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Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-friendly open source license (Apache 2.0) on Github, allowing for commercial usage and modification. This is the algorithm that decides which X posts and accounts to show to which users on the social network.The new X algorithm, as opposed toto the manual heuristic rules and legacy models in the past, is based on a "Tr
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Of all the controversies the new 'Star Trek' show could reach, just one week in we've already hit one of the stupidest, thanks to Stephen Miller. Read more âș
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Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance announced that they are expecting their fourth child, a boy due in July. Read more âș
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Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers working at the Social Security Administration (SSA) broke protocols, had more access to sensitive data on Americans than previously disclosed, and were in touch with a political advocacy group hunting for election fraud, the Trump administration admitted in a recent court filing. Justice Department officials told a federal court [âŠ] Read more âș
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Two DOGE members have been referred to authorities for Hatch Act violations. Read more âș
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Loan Huynh, an immigration attorney in Minneapolis, shared her advice for employers and employees as ICE continues heavy enforcement in the area. Read more âș
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While early reports about the purported iPhone 18 Pro hinted at a punch-hole camera, new claims suggest Apple is refining, not removing, the Dynamic Island. Read more âș
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: One year after returning to the White House, Donald Trump is more unconstrained â and unpopular â than ever. Whatâs happening? Trump dedicated nearly two [âŠ] Read more âș
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The multibillionaire took a break from being the most hated man in America. He's back. Read more âș
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Meta's Oversight Board is tackling a case focused on Meta's ability to permanently disable user accounts. Permanent bans are a drastic action, locking people out of their profiles, memories, friend connections, and, in the case of creators and businesses, their ability to market and communicate with fans and customers. This is the first time in the organization's five-year history as an oversight... Read more âș
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Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest. Read more âș
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As AI makes scams more convincing and easier to scale, small businesses are losing money at alarming rates, with those losses increasingly showing up in what buyers pay. Read more âș
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Meta's Oversight Board tackles the question of how and when users should be permanently banned â and seeks public input. Read more âș
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Sony is ceding control of its Bravia TV brand to China's TCL as part of a new "strategic partnership," the companies announced in a joint press release. The Japanese electronics giant plans to sell a majority 51 percent stake in its home entertainment arm to TCL, while retaining a 49 percent share. The joint venture is set to start operations in April 2027, pending regulatory and other approvals. The new... Read more âș
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It was announced today that Nova Launcher has been acquired by Instabridge, a Swedish company that âbuilds products that help people get online.â The announcement starts off rather positive. It confirms that Nova is not shutting down and that Instabridge wants to, âkeep Nova stable, compatible with modern Android, and actively maintained.â While all of ⊠Continued Read the original post: Nova Launcher Changes Ownership Again, Wonât Be Shut Down Read more âș
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After years of lagging behind rivals, Samsung's Bixby voice assistant is getting a much-needed brain transplant with AI from Perplexity. Read more âș
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Netflix is working on a new mobile UI set to roll out later this year that will "better serve the expansion of our business over the decade to come," co-CEO Greg Peters said in an earnings call on Tuesday. The new mobile UI follows last year's big TV revamp that put a new banner front [âŠ] Read more âș
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Federal Trade Commissionâs move comes as Big Techâs push to woo the White House has failed to put an end to monopoly cases Read more âș
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As internet conspiracy theories go, this one was exceptionally dumb. Read more âș
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Sony has announced plans to spin off its TV hardware business, shifting it to a new joint venture with TCL. The two companies have signed a non-binding agreement for Sony's home entertainment business, with TCL set to hold a 51 percent stake in the new venture, and Sony holding 49 percent. With this partnership, TCL [âŠ] Read more âș
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Tariffs are starting to "creep in" to product prices as companies' efforts to absorb price increases run out. Read more âș
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Itâs the question on everyoneâs minds and lips: Are we in an AI bubble?It's the wrong question. The real question is: Which AI bubble are we in, and when will each one burst?The debate over whether AI represents a transformative technology or an economic time bomb has reached a fever pitch. Even tech leaders like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have acknowledged evidence of an unstable financial bubble forming around AI.... Read more âș
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Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025, the most consequential works weren't about a single breakthrough model. Instead, they challenged fundamental assumptions that academicians and corporations have quietly relied on: Bigger models mean better reasoning, RL creates new capabilities, attention is âsolvedâ and generative models inevitably memorize.This yearâs top papers collectiv Read more âș
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Anthropic's open source standard, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, allows users to connect AI models and the agents atop them to external tools in a structured, reliable format. It is the engine behind Anthropic's hit AI agentic programming harness, Claude Code, allowing it to access numerous functions like web browsing and file creation immediately when asked.But there was one problem: Claude Code typically had to "read"... Read more âș
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The two big stories of AI in 2026 so far have been the incredible rise in usage and praise for Anthropic's Claude Code and a similar huge boost in user adoption for Google's Gemini 3 AI model family released late last year â the latter of which includes Nano Banana Pro (also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image), a powerful, fast, and flexible image generation model that renders complex, text-heavy... Read more âș
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The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former Stability AI engineers, is continuing to build out its suite of open source AI image generators with the release of FLUX.2 [klein], a new pair of small models â one open and one non-commercial â that emphasizes speed and lower compute requirements, with the models generating images in less than a second on a Nvidia GB200. The [klein] series,... Read more âș
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Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute code changes, debug issues, and push pull requests directly from their team chat â without opening an IDE or switching applications.The product, called Kilo for Slack, arrives as the AI-assisted coding market heats up with multibillion-dollar acquisitions and funding rounds. But rather than building another... Read more âș
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Rather than asking how AI agents can work for them, a key question in enterprise is now: Are agents playing well together? This makes orchestration across multi-agent systems and platforms a critical concern â and a key differentiator. âAgent-to-agent communications is emerging as a really big deal,â G2âs chief innovation officer Tim Sanders told VentureBeat. âBecause if you don't orchestrate it, you get misunderstandings, like people speaking foreign languages to... Read more âș
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As agentic AI moves from experiments to real production workloads, a quiet but serious infrastructure problem is coming into focus: memory. Not compute. Not models. Memory.Under the hood, todayâs GPUs simply donât have enough space to hold the Key-Value (KV) caches that modern, long-running AI agents depend on to maintain context. The result is a lot of invisible waste â GPUs redoing work theyâve already done, cloud costs climbing, and... Read more âș
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Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 â a fifth of his marketing budget â on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers.The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led to a coding challenge: build an algorithm... Read more âș
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Researchers at Google have developed a technique that makes it easier for AI models to learn complex reasoning tasks that usually cause LLMs to hallucinate or fall apart. Instead of training LLMs through next-token prediction, their technique, called internal reinforcement learning (internal RL), steers the modelâs internal activations toward developing a high-level step-by-step solution for the input problem. Ultimately, this could provide a scalable path for creating autonomous agents that... Read more âș
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