Gigantischer LHC-Nachfolger: Privatleute sagen Geld für Teilchenbeschleuniger zu
Beim CERN steht bald die Entscheidung über den Bau eines gigantischen Nachfolgers für den LHC an. Nun haben mehrere Milliardäre dafür Geld zugesagt.

Trump says he hopes Ukraine 'moves quickly' as peace talks continue: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/trump-says-he-hopes-ukraine.html

The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Senate Confirms Selig as Chief of CFTC and Hill to Run the FDIC
The US Senate on Thursday night confirmed Michael Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., installing permanent chiefs of two agencies that play critical roles overseeing financial markets and banks.

@… うわ、新潟に「おうみ」あるんですか！ 覚えておこう……

Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…

The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News - Inside Climate News
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos and Jeffrey Epstein.

Study finds more than 150,000 uncounted Covid-19 deaths | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/18/study-finds-150000-uncounted-covid-19-deaths-early-pandemic/?utm_campaign=rss

Carney offers to ‘broker a bridge’ to build giant anti-Trump trade club
#EU #Canada #CPTPP
Via @… (& @…)

Hurja video Australiasta: Syöksytulva huuhtoo autoja mereen #Australia

Hurja video Australiasta: Syöksytulva huuhtoo autoja mereen
Rajut ukkoset riuhtoivat Australian etelärannikkoa torstaina ja saivat aikaan äkkitulvia.

Guten Morgen allerseits und einen schönen Start in die neue Woche! 🐐

19.1 kWh today despite significant cloud cover and a forecast calling for a decent chance of rain or snow (we didn't seem to actually get any of either).
Clouds really are good diffusers, lol.

Dems' divide over Harris surfaces as she looks like a 2028 contender (Alex Thompson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/19/kamala-harris-divide-democrats-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p81#a260118p81

I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more:
Meow~ :neocat_scream_stare:

Only analog computers can run software with all the nuance the programmer intended

Nice! And on sale too - this one has been on my wishlist for a while
#Steam #macOS
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Replaced/

Trump's incomprehensible babbling was a desperate attempt to lie about how he hasn't wrecked America or the rule of law...
...right before tomorrow when the Epstein files are released.
▶️ Trump’s Insane End-Of-Year Message, the Epstein File Deadline Looms
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xs7u…

Hey, have you heard the UK is entering the Furby Organ guy in the Genocide Song Contest… how amusing is that?

I've got a patch that saves ~600MB peak memory on a long running memory hog. This would be great, if it weren't for the test hogging a total of over 5GB; if I can get it down to say 2.5GB then maybe it's useful.

The Buryat Mongol Breakfast! How Buryat Mongols live in Russia! - YouTube
#mongolia

Heute scheitern alle an der letzten Zahl:
#pastpuzzle 411
🟩🟥🟥🟨 ( 76)
🟩🟩🟥🟥 (-57)
🟩🟩🟩🟥 ( 8)
🟩🟩🟩🟥 ( 4)
x/4 🟥
https://www.pastpuzzle.de
Score: 15 − 🥉 Durchmischt

@… I agree, but I’d also be ready to bet $100 the democracts would never do such a thing because it’s “against political norms” or some similar argument. Which is like… the whole problem with the party, they seem not to know which game it is we’re playing.

#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Sonntagspancakefrühstück Bregaglia-Edition
🙂 Schafe zu Besuch
🙂 Nebelfotos beim Spaziergang gemacht

New Study: Evidence shows how X’s algorithmic feed is radicalizing its users toward the Right. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

19 Cities Including London, San Francisco, Hong Kong Achieve ‘Remarkable Reductions’ in Air Pollution https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/19-cities-including-london-san-francisco-hong-kong-achieve-remarkable-reductions-…

19 Cities Including London, San Francisco, Hong Kong Achieve ‘Remarkable Reductions’ in Air Pollution
In a report that examined the air quality of 100 global cities, 19 were found to have substantially improved since 2010. 

