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

A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO (Thomas Black/Bloomberg)

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Barbour ABI: the UK's data center count, currently 477, is set to jump by ~100 over the next five years, with more than half in London and neighboring counties (BBC)

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Explore the multiverse and encounter sentient pizza in Meow Wolf's TTRPG

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A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources (Financial Times)

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How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history" that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)

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Global smart glasses shipments grew 110% YoY in H1; Meta's share of the market rose to 73%; AI smart glasses accounted for 78% of shipments, up from 46% YoY (Counterpoint Research)

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Anthropic enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 to end conversations in "cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions"; users can still start new chats (Anthropic)

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The Operator shows War of the Worlds would have been so much better as a video game

Polygon - All

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is $600 off ahead of the new model’s debut

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A look at AI-powered stuffed animals like Grem, Grok, and Gabbo, which are being promoted as an alternative to screen time for children as young as 3 (New York Times)

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This '90s Denzel Washington thriller deserves to replace Equalizer as his signature franchise

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Eve Frontier is an ‘evil’ crypto spinoff of Eve Online its makers couldn’t shut down if they wanted to

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Dead Take’s best scares come from real-life performances

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A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks (Martina Di Licosa/Forbes)

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The best KPop Demon Hunters cover songs and dance videos on YouTube

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A brazen attack on air safety is underway — here’s what’s at stake

The Verge - All Posts

The 2025 Pokémon World Championship merch is so good you'll wish you could catch it all

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TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain drain; Meta strongly denies it has had issues with talent and retention (Forbes)

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