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Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters (Meta)

Techmeme

Social Media Is Calling This Boy 'The Most Beautiful Person In The World'

The Root

OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to "reserve their rights" (Joseph Bambridge/Politico)

Techmeme

Whew Child! Barack Obama Went There, Regarding President Trump

The Root

Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake

The Verge - All Posts

Tim Sweeney’s Praise for Microsoft

Daring Fireball

Microsoft’s 50th Birthday Was Interrupted, Twice, by Employees Protesting Against Israel

Daring Fireball

Schedule 1, a drug-dealing simulator made by a single developer, tops Steam charts with an estimated 2M+ copies sold after going viral on streams and TikTok (Harry Alston/TheGamer)

Techmeme

Untitled Goose Game is a good excuse to talk about Australia

Polygon - All

Tron: Ares blends the real world with the digital in its first trailer

The Verge - All Posts

Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Usher's Most Recent Concert Serenade Has Gone Viral For a Reason

The Root

By playing every heel in a wrestling tournament, Brennan Lee Mulligan has reached peak Dungeon Master

Polygon - All

The 7 writing apps I used to start and finish my book

The Verge - All Posts

Uh oh! Terrence Howard Just Exposed Black Hollywood, Black Manhood and What People Really Did at Diddy's Parties. Will He Get Canceled?

The Root

Jaguar Land Rover pauses US shipments over Trump tariffs

The Verge - All Posts

In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a "Decel-in-Chief", who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Techmeme

Grab Tissues! This Texas Foster Teen's Story About How He Copes With Not Having a Family Will Break Your Heart...But Also Inspire You

The Root

How a 25-year-old Dutch game developer reclaimed her childhood

Polygon - All

Netflix’s latest horror-comedy was inspired by Silent Hill 2 — and Katamari Damacy??

Polygon - All