Eine Reise, welche ich in den letzten 5 Jahren immer wieder mit Spannung verfolgt habe ist zuende. Karsten Rinck aka Mütze ist mit seiner Hündin Lotte nach einer Wanderung von 19.500 Kilometern quer durch Europa wieder in seiner Heimat angekommen.
#MützeOnTour

19.500 Kilometer zu Fuß durch Europa: Mütze ist wieder da
19.500 Kilometer zu Fuß durch Europa - Mütze und Lotte sind wieder da

Oh my… that IS shiny. @… https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/115917815230221503

1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: #GenAI

Open Source and GenAI?

My dad could use a helpful resource on establish a baseline community code of conduct for an online discussion group. Any recommendations for good guides and/or templates?
(This is a •completely• nontechnical group, FYI.)

Freitag: TikTok bestätigt Investoren-Deal, Tastenverzögerung verrät Nordkoreaner
TikTok-Joint-Venture mit Oracle IT-Maulwurf bei Amazon.com Urteil gegen personalisierte Werbung Malware auf Fähre Verbraucherschutzpodcast zu Glasfaser

EU leaders agree on $105 billion loan to secure Ukraine’s financing through 2027: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/eu-leaders-agree-on-billion.html

Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/openai-funding-o…

The EU is in talks to potentially impose tariffs on $108 billion of US goods if Trump follows through on his threat to hit European countries with a 10% levy on Feb. 1
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-19/eu-eye…

Big tech is failing domestic abuse victim-survivors
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/19/big-tech-domestic-abuse-victim-survivors/

JFK's family erupts over "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming plan (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/trump-kennedy-center-rename-plan-jfk-family
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p1#a251219p1

I should start requiring post samples from anyone replying to vet them

ᎠᏓᎨᏴᏗ ᎤᎵᏍᎨᏓ❣️

'Irreparable loss' — Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter crew killed in combat mission, brigade says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/irreparable-loss-ukrainian-mi-helicopter.html

fedibird.comは国内（けいはんな）だから、国内サーバとしてはまぁまぁ大きいと思うけど、Fedibirdを名乗っているからMastodon集計するときには載らないって問題があるわね。

@… I’m working with a codebase that stores dicts of arbitrary data in pandas dataframes.
Not sure that’s an upgrade…

Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation (Kurt Schussler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order
-- then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents were indeed deployed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/po…

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota Protests, Then Backtracks
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Windows: Microsoft patcht Patchday-Patches
https://www.

Billionaires are richer than ever, says Oxfam
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/19/billionaires-richer-than-ever-oxfam-inequality-report.html

EU to Use Joint Bonds to Give Ukraine a €90 Billion Loan (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/eu-agrees-to-provide-90-billion-loan-to-ukraine-for-2026-2027
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p133#a251218p133

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116092491198574746
science forbid I make a joke in a shitpost and people start getting at each other’s throats in the replies
for the love of Carl Sagan’s turtleneck, grow up

:neocat_think:

おはようございます（お昼ご飯たべてきます）

I dub this phase of parenthood:
The Tyranny of “Up”.

Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales surged 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, while the overall market fell 4% amid rising Android phone prices (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

The Trump administration has reportedly set a goal of yanking citizenship away from over a thousand naturalized Americans in fiscal year 2026,
in yet another escalation in the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
New guidance issued on Tuesday directs the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices
to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” next year, according to The New York Times.
Denatu…

Trump Administration Sets Goal to Denaturalize Thousands of US Citizens in 2026
Immigration officials have reportedly issued guidance setting a quota of 100 to 200 denaturalization cases a month.

Wo ist die gesellschaftliche Relevanz? Threads auf Mobilgeräten deutlich vor X
Wenn es um die mobile Nutzung geht, hat Threads X längst hinter sich gelassen – im Web noch lange nicht. Gesellschaftlich scheint aber sogar Bluesky relevanter.

