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Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (Madeleine Cuff/New Scientist)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/25850

Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails | New Scientist
Operation Blue Skies is the world’s first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace, aiming to lower the climate impact of flights on a large scale 

I love supporting creators when I can and when they're making things that interest me. And if you're a maker, like me, you know it always feels good when people get what you're trying to make, even when others don't quite get it yet. Feeling thankful for those few early adopters who get what I'm trying to do, and happy to pass that along to other makers.

NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3df8edae-ae3b-4f56-83a3-40602edc17a3

Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack
The firm’s chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads.

Too long path bricked my laptop. Never typed recovery key so many times during the debiggng session. How was your evening?
https://github.com/openSUSE/microos-tools/issues/64

Too long path bricks the system boot · Issue #64 · openSUSE/microos-tools
I use Aeon Desktop with microos-tools-4.0+git29-1.1.x86_64 - suddenly my system refused to boot because SELinux relabel /home kept consistently failing. The relevant log is this [ 12.750913] system...

NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3df8edae-ae3b-4f56-83a3-40602edc17a3

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-says-a…

Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises.Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do.While Google ...

Microsoft publishes a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct", establishing that "people matter more than AI", rejecting legal personhood for AI, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/994566/microsoft-humanist-ai-code-of-co…

Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
Microsoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns.

Filings and sources: Microsoft shuttered 15 branch offices and joint ventures in China in the past five years, amid China's push for domestic software (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/microsoft-retreats-china-ai-boo…