China says it will prevent excess competition in the AI sector, echoing Xi Jinping's caution against excessive local government investment in AI last month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/chin…
What do you call a 9-sided banana?
A banonagon!
(Credit to my 4-year-old.)
There’s a significant downside to the booming Dutch beaver population.
Beavers are increasingly digging burrows and tunnels under roads, railways and
– even more worryingly – in dykes.
For a country where a quarter of the land sits below sea level,
this is not a minor problem
– especially as beavers are not exactly holding back when digging.
The booming business of Trump's deportation flights (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/us-deportation-flights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p65#a250828p65
Trump Signs Order Banning "Woke" AI Models [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/trump-signs-order-banning-woke-ai-models-video/
Google says it is behind the viral "nano-banana" image model, launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in Gemini app, Gemini API, more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/google-geminis-ai-image-m…
Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public (Matthew Lapierre/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/public-prayer-ban-quebec-1.7619985
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p12#a250829p12
An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/