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Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
The AI industry is full of people motivated by a true belief in what they’re doing, but Meta is betting that at a certain price, anyone can be bought — it’s casting its net across Silicon Valley to do it. And what’s the best weapon OpenAI, its biggest target, has to fight it? That’s money, too.

On the exterior power structure of the cohomology groups for the general hypergeometric integral
Hironobu Kimura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09382 https://

On the exterior power structure of the cohomology groups for the general hypergeometric integral
In this article we study the exterior power structure of the algebraic de Rham cohomology group associated with the Gelfand hypergeometric function and its confluent family. The hypergeometric function F(z) is a function on the Zariski open subset $Z_{r+1}\subset\mat{r+1,N}$, called the generic stratum, defined by an r-dimesional integral on $\Ps^{r}$. For $z\in Z_{r+1}$, the algebraic de Rham cohomology group is associated to the integral. When z belongs to the particular subset of $Z_{r+1}$, …

OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller model can run locally on a consumer device with 16GB of RAM (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-just-released-its-first-open-wei…

OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company.

Protest, network, engage. It works. https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/its-about-the-corruption?r=7ackg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Gosh, I hate to undercut in any way all those press reports about how the Trump cyber EO demolishes the cyber initiatives of Biden and Obama, but with a couple of exceptions it doesn't.
“I’m pleased to see that there’s a lot of consistency between what was in the last administration’s order and what they’re going forward with,” Caitlin Clarke, a former senior cyber leader on the National Security Council and now a senior director for cybersecurity services at Venable LLP, told CSO.…

Trump takes aim at Biden’s cyber executive order but leaves it largely untouched
A new Trump executive order revises Biden’s last cyber EO to eliminate significant sections on digital IDs and secure software attestations, among other changes, but keeps much of Biden’s cyber protections in place.

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…

Cluely says its ARR hit $7M after signing a public company; a startup called Pickle says it built Glass, an open source, free product similar to Cluely (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/clue

Cluely’s ARR doubled in a week to $7M, founder Roy Lee says. But rivals are coming. | TechCrunch
Cluely's rapid ascend may be challenged by free copycat products.

A look at Meta's recent hires for its nascent superintelligence unit, including Pei Sun, who developed two generations of Waymo's perception models (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/02/2025

Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans
The résumés of new hires suggest Meta is working on models with reasoning capabilities to more directly take on OpenAI’s suite of products.