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Pinterest launches its CTV audience extension offering, following its acquisition of tvScientific, in a deal reportedly valued at between $300M and $350M (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media-buying/pinterest-debuts-audience-extension-offerin…

Pinterest debuts audience extension offering on CTV
Advertisers can now buy Pinterest audiences on third-party CTV properties due to its purchase of tvScientific.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Pender Street Steppers:
🎵 Falling (Vocal)
#PenderStreetSteppers
https://penderstreetsteppers.bandcamp.com/track/falling-vocal
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SyDxD1MnlsQNeHHhm2dpg

An eventful day at the home office so far... just spent the last 20 minutes trying to clean up the mess of pushing bag of besan (chick pea) flour off the top shelf in the pantry, which burst on impact, maximising dispersion on the coffee making stuff & the rest of the pantry. Much blue air was created. But before that had a magical few minutes when a pīwakawaka flew into the house, happily flew around a bit, & happily flew back out again.

AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e73ddecf-8c41-4ecb-ada3-77a163c8d69f

As bombs have been falling across the Middle East, I’ve been re-reading Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American poet and painter, especially her book The Arab Apocalypse.
At the same time I have returned to her paintings, which I first encountered at Documenta 13 in 2012. These paintings are small, yet they offer expanses of color and light that fill the eye and lift the spirit.
I thought you might like to see them too.

Just Seeing: Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan's paintings are abstracted landscapes made of color and light.

"I can't help but wonder if the US economy backs itself so hard into a corner funding these research labs, and if these research labs receive a bailout, what does that mean for China? Why is China releasing these models for free?" https://ghuntley.com/warfare/

AI as economic warfare
People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... Open source always was and always will be a financial weapon by design. You see, one of the primary goals of open source