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Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using a version of Kimi K3 (Melia Robinson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/harvey-builds-tenet-ai-model-for-legal-…

Harvey announces Tenet, its first in-house AI model for legal work
Harvey's first AI model, Tenet, is designed to take on more of the tasks typically done by lawyers over hours or days.

Intelligence?
No, just the very great capacity to iteratively do tasks set by human operators.
"..the Hugging Face incident demonstrates the lack of any real agency even in the most sophisticated currently existing AI "agents", although this does not make the incident less concerning or important."
The Hugging Face Incident and the Future of Work - Social Europe

The Hugging Face Incident and the Future of Work
The agents hacked a global platform to hide their cheating from a scorer that did not exist.

Hayao Miyazaki will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
https://geektyrant.com/news/hayao-miyazaki-is-showing-up-to-work-at-studio-ghibli-every-day-but-nobody-knows-what-hes-making

Hayao Miyazaki Is Showing Up to Work at Studio Ghibli Every Day, but Nobody Knows What He’s Making — GeekTyrant
At 85 years old, Hayao Miyazaki apparently still has somewhere very important to be every morning. The legendary filmmaker continues to report to Studio Ghibli on a daily basis, and while that might sound like confirmation that another Miyazaki movie is taking shape, there’s a wonderfully strang

The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting September 2026.
But just weeks away from its implementation, the new premier, Ben Carroll, has announced a year’s delay in response to fierce business opposition.
Thousands of miles away, in Portugal, parents of young children already have a legal right to work from home without needing their employers’ approval.
All of these developments raise the question:
How should workers b…

Working from home should be a right, not a reward
An Australian state is set to introduce a law supporting the right to work from home, and it’s already in place for some parents in Portugal. Should it happen elsewhere?

I mentioned that we face a (voluntary) layoff. So alot of colleagues will leave soon and someone asked me about an alumni-group ...
My first reaction was "anything except a WhatsApp Group". But what would / could work? Anyone who tried that in the past?
I guess it'll boil down to Whatsapp/Signal? I would suggest Matrix but I'm afraid it might be too alien for some?
#work

Intrigued by workmen doing work things along the sidewalk of our street frontage, I went outside to see (they're laying neighborhood fibre).
My several decades older neighbour was also out there. Nodding towards the (entirely non-caucasian) work crew out of earshot, he says "Couldn't they find any real #Canadians to do this work?"
"They ARE

I'll generalize, apologies.
Broadly speaking, almost ever painting ever made is a work of art.
Photography made things much, much easier - you just need to be where what you want to photograph is - and perhaps one photo in a million is a true work of art.
GenAI made things even easier - you don't even to be there.
I don't think we'll ever see a true work of art from it.

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-says-a…

Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises.Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do.While Google ...

Okay so I park my bike in the back hall at work and I jokingly scrawled "Bike Parking" in the dust on a large door.
And today there was a second bike!
Keep in mind only 8 people work here. I knew who it belonged to... they didn't bike in but dropped it off in case they need it due to a shared car situation.
#BikeTooter

"Extreme weather is making work difficult for many people – this is what needs to change"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Extreme weather is making work difficult for many people – this is what needs to change
Climate change leading to extreme weather events is making life uncomfortable for many UK workers. A new survey reveals the depth of the problem.

Wenn Merz davon schwadroniert, daß wir mit 4-Tage-Woche und Work-Life Balance unseren Wohlstand nicht erhalten können: stimmt. Sie erhöhen ihn.
Eine 4-Tage-Woche ist Wohlstand – den sich auch aufgrund der aktuellen Regierungspolitik nur wenige Wohlhabende leisten können. Work-Life Balance ist nur ein anderer Begriff dafür, Zeit zu haben, den Wohlstand auch genießen zu können.
Alles andere ist ein abschätziges: die arbeitende Klasse muß von früh bis spät schuften, damit sie meinen…

A bipartisan group of 18 former FCC officials files a brief supporting ABC's request to halt the FCC's early review of its broadcast licenses (Protect Democracy)
https://protectdemocracy.org/work/former-fcc-officials-abc-amicus-brief/

Bipartisan coalition of former top FCC officials back ABC's First Amendment lawsuit against FCC
A bipartisan coalition of former FCC officials filed an amicus brief supporting ABC’s request for emergency relief in its lawsuit challenging the FCC’s early review of broadcast licenses.

fillmore east/village theater update http://evgrieve.com/2026/09/work-starts-on-new-16-handles-on-2nd.html

Work starts on the new 16 Handles on 2nd Avenue
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

