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Consistent irresponsibility: in May 2024, OpenAI disbanded its Superalignment team and subsequently its AGI Readiness team as well. Now it is the turn of the Preparedness team. Other senior staff from the security and ethics departments have also left the company.
#OpenAI #ITSecurity

Less than two measly years ago, OpenAI and Microsoft agreed on a "novel" definition of AGI:
"The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. That’s far from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many expect."

Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: Report | TechCrunch
Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

A gorgeous song
https://music.apple.com/us/album/orange-of-the-westering-sun/1761444348?i=1761445082

Orange of the Westering Sun by The Innocence Mission on Apple Music
Song · 2024 · Duration 4:24

Inducing lucid dreaming with multisensory stimulation: a preregistered multi-center study #SSILD

Baker Mayfield, Buccaneers agree to 3-year contract extension: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7366483/2026/09/08/baker-mayfield-bucs-contract-extension/

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to be “unmasked” in a forthcoming documentary
simply titled “Musk,”
and the billionaire Trump ally was said Thursday to be “freaking out” over its impending release.
Musk took an outsized role in the 2024 presidential election,
having contributed more than $259 million to support Donald Trump’s campaign.
Musk also had access to an unprecedented amount of data on American citizens during his time leading the short-lived Department of G…

Elon Musk said to be ‘freaking out’ over forthcoming expose: ‘The bully is mad’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to be “unmasked” in a forthcoming documentary simply titled “Musk,” and the billionaire Trump ally was said Thursday to be “freaking out” over its impending release.Musk took an outsized role in the 2024 presidential election, having contributed more than $259 million to s...

"Mr Polanski received immediate personal backing from independent pro-Palestine campaigner Andrew Feinstein, who slashed Sir Keir’s majority in the 2024 general election."
Polanski throws down gauntlet to Burnham | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk…

Fohlenticker zur Hinrunde 2023/24: Mittelmaß mit 20 Punkten
Ticker vom 17.1: Nach 3 Punkten gegen Stuttgart - ein Sieg gegen Augsburg muss her 3 Punkte daheim gegen Stuttgart. Glücklich. Na und. Diesmal habe die "Punkteverspieler" die Punkte eben nicht verspielt, auch wenn auch ich vom Spielverlauf damit gerechnet hatte. Gut so. Und es sind 3 sehr wichtige Punkte, wenn man sich den Spielplan inklusive der Auswärtsspiele gegen die Bayern, Leverkusen und Leipzig anschaut.
https://fohlenticker.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/fohlenticker-zur-hinrunde-2023-24-mittelmas-mit-20-punkten/

Started as a "cozy afternoon MTB #cycling loop" and ended with apersonal record over 40km 🤔
Fun fact: the whole loop was exactly 40.01km long. But it was a good ride and I feel so much better now.
#bikteooter

Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/24/quintessent-bags-40m-to-de…

Quintessent bags $40M to develop lasers for AI clusters - SiliconANGLE
Quintessent bags $40M to develop lasers for AI clusters - SiliconANGLE

Nepal pushes for hydropower in protected areas through legal grey area https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/nepal-pushes-for-hydropower-in-protected-areas-through-legal-grey-area/

Nepal pushes for hydropower in protected areas through legal grey area
KATHMANDU – Nepal’s government has allowed several private hydropower producers to develop projects inside protected areas and the buffer zones surrounding them, contravening a Supreme Court order, a Mongabay investigation reveals. In January 2025, the Supreme Court declared that a 2024 amendment to a key conservation law opening up protected areas to commercial projects was […]

Ich reposte für meinen Kumpel auf Bluesky und finde das Thema auch interessant:
Frage an die #mobile.de/#Autoscout24 -Spezialisten für #BEV:
Erkenne ich irgendwo, außer im Freitext, ob ein E-Auto vor 2024 nur einen einpasigen 7,4 kW AC-Lader hat (war bspw. beim

“But in Europe we know how to make buildings and they’re much better at retaining heat”
https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/temperature-related-mortality-burden-worsen-europe-2024-08-22_en

"The individual views that Britons are most likely to both hold and incorrectly think are the most common public view – are that the 2024 England rioters had legitimate concerns (24%) and that people should not be able to identify as a different gender than their birth gender (also 24%)"

#throwback to July *2024* when I walked along the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas aka "Panther City", aka "Cow Town". 🐈‍⬛🤘🎨
#photography #amateur #panther #longhorn #FortWorth #Texas #mural #art #tbt #throwbackThursday

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
beabadoobee:
🎵 Take A Bite (6 Music Session, 9 Jul 2024)
#beabadoobee
https://sonicgazer.bandcamp.com/track/take-a-bite-beabadoobee-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GClDyMiSLrpzjzwIfWRIa