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Source: OpenAI awards bonuses to ~1,000 research and engineering employees, or ~30% of its staff, ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers
OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company, ranging from the low hundreds of thousands to millions, as the company gears up to release its latest flagship GPT-5 model and faces an ever-rising battle for AI talent, according to a person with knowledge of the bonuses. The size of the bonuses will be

Interesting, "GPT-style models have a fixed memorization capacity of approximately 3.6 bits per parameter."
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-much-information-do-llms-really-memorize-now-we-know-thanks-to-met…

How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell
Using a clever solution, researchers find GPT-style models have a fixed memorization capacity of approximately 3.6 bits per parameter.

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became utterly humiliated by their self-congratulatory promises from the 1950s that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day, even if the original researchers (like Minsky*) died long ago.
*probably raped children on Epstein’s island

This is kind of crazy
One in Three Australian Ransomware Victims Hit Multiple Times
https://australiancybersecuritymagazine.com.au/one-in-three-australian-ransomware-victims-hit-multiple-times/

One in Three Australian Ransomware Victims Hit Multiple Times - Australian Cyber Security Magazine
Barracuda Networks, Inc. has released new research showing one in three Australian organisations affected by ransomware have been hit multiple times in the last 12 months. The findings are detailed in the Ransomware Insights Report 2025, which also reveals the situation in Australia is particularly concerning, with 67% of repeat victims saying they are juggling

Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought, study suggests #Canada

Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought, study suggests
Methane emissions from Canada's non-producing oil and gas wells appear to be seven times higher than government estimates, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill University. The findings spotlight a major gap in the country's official greenhouse gas inventory and raise urgent questions about how methane leaks are monitored, reported and managed.

Raiders Notes: Zamir White Isn’t Done Yet, Thomas Booker’s “Motor,” O-Line Latest https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/06/raiders-notes-zamir-white-isnt-done-yet-thomas-bookers-motor-o-line-latest/

It is so hard to write headlines for basic biochem research.
I can substantially understand what the popular summary is saying about the primary source and thanks to my antique education including some graduate-level biochem courses, I can even read

Oh wow ​LLMs are just so terrible. 🤦‍♂️
I made a #systemd service watcher¹ ( :nixos: #NixOS module²³) which regularly feeds systemd status outputs into an LLM (mistral here) and sends me an email if it thinks it found real problems. Well, now I always get alarmist emails with bullshit warnings, suc…

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Sources: China told local brokers and think tanks to stop promoting stablecoins by publishing research or holding seminars, aiming to prevent market instability (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/ch…

Sources: Apple lost around a dozen of its AI staff, including top researchers, to rivals in recent months; its core foundation models team has ~50 to 60 people (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6b9ce8ce-a327-40c1-a8a1-579c2727fc60