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Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/kk215pdq7

Minute Media lays off 12% of workforce, reverses course on VideoVerse after $200 million acquisition
The unicorn says restructuring reflects push for efficiency and long-term growth amid changes in the media market and rising AI-driven disruption, alongside termination of VideoVerse integration.

A Modal de Finetti Theorem: Exchangeability under S4 and S5
Daniel Zantedeschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27547 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27547 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.27547
arXiv:2603.27547v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce modal exchangeability, a symmetry principle for probability measures on Kripke frames: invariance under those automorphisms of the frame that preserve the accessibility relation and fix a designated world. This principle characterizes when an agent's uncertainty over possible-world valuations respects the modal structure. We establish representation theorems that determine the probabilistic consequences of modal exchangeability for S4 and S5 frames. Under S5, where accessibility is an equivalence relation, the classical de Finetti theorem is recovered: valuations are conditionally i.i.d. given a single directing measure. Under S4, where accessibility is a preorder, the accessible cluster decomposes into orbits of the stabilizer group, and valuations within each orbit are conditionally i.i.d. with an orbit-specific directing measure. A rigidity constraint emerges: each directing measure must be constant across its orbit. Rigidity is not assumed but forced by symmetry; it is a theorem, not a modeling choice. The proofs are constructive, requiring only dependent choice (ZF DC), and yield computable representations for recursively presented frames. Rigidity has direct epistemic content: rational agents whose uncertainty respects modal structure cannot assign different latent parameters to worlds within the same orbit. The framework connects probabilistic representation theory to the S4/S5 distinction central to epistemic and temporal logic, with consequences for hyperintensional belief and rational learning under partial information.
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Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/kk215pdq7

Minute Media lays off 12% of workforce, reverses course on VideoVerse after $200 million acquisition
The unicorn says restructuring reflects push for efficiency and long-term growth amid changes in the media market and rising AI-driven disruption, alongside termination of VideoVerse integration.

"The bubble has burst, decent people can see what they are, and those who were once unsure are now sure and are turning their backs on Reform UK LTD. All they have is their die-hard fan base of racists, fascists and bots and bots can’t vote."
It’s All Starting to Unravel for Reform UK LTD - Dorset Eye
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It’s All Starting to Unravel for Reform UK LTD - Dorset Eye
The whole charade is starting to show; the facade has dropped, and the majority have simply had enough. The shop window of Kent County Council has been an abject failure, and Farage rarely mentions it now, hoping others don’t ask him how it’s doing. In Worcestershire County Council he’s now griping he wished he’d never […]

Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's "more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims", at the same price as 4.7 (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/anthropi…

Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new 'dynamic workflow' tool | TechCrunch
The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.

Should IPCC apologise for adjusting its worst case global warming scenario? "Complete nonsense," says Prof. Detlef van Vuuren.
Emissions did not grow as fast as in RCP8.5, and the uncertainty range of projections for 2100 narrowed as we get closer.
Most likely now is 2.5 to 3°C, which would be a very bad outcome already.

Door deze hoogleraar ging het ergste klimaatscenario de prullenbak in – en Trump ging ermee aan de haal. ‘Dit had ik nog nooit meegemaakt’
Zie je wel: de klimaatwetenschap zat ernaast met haar alarmisme. Dat claimen opgewekte sceptici, onder wie Trump, nu het ergste horrorscenario de prullenbak in gaat. Aan het hoofd van die bijstelling stond hoogleraar Detlef van Vuuren. ‘Volkomen onzin’, zegt hij over de euforie.

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increase its funding by $13M, ensuring that it will be funded through 2028, reversing a planned decrease in funding (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-2028/

In a surprise, Meta increases funding to the Oversight Board
After months of uncertainty, the company's oversight body has a new lifeline

«AI has little reason not to exude confidence. If AI gives you wrong advice, nothing happens to it. There’s no social cost, no loss of standing, no hesitation the next time it speaks.»
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/ai-confidence-tr…

The First AI Crisis Is Psychological
The economic shocks may well be coming, but we have already entered an age of profound uncertainty about ourselves and the world around us.

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increase its funding by $13M, ensuring that it will be funded through 2028, reversing a planned decrease in funding (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-2028/

In a surprise, Meta increases funding to the Oversight Board
After months of uncertainty, the company's oversight body has a new lifeline

Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised $80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a $1B valuation, bringing its total raised to $285M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/booki…

Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1B valuation with KKR backing | TechCrunch
Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha says it has raised $80 million investment from KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth fund, KKR's growth equity arm.