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There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative.
Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person.
German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.
And then there’s the Japanese word tsundoku, which perfectly describes the state of my apartment.
It means buying books and letting them pile up unread.
The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the M…

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.

Sources: the White House is expected to expand its AI oversight framework in the coming months to cover open models once they reach frontier capabilities (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-white-house-is-going-to-expand-its-ai-policy/…

The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.

“First they came for the New York Times and I… fuck I have to say something about this don’t I?
Who’s the next one on the poem? Could I maybe wait for that one?”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4tqkvdjxqapupkv6rnb6agp/post/3mqeqd3ptec2u

The White House directed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by The New York Times
about security issues with the new Air Force One,
leading to a flurry of subpoenas to several Times reporters Friday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Mr. Patel scuttled a planned trip to Chicago and spent roughly eight hours at the White House on Friday,
running the investigation from there rather than F.B.I. headqua…

White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting
The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.

Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI's special projects division and formerly was its COO, says he is leaving the company "to start something new" (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Special Projects Lead, Former COO Brad Lightcap To Depart
Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI’s special projects division and formerly was its chief operating officer, told staff on Tuesday that he is leaving the company, according to a copy of the memo viewed by The Information and a post from Lightcap on X. “Over the last few months, I’ve been focused on the next horizon and what would stand in the way of mission success,” Lightcap wrote

Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-trick-reveals-ai-models-inner-thoughts/…

A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.

Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent.
But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-pursuit-of-the-careless-people-author-is-relentless-and-self-…

Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.

A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and "beat" human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-ha…

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

Anthropic backtracks on covert limitations on Fable 5's ability to develop LLMs, says "requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8", following a backlash (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-responds-to…

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude
The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude’s ability to develop competing AI models.

Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-adds-19-new-gas-turbines-despite-ongoing-lawsuit/

xAI Adds 16 New Gas Turbines at Mississippi Facility Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.