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Let's talk about #AI #slop
https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sharada Shashidhar:
🎵 Arches
#SharadaShashidhar
https://sharadashashidhar.bandcamp.com/track/arches
https://open.spotify.com/track/1dOe6afwWqes2v5LMLE0UJ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #UltimateCalm
Arushi Jain:
🎵 My People Have Deep Roots
#ArushiJain
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Xkmp9DkqHvz5EnA7VZPD0

Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' "dystopian" ideas (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/mark-zuckerberg-ai-optimism

Mark Zuckerberg launches AI optimism campaign
Zuckerberg argues Meta's focus on connecting the world will only be strengthened with new AI tools and technologies.

Climate-fueled wildfires strike again:
20,000 tourists (mostly) evacuated from the French coastal region of the Gironde, near Bordeaux.
https://www.bfmtv.com/meteo/secheresse/direct-…

DIRECT. Incendies en France: le feu en Gironde a désormais parcouru 3.400 hectares
Un feu très virulent sévit depuis mercredi à proximité du bassin d'Arcachon en Gironde. Des évacuations, à titre préventif, sont menées par la préfecture. Dans le Var, les pompiers n'ont toujours pas fixé l'incendie "contenu" ce jeudi 23 juillet, alors que l'inquiétude est ravivée par les conditions...

Ein Preis für den grenzenlosen Reichtum ausländischer Ölmilliardäre, den Merz und Reiche gerne andere zahlen lassen - jetzt nicht mehr nur im globalen Süden.
»An Frankreichs Atlantikküste werden insgesamt rund 63 000 Menschen vor den Bränden in Sicherheit gebracht. An der Küste bei Bordeaux wurden bereits 20 000 Menschen vor allem von Campingplätzen und Ferienanlagen gebracht. Nun müssen weitere 20 000 Menschen zehn Orte am Becken von Arcachon verlassen…«

Frankreich bringt 63 000 Menschen in Sicherheit – Feuer außer Kontrolle
Hunderte Einsatzkräfte konnten die verheerenden Feuer an der Atlantikküste und im Süden Frankreichs bislang nicht unter Kontrolle bringen. Auch Spanien kämpft gegen verheerende Brände – und ruft den Notstand aus.

Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on "basic Python errors" and data cherry-picking (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregiste…

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'
Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ween:
🎵 The Argus
#Ween
https://aradiafaire.bandcamp.com/track/the-argus
https://open.spotify.com/track/66bfVBFagxpRrk7JC7W1OG

Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/matt-garman-aws-ceo-interview-ai-jobs/

The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees
Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?

In a leaked four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute access, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more (Fred Gao/Inside China)
https://www.fredgao.com/p/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-breaks-his

DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence
In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own, he argues China's only real gap with America is compute.