Coca-Cola sued by US agency over work event that excluded men
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/19/coca-cola-work-discrimination-lawsuit-men-women-only-event

EU Weighs Using Joint Debt to Loan up to $106 Billion to Ukraine (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/eu-weighs-using-joint-debt-to-loan-up-to-90-billion-to-ukraine
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p130#a251218p130

I wear this shirt when I’m scrolling social media

Would you like to try our $PrivacyViolation feature?

House Republicans on Wednesday
defeated a pair of war powers resolutions
aimed at reining in Donald Trump’s airstrikes on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea
and Pacific Ocean
and his increasingly aggressive provocations that critics fear are leading to a war on Venezuela
htt…

House Republicans Squash Venezuela War Powers Resolutions
This follows two failed Senate attempts to stop Trump from continuing military action without congressional approval.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Erneut heulen in Sachsen-Anhalt Sirenen ohne Grund
https://www.

Suspected Brown shooter Valente is found dead, authorities say
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/brown-mit-shooter-dead-valente.html

US judge throws out immigration board's ruling endorsing Trump mass detention policy (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-throws-out-immigration-boards-ruling-endorsing-trump-mass-detention-2026-02-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p139#a260218p139

:dumpster_fire:

AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-ai-subsc

Montag: EU gegen Huawei und ZTE bei KRITIS, Pay-TV-Piraten ohne Vermögensschaden
Cybersicherheit ohne China BGH-Urteil gegen Sender-Vermögensschaden Ablauf von Plastik-Führerscheinen Silicon Valley verliert Milliardäre Sky mit IPTV

A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy
-- but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster,
residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain
Activity around the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is reaching its peak:
workers remove earth to expand the width of a main road,
while lorries arrive at its heavily guarded entrance.
When all seven of its reactors are working, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa generates 8.2 gigawatt…

Activist group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/19/activist-group-extinction-rebellion-says-it-is-under-fbi-investigation?traffic_source=rss

Any tree brought into the house is now property of the cat(s).
Law of the Kitty § 137.TR33

TikTok unterzeichnet Deal zum Verkauf von Anteilen der US-Tochter an Investoren
Um eine Sperre in den USA zu vermeiden, verkauft TikTok etliche Anteile der US-Tochter an US-amerikanische und internationale Investoren. Das ist nun bestätigt.

Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-lab-walmart-openai-shaking-up-agentic-shoppin…

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Found an edge case with Walmart self-checkout, to start the checkout you need to scan an item, however they sell items without a barcode (e.g. jalapeños), so it’s possible that you have only items that you can’t scan.
This is how capitalism will collapse.

Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe Last Year than Pure Gas-Powered Models - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/0057231/porsche-sold-more-electrified-cars-in-europe-last-year-than-pure-gas-powered-models

The man suspected of the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others Saturday
-- and killing an MIT professor days later
-- was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire.
The suspect was identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente
Neves Valente had been a PhD program student in physics at Brown.
He is believed to have attended the same university in Lisbon, Portugal, as
Nuno Gomes Loureiro,
Loureiro,
who was a member of …

Suspected Brown shooter Valente is found dead, authorities say
The suspected gunman, Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente, 48, had been a graduate students in physics at Brown University in the early 2000s, authorities said.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
WhatsApp und Signal: Privatsphäre angreifbar, Tracker-Software verfügbar

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.

Zelensky says Ukraine won’t withdraw from Donbas, 'won’t lose dignity' as peace talks stall on territory
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-says-ukraine-wont-withdraw-from-donbas-wont-lose-dignity-as-peace-talks-stall-on-territory/

Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days,
accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty
on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July
with what felt to him like unbelievable news.
U.S. Attorney Gener…

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Österreichs Höchstgericht: Personalisierte Werbung Meta Platforms’ unzulässig

LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to reach target audiences (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-partners-with-the-trade-d…

LinkedIn is making a big play for streaming TV ad dollars
LinkedIn wants a bigger chunk of the streaming TV ad business. The Trade Desk will be its first demand-side platform partner for connected-TV ads.

