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These are some of my thoughts on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas - On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence and the encyclical video presentation.
The future of artificial intelligence is in a building state; thus, the encyclical…

The Meta settlement will force meaningful changes on Facebook and Instagram. It also reflects the degree to which public outrage is outmatched by the speed and size of Big Tech.

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An anti-pattern is a commonly used process, structure, or pattern of action that, despite initially appearing to be an appropriate and effective response to a problem, has more bad consequences than good ones.Simeon Simeonov first wrote an introduction to…

Traders now are carefully watching yen levels for signs of when authorities might move to protect the currency.

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OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …

An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement…

How Wirewiki's domain-name autocomplete renders suggestions next frame for 99% of keystrokes.

The EU AI Office sent its first formal requests for information to general-purpose AI model providers on security, evaluations, and monitoring.

The Berkeley International Office announced Wednesday that it will pause international students’ applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training “for the foreseeable future.”

How NAT broke the concept of an internet connection

How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.

A controversial viral interview has just triggered a mass internet revolt, doxxing attempts, and federal investigations against America's biggest surveillance startup.

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.

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On main, we support content-addressed caching, but only at the wheel-level. That is, if you download the same wheel twice from different sources, they share a cache entry. But files within ...

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