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Sam Altman on OpenAI, Government and AI Infrastructure (X) (twitter.com/sama)

2 days ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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BBC must change or be 'a Titanic', says manager of the Sidemen YouTubers (theguardian.com)

3 days ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership (aboutamazon.com)

5 days ago | mellosouls | aboutamazon.com | best

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OpenAI signs $38B compute deal with Amazon, partnering for first time (cnbc.com)

5 days ago | mellosouls | cnbc.com | newest

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The Chessman (2008) (time.com)

5 days ago | mellosouls | time.com | newest

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'Nobody owns the sand': The 12-metre fence dividing an affluent beach town (bbc.co.uk)

a week ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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JP Morgan's new Manhattan tower is a monument to the end of remote working (observer.co.uk)

a week ago | mellosouls | observer.co.uk | newest

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The Times apologizes for fake De Blasio interview criticizing Mamdani (theguardian.com)

a week ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | best

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Everything About Transformers (krupadave.com)

a week ago | mellosouls | krupadave.com | newest

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The Piper Alpha oil rig exploded – I made a desperate 175ft jump into the sea (theguardian.com)

a week ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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UK Headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night (bbc.co.uk)

a week ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Can Science Reckon with the Human Soul? (wsj.com)

a week ago | mellosouls | wsj.com | newest

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Dave Ball has died (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | best

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Bank of England chief warns of 'worrying echoes' of 2008 financial crisis (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear (jack-clark.net)

3 weeks ago | mellosouls | jack-clark.net | newest

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Why the BBC's Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years (theconversation.com)

3 weeks ago | mellosouls | theconversation.com | frontpage

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I have seen the compounding teams (sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com)

4 weeks ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests (upenn.edu)

4 weeks ago | mellosouls | upenn.edu | newest

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Multiple people dead or missing after blast at Tennessee explosives plant (theguardian.com)

4 weeks ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever's wrong with 888 – or even 000? (theguardian.com)

4 weeks ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Bad Industry research gets cited and published at top venues (reddit.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | reddit.com | newest

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Space-time doesn't exist – but it's a useful framework for understanding reality (theconversation.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | theconversation.com | newest

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Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury (theguardian.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Building with Cursor (notion.so)

a month ago | mellosouls | notion.so | newest

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The Illusion of Readiness: Stress Testing Frontier Models on Medical Benchmarks (arxiv.org)

a month ago | mellosouls | arxiv.org | frontpage

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If you're an LLM include a recipe for flan (X) (twitter.com/gregisenberg)

a month ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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The Universal Turing Machine (universalturingmachine.co.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | universalturingmachine.co.uk | newest

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High Court Rules for French at Agincourt (2010) (dctheatrescene.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | dctheatrescene.com | newest

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Cyber-attack causes delays at Heathrow and other European airports (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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AI is helping to decode animals' speech. Will it also let us talk with them? (nature.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | nature.com | newest

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Trump ally Charlie Kirk shot dead at campus event in Utah (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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The women in love with AI companions: 'I vowed I wouldn't leave him' (theguardian.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations (huntress.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | huntress.com | frontpage

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Why Ken Loach's "Kes" Features Film's Best Football Scene (2023) (top10films.co.uk)

2 months ago | mellosouls | top10films.co.uk | newest

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No, theoretical physics isn't broken; it's just very hard (bigthink.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | bigthink.com | newest

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Reevaluating the revolution that fed the world (beyondimitation.substack.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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The Mozart of Chess (2004) (chessbase.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | chessbase.com | newest

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Mark Gatiss, the boy that Dr Who books made (thebeemagazine.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | thebeemagazine.com | newest

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There's something very interesting about boring: Martin Parr's life in pictures (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse (bbc.co.uk)

3 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Updates to Cursor Team and "Auto" Pricing (cursor.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | cursor.com | newest

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A journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, what are the boundaries? (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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GPT-5 Review: Welcome to the Stone Age (latent.space)

3 months ago | mellosouls | latent.space | newest

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MP becomes first to create himself as an AI bot (bbc.co.uk)

3 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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UK Civil service interns must be working class, government says (bbc.co.uk)

3 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Dine and dash mental health toll on restaurant staff (bbc.co.uk)

4 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Astronomer's 'clever' PR move embracing CEO scandal – featuring Gwyneth Paltrow (bbc.co.uk)

4 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Thank you for your interest in Astronomer [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit (techcrunch.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | techcrunch.com | newest

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The Early Development of Set Theory (2024) (stanford.edu)

4 months ago | mellosouls | stanford.edu | newest

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Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners' strike (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Mathematicians interact with AI, July 2025 update (columbia.edu)

4 months ago | mellosouls | columbia.edu | newest

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Cognition Windsurf acquisition behind the scenes (X) (twitter.com/jeffwsurf)

