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How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

Contrary to Elon Musk's claims about Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Implant admits about their V1 implant that it will not work for congenitally blind adults, i.e. "blindness contracted from birth as then the visual cortex does not develop normally" https://www.revision-implant.com/faq

16WW Impulse Heating Test - A bit of research to understand the thermal behaviour of part of 16WW better! - https://www.earth.org.uk/impulse-heating-test.html

16WW Impulse Heating Test
A bit of research to understand the thermal behaviour of part of 16WW better!

How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

Googles KI-Chip-Boss: „Wir sind uns der Inflation natürlich bewusst“
Amin Vahdat leitet das KI- und Infrastrukturteam bei Google. Im Interview erklärt er die TPU-Strategie – und wie viel Leistung KI-Agenten wirklich brauchen.

Googles KI-Chip-Boss: „Wir sind uns der Inflation natürlich bewusst“
Amin Vahdat leitet das KI- und Infrastrukturteam bei Google. Im Interview erklärt er die TPU-Strategie – und wie viel Leistung KI-Agenten wirklich brauchen.

Romo on leave from CBS Sports after arrest on suspicion of operating vehicle under the influence https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/romo-on-leave-from-cbs-sports-after-arrest-on-suspicion-of-operating-vehic…

The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish 1.5% pace from April through June
as rising imports weighed on growth
-- yet consumers continued to spend.
And the Federal Reserve’s favored measure of inflation grew more slowly last month
-- but it remained above the central bank’s 2% target at a time when Americans are frustrated about the high cost of living ahead of the midterm elections, now less than 100 days away.

US economy slows, yet Americans still spending in face of inflation
The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish 1.5% pace from April through June as rising imports weighed on growth. But consumer spending rose. And the Federal Reserve’s favored measure of inflation grew more slowly last month, but remained above the central bank’s 2% target. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that growth in U.S. gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — decelerated from 2.1% in the first three months of 2026 and came in below economistsâ€â€¦

When you are a Swift compiler contributor, every day is Xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/dropping-the-requirement-for-c-only-bootstrapping/87739/

Dropping the requirement for C++-only bootstrapping
Dear compiler developers, I'm happy to announce that from now on "mandatory" parts of the compiler can be implemented in Swift (on the main branch). So far we only used Swift as an implementation language in parts of the compiler which are not strictly necessary for correct code generation of the standard library, like some optimization passes. Now, we can use Swift in all parts of the compiler, including the parser, AST, type checker or mandatory SIL passes. We are dropping the requirement…

Would getting a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision be worth it? #BCI

If you compare the challenges that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision still has to overcome with the challenges for The vOICe (sound-guided mental imagery)... https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Supporting independent and open science

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.