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Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M — Dating app Bumble

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is

“We are going to have a multi-racial nation in Singapore. This is not a Malay nation. This is not a Chinese nation. This is not an Indian nation. Everybody will have his place here, equal: language, c

Women are not suitable for dealing with the amount of violence necessary to maintain civilization. This is, again, because women are wired to care for babies with whom 'zero' violence is the correct a

Big Tech's 1 trillion AI moat just got DESTROYED by a free Chinese download. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are pouring fortunes into chips and data centers because they have been told that whoev

Decisions about how to use AI in your organization are increasingly organizational design and strategy decisions, not IT choices: How do you integrate agents into your firm? What intelligence will you

arXiv:2606.24825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is a foundational NLP task underpinning machine translation, information extraction, and syntactic parsing. Despite Marathi

LOTS of alpha in this pod: - Why Databricks beat Snowflake (! a straight answer!) - Why everyone is building a metaharness now - Why the @neondatabase made so much sense (so much @nikitabase glazing i

arXiv:2606.23943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tokenization is a foundational step in NLP pipelines, yet standard evaluation metrics such as fertility rate fail to capture morphological correctness f

In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with p

arXiv:2606.21366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work examines sexualised AI-generated English-speaking voices offered by a popular commercial platform. New technologies may enable sexua

Reuters: Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in 2025 — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is in talks to p

We’ve designed and built our first AI chip: Jalapeño. Designed from the ground up by OpenAI and brought to production with @Broadcom, Jalapeño is purpose-built for the LLM workloads powering ChatGPT,

arXiv:2606.22974v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work on preference elicitation in large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated that, when given a series of choices between two outcomes, LL

Although I supported Musk in his suit against OpenAI, and admire what he did for electric cars, I am afraid my considered overall view is not very different from this: Candidly I have no idea why anyo

By their logic, absolutely! USAID funded Osama Bin Laden's Mujahideen, which spawned Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban. So did USAID supporters cause 4.7 million deaths in the Global War on Terror while

By their logic, yes USAID funded the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2014 that directly led to the 2014-2022 Donbas War (15,000 killed) and the subsequent 2022 Russia-Ukraine War (300,000 killed). So

Francois Chollet presents a framework for understanding different approaches to token usage in AI models: casual users maximize tokens for flexibility, competitive users minimize tokens for efficiency

arXiv:2603.02370v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have grown increasingly powerful in recent years, but can also exhibit harmful biases. Prior studies investigat

India is home to about 60% of the world’s wild Asian elephants, and around 80% of the animals’ habitat lies outside protected areas, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Chang

arXiv:2606.22780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental illnesses among drug users are an increasing international issue, particularly in regions where early detection cannot be easily undertaken. The

A new update for Google Home could make it less likely your smart home cameras mistake you for someone else, just because you're facing away from the camera. Starting June 23rd, Google's expanding its

If you are asking “Why push back against anti-datacenter efforts?” I consider it a tragedy that anti-nuclear efforts largely strangled nuclear power in the US based on vibes, and I don’t want to see t

Telecom operators have seen remarkable returns from using generative AI to automate network management, customer care and back-office operations. Most of that impact has been task‑based: automation th

Telecommunications is an incredibly complex, highly specialized domain. Modern mobile networks are inherently multi-vendor, featuring diverse and often proprietary data structures. While AI has made m

Bloomberg: Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ — Cybersecurity company Varonis Systems

This, once again, shows why the theory of change of 'we just wait for a wArNiNg ShOt and then everyone will suddenly be reasonable!' is flawed. We need to do a lot of work to make the situation legibl

ZenBusiness Inc., a company that offers an all-in-one-platform to help entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses, today announced it’s expanding its Velo artificial intelligence guide, featuring

By the end of the decade and maybe a lot sooner, we will wonder why we ever treated these folks like they were gods. “The more I listen to AI company CEOs, the stranger they sound,” says another tech

have been thinking a bunch about model routing and related things current thoughts here, would love feedback: 1/ there is a difference between 'model routing' and 'model council' 'model routing' = rou

Neuralink now has its 26th recipient Sgt. Lee Marten, @Canuckula, is a Vancouver Police Sergeant, cyclist, and ALS patient who became the first Canadian to receive the N1 brain-computer interface Lee

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab — Nvidia Corp. is w

This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance, describing a small but effective inpainting model - a model where you can mark region

There are basically two skillsets that matter more in the age of coding agents. The first is the one everyone talks about: product sense and taste. Code is cheap now, so knowing exactly what to build

Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve says Steam Machine, its new living room-friendly PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model, and go on sale starting June 29 — You can register your interest start

1/ Regardez cette courbe. C’est la fréquence du terme « white supremacy » dans la presse américaine (travaux de David Rozado). Explosion brutale après 2013. Pas une explosion du racisme réel. Une expl

Obama is, was, and always will be superior to the worst president in history, Donald Trump. Obama got Iran to give up 98% of its enriched uranium, keep enrichment below 4%, and allow inspections to ve

sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python's default sqlite3 package, including

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in. Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs 'Greenwater Services' a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool. Step 3: Fill th

The Media and Left worked together to create the “white supremacy” narrative. They had to create the lie. They had to create the hate. They had to create the division. It all started after 2010. Why?!

this claim around creativity is too strong, IMHO. truly novel ideas from LLMs are surely rare but i don’t think that any math proves they are impossible. note that the objective function and the outpu

🚨🚨🚨A research project idea! How to measure world models? Everyone's talking about world models these days. World model here, world model there. We can argue about what 'world model' actually means, an

As India builds frontier AI rooted in its own languages and knowledge, IIT Bombay and BharatGen are proud to support and participate in Project Tapestry: an open, global consortium for nations to adva

GLM-5.2 has been 'stuck' at No.2 on Hugging Face Trending for three days, but I'm thrilled to have connected with the creator behind the No.1 project this afternoon. It's been amazing to see open-sour

I ran GLM 5.2 with OpenCode harness against Claude Opus this week deployed locally. Bottom line: It is a real frontier coding model and insanely good for the price (free). Open source model + open sou

In 1958 Ian Donald published what is now the foundational paper on medical ultrasound for obstetrics. He was so widely ridiculed by his colleagues at the time that they nicknamed him Mad Donald [1], a