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99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots (patronview.com)
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Moonshot''s AI model Kimi k3 breaks out of testing environment, researchers say (www.reuters.com)
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AI and the University – Carson Gross [video] (www.youtube.com)
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US unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July as slump in growth continues (www.theguardian.com)
US economy loses 23,000 jobs in July as labor market weakens (www.usatoday.com)
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Almost consensus: ABD and the edges of quorum replication (theconsensus.dev)
The Contracting Circle (borretti.me)
US''s largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (www.niemanlab.org)
Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model (www.reuters.com)
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U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower (www.wsj.com)
Europe''s Bitter Lesson (fabianlindfors.se)
SambaNova Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) (sambanova.ai)
AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot (www.fastcompany.com)
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Microsoft Redesigns the Windows Webpage (www.microsoft.com)
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Airtable Acquisition Is ''Kick in the Gut'' for Unicorns and Their Backers (www.wsj.com)
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Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor (www.theguardian.com)
Disney Cracks Open the Door to TikTok Creator Videos (www.nytimes.com)
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OpenDoctrines, open source grand strategy game moddable via WASM in 13 languages (github.com)
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OpenAI Response to Apple [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human (www.shreveporttimes.com)
Meta fined 567M in largest child safety ruling against social media giant (www.bbc.com)
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay 567M over harms to children''s mental health (www.theguardian.com)
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Google Shakes Up A.I. Leadership (www.nytimes.com)
Objects That Explain America (www.nytimes.com)
Google Shifts AI Power Back to Brin as DeepMind''s Hassabis Steps Aside (www.ft.com)
Arbitrage Exists Between Kalshi and Polymarket but You Can''t Exploit It (www.zhinit.dev)
What I''m Watching So You Don''t Have To (roninsana.substack.com)
Draupnir (en.wikipedia.org)
Louisiana AG Liz Murrill Keeps Opposing Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted (www.propublica.org)
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