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🎵 The Argus
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Every single time, I see this as a fish. Every single time.

Government information librarian Charlie Amiot makes a strong case for the misinterpretation of the cause of hallucinations in the legal work product.
Amiot argues that If you happen to be someone who has a set of encyclopedias sitting next to them,
you’re undoubtedly sitting next to hundreds of hallucinations,
inserted both at the time of print and facts that have mutated with the passage of time since being printed.
Any newspaper or magazine you pick up contains a…

Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' "dystopian" ideas (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/mark-zuckerberg-ai-optimism

Mark Zuckerberg launches AI optimism campaign
Zuckerberg argues Meta's focus on connecting the world will only be strengthened with new AI tools and technologies.

Climate-fueled wildfires strike again:
20,000 tourists (mostly) evacuated from the French coastal region of the Gironde, near Bordeaux.
https://www.bfmtv.com/meteo/secheresse/direct-…

DIRECT. Incendies en France: le feu en Gironde a désormais parcouru 3.400 hectares
Un feu très virulent sévit depuis mercredi à proximité du bassin d'Arcachon en Gironde. Des évacuations, à titre préventif, sont menées par la préfecture. Dans le Var, les pompiers n'ont toujours pas fixé l'incendie "contenu" ce jeudi 23 juillet, alors que l'inquiétude est ravivée par les conditions...

Horizon crashing in

WGA seeks an injunction to bar Paramount and WBD from "closing or consummating" their merger or "taking any steps to integrate or consolidate their operations" (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/wga-injunction-paramount-warner…

WGA Seeks Injunction to Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal
The Writers Guild of America argues that further consolidation will lead to less work and lower pay for writers, ultimately harming the culture.

Building on UNH campus in Durham, NH an ancient city by North American standards
#photo #photography #buildings

In a leaked four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute access, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more (Fred Gao/Inside China)
https://www.fredgao.com/p/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-breaks-his

DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence
In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own, he argues China's only real gap with America is compute.

Hard for me to feel too sad about this, knowing what I know now. Is it worse to have no deal than to have a deal with a party no one in their right mind would trust to follow through on their commitments?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/a

Ottawa fires back after rejecting U.S. trade deal
Carney says Canada will respond ‘dollar for dollar’ as Trump administration imposes 50% tariffs on $28-billion of Canadian goods