Interviewer: “When you see Gaza destroyed like this, how do you feel?”
Katz: “What do I feel? Feel good.”
Hey boy, are you a work of art? Because you’d look great hanging in Nuremberg. @…

Drop Site on Twitter
🇮🇱 A new Channel 14 report shows senior Israeli government and military officials openly celebrating the destruction of Gaza, the mass killing of Palestinians, their forced displacement to the coast, and Israel’s permanent occupation of the territory. One senior officer described all 70,000 Palestinians he said Israel had killed as “terrorists.” The full video is linked below. Here are some of the remarks: 🔹 Defense Minister Israel Katz: “The important thing: those neighborho…

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A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

'I'm here to win': Miller has big plans as Cowboy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49651426/miller-begins-work-dream-being-dallas-cowboy

Mick Shots: No matter surprises, back to work https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-no-matter-surprises-back-to-work

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

1.5 weeks into a 3 week holiday* and I can feel now just how much I needed it.
And how little I want to go back to work in August.
Let's hope the second half of the holiday fixes that.
#AcademicChatter
*yes I know, I am incredibly fortunate to get to take 3 weeks of summer holiday off, but the feeling of utter burnout is also real.

Work is just an alternate location for me to listen to London Calling

It's ternary time! Work it out and check the alt text afterwards.
#Ternary #WristCheck

Everything in life, at some level, is about storytelling, so they say. Yet, telling my own story, about my own work, the reasons/impetus, the processes, the details, mistakes, insights, lessons, connections etc. It is the hardest thing ever.
People don't buy the art, they buy the artist.
As much as I do love writing, I've always strongly disliked writing about my creative works/efforts, probably because I so often wanted The Work™ to stand on its own and also because I so frequen…

Maya glyphic texts from the Classic period (250–900 CE)
typically chronicle the exploits of historical or divine characters;
everyday or functional records are rare.
Here, the authors offer a reconstruction and transcription of a ‘microtext’
painted on an interior wall of Structure 10K-2 at the site of Xultun, Guatemala.
The text records a unique astronomical formula that concludes with a name,
attributing the work to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax …

The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician

@drhanwill.bsky.social is far too modest to share this, but it's so brilliant to see her and Meredith Martin's work on @colnet.bsky.social featured in the NY Times!
You can watch their film with Madeleine Le Cesne at https://www.colonialnetworks.org/linked-li

Lotus club #Autocross at Salinas airport today. Lots of fun with friends but I left the Lotus at home and took our Taycan to give it a work out. Very fast but the weight was too much for street tires. Best time was an afternoon fun run with four of us in the car…

Organising conferences I've tended to do a call for full papers but it's always felt awkward. Like why require people to write 4 pages to apply to do a talk? Especially when it's unpaid work (sometimes even pay-to-speak), and when people generally don't just read out their paper anyway so the paper ends up fairly unrelated to the talk.. Like writing and speaking can be just very different things.
So I think for the next @…

I can work in both French and English. I'm interested in infrastructure roles.
#infrastructure #sysadmin #sre
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I've been remote, fully since 2009 and would like …

Ponos - Alternative européenne open source et IA à LinkedIn
Réseau professionnel minimaliste, sans tracking, respectueux de votre vie privée. Conforme RGPD.

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

Is there any good explanation why the automatic alt text generator doesn’t work anymore (language DE)?
@… #icecubesapp

I get this, mostly because I fancy myself a writer:
https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117113511781387827
I also know this is true, because I have witnessed it:

Ordinarily my #actuallyautistic coping strategies work well. I have a life which avoids crowds, perfume, loud noises, most street food, and many other stimuli which could incapacitate me. This week, however, the next door folk are having insulating cladding installed. There are extremely loud drilling sounds and vibrations that I cannot escape from 08:00 onwards, even today, a Saturday. I am…

The Quiet Operator
A podcast that gets inside the boring, profitable businesses most people never hear about and finds out how they actually work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-quiet-operator/

I agree that it’s important that publications “remain visible, discoverable, attributable, and connected to the version of record,” but no details are given on how a deal with Google or whatever corporation would actually ensure this—and given how LLMs work, there’s actually no guarantee whatsoever—so this remains very vague.
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I agree that it’s important that publications “remain visible, discoverable, attributable, and connected to the version of record,” but no details are given on how a deal with Google or whatever corporation would actually ensure this—and given how LLMs work, there’s actually no guarantee whatsoever—so this remains very vague.
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José-Alain Sahel receives António Champalimaud Vision Award for his work to restore sight using #optogenetics https://www.medschool.pitt.edu/news/jos-alain-s…

