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Sweden's 'old‑growth' natural forests store 83% more carbon than managed woodlands—new study https://phys.org/news/2026-03-sweden-oldgrowth-natural-forests-carbon.html

Sweden's 'old‑growth' natural forests store 83% more carbon than managed woodlands—new study
Most of Europe's original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper, and timber. The few remaining "old-growth" natural forests are relics of the past that illustrate how forests would have looked in the absence of human management. They can, therefore, tell us how people have transformed forests.

Franska tillverkaren: Våra fregatter kan visst försvara sig mot drönare https://www.dn.se/varlden/franska-tillverkaren-vara-fregatter-kan-visst-forsvara-sig-mot-dronare/

Naval Group: Våra fregatter kan försvara sig mot drönare
Franska tillverkaren Naval Group: Våra fregatter kan visst försvara sig mot drönare – har varit i strid i Röda havet

Jeder Vierte fragt Chatbots nach Finanzrat
Bankgeschäfte wandern zunehmend aufs Smartphone, doch das Vertrauen in KI bleibt (noch) begrenzt. Was eine Umfrage über digitale Finanzdienste zeigt.
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Jeder Vierte fragt Chatbots nach Finanzrat
Bankgeschäfte wandern zunehmend aufs Smartphone, doch das Vertrauen in KI bleibt (noch) begrenzt. Was eine Umfrage über digitale Finanzdienste zeigt.

Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-1-billion-revenue-lead-anthropic-first-quarter

OpenAI Held $1 Billion Revenue Lead Over Anthropic in First Quarter
OpenAI generated about $5.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter, nearly $1 billion more than archrival Anthropic generated in the same period, according to two people with knowledge of the financials. OpenAI’s coding agent Codex, along with growth from selling to businesses and testing ads ...

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction
I wrote a short blog post reply to @…’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people.
https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shap…

The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

"The Scottish Government has tabled a statement and subsequent debate for Tuesday, entitled “ambitious for Scotland”, which will be the first chance the First Minister has to lay out his vision for the next five years since winning this month’s election."
"It comes after Gillian Mackay – the co-leader of the Scottish Greens – urged Swinney to bring forward a vote on the issue on the first day after he was sworn-in as First Minister. "

John Swinney announces date for Holyrood Scottish independence vote
FIRST Minister John Swinney will bring a motion on Scottish independence to a Holyrood vote on Tuesday, he has said.

from my link log —
John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous yet surprisingly deep language.
http://raganwald.com/2020/05/03/fractran.html
saved 2020-05-11

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal (Preeti Singh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais…

OpenAI’s First Advertisers Can’t Prove ChatGPT Ads Work
As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech ...

Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-mls-match-shot…

Apple to Broadcast MLS Match Shot Entirely on iPhone 17 Pro
Apple TV on May 27 will present a special live MLS match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro, the first time the device will be used to shoot the entirety of a major professional live sporting event broadcast.