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OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-employees-donations-guardrails-…

OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.

The MPA reaches an MOU with ByteDance to establish "strong guardrails" in its products like Seedance, TikTok, and CapCut to protect Hollywood IP and likenesses (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Motion Picture Association Inks AI IP Protection Deal With ByteDance
The agreement covers the Chinese tech giant's Seedance video models, as well as TikTok and other products.

Had an #acting #coaching client do a take focusing on one aim, then do a take focusing on a different aim, then, for a third take, had them split the difference and it was beautiful to see them do the scene with that greater breath to it. Sometimes finding the pieces builds the whole well.

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

POL-OS: Osnabrück: Brand in vollstationärer Wohneinrichtung - zwei Personen leicht verletzt - 31-Jähriger festgenommen Osnabrück (ots) - Am frühen Sonntagmorgen kam es in einer vollstationären Wohneinrichtung einer Osnabrücker Klinik am Gertrudenring zu einem Brand. Um ca. 4.15 Uhr löste die Brandmeldeanlage des betroffenen Heimbereichs aus. Einsatzkräfte ...

This is encouraging but,
1) Land use emissions have fallen less than the rise in fossil fuel emissions: global emissions are still rising.
2) There is uncertainty in the data (other than for deforestation) which is greater than the decrease.
3) It's unclear to me what the overall flux is - the balance of sequestration Vs emissions. We know some forests have become net emitters.
Why

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts - Carbon Brief
Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling over the course of the 21st century.

Wrote a little intro post to my Fisk AI project, why, who for etc
Local friendly, privacy friendly, strong guardrails, doing just what you give it the ability to do etc
Hopefully a AI Harness for sceptics or just for better outcomes for those tasks you wish to do repeatedly.
Minimal dependencies, quick to get going, easy to configure.
Also the easiest possible way to do build MCP servers for other AI Agents

Data from German vehicle insurer HUK-COBURG (which holds a quarter of the market) shows that Germans have been choosing EVs almost twice as often since the latest oil price crisis in March: 12 per cent of car insurance policy switches in Q2 2026 were to an EV
Second-hand EVs are also becoming increasingly popular amongst frequent drivers, for whom the cost savings are even greater. Volkswagen EVs are popular as second-hand cars, whilst new German EVs are less so.

Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats give independent pizzerias and other restaurants greater market access (Haley Zimmerman/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d10e846e-5615-4cb5-bd4f-b159423d4f75

Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/18/nvidias-ai-moat-is-shifting-from-chips-to-capital.…

Nvidia's AI moat is shifting from chips to capital
Nvidia still has dominant market share in AI chips, but with competition picking up steam, the company is taking greater advantage of another key asset.