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Warten auf den AI Mode – und bangen vor den Auswirkungen
Der neue KI-Modus in Googles Suche war für Mittwoch angekündigt, der Rollout dauert allerdings. Die EU braucht Geduld. Und Nerven.
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OpenStore is scaling back its e-commerce aggregation efforts, closing nearly all of its 40 Shopify stores and rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/openstore-demise-endga…

OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market
OpenStore is rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label after shuttering many of the Shopify storefronts it acquired and laying off staffers.

Minute Media, owner of The Players' Tribune, acquires VideoVerse, a software platform for distributing real-time sports highlights, in its largest deal to date (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/minute-media-acquires-videoverse

Exclusive: Minute Media acquires VideoVerse in its largest deal ever
The deal marks the largest of the seven acquisitions completed in Minute Media's 14-year history.

Russian attacks kill 6, injure 21 across Ukraine, target energy infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/08/russian-attacks-kill-injure-across.html

🍇 Grapevines can be converted from agricultural waste to biodegradable films for sustainable packaging
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-grapevines-agricultural-biodegradable-sustainable-packaging.html

Grapevines can be converted from agricultural waste to biodegradable films for sustainable packaging
A new study from South Dakota State University reveals how grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that is stronger than traditional plastic and will decompose in the environment in a relatively short amount of time.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday drew instant jeers when she defended the mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers -- and suggested that they could be replaced by Americans who are currently enrolled in Medicaid.
While speaking in Washington, D.C., Rollins declared that there would be "no amnesty" for immigrant farm workers
despite President Donald Trump sayingjust days ago that he was willing to let these workers stay at their jobs.
Instead, …

Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers | Common Dreams
U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.

Trump and his Republican henchmen are pure evil
US agriculture secretary says Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-agriculture-medicaid-migrant-farm-workers

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Wenting Zhao, Pranjal Aggarwal, Swarnadeep Saha, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jason Weston, Ilia Kulikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06870

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Scaling up test-time compute, by generating multiple independent solutions and selecting or aggregating among them, has become a central paradigm for improving large language models (LLMs) on challenging reasoning tasks. While most prior work relies on simple majority voting or reward model ranking to aggregate solutions, these approaches may only yield limited benefits. In this work, we propose to learn aggregation as an explicit reasoning skill: given a set of candidate solutions, we train an…

Sam Altman: Social Media seit KI-Bots fühle sich fake an
Der OpenAI-CEO wundert sich offenbar über die Auswirkungen von KI auf das Internet und vor allem auf soziale Netzwerke.
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Yale-Studie: KI vernichtet keine Jobs im großen Stil
ChatGPT und Co. verändern die Arbeitswelt, aber nicht so dramatisch wie befürchtet. Eine aktuelle Yale-Studie gibt Einblicke in die tatsächlichen Auswirkungen.
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