Matt Mullenweg:
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization  —  So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic  —  Tesla and others turn to suppliers in China for components in an industry seen as strategic by Washington and Beijing

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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter text-only reasoning model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use  —  The baton of open source AI models has been passed on between several companies over the years since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022 …

Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View:
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically  —  Can we teach machines to feel?  Short answer: We don't know.  But we can teach them to sound like they do.