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Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-pint-with-anthropic-ceo

A Cheeky Pint with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to almost $5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses, predictions for an agentic future, the economics of model businesses, and the 19th-century concept of vitalism.

MCPoison – a vulnerability in the Cursor IDE allows arbitrary code to be executed via MCP: https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/cursor-vulnerability-mcpoison/
Cursor fixed the vulnerability on 29 July with version 1.3. Users should update to this version. We als…

Cursor IDE's MCP Vulnerability - Check Point Research
Identified Cursor IDE's vulnerability allows attackers to modify MCP configuration files after its one-time approval system

CogBench: A Large Language Model Benchmark for Multilingual Speech-Based Cognitive Impairment Assessment
Feng Rui, Zhiyao Luo, Wei Wang, Yuting Song, Yong Liu, Tingting Zhu, Jianqing Li, Xingyao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03360

CogBench: A Large Language Model Benchmark for Multilingual Speech-Based Cognitive Impairment Assessment
Automatic assessment of cognitive impairment from spontaneous speech offers a promising, non-invasive avenue for early cognitive screening. However, current approaches often lack generalizability when deployed across different languages and clinical settings, limiting their practical utility. In this study, we propose CogBench, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the cross-lingual and cross-site generalizability of large language models (LLMs) for speech-based cognitive impairment assessme…

Oh wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZo5qs2VamE

LowDiff: Efficient Frequent Checkpointing via Low-Cost Differential for High-Performance Distributed Training Systems
Chenxuan Yao, Yuchong Hu, Feifan Liu, Zhengyu Liu, Dan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04084

LowDiff: Efficient Frequent Checkpointing via Low-Cost Differential for High-Performance Distributed Training Systems
Distributed training of large deep-learning models often leads to failures, so checkpointing is commonly employed for recovery. State-of-the-art studies focus on frequent checkpointing for fast recovery from failures. However, it generates numerous checkpoints, incurring substantial costs and thus degrading training performance. Recently, differential checkpointing has been proposed to reduce costs, but it is limited to recommendation systems, so its application to general distributed training …

She "emphasizes the importance of embracing a cacophony of voices in the fight against the rigid and coordinated forces of the Christian right. She advocates for a coalition that includes people of various faiths and those with no faith at all, working together to uphold the values of a multiracial democracy."
How the Christian Right is Taking Over America with Talia Lavin
https://religionnews.com/2025/09/06/how-the-christian-right-is-taking-over-america-with-talia-lavin/

Mal wieder eine Partie #RoboRally mit der Frau. 🥰 #Brettspiele

Checkpoint 1 closes in about 1 hour. A bunch of riders very close and another 11 about 7 to 8 km away.
#tcrno11

Facts look different in different contexts...
Nigeria, Libya, Caspian Sea, and other oil patches in impoverished places are effectively without the concept of environmental regulation. They flare whatever wherever they want. In Nigeria the rampant theft of unrefined oil and "fire pit refining" is beyond anything done by regulated refiners in TX.
Not that we want to emulate Nigeria or Azerbaijan or Libya...

Rigid Algebras and Cospans
Leor Neuhauser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22072 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.22072

Rigid Algebras and Cospans
We introduce rigid algebras, a generalization of rigid categories to arbitrary symmetric monoidal $(\infty,2)$-categories. We develop their general theory, showing in particular that the a priori $(\infty,2)$-category of rigid algebras is in fact an $(\infty,1)$-category. For the $(\infty,2)$-category of cospans in an $(\infty,1)$-category $\mathcal{C}$, we show that the $(\infty,1)$-category of rigid commutative algebras is canonically identified with $\mathcal{C}$. This identification is used…