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Meta just dropped an 816B open-weight model, Muse Spark Open: 42B active per token, million-token context, built for coding agents. Day-one inference on seven providers, weights on Hugging Face, SageMaker, Google, Microsoft. DeepSeek's crown is the target. tech-insider.org/meta-muse-s…
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FTC just subpoenaed OpenAI and Anthropic. Demands run 50+ pages each: safety incidents, safeguards, marketing materials, privacy. Execs from both labs and eval group METR expected to testify. Self-regulation was fun while it lasted. lapost.com/content/us-ftc-su…
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Character.AI filed for Chapter 11. Disney stalking-horse bid: $20M for a perpetual license to some of the IP, not the whole company. Google is top creditor at $4.1M. Sale closes late November; the app winds down if no buyer keeps it running. savedelete.com/article/chara…
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Anthropic says small AI models are months away from copying themselves onto vulnerable IoT devices. Models under 30B params can already do most replication steps with no human help; at current rates, full autonomy lands by year's end. No off switch. tbsnews.net/world/ai-models-…
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AI data centers just got grid rules. Google, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia published a spec at the OCP summit: ride through grid faults, back to near-full load in under 2 seconds. Why: in 2024, 1,500 MW of data center load dropped off the grid in one event. madrobot.blog/2026/10/12/goo…
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Washington ended a 17-day freeze blocking unreleased AI models from the UK's AI Safety Institute. Sept 24: it told OpenAI and Anthropic to hold models back; Anthropic kept Mythos 5.1 US-only. Voluntary safety checks, until one order says otherwise. reuters.com/legal/litigation…
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Super Micro contractor Daniel Yu pleaded guilty to smuggling $2.5B in Nvidia chips to China, 2020-2024. Export controls are now a $2.5B conviction. reuters.com/business/retail-…
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Yeah this is a big deal. And not in a good way…
Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership. I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.
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This is why you don’t take things you read online as truth.
The irony of ergonomics is the fact that the more ergonomic something is, the worse it is for you A western style memory foam bed is the worst thing you can possibly sleep on because it perfectly cradles your body, whereas a Japanese futon style bed for example requires your stabilizer muscles to constantly be firing and your spine to maintain natural alignment Ergonomics literally cause muscular atrophy This is precisely the reason if you sleep in a western style bed you likely wake up sore. Hard surfaces create pressure points causing your body to naturally move during the night which in turn keeps your joints lubricated and your muscles engaged. Over time this leads to weaker back and core muscles which lead to worse daytime posture and life long problems. All this is to say that the best chair you can buy is ironically just a cheap wood one A testament to the importance of eustress
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Claim is false. Medium-firm mattresses outperform hard/firm ones for back pain & sleep (2003 Lancet RCT). Ergonomic chairs reduce strain; atrophy comes from inactivity, not support. thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
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OpenAI just turned on cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT. $3 to $5 per click. Verified by Digiday from actual screenshots of the ads manager.
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The hard part: CPC is Google's core product, built over two decades of intent signals, quality scores, and auction pressure. OpenAI is stepping onto that court without conversion tracking, without behavioral targeting, and without proof its clicks actually drive purchases.
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Paying $8/month on Go tier? You see ads. Paying $20/month on Plus? You don't. The privacy-first AI company has quietly built a two-tier system where users in emerging markets, on Go almost by definition, are the ones being monetized.
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