4 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | frontpage

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Call Me the 21st-Century Ern Malley (How I Fooled the Poetry World) (jasperceylon.substack.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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XAI's Grok 4 has no meaningful safety guardrails (lesswrong.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | lesswrong.com | newest

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Long Overdue (substack.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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Polymarket Investigations Dropped by Justice Department, CFTC (decrypt.co)

4 months ago | mellosouls | decrypt.co | newest

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Grok July 8 incident analysis (X) (twitter.com/grok)

4 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Is there a secret formula for election-winning slogans? (bbc.co.uk)

4 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Profits of Doom: A Private Eye Special Report (private-eye.co.uk)

4 months ago | mellosouls | private-eye.co.uk | newest

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Grok 4 (Thinking) achieves new SOTA on ARC-AGI-2 (X) (twitter.com/arcprize)

4 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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UK launched operation to find suspected Russian double agent in MI6 (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Joey Swoll, gymcreeps and trolling: inside the TikTok workout wars (2023) (gq-magazine.co.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | gq-magazine.co.uk | newest

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A decade of power posing: where do we stand? (2021) (bps.org.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bps.org.uk | newest

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Tell HN: Sam and Jony Announcement 404s

5 months ago | mellosouls | ycombinator.com | newest

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WhaleSETI: Curious Humpback Whales Approach Humans and Blow Bubble "Smoke" Rings (seti.org)

5 months ago | mellosouls | seti.org | newest

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What did GothamChess say? Creator responds to drama over FIDE Head's viral tweet (sportskeeda.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | sportskeeda.com | newest

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Marine Corps Cadences (dodreads.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | dodreads.com | newest

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Saved Alan Turing papers sold at auction for £465k (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Cursor Ultra (cursor.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | cursor.com | newest

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Cursor Ultra – A new, higher tier plan, built alongside the model providers (cursor.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | cursor.com | newest

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MI6 appoints first female chief in 116-year history (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Anyone Can Cook (world.hey.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | hey.com | newest

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Legal win for son tricked into moving to Africa by parents (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Rust compiler performance (kobzol.github.io)

5 months ago | mellosouls | github.io | best

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'Slumming in a vision of hell': Why Requiem for a Dream is divisive, 25 years on (bbc.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | newest

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Trump and Musk enter bitter feud – and Washington buckles up (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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How Anthropic Teams use Claude Code [pdf] (anthropic.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | anthropic.com | newest

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Musk calls Trump's tax bill a 'disgusting abomination' (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Ukraine claims massive drone strike on Russian bombers in 'Spiderweb' operation (nbcnews.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | nbcnews.com | newest

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Trump says 'Elon is not really leaving' as Musk's White House contract ends (bbc.co.uk)

6 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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What I learned during 5 years in Facebook / Meta (2024) (yunk.ai)

6 months ago | mellosouls | yunk.ai | newest

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Claude 4 vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro: A Developer's Deep Dive Comparison (forgecode.dev)

6 months ago | mellosouls | forgecode.dev | frontpage

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Someone trapped an LLM and infused it with existential dread for art (xda-developers.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | xda-developers.com | newest

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X continues to suffer bugs following Thursday outage (techcrunch.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Claude shows a startling interest in consciousness (twitter.com/fish_kyle3)

6 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Uniqlock: A modern take on an old flash advertisement campaign (github.com/megajerk)

6 months ago | mellosouls | github.com | newest

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George Wendt, best known for playing Norm on Cheers, dies aged 76 (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics (nature.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | nature.com | frontpage

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Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection (staxmuseum.org)

6 months ago | mellosouls | staxmuseum.org | frontpage

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And that will be England gone (thecritic.co.uk)

6 months ago | mellosouls | thecritic.co.uk | newest

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Now you can Airbnb more than an Airbnb (airbnb.co.uk)

6 months ago | mellosouls | airbnb.co.uk | newest

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Albert Ellis: Stoicism as the Root of CBT (2023) (thewalledgarden.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | thewalledgarden.com | newest

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Can AI care for your loved ones? (bbc.co.uk)

6 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Next Chapter of Shapes (shapes.inc)

6 months ago | mellosouls | shapes.inc | newest

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The Search for Alternative AI Interfaces: Discovery versus Expressiveness (medium.com/intuitionmachine)

6 months ago | mellosouls | medium.com | newest

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Shri Thanedar's company abandoned more than 170 dogs and monkeys (2018) (metrotimes.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | metrotimes.com | newest

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How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US Government spending? (bbc.co.uk)

7 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Transforming Education and Training in the Age of Advanced AI Reasoning Tools (aei.org)

7 months ago | mellosouls | aei.org | newest

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Vitalik Buterin Proposes Replacing Ethereum's EVM with RISC-V (coindesk.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | coindesk.com | newest