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Sources: Meta aims to launch its next-gen Llama AI model, Llama 4.X, by the end of 2025; the TBD team developing Llama 4.X is also trying to fix Llama 4 bugs (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-superintelligen…

Meta races to launch latest Llama AI model by year-end, sources say
Meta plans to launch its latest AI model, called Llama 4.X, by year-end, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

Lyon ditching Microsoft.
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French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools
: Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice

About 5.8 million federal student loan borrowers
– roughly 31%
– were 90 days or more past due on their payments as of April 2025,
according to analysis from TransUnion,
as delinquency and default rates soar in the wake of pandemic-era repayment relief ending.
⚠️US federal student loan debt is worth almost $1.7 Trillion
💥with 42.7 million people owing some form of federal loan debt.
👉And in May, the Trump administration resumed collecting on default…

Over on CSS Tricks, another post about responsive text that fails to consider WCAG (other than mis-quoting a Level AAA SC):
https://css-tricks.com/setting-line-length-in-css-and-fitting-text-to-a-container/
I left a comment last week (still …

Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container) | CSS-Tricks
The many ways to juggle line length when working with text... including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future.

Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-target-sales-r…

Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies
Imax on Monday announced that it would screen the winning films from Runway’s AI-generated film festival at some of its theaters. Netflix recently said it had used AI to generate a scene in one of its shows for the first time: a building collapsing in The Eternaut, an Argentine sci-fi show.Both ...

All VMware Explore 2025 Breakout Session content
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Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-target-sales-r…

Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies
Imax on Monday announced that it would screen the winning films from Runway’s AI-generated film festival at some of its theaters. Netflix recently said it had used AI to generate a scene in one of its shows for the first time: a building collapsing in The Eternaut, an Argentine sci-fi show.Both ...

A group of Democratic senators is demanding answers from the Department of Education
on its decision to renege on its obligation to 3 million student loan borrowers enrolled in the
"Income-Based Repayment program",
which forgives any remaining student debt after 300 payments, which typically takes about 25 years.

Lawmakers Slam DOE for Suspending 3 Million Borrowers’ Student Loan Forgiveness
The Department of Education suspended a program that forgives any remaining student debt after 300 payments.

Salient, which uses AI to automate the post-loan origination process for lenders, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a $350M valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/28/loan-servicing-ai-salient-6…

Exclusive: Loan servicing startup Salient raises $60M Series A
The process is still mostly manual but banks are investing tech in the area.