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Sigh.. the ongoing challenge that when I want to share a story I read on https://techmeme.com (also @… ), I first have to try the various links to find one that is NOT paywalled. 🤦‍♂️😞

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116652916669609461
The folks who helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust will only use it for good, don’t worry.

Das Weblog sagt: "Taisho, nein, Meiji"
http://campcatatonia.org/article/2713/TaishoneinMeiji

Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages (Mitchell Hashimoto)
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical text with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific breakthroughs (talkie)
https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie

Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work

Claude for Creative Work
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90 languages while staying synced to content (ElevenLabs)
https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-dubbing-v2

Introducing Dubbing v2: our revolutionary new dubbing model
Introducing Dubbing v2: our revolutionary new dubbing model, which carries the emotion and performance of the original speaker across every language.

The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c2ace628-7bd9-4f3b-b835-970d6dd930bb

Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registration as a clearing agency, allowing it to provide clearing and settlement services for eligible transactions (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/402994/paxos-sec-registration

Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/kk215pdq7

Minute Media lays off 12% of workforce, reverses course on VideoVerse after $200 million acquisition
The unicorn says restructuring reflects push for efficiency and long-term growth amid changes in the media market and rising AI-driven disruption, alongside termination of VideoVerse integration.