filled with hot liquids. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] To date, the CPSC added, there have been 103 incidents of these glasses breaking at the base — resulting in 56 injuries.

Miami — Former President Donald Trump said in an interview posted on Thursday he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U. S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail. Trump was asked about plans for companies to be able to import the “best and brightest” in a podcast taped Wednesday with venture capitalists and tech investors called the “All-In.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “What I want to do and what I will do is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country.

The U. S. Justice Department won’t pursue allegations that ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok misled U. S. consumers about their data security in a forthcoming suit accusing the company of children’s privacy violations, according to people familiar with the decision. The department is preparing to file a consumer protection lawsuit against TikTok later this year on behalf of the U.

Dallas — American Airlines put an unspecified number of employees on leave for their involvement in an incident in which several Black passengers were removed from a flight in Phoenix, allegedly over a complaint about body odor. American CEO Robert Isom wrote in a note to staff that the incident was unacceptable. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “I am incredibly disappointed by what happened on that flight and the breakdown of our procedures,” Isom said in the note this week.

Enlarge / Signage outside a Dell campus. (credit: Getty) Big tech companies are still trying to rally workers back into physical offices, and many workers are still not having it. Based on a recent report, computer-maker Dell has stumbled even more than most. Dell announced a new return-to-office initiative earlier this year.

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) It's one of the world's worst-kept secrets that large language models give blatantly false answers to queries and do so with a confidence that's indistinguishable from when they get things right. There are a number of reasons for this. The AI could have been trained on misinformation; the answer could require some extrapolation from facts that the LLM isn't capable of; or some aspect of the LLM's training might have incentivized a falsehood. But perhaps the simplest explanation is that an LLM doesn't recognize what constitutes a correct answer but is compelled to provide one.