As always, a great post from Axle Energy, the British start-up specialising in distributed energy flexibility, on the challenges of #V2G, or bidirectional charging of electric cars. It has to work for people.
https://www.axl…

V2G's Last Mile Is Human

For my work machine at home I have been dual monitor for over a year. This year work upgraded us to dual monitors. It makes my work easier. Rather than tabbing between apps I organize them across monitors to make my work easier.
https://flip.it/ck9y2e

Yesterday we had caramelized peaches and oatmeal with egg bacon tea coffee before I went and tested our monthly party bike ride route and then went to work, before evening mahjong. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/k5Y1Tp6XCbZrKgpu7

Are you a passionate person looking for an opportunity to work with people dedicated to equality, liberty, and justice? Do you have experience in campaigning, communications, or event planning? Or do you know someone who does?
BCCLA is hiring a Campaigns Manager and a Communications, Outreach & Events Coordinator!
The Campaigns Manager will design, develop, run and manage impactful and engaging awareness, public opinion change, advocacy, and legal campaigns. This includes wo…

Campaigns Manager - BC Civil Liberties Association
Application deadline: August 19, 2026 at 11:59pm PST.Term: Sept/Oct 2026 – Sept/Oct 2027 fixed-term position, 1.0 FTE. This fixed-term position may be extended, subject to funding and agreement with union. […]

Time-shifted to watch with my son, who was at work today. We managed, somehow, to stay spoiler-free. 🎉 🙌
Spain were the better team, by far, although the first half was relatively even. Any real hope Argentina had evaporated after Enzo Fernandez’s ridiculously stupid challenge. That late, while carrying a yellow?!? The only question was whether Argentina could steal it via PKs. The way Martinez was playing, you could see it.
Happily, it was decided in open play.

MX Linux seems to be a very polished product in the sense that a lot of work has clearly gone into it - and into trying to make it pretty friendly. At least compared to how things used to be. On the other hand it also very much feels like late 90s Linux where everything is cobbled together from all kinds of bits and things are named after application names rather than features. It is kind of fun to have to figure things out this way. Mint/Fedora etc. are so polished these days, you rarely ha…

Thankful for the people interviewed in this article, and other like them. Difficult, important work - with good results.
ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’
https://www.theguard…

ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’
Gun violence-prevention programs are another casualty of Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown

Thankful for the people interviewed in this article, and other like them. Difficult, important work - with good results.
ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’
https://www.theguard…

ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’
Gun violence-prevention programs are another casualty of Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown

Amazing work by Spain! Out of this world control of the pitch. Zero chance for Argentina. 🔥🔥🔥

Say hello to The Hamster, one of The Mansion's smallest and cutes residents. In 'Management Apologises For The Inconvenience', the hamster has a lot to do, confetti to gather, cookies to nibble, and pockets to sleep in. Even the management acknowledges his important work in The Mansion. And soon, you'll be able to follow the chubby little rodent on new adventures and mishaps! #thementalmansion

When Maps says 215 km to next left, you know you’re about to zigzag through Slartibartfast‘s best damn work.
#iceland #westfjords

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At today's #IETF #hackathon I had the opportunity to talk about recent work done jointly with @… and @…

@… nice work.
Are the small bevels all made in render/shader ?

We Can’t Work It Out #newlywedsdisagreeasong
#HashTagGames

I guess NS rail is sending me slop emails?
I got a warning about work on tracks on
Saturday 3 October
Saturday 4 October
Sunday 5 October
Shouls I trust the content of the email

A lot of people are writing lots of things about A.I here already, all of which are more important than my complaint...but man, trying to buy a new NVMe drive at this juncture is utter insanity.
Really wish I'd gone for a bit more RAM and especially storage back when you could actually afford them.
Time to delete some of my praying mantis video collection to make space for less essential things, like work files.

I'm watching House 3x12 "One Day, One Room" #House

One Day, One Room
While House is forced to work full-time in the clinic and deal with a rape victim who insists on confiding with him, Cameron deals with a terminal cancer…

I've switched to Nova from VSCode as my primary editor on my Mac. When I made the switch about a month ago, I added this function to my .zshrc:
code () {
echo "use Nova instead \`nova\`, or if you really want VSCode, \`vscode\`"
}
Could I have just pointed a code alias at nova? Sure, but how then would this dummy ever learn?
I hit my function today, first time!
Context: My primary way of open a project to work on it is from my terminal now nova…

Federal and state fascists work together to pull a man, with wife and kids from his car, there was no warning (Lawrence, MA, 08/15/26)
Video Source
https://reddit.com/comments/1vpd545
Ice Out Report

Long after his death in 2010,
Howard Zinn's books and speeches
are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and fundamentalist politicians.
In 2020, Trump called out Zinn by name from the White House lawn,
smearing Zinn’s work as “propaganda… that tries to make students ashamed of their own history.”
So, who was Howard Zinn?
And why are his critics so determined to keep his work from the public?
In this live event, hosted at…

MAGA wants to ban his books. Who was Howard Zinn?
Long after his death in 2010, the books and speeches of Howard Zinn are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and even President Trump. Dave Zirin tells us why the right people fear what Zinn has to teach us.