Kommentar: Wenn Copilot zum KO-Pilot wird
Volker Weber macht sich in einer Wutrede Luft, dass ihm die Techkonzerne an jeder Ecke KI verkaufen wollen.
https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-Wen

Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (Anirban Sen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/b

Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount "staggering" (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy's site-blocking law
Firm says requiring site blocks within 30 minutes breaks core Internet architecture.

Volumetrisches 3D-Druckverfahren ermöglicht schnelles und präzises Drucken
Ein neues, volumetrisches 3D-Druckverfahren baut Objekte komplett auf, und das sehr schnell: Ein millimetergroßes Objekt entsteht in weniger als einer Sekunde.

A US judge rules ex-Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to stop their work (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The UK proposes new rules requiring tech firms to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours or risk blocking and fines of up to 10% of global revenue (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/f

Crypto lending firm Ledn sold $188M in securitized bonds backed by bitcoin loans, making it the first deal of its kind in the market for asset-backed debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/crypto-…

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/business/technol

Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle raises $30M for Austin AI startup
Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle’s Austin startup Circuit raised $30 million in one of Texas’ largest angel rounds to address manufacturing labor shortages.

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/dylan-patels-semia…

Dylan Patel’s SemiAnalysis Mulls Raising Venture Fund
SemiAnalysis, the top chip and infrastructure research firm founded by Dylan Patel, is considering raising money to invest in startups, according to someone with direct knowledge of the discussions. The talks are in the early stages, and the firm does not yet have a target, but it could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The move to raise a venture capital fund would formalize

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/a-st

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app | TechCrunch
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require "regular adoption" of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ac672f97-a603-4c56-afa3-4a5273d45674

Accenture combats AI refuseniks by linking promotions to log-ins
Consulting firms use ‘carrot and stick’ with some senior staff less willing to use technology than junior colleagues

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-t…

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW | TechCrunch
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.

Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve information for at least 10,000 years (Gayoung Lee/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-glass-chip-holds-terabytes-of-d…

Microsoft's Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 Years
"This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation."

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence

Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (Palmer Luckey/@palmerluckey)
https://x.com/palmerluckey/status/2013099842529005912

Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) on X
I have an opinion on the Meta layoffs that is contrary with most of the VR industry and much of the media, but strongly held. This is not a disaster. They still employ the largest team working on VR by about an order of magnitude. Nobody else is even close. The "Meta is

A look at the business and geopolitical considerations behind TSMC's international expansion, as Taiwan commits to spend $250B in the US in a trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/taiwan-semiconductor-tscm-us-investment-d96f77f9?st…

The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/11/s…

Two Trump Appointees Confirmed to Take Over Core Crypto Regulators CFTC, FDIC
In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.

US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign Relations)
https://www.cfr.org/article/chinas-ai-chip…

China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain
Executive SummaryOn December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by approving the sale of Nvidia H200 chips—the m…

Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League of Legends, internally called League Next, for 2027; Riot confirms a big update is in the works (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-exynos-2600-announced-3626595…

Samsung announces Exynos 2600: World's first 2nm smartphone chip that might power the Galaxy S26
Samsung has announced the Exynos 2600 chip, promising notable gains in performance, efficiency, and thermal behavior.

The administrator winding down Do Kwon's Terraform Labs sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging it unlawfully profited from and contributed to Terraform's collapse (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tech companies (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-secu

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/sam-altman-on-openais-plan-to-win<…

Sam Altman on OpenAI’s Plan to Win, AI Personalization, Infrastructure Math, and The Inevitable IPO
OpenAI's CEO joins Big Technology for a candid discussion covering OpenAI's strategy, its product ambitions, its ability to pay for $1 trillion+ in infrastructure, going public, and much more.