Beyond Words: Teaching Machines to Get the Joke

New research explores how to imbue AI agents with the ability to understand sarcasm, moving past simple keyword detection towards true contextual reasoning.

New research explores how to imbue AI agents with the ability to understand sarcasm, moving past simple keyword detection towards true contextual reasoning.

In an interview with Us Weekly, Shahi described Season 2 of Paradise as “a roller-coaster ride,” and praised creator Dan Fogelman for consistently surprising viewers with unexpected twists and turns.

Each Doctor is different, but they all tend to explain complex ideas using strange and imaginative science fiction terms. This is fun to watch and listen to, but as Peter Capaldi shared on the podcast Half the Example, it meant he couldn’t memorize all of his dialogue. His solution? A trick other actors who’ve played The Doctor have also used.

A preview of Marvel’s X-Men #23 (from the creative team of Jed MacKay, Tony Daniel, Mark Morales, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo, and Clayton Cowles) shows the current X-Men in a routine meeting with Doug Ramsey, soon after he becomes Revelation. The meeting is quickly interrupted when Cyclops is suddenly possessed by his future self. This happens because someone needs to be prepared to stop Revelation and prevent a catastrophic future.

Two of his most popular songs were prominently featured in the finale of Stranger Things, which was likely the biggest television event of 2025. Netflix heavily promoted the series finale, making it feel like both a large-scale marketing campaign and a significant artistic achievement.
Meanwhile, in the bustling bazaar of cryptocurrency, the majestic Bitcoin (BTC) has reclaimed its throne at the splendid height of $90,000! Ethereum (ETH) and its merry band of tokens have also managed to scrape together meager gains, as the market cap swells almost 1% to a whopping $3.11 trillion. 🎉

A new machine learning approach accurately reconstructs how light echoes within active galaxies, revealing crucial information about their central engines.
A new control framework enables heterogeneous multi-agent systems to maintain coordinated behavior even with significant communication delays.

That said, PIPPIN surged by more than 25% in the last 24 hours, emerging as the second-best performer among the top 100 coins in terms of capitalization. And lo! PIPPIN, that most capricious of memecoins, has surged by a quarter in a single day, a feat that would make even the most jaded investor pause and wonder if the gods of finance have finally taken a liking to their antics. 🚀

As network conditions evolve, maintaining accurate traffic classification requires continuous adaptation and a robust understanding of underlying data stability.