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Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discovers-new-way-cut-inference-…

OpenAI Discovers New Way to Cut Inference Costs in Half
We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models. But we don’t talk enough about the work these companies are doing to get more juice from the servers they already have.In one previously unreported example, OpenAI engineers earlier ...

The calendar starts with a bang on June 2 with primaries in California, Iowa, Montana, New Mexico, New Jersey, and South Dakota
https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballot/june-2026-elections-guide/

100 Elections to Watch This June - Bolts
June is full of clashes between flavors of the Democratic Party as the two largest blue states hold primaries, from the race to replace Nancy Pelosi in California to a... Read More

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Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They point out his leadership in commissioning work from them that led to setting of Greater Manchester’s ambitious, Paris-compliant carbon budget. They say that allowing more oil extraction would betray that…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They p…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They point out his leadership in commissioning work from them that led to setting of Greater Manchester’s ambitious, Paris-compliant carbon budget. They say that allowing more oil extraction would betray that…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They p…

Netherlands-based Invisix, which is developing advanced chipmaking measurement tools, raised a €20M seed, with the participation of a "tier-one" chipmaker (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/06/01/invisix-closes-eur20m-seed-rou…

Invisix closes €20M seed round to transform chip metrology
Invisix, a semiconductor metrology company developing next-generation measurement tools for advanced chip manufacturing, has raised an oversubscribed €20 million seed round. The financing includes participation from Hitachi Ventures, Transition Ventures, imec.xpand, Doosan Investment Co., and a tier-one semiconductor manufacturer. As semiconductor devices become smaller and more complex, measuring the critical structures inside advanced chips is becoming increasingly difficult. Manufact…

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues’ racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping
LAPD officer Daniel Flores filed an internal affairs complaint against his LAPD colleagues after recording them making racist, homophobic and sexist comments.
Prosecutors charge that Flores violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which prohibits recording others without their consent.
Flores’ lawyer said the case sends a message that “if you document bigotry inside the LAPD, yo…

LAPD officer who recorded racist comments to be charged with felony
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.

Eric Washington was shot and killed on 4 July alongside Meah Bordenave-Jenkins, a 19-year-old aspiring nurse,
while at a block party in Compton, California.
With his death, the Los Angeles region lost a homegrown community organizer who worked in the city and county’s most underserved neighborhoods.
Friends and colleagues have pointed out the tragic irony that someone who so forcefully worked to repair the issues that lead people to use firearms to settle their conflicts h…

He devoted his life to preventing LA gun violence. Then, he was a victim of it
Eric Washington was known for knocking on doors, connecting residents with services and believing Compton could change

SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/spacex-wont-remo…

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

Imagine:
The bottom half of the world’s population has increased its wealth to 30 per cent from two per cent — a 15-fold increase.
The wealth share of the billionaire class has fallen from six per cent to 0.05 per cent
Instead of living in a culture where status depends on endless consumption, people are content with enough.
The idea sounds like science fiction.
But it is a very serious proposalput forward by French economist
Thomas Piketty and his colleague…

The Climate and Capitalism Can Be Fixed, Say These Brilliant Economists | The Tyee
Thomas Piketty and colleagues lay out a road map to reversing current dire trends.