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‘Unusual Agreements’

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Amrith Ramkumar and Robbie Whelan, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to give the Trump administration a portion of the sales from their artificial-intelligence chips to China, unusual agreements that deepen t...

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Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?

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Trump Extends China Tariff Deadline by 90 Days, Again

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President Donald Trump on Monday delayed high U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods from snapping back into place for another 90 days, a White House official told CNBC. [...]

Monday’s extension is the latest example of how Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have shifted with little prior notice, a dynamic that has made U.S. trade policy unpredictable for many businesses.

TACO Tuesday, but on a Monday. What a country! America really is great again.

Bonus question for the CNBC copy desk: how much water is the word many carrying in that closing sentence?

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Mad King Watch, Intel Edition

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The president of the United States, on his blog three days ago:

The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!

The president of the United States, on his blog today:

I met with Mr. Lip-Bu Tan, of Intel, along with Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent. The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is an amazing story. Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are going to spend time together, and bring suggestions to me during the next week. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Sane, steady, predictable leadership.

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Daniel Dae Kim Fakes His Own Death In 'Butterfly'

Daniel Dae Kim became the first actor of Asian descent to be nominated for a Tony, for his performance in Yellow Face, in the role of a playwright trying to deal with Asian American representation. His new Amazon Prime Video spy series Butterfly premieres today. Kim spoke with Ann Marie Baldonado about his career, his big break with Lost, and filming his new series in his hometown in Korea. Book critic Maureen Corrigan reflects on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for its 100th anniversary. 

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What Trump’s D.C. police takeover means

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On Monday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he is putting Washington, D.C., under federal control and deploying the National Guard to fight crime.  While police data shows a drop in violent crime in D.C. in recent years, Trump said this historic action woul...

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Where Babies Come From

Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.

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★ OpenAI Brings Back Legacy ChatGPT 4o Model in Response to Outcry From Users Who Find GPT-5 Emotionally Unsatisfying

It’s reasonable — especially for paying customers — to expect at least some advance notice of older models going away. But it’s unreasonable to think that older models are going to remain available in perpetuity — especially in the current LLM climate, where model age is measured in months, or even weeks.

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Vercel Goes All in on Vibe Coding Web Apps

Pokemon Awesome interactive home page, developed on Vercel's v0 AI tool

Vercel today rolled out a new version of its v0 AI-driven offering, changing the name to .app from .dev to

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OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure,” on Reddit.

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WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week's news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump's tariffs to OpenAI's new deal with the US government.

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Maurice Parker blogs that his outliner Zavala will always be free. I also think there’s a good parallel in here to what people might do if they didn’t have to work as much. They would still do something! Creating or helping people will always be rewarding.

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Reddit blocking the Internet Archive is another step back for the open web, but maybe not too surprising after they shut down API access last year.

…we’re limiting some of their access to Reddit data to protect redditors.

Protect users, or protect Reddit monetizing user data by selling it to AI companies?

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Thanks @jim for the quick update to the mnml theme for Micro.blog, adding support for the category intro text feature. I’ve updated a couple more plug-ins (like Marfa and Alpine) and others will be updated later.

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Can Platform Engineering Accelerate AI Adoption?

Gone are the days of top-down developer tooling mandates. About half of all companies are applying a bottom-up approach to

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A Playlist Of Ear-Splitting Brazilian Funk Ideal For A Long Drive

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Like many who have loved and left New York City, I dearly miss the transportation setup there. The walkability, the trains, the buses—there's not another town in the U.S. where you can do so much (and get so far) easily and without needing a car of your own. Though my 16-yea...

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New TestFlight Build Uploaded, Waiting for Review

We know some folks are waiting on a new TestFlight build for iOS, and we have good news — we’ve just uploaded 6.1.10 (6198), and it’s waiting on Apple review. Once reviewed it will be available on TestFlight.

Update a few hours later… The build is now available via TestFlight.

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This Chocolate Will Kick Your Teeth In

Are you looking for sweet, melty chocolate that makes you feel comforted—or are you a fucking adult? Are you grown up enough to appreciate that everything that once brought you joy is only really worthwhile if it punishes you? Then strap in, because it’s time to invest in RE...