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Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9

Musk's xAI just laid off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok
XAI laid off at least 500 of the workers on its data annotation team on Friday night.

Se podría aplicar la ley antiterrorista contra los energúmenos que estšn protagonizando las razias de la extrema derecha (incluídos los de FO (Falange Obrera)) contra la población de Torre Pacheco. Pero la ley es tan desigual en este país....

A federal judge dismisses Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit against Fox News as a "shotgun complaint" and gives Newsmax until September 11 to refile (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/newsmax-fox-news-antitrust-complaint-1236509021/

Judge Dismisses Newsmax’s “Shotgun Complaint” Against Fox News But Will Allow New Filing
The judge will allow the case to be refiled.

Securing Cryptographic Software via Typed Assembly Language (Extended Version)
Shixin Song, Tingzhen Dong, Kosi Nwabueze, Julian Zanders, Andres Erbsen, Adam Chlipala, Mengjia Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08727

Securing Cryptographic Software via Typed Assembly Language (Extended Version)
Authors of cryptographic software are well aware that their code should not leak secrets through its timing behavior, and, until 2018, they believed that following industry-standard constant-time coding guidelines was sufficient. However, the revelation of the Spectre family of speculative execution attacks injected new complexities. To block speculative attacks, prior work has proposed annotating the program's source code to mark secret data, with hardware using this information to decide wh…

I spot a tankie from a mile away, and I’m never falling for their revisionist garbage. Two insta-blocks in one day? Absolutely glorious. No platform for authoritarian apologists, win win.
#AntiTankieAction #Tankies

a bit physically relieved that we managed to avoid what would have been an extinction-level event for the web (the Mozilla search deal is also deemed fine now) https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/tech/google-antitrust-ruling-chrome-android

Google will not be forced to sell off Chrome or Android, judge rules in landmark antitrust ruling
A court will not force Google to sell off its Chrome browser or Android, a federal judge said in a court filing on Tuesday. The decision serves as a significant win for the tech company, which has avoided the most extreme possible outcome from a landmark antitrust case that determined the company was operating an illegal online search monopoly.

#USpol #ice #dhs #AligatorAuschwitz

Die spinnen, die TechBros.
"OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company's largest investor, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two long-term AI partners."

MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
Liujian Tang, Shaokang Dong, Yijia Huang, Minqi Xiang, Hongtao Ruan, Bin Wang, Shuo Li, Zhihui Cao, Hailiang Pang, Heng Kong, He Yang, Mingxu Chai, Zhilin Gao, Xingyu Liu, Yingnan Fu, Jiaming Liu, Tao Gui, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qi Zhang, Kang Wang, Yunke Zhang, Yuran Wang

MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
This paper presents MagicGUI, a foundational mobile GUI agent designed to address critical challenges in perception, grounding, and reasoning within real-world mobile GUI environments. The framework is underpinned by following six key components: (1) a comprehensive and accurate dataset, constructed via the scalable GUI Data Pipeline, which aggregates the largest and most diverse GUI-centric multimodal data to date from open-source repositories, automated crawling, and targeted manual annotatio…

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Pume Tuchinda, Lalita Lowphansirikul, Surapon Nonesung, Panuthep Tasawong, Alham Fikri Aji, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Sarana Nutanong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15239…

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Large language models excel at instruction-following in English, but their performance in low-resource languages like Thai remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks often rely on translations, missing cultural and domain-specific nuances needed for real-world use. We present WangchanThaiInstruct, a human-authored Thai dataset for evaluation and instruction tuning, covering four professional domains and seven task types. Created through a multi-stage quality control process with annotators, dom…