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Q&A with WGA's negotiators on the current staff union strike, Minimum Basic Agreement negotiations, AI, the 2023 strikes, Disney and Sora, copyright, and more (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/wga-ai-training-amptp-talks-1236684012/

WGA to Seek Payment for AI Training in Talks With Studios
The WGA will seek compensation for members whose scripts are used to train AI models when AMPTP negotiations start next week.

Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times)
https://economi…

Paras Chopra’s Lossfunk gets AI models to speak Tulu through prompts, not training
Lossfunk, an AI lab founded by Paras Chopra, created a prompting method that helps large language models produce Tulu text without prior training. Using grammar rules and negative constraints, accuracy reached about 85%. The approach may help expand AI support for low-resource Indian languages without costly data collection or specialised training.

Über acht Milliarden Zahlungen: Girocard baut Führungsrolle aus
Mehr Zahlungen, mehr Terminals, höherer Kontaktlos-Anteil: Die Girocard festigt ihre Dominanz im deutschen Handel.
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UFC Fighters to Hold Training Event for FBI Agents (Sadie Gurman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ufc-fighters-to-hold-training-event-for-fbi-agents-75e9f2af
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p121#a260312p121

{dtrack} makes documentation of data wrangling part of the analysis and creates pretty flow charts: #rstats

Artículo excelente en defensa al término 'decrecimiento'.
(Excelente article in défense of the term 'degrowth'.)
En defensa del término ‘Decrecimiento’
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/decrecimiento/defensa-del-termino-decrecimiento…

En defensa del término ‘Decrecimiento’
La clave del argumento contra el término no es tanto el miedo que genera, como la incomodidad, porque la solución que apunta es radical: el ‘Decrecimiento’ sostiene que hay que romper con uno de los ídolos de nuestra sociedad (el crecimiento).

Größtes deutsches Gym für humanoide Roboter entsteht in München
Mit KI-unterstütztem Training im RoboGym wollen TU München und NEURA Robotics künftig Humanoide und andere Roboter für Alltagssituationen fit machen.

UFC AND FBI PARTNER FOR HISTORIC FIRST EXCLUSIVE TRAINING SEMINAR (UFC)
https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-and-fbi-partner-historic-first-exclusive-training-seminar
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p99#a260312p99

How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K workforce (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/877388/white-collar-workers-training-ai…

You Could Be Next
Over the last few years, a new type of AI company has emerged, like Mercor and Surge AI, staffed by and large by former white-collar workers, including former lawyers, scientists, copywriters, and screenwriters.

„Gothic 1 Remake“ erscheint am 5. Juni
THQ Nordic hat einen neuen Release-Termin für das Remake von „Gothic 1“ festgezurrt: Das Rollenspiel soll am 5. Juni 2026 in den Handel kommen.
https://www.heise.de/n…