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Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the AI revolution, why OpenAI may have an insurmountable lead, and more (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/mary-meeker-trends-report-openai

Q&A with Mary Meeker on the AI revolution
The famed internet analyst turned VC just published her first Trends report since 2019.

I’m always consumed by the same question:
How will this endless, brutal spectacle of killing finally end?
Will it be like a movie
— justice prevailing, liberation won, goodness triumphing over evil?
Will the ending even be worthy of the horrors we’ve endured?
Or will it all fade away in an open-ended scene, full of unknowns, unanswered questions, and the absence of closure?
Will I make it to the final scene?
AOr will my story be abruptly cut short,…

Internet Access Is a Lifeline for Us in Gaza — So Israel Attacked It
Communications blackouts aren’t accidental. They’re strategy. They’re the tool Israel uses to try to erase us quietly.

Google is quite agressive with Gemini CLI , offering 1000 free Gemini 2.5 Pro requests per day for individual users. Essentially trying to push Anthropic and OpenAI away.
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-age…

Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.

DAPFAM: A Domain-Aware Patent Retrieval Dataset Aggregated at the Family Level
Iliass Ayaou (ICube), Denis Cavallucci (ICube), Hicham Chibane (ICube)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22141

DAPFAM: A Domain-Aware Patent Retrieval Dataset Aggregated at the Family Level
In the landscape of publicly available patent retrieval datasets, the need for explicit indomain and out-of-domain labeling, multi-jurisdiction coverage, balanced query domain representation and manageable sizes that support sub document level experiments on moderate computational resources is often overlooked. To address these gaps, we propose DAPFAM, a new open access domain-aware patent retrieval dataset constructed at the simple-family level. The dataset contains 1,247 domain balanced full …

https://social.cwts.nl/@LudoWaltman/114552901400267842
Always publish an open preprint first, and then, if needed, submit to a journal. If the preprint is open anyway, it probably doesn't matter whether your chosen journal is open access (of any flavour) or subscription-…

Ludo Waltman (@LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl)
Attached: 1 image How does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries? Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors. Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.

"Het is gevaarlijk om de situatie in de Verenigde Staten in de tweede termijn van Trump te onderschatten: het extreemrechtse populisme heeft zich er als een natuurbrand verspreid. Een wetenschapper ziet hoe universiteiten tot vijand worden verklaard en hoe de angst regeert."

Nederland, in de VS is het erger dan jullie denken, ga ons niet slaapwandelend achterna
Ik ben hoogleraar natuurkunde aan een universiteit in de VS die op de frontlinie staat van de aanval op democratie. Daar zie ik hoe het autoritaire draaiboek wordt afgestoft.

I wrote a little blogpost about #AI #bots that are like a plague of locusts on the #OAPEN #Library

Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time 
In my previous post on our less than optimal performance of the OAPEN Library and DOAB, I wrote about the effect of AI bots on our systems, and that it has become a common problem for many sites providing open access (OA) or open source software content. All of them – including the OAPEN Library … Continue reading "Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time "

OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/openai-bioweapons-risk

OpenAI warns models with higher bioweapons risk are imminent
Preventing harm means both the company, and society at large, need to be prepared.

Luxembourg-based Tadaweb, an open-source intelligence platform, raised $20M led by Arsenal Growth and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to $40M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software…

Exclusive: Open-source intelligence startup Tadaweb raises $20M
The new round was led by Arsenal Growth and Forgepoint Capital.

Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/ai-models-deceive-steal-blackmail-an…

Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, Anthropic finds
The research used hypothetical scenarios, but those situations could get real fast.