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Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent, widely discussed "Messy Middle" essay on AI-driven disruption of knowledge jobs and how to address it (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/how-to-help-knowledge-workers-w…

How to help knowledge workers who lose their jobs to AI
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives

Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

Agonising listening to this particle physicist David Krofcheck on RNZ right now. He knows so much he can't possibly dumb it down enough to answer Kathryn Ryan's questions in the way she's fishing for. He has such a volume of knowledge dammed up he can't figure out how to let it out in a sufficiently mundane way. Everything he says assumes that the average person knows ('you remember "conservation of energy" that you learned about in highschool'... er, yeah) …

GEO ist zu 80-90% einfach SEO. 🤷
Entitäten, Knowledge Graph, Retrieval, semantisches Schreiben – das gibt es seit Jahren. Ich arbeite seit 3 Jahren mit diesem Stack. Brand-SEO und semantische Texte zahlen direkt auf LLM-Sichtbarkeit ein.
Wer Entity-SEO beherrscht, hat GEO größtenteils erledigt. Neues Label für altes Handwerk.
#GEO

Part of important experiments with 'types of data governance that establish a global knowledge commons, while supporting local communities'
How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License https://community.mozilladatacollectiv

How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License
Author: Alek Tarkowski For the last twenty five years, standardized open licenses were increasingly seen as a main tool for democratizing access to knowledge. Over less then a decade, a relatively narrow set of canonical choices emerged: the Creative Commons licensing stack https://creativecommons.org/licenses/list.en, coupled with

Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

Sources: ASML has discussed raising prices for its EUV systems with TSMC and plans to charge 10% more for its DUV systems; TSMC is resisting ASML's plans (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/as

ASML Plans Price Increases for Chipmaking Equipment, Despite TSMC Resistance
Chip toolmaker ASML, which makes equipment that plays a central role in chip production around the world, plans to raise prices, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions. That’s likely to bring ASML into conflict with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s biggest ...

Sources: 50 researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex…

The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff
Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These departures come on top of ...

Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/de

DeepSeek’s Annualized Revenue Nears $500 Million, Boosting Fundraise and IPO Plans
Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese open-source AI star to raise its second-funding round of 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) and plot a potential public offering in Shanghai next year, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The three-year-old startup’s ...