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Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded (Jeff Wang/@jeffwsurf)
https://x.com/jeffwsurf/status/1946376139959841084

Jeff Wang (@jeffwsurf) on X
To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this

I agree, really think twice or just don't... Also think about US government accessing your personal data if they want....
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/for-privacy-and-security-think-twice-before-granting-ai-acces…

For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data | TechCrunch
AI chatbots, assistants and agents are increasingly asking for gross levels of access to your personal data under the guise of needing your information to make them work.

SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol

Acore-CIM: build accurate and reliable mixed-signal CIM cores with RISC-V controlled self-calibration
Omar Numan, Gaurav Singh, Kazybek Adam, Jelin Leslin, Aleksi Korsman, Otto Simola, Marko Kosunen, Jussi Ryyn\"anen, Martin Andraud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15440

Acore-CIM: build accurate and reliable mixed-signal CIM cores with RISC-V controlled self-calibration
Developing accurate and reliable Compute-In-Memory (CIM) architectures is becoming a key research focus to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks on hardware, particularly Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). In that regard, there has been significant interest in analog and mixed-signal CIM architectures aimed at increasing the efficiency of data storage and computation to handle the massive amount of data needed by DNNs. Specifically, resistive mixed-signal CIM cores are pushed by recent progre…

Co-Creative Learning via Metropolis-Hastings Interaction between Humans and AI
Ryota Okumura, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15468

Co-Creative Learning via Metropolis-Hastings Interaction between Humans and AI
We propose co-creative learning as a novel paradigm where humans and AI, i.e., biological and artificial agents, mutually integrate their partial perceptual information and knowledge to construct shared external representations, a process we interpret as symbol emergence. Unlike traditional AI teaching based on unilateral knowledge transfer, this addresses the challenge of integrating information from inherently different modalities. We empirically test this framework using a human-AI interacti…

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
Abidi, Aguilar-Saavedra, Airen, Ajmal, Al-Thakeel, Alberghi, Maestre, Alimena, Alshamaily, Altmann, Altmannshofer, Amhis, Amiri, Andreazza, Antusch, Arnaez, Assamagan, Aumiller, Azizi, Azzi, Azzurri, Bagnaschi, Baharyioon, Bahl, Balagura, Barducci, Basso, Bechtle, Bellagamba, Berggren, Bernardi, Bhom, Biermann, Blekman, Bliewert, Bordone, Boudry, Boye, Bozovic, Braathen, Brient, Brodbek, Brost, Bruckman, Brudnowski, Bulliri, Bulyak, Burrid…

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing together participants from many different proposed future collider projects. Activities across three main working groups advanced the joint development of tools and analysis techniques, fostered new considerations of detector design and optimisation, and led to a new set of studies resulting in improved projected sensitivit…

Clothes from UK brands found discarded in Ghana wetland dumps – video https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2025/jun/18/clothes-from-uk-brands-found-discarded-in-ghana-wetland-dumps-video

”Apple has effectively infinite resources and operates on their own timeline, but everyone else does not have this kind of luxury. Springing big changes like this all at once forces so many independent developers, entire companies, and the industry as a whole to freeze their own development schedules to accommodate Apple’s design system.
It’s asking a lot. For almost nothing in return.”
Great summary I agree with!

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses

Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

A look at the lack of consensus in the tech industry on what AGI is, whether LLMs are the best path to it, and what AGI might look like if or when it arrives (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence
It has been tipped as the next big breakthrough out of Silicon Valley, but is it a scientific goal — or a marketing buzzword?