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Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is held ever year at San Jose State
Univ. by Professor Scott Rice. It is held in memory of Edward George
Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather prolific and popular (in his
time) novelist. He is best known today for having written "The Last
Days of Pompeii."
Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord

David Edwards | Saints-Raiders Postgame https://www.neworleanssaints.com/video/david-edwards-saints-raiders-postgame-2026-nfl-week-3

Dans mes souvenirs, c'est Nicolas la cause
Mort d’Édouard Balladur : Š l’origine de la rivalité avec Jacques Chirac - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/politique/mort-dedouard-ball…

Mort d’Édouard Balladur : à l’origine de la rivalité avec Jacques Chirac
Pourquoi en 1995, Édouard Balladur, alors Premier ministre, a nourri des ambitions présidentielles contre son ami Jacques Chirac, violant ce que lui-même avait pourtant théorisé.

Just finished reading a ~1949 pop-science article on viruses; it's fascinating - they've just got electron microscopy so they're now able to see them and go WTF without understanding what's going on. Their only other tool previously was measuring relative amounts of nucleic acids, and their only definition is really 'it passes through smaller filters than bacteria'. And then getting confused by things like King Edwards potatoes that almost all carry a virus but ar…

“our current generation, and generations of students, don't even know the history of their own field. They're constantly reinventing things, or thoughtlessly disregarding things.”
Edward Feigenbaum (2007)
Oral History of Donald Knuth

A Chinese court froze up to $300M of assets held by Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, giving its Chinese parent company Wingtech leverage in its bid to regain control (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

David Edwards on Raiders defense, Asim Richards | Saints vs. Raiders 2026 NFL Week 3 https://www.neworleanssaints.com/video/david-edwards-interview-saints-vs-raiders-2026-nfl-week-3-9-25-2026

AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…