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Rapport från dagens stora anti-G7 och anti-Trumpprotest i Genève: ”Man ska inte förhandla med en sådan man”.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/stora-protester-mot-trump-infor-g7-motet-man-ska-inte-forhandla-med-en-sadan-man/

Stora protester mot Trump inför G7-mötet: ”Man ska inte förhandla med en sådan man som bara tänker på sig själv”
Stora protester mot Trump inför G7-mötet i Évian: ”Man ska inte förhandla med en sådan man som bara tänker på sig själv”

So to follow up on this, I've caught it in action. Models, when quantized a bit, just do a bit more poorly with short contexts. Even going from f32 (as trained) to bf16 (as usually run) to q8 tends to do okay for "normal" context windows. And q4 you start feeling like "this model is a little stupid and gets stuck sometimes” (it is! It's just that it's still mostly careening about in the space of "plausible" most of the time. Not good guesswork, but still in the zone). With long contexts, the probability of parameters collapsing to zero are higher, so the more context the more likelihood you are to see brokenness.
And then at Q2 (2 bits per parameter) or Q1, the model falls apart completely. Parameters collapse to zero easily. You start seeing "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” sorts of behavior, with intense and unscrutinized repetition, followed by a hard stop when it just stops working.
And quantization is a parameter that a model vendor can turn relatively easily. (they have to regenerate the model from the base with more quantization, but it's a data transformation on the order of running a terabyte through a straightforward and fast process, not like training).
If you have 1000 customers and enough equipment to handle the requests of 700, going from bf16 to q8 is a no-brainer. Suddenly you can handle the load and have a little spare capacity. They get worse results, probably pay the same per token (or they're on a subscription that hides the cost anyway so you are even freer to make trade-offs. There's a reason that subscription products are kinda poorly described.)
It's also possible for them to vary this across a day: use models during quieter periods? Maybe you get an instance running a bf16 quantization. If you use it during a high use period? You get a Q4 model.
Or intelligent routing is possible. No idea if anyone is doing this, but if they monitor what you send a bit, and you generally shoot for an expensive model for simple requests? They could totally substitute a highly quantized version of the model to answer the question.
There are •so many tricks• that can be pulled here. Some of them very reasonable to make, some of them treading into outright misleading or fraudulent, and it's weirdly hard to draw the line between them.

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor
— then his announcement he would leave Congress
— left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader,
injecting more turmoil into the campaign to lead the nation’s most populous state.
Swalwell’s decision to suspend his campaign Sunday followed allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice,
including when she worked for him…

Swalwell exit leaves California governor's race in disarray
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader. Swalwell's withdrawal injected more turmoil into the campaign less than a month before mail ballots go out to primary election voters. The congressman's decision followed allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice, including when she worked for him, that were published Friday in the San Francisco Ch…

Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra jumps by $280 (Adrian Diaconescu/PhoneArena)
https://www.phonearena.com/news/samsung-us-p…

Unitrees humanoider H1-Roboter erreicht im 100-m-Sprint 10,1 m/s
Der H1-Roboter von Unitree kann maximal 10,1 m/s schnell laufen. Das ist ein Spitzenwert für humanoide Roboter.
https://www.

While billionaires try to build #AGI, it's absolutely clear that, were it built, it could not possibly be controlled.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00913
Given their obsession, this seems like bad news (it's old news). Fortunately, probably it can't be built.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-012-9124-9
So that's fun. It's interesting that the second is older than the first. It would be interesting to actually read the second rather than just the abstract.
Billionaires are killing us with climate change in order to create an evil god that they can't control, even though they never bothered to check if creating that god was even possible in the first place. So that's all fun.

Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/despite-oil-spills-in-nigerias-mangrove-forests-shell-continued-operations-documents-show/

Despite oil spills in Nigeria's mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show
Global oil giant Shell continued operating a compromised pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta despite knowing it posed a pollution risk in the surrounding coastal wetland environment, newly disclosed internal company communications reveal. The emails and memos, reviewed by Mongabay, show senior leadership knew of the poor conditions of the 97-kilometer (60-mile) Nembe Creek Trunk Line […]

A medical examiner has ruled the death of a Haitian asylum seeker after being released from federal custody a homicide.
An attorney representing her family said he expects her relatives to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with her death.
Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2.
She was found at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh.
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia
and ruled the manner a homicide, “indica…

Officials rule Haitian asylum seeker's death a homicide
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office. Daphy Michel was 31 when she died March 2. An attorney for her family said she had psychiatric issues that resulted in her being arrested last year and spending six months in jail before a magistrate said she could not be bound over for trial for threatening imaginary people. Immigrations and Cus…

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Iran’s missile arsenal is still largely intact, according to U.S. and other intelligence agencies,
contradicting claims made by the Trump administration.
Iran has regained access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz,
as well as to the majority of its mobile launchers and underground facilities, according to a report by The New York Times.

Iran’s Missile Arsenal Still Intact, Sources Say, Contradicting Trump’s Claims
Reports contradict claims made by Trump, who has repeatedly stated that Iran has been “decimated” by the war.