CuratedNewsfeed
August 4
Tech
@_PHILSCHMID
Off for the next 7 days 🏝️👋 you can leave wishes below for what I should work on when I am back.
@GOOGLERESEARCH
Catch Ilan Price today at 2:30pm at the @DeepIndaba Google booth for a demo of WeatherNext, Google DeepMind's AI-based weather and tropical cyclone forecasting models. See how the model performed during last year's cyclone season! #DLI2026
MCSWEENEYS.NET
Robin Hood, Prince of Compulsive and Pointless Theft
@WILLCCBB
in a few years, self driving cars will all have a robot guy sitting in the front seat who also delivers doordash and talks to his other robot buddies on his robophone all day
@TOGETHERCOMPUTE
DeepSeek V4 Flash is now live on Together AI. Frontier agent performance is getting dramatically cheaper. DSV4 on Together AI brings a major jump in coding, tool use, and long-running agent performance.
NEWYORKER.COM
What My Life Would Be Like If All of Those Spam Texts Were Legit
@GOOGLERESEARCH
Think you know how language models work? Today at 1:30pm, join Sebastian Bodenstein and AIMS at the @DeepIndaba Google booth for a fast-paced quiz based on the Google DeepMind AI Research Foundations course. Test your intuition and win prizes! #DLI2026
ARXIV.ORG
AgentMemBench: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Term Memory Management Strategies in Conversational AI Agents
FT.COM
Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries warehouses in overnight strikes
@JOHNOWHITAKER
I have a 'reading group' with my friend @pol_avec where we each read 1-5 books the other recommends, and then enthusiastically discuss them. During the discussion, another handful of recommendations inevitably appear, rinse and repeat! Could never stand chapter-at-a-time ones :D
NEWYORKER.COM
Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed
VOX.COM
How Michigan’s Uncommitted movement shaped a Senate race
@THURSDAI_POD
"Vibe solving" Erdős problems?! @yampeleg dropped this on ThursdAI and @LDJconfirmed from Nous Research walked through what's actually happening behind the scenes with Codex and multi-agent math The bar for AI math breakthroughs is so high now it's almost not news anymore
TECHCRUNCH.COM
EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers
ARXIV.ORG
Revisiting Classic Thought Experiments to Measure Consciousness for Artificial Intelligence Safety
@JOHNOWHITAKER
Is it possible to purchase a bucket of hardware crypto wallets for which the keys etc have been lost? I think this would be a fantastic AI hardware hacking eval 😂 Presumably they're around; do I know anyone who knows where people buy such things?
FT.COM
Bessent’s yen intervention signals new era of US ‘currency activism’
WGBH.ORG
GBH Daily: Markey v. Moulton: the debate
@CHRISGPOTTS
Every successful scientific project eventually enters a battle-testing phase in which the team is actively trying to show that their results don't hold. In a new post, @mmooritz and I describe how to ensure that this key process flourishes in an era of agentic science.
FOXNEWS.COM
Michigan primary puts Democratic Party divide to the test and more top headlines
TOMSHARDWARE.COM
Chinese ship spotted lurking over Taiwan-US undersea cables — 'research vessel' seen loitering above the 8,000-mile Pacific Light Cable Network fiber-optic system
ARXIV.ORG
Spike-HTR: Spiking Neural Transformer for Handwritten Text Recognition
@JOHNOWHITAKER
Things like this occasionally do the rounds. Of course, any three non-collinear points lie on a circle. The real question is, do any countries have their FOUR largest cities on a circle? A few get pretty close - the Netherlands is off by only 0.1%!
FT.COM
OpenAI hits back at Apple over ‘oddly personal’ trade secrets fight
TECHCRUNCH.COM
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
@INTERCONNECTSAI
Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard Scaling our curation and measurement of the open ecosystem as we feel the acceleration of releases. Artifacts Hub: https://t.co/h3KnFcHcHo Adoption Dashboard: https://t.co/tKeVfxMjJL Explanation: https://t.co/NXh6wyRtSy
FOXNEWS.COM
Departure of New York Times columnist puts a spotlight on the void of pro-Trump voices in its opinion pages
FASTCOMPANY.COM
You trained the AI. Big Tech got paid
ARXIV.ORG
Towards Autonomous Formulaic Alpha Discovery: An Evolutionary Computation Perspective
FT.COM
The Democrats’ civil war over Israel is getting worse
RESTOFWORLD.ORG
The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom
FOXNEWS.COM
Steelers defend Aaron Rodgers' right to voice opinions after ESPN Fauci segment
WGBH.ORG
Rep urges hospital property owner to 'cut a deal' and 'get out'
FASTCOMPANY.COM
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says playing this game as a child helped develop his legendary investing skills
NYMAG.COM
Michigan and Missouri Put the Progressive Surge to the Test
ARXIV.ORG
Design and Implementation of Schwarz Information Criterion-Aided Intelligent Decentralized Resource Allocation in Dynamic LoRa Networks
FOXNEWS.COM
WWE star Brie Bella says she'll be 'out for a bit' after suffering broken scapula during SummerSlam match
POPSCI.COM
Word, Excel, PowerPoint & more for just $55—and no monthly bill in sight
NYPOST.COM
Yankees vulnerable to regrets after leaving trade deadline with two minor moves and one big call-up
GIZMODO.COM
Giant Waves of Solar Wind May Have Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere, New Study Finds
LESSWRONG.COM
When should we trust a latent representation?
FOXNEWS.COM
New stars, fading appeal: Has the Hollywood Walk of Fame lost its luster?
ARXIV.ORG
AutoFOAM: The Self-Refining Autonomous OpenFOAM Agent
NYPOST.COM
Mom of NYPD cop who died after botched implant removal claims doctors didn’t admit to daughter’s death
TOMSHARDWARE.COM
Grab a new Secretlab sit-to-stand desk for $699 — Save $50 as the Magnus Evo receives its first-ever discount
MASSLIVE.COM
They had just celebrated 40 years together. Days later, everything changed.
FOXNEWS.COM
MARK PENN: Socialist Mamdani sold a tax on billionaires. Regulars homeowners could pay the price
ARXIV.ORG
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction
NYPOST.COM
Why we have to talk about Ariana Grande’s gaunt figure — even if she doesn’t want us to
ARXIV.ORG
Uncertainty-Aware Simulation-Based Inference for Operations Research with Large Language Models
VOX.COM
The quiet way Republicans are trying to undo abortion rights again — starting in Kansas
TOMSHARDWARE.COM
16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources
CNBC.COM
Stock futures jump, S&P 500 poised for record as Bessent says Hormuz deal is near: Live updates
BOSTONGLOBE.COM
WHDH-TV reporter Kimberly Bookman announces plans to leave Channel 7 - The Boston Globe
GIZMODO.COM
Rays Found in Polluted NYC Creek Might Be Sign of Environmental Hope
SEEKINGALPHA.COM
ON Semi rises after Q2 as analysts highlight AI data center demand - Seeking Alpha
ARXIV.ORG
Energy Efficiency of Locally Deployed LLMs: A Preliminary Quantitative GPU Power Benchmark on Consumer Hardware
CNBC.COM
Bessent says there may be deal Tuesday or Wednesday to open Strait of Hormuz with 'freedom of movement'
MASSLIVE.COM
4 teens arrested in connection with drug deal that ended in stabbings
NYPOST.COM
Socialist Mamdani launches new war on NYC business leaders — kicking them off mayor’s fund that backs city programs