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Mick Shots: No matter surprises, back to work https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-no-matter-surprises-back-to-work

Some of the storm damage I saw biking to work today. This is in my neighborhood about five blocks from my house.
#milwaukee

Logging in at work for the first time this morning, #Windows, #Outlook or #Teams just prompted me to "Sign in (to Microsoft) to enable offline mode."... for something.
<pained expression>

Dylan Byers of Puck has gone to unusual lengths to defend Bari Weiss' work while Puck is in funding talks with RedBird Capital, a top Paramount investor (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/puck-cbs-news-ba…

Bari’s Byers
Puck's lead media reporter has gone to unusual lengths to defend Bari Weiss’ disastrous CBS News overhaul—all as the outlet pursues a lucrative deal with one of Paramount’s top investors.

“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,”
says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist
Rhiannon Giddens.
“That’s what music is for. …
We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.”
Giddens has had a wide-spanning career,
including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band,
and her work as a musical c…

“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.” Giddens has had a wide-spanning career, including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band, and her work as a musical consultant on Ryan Coogler’s…

So fellow #slackware users (I know we have a few of you on the fediverse), what are you installing on new machines these days. Still 15.0 or are you all moving to -current?
My main work machine on 15.0 is fine but I am thinking of setting up a new machine and 15.0 feels a little old now. I sometimes have to spend longer upgrading a bunch of stuff when I need a new version of one pack…

The Sarah Hanson-Young Podcast
A place where we can have the important conversations about how we can make the world a better place and force politics to work for people - together...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sarah-hanson…

Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/982270/meta-ai-mac-app

Meta AI is getting a Mac app
Meta is launching a new app dedicated to its AI chatbot on Mac. The Meta AI app allows you to share your window with the chatbot and also provides dictation across apps.

Finally, none of the current AI systems are compatible with the principles formulated in the ACM Code. They rely on stolen data, and they cause significant environmental and social harm. These systems and their creators blatantly violate Section 1.5 of the Code: “Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.”
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Finally, none of the current AI systems are compatible with the principles formulated in the ACM Code. They rely on stolen data, and they cause significant environmental and social harm. These systems and their creators blatantly violate Section 1.5 of the Code: “Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.”
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Second Dog is recovering from surgery. It's been a week since her spay, and we've been wondering when High Energy Collie would return.
As for us, younger child brought back a fever and sore throat from school, as they always do after about a month. They gave it to me.
So yesterday, having taken a few days off work, I had finished a round of Feeding Kids and Administering Medicines and was settling down for a very much needed nap. Second Dog appeared, in a perky mood, and…

I'd like my next job to have something more than Linux, yes, I'm looking at your FreeBSD.
#runbsd #freebsd #getfedihired
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I can work in both French and English. …

Ponos - Alternative européenne open source et IA à LinkedIn
Réseau professionnel minimaliste, sans tracking, respectueux de votre vie privée. Conforme RGPD.

From The Conversation
Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has collapsed?
We share their vast expert knowledge to educate Canadians so they can make informed decisions about politics, their health, the environment, the education of their children and the…

Not getting enough physical activity may be harming your health: Here’s what being sedentary does to your body
From a biological perspective, being inactive is more than the opposite of being active. Being sedentary results in unique physiological changes that can lead to a variety of health risks.

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I'm watching NYPD Blue 1x08 "Tempest in a C-Cup" #NypdBlue

Tempest in a C-Cup
Lieutenant Fancy hires Donna Abandando, a well-endowed civilian employee, to work in the precinct's "safe street" program.

Sigh, it is hard to do pre-release work with a network that goes up and down every 15-30 minutes.
I am waiting to hear from someone tell me 'you can do it after regular work hours' as my response will be HELL NO.

Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90% , doing large chunks of work under close human direction (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Penguin Random House has suspended promotion and sales of Ross Barkan's upcoming book on Zohran Mamdani after plagiarism allegations about Barkan's other work (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Publisher suspends sales of journalist’s book after plagiarism review
New York Magazine said it updated 67 of Ross Barkan’s columns that did not include proper attribution. His Penguin Random House book on Mayor Zohran Mamdani was set for the fall.

