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The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60 day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April (Peggy Corlin/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…

Apple and Meta to escape sanctions for failing to meet digital rules
The European Commission will opt not to impose immediate financial penalties on Apple and Meta—even if they fail to comply with the legislation by next week's deadline. #EuropeNews

Sen. Murkowski, feeling 'cheated' by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she'll go to bat for Alaska projects (Alex DeMarban/Anchorage Daily News)
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2025/07/18/sen-murkowski-feeling-cheated-by-trump-actions-against-wind-and-solar-says-shell-go-to-bat-for-alaska-projects/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p31#a250719p31

Nine players trying to avoid bust label, plus Lamar seeks college teammate and Travis Kelce's falling stock

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

Netflix used genAI for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/18/netflix-u…

Revisiting Compositional Generalization Capability of Large Language Models Considering Instruction Following Ability
Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15629

Revisiting Compositional Generalization Capability of Large Language Models Considering Instruction Following Ability
In generative commonsense reasoning tasks such as CommonGen, generative large language models (LLMs) compose sentences that include all given concepts. However, when focusing on instruction-following capabilities, if a prompt specifies a concept order, LLMs must generate sentences that adhere to the specified order. To address this, we propose Ordered CommonGen, a benchmark designed to evaluate the compositional generalization and instruction-following abilities of LLMs. This benchmark measures…

40 some films and such that have come out or will come out in 2025 that I'm interested in (and may or may not see) 😂
#film

2025 films
A list of 44 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Wolf Man (2025), Companion (2025), This Is the Tom Green Documentary (2025), By Design (2025) and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025).

Ukraine attacks Moscow with drones for 3rd straight night, Russian official says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/ukraine-attacks-moscow-with-drones.html

The Daily Beast says Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling Google referral traffic; Vox CEO says OpenAI is a good partner but still undervalues content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls
Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast, Cannes Lions event hears.

Neuralink filed on April 24 as a "small disadvantaged business" that could give it preferential access to federal opportunities, before being valued at $9B (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks-neurali…

Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion
Neuralink labeled itself in April as a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Google says it has stopped charging Canadian advertisers a 2.5% surcharge after Canada rescinded the DST following President Trump's threats (Pippa Norman/Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/arti…

Google stops charging Canadian advertisers extra fee after digital services tax dropped
Amazon, which was also subject to tax, said it will wait until DST is officially rescinded before making any changes