Tencent Music reports Q3 revenue up 20.6% YoY to $1.19B, online music services revenue up 27.2% YoY to $979M, and subscription revenue up 17.2% YoY to $632M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/tencent-music-q3-revenue-2025-1236577827…
Tencent is investing in shooting games, traditionally dominated by Western companies, after the 2024 success of Delta Force, which still has 30M players daily (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-12/tencen…
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The Magnetic Fields:
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https://themagneticfields.bandcamp.com/track/im-sorry-i-love-you
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Rubio heads to Israel amid tensions among US Middle East allies (Simon Lewis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rubio-heads-israel-amid-tensions-among-us-middle-east-allies-2025-09-12/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250913/p49#a250913p49
Even the most radical-minded regularly fall into the trap of thinking that politicians are leaders. (It’s an easy trap; we call them “leaders” all the time.) I’ve been seeing a lot of that thinking in the complaints in my TL the last couple of days.
Politicians are always lagging indicators of change. They can be a tool of change, they can help systematize change, but they rarely •cause• it.
Politicians follow. People lead.
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#Muddledmaunderings caveat emptor
When I was 5, I saw my dad laying on his back, on my parents’ bed. Mildly puzzled, I asked what was he doing? I’m thinking, he said. After a beat, I said, oh, and went on wherever I was going. It hit me like a brick. The moment is graven on my memory. It was the first time I thought about my thinking. What was it? How did it work? How did I do it? (…
Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; Chinese media says he got a CN¥100M, or ~$66M, pay package (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/tencent-hires-openai-…
Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tencent-delivers-
Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/thinking-machines-lab…