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AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleu

EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text | TechCrunch
EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.

For both artists and scientists, slow looking allows surprising connections to surface https://theconversation.com/for-both-artists-and-scientists-slow-looking-allows-surprising-connections-to-surface-252355…

For both artists and scientists, slow looking allows surprising connections to surface
This process of looking and asking questions about what you are looking at is needed at all levels of science, and science students can learn through arts-inspired visual analysis.

A new wave of publishers sign up for ProRata's revenue share program, bringing the total number of publishers to 500, including The Boston Globe and Vox Media (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/boston-globe-f…

Boston Globe, Future, Vox Media join ProRata’s generative AI licensing model
A fresh wave of publishers have signed up for ProRata’s revenue share program, and some are adding its AI search engine to their sites.

"Trofim Lysenko était un scientifique soviétique dont le déni dogmatique de la science a conduit Š une famine de masse lorsque ses idées ont été appliquées Š l'agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ressemble beaucoup Š Lysenko dans son déni de la science. Ses résultats seront-ils aussi désastreux ?"
#lysenkisme

Ich wurde gebeten, meine Infografik "Kultur einer Mensch-Maschine-Kollaboration gemeinsam einüben" unter einer creativecommons-Lizenz zur allgemeinen Verfügung zu stellen.
Sie ist jetzt lizensiert als CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/…

Visual mental imagery and #aphantasia lesions map onto a convergent brain network https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.25328072v1 by @…

Visual Mental Imagery and Aphantasia Lesions Map onto a Convergent Brain Network
Background Visual mental imagery, the ability to volitionally form perceptual representations without corresponding external stimuli, allows reliving of past events, solving problems and imagining the future. The absence of visual mental imagery, called aphantasia, has recently been recognized to occur in about 1% of the general population but the cause is uncertain. By studying rare cases of acquired aphantasia we can identify regions that when injured cause loss of visual mental imagery. Met…

ODIN - Star Formation Histories Reveal Formative #Starbursts Experienced by Lyα-emitting Galaxies at Cosmic Noon: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adbf8c -> Looking Deeply Into the Universe’s Past, Scientists Detect Bursts of New Stars: https://www.rutgers.edu/news/looking-deeply-universes-past-scientists-detect-bursts-new-stars - prodigious star formation by special galaxies reveals the Milky Way’s origin story.

An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-…

Walmart's Flipkart secures a lending license from the RBI, letting the e-commerce company offer loans directly to Indian customers and sellers on its platform (Ashwin Manikandan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/w

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…