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Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight But he still wants a Pentagon deal.

Looks like OpenAI is siding with Anthropic on this: www.axios.com/2026/02/27/a...

27.02.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...

Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?*

A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.

05.02.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 432 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 15

Yet www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
Dunno, fitting, isn't it? 😁

28.01.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Photoshopped selfies would still work better than AI generated avatars, IMO :)

21.01.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What's even the point? VAST doesn't have a creative team capable of taking employees' pictures?

21.01.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

19.01.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 1313 πŸ” 535 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 110
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notice to Americans: the French are rapidly innovating in the burger space

18.01.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nvidia's basic context memory extension infrastructure In an effort to get to know the basic Nvidia KV cache extension infrastructure, the ICMSP (Inference Context Memory Storage Platform) better, we asked Nvidia some questions about the Vera Rubin Pod ra...

blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/12/n...

12.01.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

17.12.2025 02:49 πŸ‘ 4299 πŸ” 1914 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 84

If you are (as I am) watching The Princess Bride for REASONS today, please take a look at the quoted thread for a master's look at the masters of swords

15.12.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Immigrants Once Avoided Some Regions of America. That’s a Big Reason We’re So Divided. Today’s debates over immigration and assimilation have their roots in patterns of settlement that go back centuries.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

15.12.2025 06:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Context Widows or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

wonderful post by @kevinbaker.bsky.social

β€œTo ask about LLMs and science is to ask what program was already running when they arrived. The program, as it turns out, had been running for decades, and it was not optimized for epistemic depth.”

14.12.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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Opinion | Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

14.12.2025 15:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A money printing machine, apparently.

04.12.2025 01:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

25.11.2025 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The new high performance computing firm with links to a quant trader An investment firm has emerged seemingly from nowhere to invest billions in high-performance computing centres.

www.efinancialcareers.com/news/northma...

22.11.2025 06:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So on brand!

18.11.2025 23:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

06.11.2025 07:22 πŸ‘ 6355 πŸ” 3562 πŸ’¬ 237 πŸ“Œ 452
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Dismantling of US federal agencies will β€˜destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.

For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

04.11.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 248 πŸ” 170 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 12

Have they really broken up, though? Or is it more like open marriage is what's needed to keep those cloud relationships alive, now? 😁

03.11.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Does it say anything about where those systems will be physically hosted? Given that OCI is again in the loop, I guess that it could mean Oracle is "buying" the hardware and hosting those 100k GPUs in OCI, with DoE paying a monthly rent for dedicated access.

28.10.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

www.theverge.com/news/807147/...

28.10.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And this "The system is co-developed by AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oak Ridge National Laboratory." prompts the question of OCI's role, here, too... πŸ€”

28.10.2025 00:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Age of De-Skilling Will AI stretch our mindsβ€”or stunt them?

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

26.10.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The case for memes as a new form of comics Both comics and memes rely on the same interplay of visual and verbal elements for their humor.

arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

21.10.2025 20:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)

blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-d...

19.10.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A cartoonist's review of AI art This is a comic about AI art.

"Consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."

This goes in a direction you did not expect.

17.10.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of dataβ€”including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communicationsβ€”sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com/story/satell...

15.10.2025 01:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I suspect the "hotel bar" plays a more important role in the decision to attend conferences than one may be ready to admit.

14.10.2025 15:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or (unpopular opinion), maybe it's time to question the relevance of giant in-person conferences in 2025, drawing 15k+ people to one city (with all that environmental impact), only to check email while jet-lagged speakers present slides already online, or attend meetings that could have been emails?

14.10.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0