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Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thinking-mach…

Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation
The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking ...

Missing Link: Taxi vs Uber – Lösen Mindesttarife für Mietwagen den Streit?
Die Taxibranche fordert Mindestentgelte für Mietwagenfahrten, um unfairen Wettbewerb einzudämmen. Heidelberg und Essen reagieren, doch die Debatte geht weiter.

from my link log —
The missing datacenter OS.
http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-missing-os.html
saved 2020-09-16 https://

Missing 66-Year-old Hiker is Found–Even After 2-Week Search was Called Off in New Zealand https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/missing-66-year-old-hiker-is-found-even-after-2-week-search-was-called-off-in-nz/

Missing 66-Year-old Hiker is Found–Even After 2-Week Search was Called Off in New Zealand
A 66-year-old who'd been missing in New Zealand backcountry for two weeks has now been found, even as search was called off three days ago.

The Gustav Klimt portrait of Elisabeth Lederer,
which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war,
sells for $236.4m,
making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

Soumith Chintala, who co-created the PyTorch ML framework at Meta and left the company this month, has joined Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-soumith-chinta…

A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, hires Meta AI veteran Soumith Chintala as it rapidly expands its team and prepares for major funding.

Missing Link: Strenge Gesetze und Reichensteuer – Zäsur für das Silicon Valley?
Der California Effect, ähnlich dem europäischen Brüssel-Effekt, sorgt immer wieder für Kritik. Das hat das Silicon Valley verändert, und wird es weiterhin tun.

Physicist Yoichiro Nambu
(南部 陽一郎) was born #OTD in 1921.
He developed a theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking
to explain superconductivity,
paving the way for electroweak symmetry breaking via the Higgs mechanism in the Standard Model

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…

Orion will fly by the far side of the Moon
(the side that always faces away from Earth).
For ~6 hours, the crew will observe and photograph geologic features that humans haven’t seen in person since 1972.
This is the part I’m in Mission Control for! Squeeeee!
-- barbylon.bsky.social

NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Science Operations to Inform Future Missions
While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA’s Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations that will inform future deep space missions, including a lunar science investigation as Orion flies about 4,000 to 6,000 miles from the Moon’s surface.