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Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Dak Prescott Shares Strong Feelings on Cowboys Rookie Caleb Downs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-caleb-downs-feelings/

Nein, ich hab's nicht kleiner! Die Geldautomaten in der Schweiz lassen Euronen nur als 50 €-Scheine raus, und das ist eine gültige Einheit dieser Währung. Und wenn du um Steuern zu hinterziehen oder aus Glaubensgründen kein EC-Terminal betreiben willst, musst du halt einen genügend grossen Kassenstock bereithalten!
So. Ich habe fertig.

A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3B, and added $40M in ARR in Q2 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/runway-started…

Runway started by helping filmmakers. Now it wants to beat Google at AI. | TechCrunch
AI video generation startup Runway is betting that video generation is the path to world models. And that being an AI outsider is an advantage, not a liability.

If we let the orbital datacenter scams get to the point of launching, we deserve the Kessler Syndrome we get.
Sun-synch terminator-riders are in a limited orbital space. Many current residents belong to governments, as it’s a useful surveillance orbit. Once upon a time it’s the sort of thing that a U.N. body might regulate. Suggesting that now just seems like a joke…

A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/meta-must-face-adult-fil…

The family we bought this house from, the dad had set up the conservatory as his man cave. It had a TV, Playstation, beer fridge and, very unusually for a British house, he'd installed a through-wall AC unit.
"We'll never be using that" we said, after turning the conservatory back into a conservatory. And indeed in the 11-odd years we've lived here, we've hardly ever put it on.
But today we have flung open the doors between the conservatory and the living room and while it may not be gloriously cool in here, it's a good 4 or 5 degrees less than the rest of the house. Which is a win in my book.
I expect it's not the last time we'll be doing that this week either.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
R. Missing:
🎵 Turning Off Lights Is My Destiny
#RMissing
https://rmissing.bandcamp.com/track/falling-girl-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/60bz1ou3poksnvKBr3js2q

Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution may be the supplemental "glue" needed to make brain implants for restoring vision shine: textures and shading, undistorted visual feedback, fill-in for failing electrodes, etc https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/meta-must-face-adult-fil…