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Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-restructures-clou…

Nvidia Restructures Cloud Team After Retreating From AWS Competition
More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service that could rival Amazon Web Services, he has backed away from competing with such firms and last week reorganized his company’s cloud team, according to several people with knowledge of the ...

From Isolation to Integration: Building an Adaptive Expert Forest for Pre-Trained Model-based Class-Incremental Learning
Ruiqi Liu, Boyu Diao, Hangda Liu, Zhulin An, Fei Wang, Yongjun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20911 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20911 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20911
arXiv:2602.20911v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to learn new classes without forgetting old ones. A common method is to freeze a pre-trained model and train a new, lightweight adapter for each task. While this prevents forgetting, it treats the learned knowledge as a simple, unstructured collection and fails to use the relationships between tasks. To this end, we propose the Semantic-guided Adaptive Expert Forest (SAEF), a new method that organizes adapters into a structured hierarchy for better knowledge sharing. SAEF first groups tasks into conceptual clusters based on their semantic relationships. Then, within each cluster, it builds a balanced expert tree by creating new adapters from merging the adapters of similar tasks. At inference time, SAEF finds and activates a set of relevant experts from the forest for any given input. The final prediction is made by combining the outputs of these activated experts, weighted by how confident each expert is. Experiments on several benchmark datasets show that SAEF achieves SOTA performance.
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I know git doesn't track renames. I know it constructs them from adds and deletes. I know my repo has lots of similar (not identical!) boilerplate files ... I still renamed a bunch of directories and was surprised that merging this change into existing feature branches produced phantom changes that existed on neither branch!!
Here's the blog post: https://lornajane.net/posts/2026/git-renames-are-not-renames

Emerging Cowboys WR Ryan Flournoy gets encouraging update after scary injury https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/emerging-dallas-cowboys-wr-ryan-flournoy-encouraging-injury-update

Magnetosphere Evolution and Precursor-driven Electromagnetic Signals in Merging Binary Neutron Stars: #NeutronStars: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/nasa-researchers-probe-tangled-magnetospheres-of-merging-neutron-stars/

🥱 Tired: Merging
⚡️ Wired: Morging
Thanks, Microsoft Docs!
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow#git-flow

I saw the email about @… merging with MLH (never heard of it before today either). The collapse of legacy social media that began in 2022 has to be part of why that happened. I really liked their community behind them before they fell off of the internet.

AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach
Apparently reputation farming and running a openclaw consultancy
https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-…

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/general-catalyst-commits-5b-to-ind…

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years | TechCrunch
The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst's earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.

WBD merging with either Netflix or Paramount should be challenged by US antitrust authorities and would be bad for US streaming market competition (Tim Wu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/netflix-paramount-warner-bros.html

Opinion | Netflix? Paramount? They’re Both Terrible for Warner Bros.
Either merger would be bad for the country.

from my link log —
Lessons from merging hash tables.
https://gist.github.com/attractivechaos/d2efc77cc1db56bbd5fc597987e73338
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2026-01-01_hashmap-merge.md
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Friday Links 26-06
I enjoyed the interview with the OpenClaw creator, even if I hate about half of his opinions.
The interview with the baker is also great.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/02/friday-links-26-06.html

Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M in bookings in 2025 (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/two-air

Celebrate the new year by merging to main and push to prod!

Quantum computing company Infleqtion closed at $15.59 in its trading debut, up ~9% from its opening price of $14.25, after merging with a Michael Klein-led SPAC (Mackenzie Tatananni/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/infleq…

Be affraid #php #laravel

So many predictions saying how AI and crypto will converge this year, because agents need to pay.
I look forward to it. Merging a famous fractal scam industry (as meticulously documented by @…) with a technology that still haven't taken even a stab at solving prompt injection (as meticulously documented by @…

The Sun EIC Victoria Newton told staff that the paper plans to merge its features desk with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle team, placing some jobs at risk (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Jobs at risk as Sun set to merge features desk and Fabulous team
The Sun has proposed merging its features team with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle desk.

Highspot, which has raised $650M and makes AI-powered sales enablement software, plans to merge with rival Seismic; the combined company will be called Seismic (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/seattle-based…

Had a nearly perfect setup at my best run so far! Merging two red cats is the ultimate goal and I was soooo close at the end!!!

ESA astronomers say they used AI model AnomalyMatch to scan 100M image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive in 2.5 days, finding ~1,400 "anomalous objects" (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869182/astronomers-ai-di…

Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
AI model AnomalyMatch took just 2.5 days to flag rarities like merging galaxies and gravitational lenses from 100 million image cutouts in Hubble’s archives.