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"Open Access Research Matters to the Public. We Can Prove It." @ Katina magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/open-access-research-matters-to-the-public
"Information scho…

Just had another one of those "OMG ChatGPT can do that?" moments.
We're quickly moving past knowledge work, and past knowledge itself. The only frontier after this will be human attention.
The rub is... As one who competes in the attention economy, let me tell you: Every day, there is less of it to compete for, and more competitors. And now AI can blow that out to infinity.
Anyone who 'makes content' is now up against infinite competitors. And they …

OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M weekly active users, up 6x since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/codex-for-knowledge-work

POP QUIZ
Which of these are nu metal bands, and which are cognitive biases?
- Conjunction Fallacy
- Compassion Fade
- Illusion of Validity
- Curse of Knowledge
- Phantom Effect
- Mere Exposure
- Reactance
- Law of the Instrument
- Groupthink
- False Prior
- Pareidolia
- Surrogation
- Cryptomnesia
- The Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon
- Bandwagon
- Impostor Syndrome
- Chronostasis

Information regarding the health of the justices, is often difficult to obtain.
The Supreme Court’s public information office previously declined to reveal that
Chief Justice John Roberts had fallen at a country club near his suburban Maryland home in June 2020,
injured his head and taken by ambulance to a hospital until it was reported by the Washington Post.
If Alito were to decide to step down, the opening would offer President Donald Trump a fourth appointment to…

Exclusive: Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital last month in previously undisclosed incident
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital after becoming ill last month at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia, according to people with knowledge of the March 20 incident.

I do a lot of hands-on work with AI Agent Skills that are loosely coupled with Data Spaces (databases, knowledge bases, filesystems, and APIs). OpenLink Software now has a publicly accessible AI Agent Skills repository on GitHub that I contribute to directly.
If you’re interested in what’s possible across both consumer and enterprise use cases, this repository is for you. Note that everything we build is grounded in open standards—so what we share can be easily reused by anyone.

I am pleased to report that we discovered how to get the new version of the Knowledge App to work with Apple tv
I pulled the cable out of the box while it was still trying to download the app unsuccessfully. I waited a short while then plugged it back in and waited again until service was restored.
Bingo. The new app was downloaded in a few seconds and works perfectly
I should have tried that first!

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…

OpenAI Held Early Talks With The Trade Desk to Sell Ads
OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The talks indicate that OpenAI, which launched ads in ChatGPT in early February, will initially lean on ...

Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for $400M ; PitchBook: Kumo raised $37M at a $250M valuation in 2022 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-buys-enterprise-mo…

Nvidia Buys Enterprise Model-Maker Kumo AI for at Least $400 Million
Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a five-year-old startup that sells predictive AI software to enterprises, for more than $400 million, said a person with knowledge of the deal. The acquisition, first revealed by an Nvidia executive in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, should expand Nvidia’s roster of AI ...

Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from PE firms including Brookfield and KKR at a $50B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-center-developer-s…

Data Center Developer Switch in Talks to Raise Billions at $50 Billion-Plus Valuation
Data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50 billion, as it seeks to capitalize on soaring demand for the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Brookfield Asset Management, ...