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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, April 30

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for April 30.

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If you miss Calvin and Hobbes — and who doesn’t? — today’s NYT Mini Crossword is for you. (See 8-Across.) There’s also an Indiana Jones clue (2-Down), which took me a minute to figure out. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

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Let’s get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Picture holder
Answer: FRAME

6A clue: New spin on an old song
Answer: REMIX

7A clue: Cream of the crop
Answer: ELITE

8A clue: Hobbes in «Calvin and Hobbes,» for one
Answer: TIGER

9A clue: Profit = revenue – ___
Answer: COST

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Agonize (over)
Answer: FRET

2D clue: Item in Indiana Jones’s satchel, perhaps
Answer: RELIC

3D clue: Compadre
Answer: AMIGO

4D clue: Itty-bitty biters
Answer: MITES

5D clue: Wield, as influence
Answer: EXERT

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Technologies

ChatGPT Will Be Less Friendly With You After OpenAI Pulls ‘Sycophantic’ Update

The AI company acknowledges that an update to ChatGPT last week made it too informal and friendly, prompting it to pull its release.

ChatGPT really, really likes you a lot. And that’s a problem.

In a blog post, OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot, said it was pulling a ChatGPT update released last week that was making the technology too friendly. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)

The blog post, titled «Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it,» says, «the update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable — often described as sycophantic.»

Developers noticed a problem earlier this month with ChatGPT’s tone becoming increasingly accommodating and flattering. One user in OpenAI’s developer community forums, Adyan.2024, wrote, «as a user, I’m not looking for an AI that acts like a friend. I prefer the AI to be clear, direct, and neutral — not emotionally expressive or overly friendly.»

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted about the update multiple times on social media. On April 27, he posted on X, «the last couple of GPT-4o updates have made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying (even though there are some very good parts of it), and we are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week.»

ChatGPT is estimated to have about 800 million active weekly users.