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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.

Patriots hope they've found their next long-snapper in Julian Ashby https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45672356/patriots-draft-long-snapper-julian-ashby

Exclusive / Times pushed ahead to avoid being scooped on Mamdani Columbia story (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/times-pushed-ahead-to-avoid-being-scooped-on-mamdani-columbia-story
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p48#a250706p48

An interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on settling the proxy fight with Starboard Value, serving the "design and make" workforce, US reshoring, and more (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/02/2025

Autodesk’s Andrew Anagnost on surviving an activist attack
The design software CEO says resolving an investor standoff starts with admitting which critiques are fair.

UnitedHealthcare sues The Guardian for defamation over a May 21 story about nursing home cost-cutting, accusing the outlet of capitalizing on its CEO's killing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/04…

UnitedHealthcare lawsuit accuses Guardian of trying to ‘capitalize’ on CEO’s killing
UnitedHealth is being represented by Clare Locke, a firm that’s made a name for itself aggressively pursuing defamation lawsuits against the media.

The world would be a better place if Chris Rufo just got run over by a bus (ideally 10 years ago).
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3ltdt66yen22h

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
SEMAFOR: @nytimes.com published the hit piece on Zohran to not get scooped by… Chris Rufo🤔 (CRT fear peddler who offered $5K for proof of Haitians eating cats) “people are really upset” inside NYT. Again: the story itself is the scandal. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/times-pushed-ahead-to-avoid-being-scooped-on-mamdani-columbia-story

5 Million less tourists a year visit Fisherman's Wharf since pandemic, The Port Of #SanFrancisco has found Oakland's Everett & Jones BBQ willing to take over Lou's at Pier 47, but can't find replacement for Alioto's iconic 3 story restaurant, and announce plan to tear it down and turn it into pedestrian plaza.

50 years independence days ago, #JerryGarcia & legion of mary in #SanFrancisco, the beginning of their last run of tapes. soundboard: https://www.

Se inicia el nuevo siglo, el britpop va de salida y como siempre es difícil sostener el éxito en la cima, «We Love Life», publicado el 2001, pasó pršcticamente desapercibido. Quizšs no es un disco tan novedoso como los anteriores, pero aün así es uno muy bueno.
Poco después vino la disolución de la banda.
«Bad Cover Version»

Democrats prep procedural challenges to GOP's tax-and-spending bill (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/03/2025/democrats-prep-procedural-challenges-to-gops-tax-and-spending-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p42#a250604p42