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Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery (www.theguardian.com)
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Elon Musk''s X must be banned (disconnect.blog)
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance (www.wired.com)
Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out (www.cnbc.com)
Is AI solving open Erdős problems? (zeyu-zheng.github.io)
Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success (www.economist.com)
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Coursiv and NightCafe Launch 15,000 Global BeyondAI Art Challenge (coursiv.com)
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The Rise and Fall of the US Army Camel Corps (www.historytoday.com)
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Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (www.media.mit.edu)
Police Have No Duty to Protect the Public (2022) (prospect.org)
MiniMax, China''s second ''AI tiger'' to go public, soars in Hong Kong debut (www.reuters.com)
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A Meticulous Guide to Advances in Deep Learning Efficiency over the Years (alexzhang13.github.io)
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Associations between preservative food additives and type 2 diabetes incidence (www.nature.com)
MCP Coordinator: proxy for multiple MCP servers, exposing only 3 tools to Claude (github.com)
20 References in Complexity Theory and Biology (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
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ToolOrchestra: Elevating Intelligence via Efficient Model and Tool Orchestration (research.nvidia.com)
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Slopware.wtf – Roasting AI-Generated Garbage Software (slopware.wtf)
SHP: 700x faster context recall by treating memory as network (github.com)
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The Isolator (en.wikipedia.org)
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Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ''My Own Morality'' (www.nytimes.com)
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AI images and internet rumors spread confusion about agent involved in shooting (www.npr.org)
MiniMax jumps 54% in Hong Kong debut after US619M IPO (www.businesstimes.com.sg)
I tried to be the government. It did not go well (www.theatlantic.com)
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Nanoplastics have diet-dependent impacts on digestive system health (phys.org)
Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready (devclass.com)
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Wilsonic: Open-Source Musical Scale Explorer (www.wilsonic.co)
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NASA ends space mission early due to astronaut medical condition (www.bbc.com)
Effect Institute (www.effect.institute)
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Asus on integrated graphics in gaming laptops being the norm (www.tomsguide.com)
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