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François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI
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François Chollet on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.François Chollet is a leading voice in AI. He's the creator of the Keras library, aut...YouTube
Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.Consortium News
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
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When Figma starts designing us
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The subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we makeDesign Systems International
Genocide Convention: Articles I, II, III and IVMichel Chossudovsky
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
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Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years.noperator
Are international institutions being weaponised against the very states they’re meant to monitor? This investigation examines the IAEA’s credibilityРикардо Мартинс (New Eastern Outlook)
Israel launched heavy strikes across Yemen overnight as part of a new campaign against the country dubbed ‘Black Flag’thecradle.co
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Kanzler Merz verteidigt die Entscheidung, zum Berliner CSD keine Regenbogenfahne auf dem Reichstag zu hissen: Er sei "kein Zirkuszelt". Kritiker werfen ihm eine "Entgleisung" vor.
Bundestag ist kein "Zirkuszelt": Breite Kritik an Merz
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Russian cyber units have 60,000 highly skilled IT specialists Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAlexey Krechetov (Rossa Primavera International News)
Some of the dead found counties away from the summer camp itself; four of the 27 missing girls from Camp Mystic have been found dead, US media reports.AFP (DAWN.COM)
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Mercury: Ultra-Fast Language Models Based on Diffusion
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We present Mercury, a new generation of commercial-scale large language models (LLMs) based on diffusion. These models are parameterized via the Transformer architecture and trained to predict multiple tokens in parallel.arXiv.org
With recent geopolitical tensions, shifts in alliances, and the expansion of the BRICS , this Summit becomes a focal point for discussions.Anne HEATHER (Oriental Review)
Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
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Training Claude on copyrighted books it purchased was fair use, but piracy wasn't, the judge ruled.Lee Chong Ming (Business Insider)
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The published version of EIR’s July 6 statement, “Media Slander Campaign Provokes Death Threats Against Ukrainian Economist Vitrenko: Where Are Human Rights Protections in Ukraine?” is now available on the http://eir.news website.Dennis Small (EIR News)
Netanyahu and Trump will meet in Washington for the third time over the past six months, though the meeting is not expected to be open to the pressChaim Levinson (Haaretz)
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Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI
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A Haaretz editorial (July 4, 2025) was significant when it discussed the role of American mercenaries in the killing of Palestinians in Gaza, stating that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s mission had failed miserably.The newspaper referred to an iDAILY YEMEN
RIO DE JANEIRO (Sputnik) - BRICS leaders expressed hope that the current efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict would lead to a peaceful agreement, according to a declaration of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro published on Sunday.Sputnik International
The Greek bulk carrier Magic Seas, sailing under the Liberian flag, sank in the Red Sea after an attack by Yemeni Houthis. This is the first such operation by the Ansar Allah movement since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran.Новостник (Военное обозрение)
Caitlin Johnstone- Netanyahu didn’t make Israel the way it is. The way Israel is made Netanyahu. Netanyahu is Israel in its natural state.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
Swedish Campground (2004)
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News Analysis: UK auto output plunges amid erratic U.S. trade policy, investment doubts-english.news.cn
Beijing’s newly designated air route over the Taiwan Strait has drawn criticism from Taipei, though Chinese officials maintain it is a routine adjustment within sovereign airspace.Al Mayadeen English (Taiwan condemns China’s new air route over strait, warns of escalation)
Alahednews - Fastnews - Sheikh Qassem: If it weren’t for the resistance, which can defend itself at the bare minimum, ‘Israel’ would have invaded Lebanese villages ...english.alahednews.news
Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI
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Memorize piano scales with ease! A piano practice program w/ MIDI support. Consider it an interactive reference manual 🎹 - ZaneH/piano-trainerGitHub
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Over 288 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces over the past 100 hours in 59 massacres across the Gaza Strip, including 99 aid seekers, according to Gaza’s GovernmeEditing Team (Quds News Network)
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.BRICS
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Israeli regime escalated its regional acts of aggression by targeting key ports and civilian infrastructure in Yemen, provoking renewed missile strikes by the Yemeni resistance in solidarity with Palestinians under occupation.Tasnim News Agency
What every programmer should know about how CPUs work
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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by videoconference at the 17th BRICS summit, launched in Rio de Janeiro this Sunday, addressing hard critics on theteleSURenglish
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Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered - phys.org/news/2025-07-hymn-bab…
In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the journal Iraq.Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Phys.org)
TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) – The BRICS group condemned the attacks by the Israeli regime and the United States on Iran in a statement issued during its summit in Brazil on Sunday.Mehr News Agency
By María Paéz Victor - Apr 18, 2022[Editor's note: Although this article is over three years old, Orinoco Tribune publishes it because it considers it to be as relevant now as it was at the time of its publication.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Pyongyang, July 6 (KCNA) — Israel’s “war machine” which plunged the whole area of Gaza in blood is running madly.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Kiev regime is intensifying its terrorist maneuvers against Russian territory. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The escalation of Ukrainian attacks on…Strategic Culture Foundation
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Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has called on resistance groups across the West Asia region to stand firm against aggressive actions by Israel and the United States.PressTV
Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore
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Neanderthals used heat and water to extract fat from bones 125,000 years ago, revealing advanced food processing skills.Dario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
BEIJING – The China International Press Communication Center (CIPCC) concluded its first-half 2025 media exchange program with a grand closing ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing on Saturday.Tehran Times
The US attack on Iran may not have wiped out its nuclear ambitions but it did set them back yearsSeymour Hersh
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The are a number of signals Putin can glean from Trump's Middle East moves, some which push progress back, not forward, to peace.Mark Episkopos (Responsible Statecraft)
US President Donald Trump has accused Elon Musk of promoting “disruption and chaos” and undermining the American political systemRT
Drop Site obtained Hamas’s amendments, which zero in on increasing aid, defining Israeli withdrawal, and getting U.S. guarantees to end the war.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
LOS ANGELES, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced Saturday thaten.people.cn
LLMs should not replace therapists
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Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to *replace* mental health providers, a use case promoted in the tech startup and research space.arXiv.org
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Pars Today – Leaders of BRICS member states, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, urged all parties involved in the Gaza conflict to engage in good-faith negotiation...Pars Today
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Washington will impose 10% tariffs on countries that support BRICS’ “anti-American” policies, according to US President Donald Trump. “Any country that supports the BRICS’s anti-American policies will be subject to an additional 10% tariff.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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Israeli occupation forces significantly escalated their operations across the West Bank on Saturday ...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
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Tretze dotacions dels Bombers de la Generalitat treballen en un incendi que crema totalment una nau a Castellcir (Moianès). El cos d’emergències ha rebut l’avís a les 7.05.ACN (VilaWeb)
El jutge de l’Audiència espanyola que instrueix el cas Koldo ha citat a declarar com a investigats Isabel Pardo de Vera, ex-presidenta d’ADIF, i Javier Herrero, ex-director general de Carreteres. Les compareixences es faran el 21 de juliol a les 11.Oriol Babler (VilaWeb)
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in reply to Acta Populi • • •So it is up to the US left in the near future to struggle and reconstruct the glorious free trade and markets ideals so many industrialists and bankers fought for in the past.
The right wing think tanks in the US are slapping the pseudo-left so hard they are spinning in such high rates their heads are pointing North!
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#materialism or #barbarism ?