How To Write Songs With Keppie And Benny
Dives deep into the art and craft of songwriting - through honest conversations about how songs get written, how songwriters think, and the questions that emerge when you commit to making creative work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.great…

I remember back before I biked to work but I wanted to bike to work.
Today would have been one of those days where I was like "I'm too tired, didn't sleep well, my body is sore, there's no *way* I could bike to work today" and yet...
I biked to work today.
In a way, that's the exact kind of day I *should* bike to work.
#BikeTooter

The wealthy 1% heading to Mark Carney's summit are relying on the power of their money.
But we know, just like you, that the many can stand up against the money, and win.
Our leaders should work for us, not the corporate class. The only way we can make that happen, is by ramping up the pressure with more voices calling for the same change.
Will you do one more thing and share this to three of your friends?
Like you, there are so many Canadians who are worried abou…

Tell the Liberals: Canada is not for sale
Mark Carney wants to sell Canada's airports, water systems, and public infrastructure to the highest bidder. We won't let that happen. Add your name now:

Anthropic life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-…

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Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

For years, Shaoping Wu was part of an increasingly endangered group of human rights lawyers in China.
His work culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting with other prominent lawyers and activists.
Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants.
Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum.
🔥On Wednesday, Mr. Wu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania, where he had been living wit…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE
Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/bunkerhill-health-raises-…

Bunkerhill Health raises $55 million to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
Backed by Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Khosla Ventures, this startup is betting that healthcare's real AI opportunity isn't diagnosis—it's process.

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From Press Progress
Thank you for signing on to push back against SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) lawsuits that seek to silence dissent and critique of those in power.
This fight for us is personal. We are still at the center of one of the longest and most expensive media trials in Canadian history.
Lawsuits like this are designed to slow down the important work non-profit newsrooms like ours do by tying up our funds in lengthy lawsuits.
We won’…

Defend Canadian Journalism – Donate Form
Support Our Journalism Defence Fund PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in recent Canadian history. A former star candidate for Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party has launched a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against PressProgress and other trusted news organizations. This case has serious implications […]

A team of companies and universities from the UK, Spain, Estonia and Sweden is exploring
whether old satellites could be taken apart and reused directly in space.
Their work, known as DEXTER, was launched in 2025 and is led by Leonard Felicetti,
a space engineering associate professor at Cranfield University in the UK.
“We are cluttering space with new objects,” said Felicetti.
“What we want to do is to try and reuse the material that is already there"

Rethinking space junk in an age of satellite overload
For decades, we have been littering space with decommissioned satellites and rocket parts orbiting our planet. Now this space debris poses a growing threat to the satellites and spacecraft we rely on. But researchers believe some of this debris could be turned into a valuable resource.

ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work (Anup Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A northern California county that has become a hotbed of activism for those who sow doubts about the reliability of voting machines
plans to hire Tina Peters, the prominent Colorado election denier recently released from prison, to work on elections.
Clint Curtis, the top election official in Shasta county, told the Guardian he plans to hire Peters as a consultant to replace Brent Turner,
his top deputy, who has been on medical leave.
He said Peters would not have acc…

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A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-help…

Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes
Backstory automates provenance checks, reverse image searches, and context tracing to speed up verification work.

From Cascadia Journal
Washington State Standard reports on shiny new Airo trains that will be in service on the Amtrak Cascades line connecting Eugene, Portland, Seattle, Bellingham, and Vancouver BC on September 30. The new 300-passenger train sets will offer more comfort, a fancy cafe, better WiFi service, and restrooms with touchless controls. I'm thrilled about this – the Cascades line is one of my favorite ways to get around Cascadia, and it makes combining travel and work a b…

Anyone who has ever worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump makes a bet.
There is the possibility that you, too, will run afoul of the law
—eight of the president’s lawyers have themselves been indicted.
Alternatively, your work might pay dividends.
Such was Todd Blanche’s calculus three years ago when his white-shoe firm gave him a choice:
represent Mr Trump, then a candidate and a criminal defendant,
or remain a partner.
Mr Blanche chose Mr Trump.…

Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM
Microsoft’s new entry-level 13-inch Surface Laptop pairs last year’s  great hardware with a higher price and just 8GB of RAM. Thanks, RAMageddon.

First, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI

InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/14/instalily-dev…

InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M - SiliconANGLE
InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M - SiliconANGLE

How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post)

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight
From writing speeches to sorting constituent mail, AI is spreading through Congress faster than the rules governing its use.