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Mustafa Suleyman says "Seemingly Conscious AI" is coming but is something to avoid, and that developers must build AI for people, not to be a digital person (Mustafa Suleyman)
https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming

We must build AI for people; not to be a person

SEC filing: Versant, preparing for a Nasdaq IPO, reports 2024 revenue of $7B, down from $7.4B in 2023, and 2024 net income of $1.4B, down from $1.5B in 2023 (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/comcast-versant-annual-profit-public.html

Comcast spinoff Versant reports declining annual profit as it prepares to go public
Versant will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker "VSNT" after its separation from Comcast.

#SpringBoot 4 Released: A Full Analysis of 11 Major Changes!
https://medium.com/@haiou-a/spring-boo

3rd-year bubble player suffers concussion at most inopportune time for roster chances https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/21/cowboys-te-luke-schoonmaker-preseason-finale…

I have a definite love-hate relationship with vulkan-hpp. Not using raw C vulkan calls is super nice...
But sudden build failures with no warning due to them making breaking changes to function return types? Not so nice. They seem to feel they can make breaking changes freely at any time and don't do a great job of documenting said changes.

Tinker: Diffusion's Gift to 3D--Multi-View Consistent Editing From Sparse Inputs without Per-Scene Optimization
Canyu Zhao, Xiaoman Li, Tianjian Feng, Zhiyue Zhao, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14811

Tinker: Diffusion's Gift to 3D--Multi-View Consistent Editing From Sparse Inputs without Per-Scene Optimization
We introduce Tinker, a versatile framework for high-fidelity 3D editing that operates in both one-shot and few-shot regimes without any per-scene finetuning. Unlike prior techniques that demand extensive per-scene optimization to ensure multi-view consistency or to produce dozens of consistent edited input views, Tinker delivers robust, multi-view consistent edits from as few as one or two images. This capability stems from repurposing pretrained diffusion models, which unlocks their latent 3D …

from my link log —
Hollerith 1890 census tabulator and the evolution of the IBM punched card.
https://columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/census-tabulator.html
saved 2025-08-08

Vivo Vision ist eine Kopie der Apple Vision Pro, aber deutlich leichter
Der chinesische Smartphone-Hersteller Vivo hat die technischen Eigenschaften seines Mixed-Reality-Headsets "Vivo Vision Discovery Edition" enthüllt.

Don’t Debase the Census | Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/dont-debase-census

Trump threatens Venezuela with 'incalculable' consequences if it doesn't take back migrants
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/09/20/trump-threatens-venezuela-with-incalculable-consequences-if-it-doesn-t-take-back-migrants_6745591_4.html