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gestern #gelesen: "frau komachi empfiehlt ein buch". nicht literaturnobelpreisverdächtig, aber fünf schöne geschichten darüber, wie die empfehlungen (und "zugaben") einer ganz besonderen bibliothekarin die schicksale einiger menschen positiv beeinflussen. #2025reads

In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fidji-simo-note-employees/

OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff
Ex-Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.

Hundreds of employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
have signed an open letter,
directed to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy,
criticizing proposed cuts to the agency
and condemning recent policies that could potentially harm the U.S.
The letter, titled
“The Voyager Declaration”
in honor of two spacecraft that were launched by NASA in the 1970s
(that continue to zoom beyond the boundaries of t…

Hundreds of NASA Employees Write Open Letter Blasting Trump Over “Rapid and Wasteful Changes” to Agency
Trump’s cuts will “leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides,” NASA workers wrote.

Selenskyj rechtfertigt neues Korruptions-Gesetz
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj rechtfertigt die Einschränkung der Autonomie ukrainischer Antikorruptionsbehörden mit der Bekämpfung russischen Einflusses. In seiner nächtlichen Videoansprache versicherte er, dass die Antikorruptionsbehörden weiter arbeiten würden. "Jedoch ohne russischen Einfluss. Alles muss gesäubert werden." Er lässt o…
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Vorwürfe gegen Selenskyj nach Ermittlungen gegen Aktivist
Neben dem Krieg muss sich die Ukraine auch mit Reformen beschäftigen - zum Beispiel im Kampf gegen Korruption. Nun gerät das Selenskyj-Umfeld in die Kritik. Grund ist der Umgang mit einem Aktivisten.

Microsoft Research is at it again:
Advait Sarkar, a Microsoft Research employee got a paper published at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in computing systems:
"AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599

ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally, crack down on employers of unauthorized workers (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-head-todd-lyons-agents-will-arrest-anyone-found-illegally-crack-down-on-employers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p41#a250720p41

Fluid Antenna-enabled Near-Field Integrated Sensing, Computing and Semantic Communication for Emerging Applications
Yinchao Yang, Jingxuan Zhou, Zhaohui Yang, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15800

Fluid Antenna-enabled Near-Field Integrated Sensing, Computing and Semantic Communication for Emerging Applications
The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key enabler for next-generation technologies. With high-frequency bands and large-scale antenna arrays, the Rayleigh distance extends, necessitating near-field (NF) models where waves are spherical. Although NF-ISAC improves both sensing and communication, it also poses challenges such as high data volume and potential privacy risks. To address these, we propose a novel framework: near-field integrated sensing, computing, and semantic com…

Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI "perpetual" access to data like their "likeness" for training; several did not consent (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-grok-t

Musk's xAI tutors objected to facial data collection project
During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

Sources: Microsoft has poached 24 employees from Google DeepMind in the past six months; Gemini engineering head Amar Subramanya confirms the move to Microsoft (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9e6b3d89-e47a-40e1-b737-2792370c4b00