Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog:
GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features”  —  Here's what we've done—and what we're still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

Bloomberg:
Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict “firewalls” between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale  —  The fallout from Meta Platforms Inc.'s controversial acquisition of Manus is prompting one tech founder …

talkie:
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  —  Why vintage language models?  —  Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past?  What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world?

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+  —  ‘Ask YouTube’ is a new way to search that generates an AI Mode-like page of information.

Joel Khalili / Wired:
Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta  —  WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.