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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization method that it claims can reduce LLM memory use by 60-70% without significant quality loss (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin duopoly, such as intermediaries like exchanges and DeFi protocols exploring their own stablecoins (Nic Carter/Murmurations II)

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OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model (@openai)

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GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)

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Alien: Earth’s prosthetics crew tease ‘something more terrifying’ coming in season 2

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How rising unemployment in computer-related fields in the US, where foreign nationals make up ~20% of 2.3M software devs, pushed the H-1B issue to the forefront (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

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Invasion at 25: MTG boss Mark Rosewater reflects on kickers, enemy colors, and more

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This week’s best deal is a ‘kids’ Kindle Paperwhite that’s better than the adult version

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PitchBook: VCs have invested $192.7B in AI startups so far this year, putting 2025 on track to be the first year when 50%+ of VC funding goes to the AI industry (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

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Does Sage cheat on Diego in Bone Lake? The director explains a crucial cut

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Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for Spotify

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A look at the tussle between the US and China over subsea cables; US Big Tech now accounts for 70%+ of all used subsea-cable capacity, from <10% a decade ago (Bloomberg)

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Saudi Arabia's investment in EA, games, and esports explained

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Changing D&D editions challenged Drizzt writer R.A. Salvatore

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How researchers at Microsoft, IBM, and other organizations are using AI to speed up the search for new materials and chemicals for batteries (Andrew Moseman/IEEE Spectrum)

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Ecovacs’ Deebot X8 and X9 Pro Omni robovacs have hit a new low price

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After Demon Slayer, Samurai Jack creator had to leak Black Knight footage

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Q&A with iRobot founder Rodney Brooks on his startup Robust.AI, which builds warehouse robots, unrealistic expectations around humanoid robots and AI, and more (Om Malik/Crazy Stupid Tech)

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Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo

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Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

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