🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
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US regulators ruled Elon Musk’s xAI illegally used methane gas turbines to power Memphis datacenters without proper air permits, closing a key loophole. Activists say the “Colossus” facilities worsen pollution in nearby Black communities, pressuring authorities to enforce new EPA rules.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is funding Lazuli, a space telescope larger than Hubble but smaller than James Webb. Part of an open-data Schmidt Observatory System, it will study exoplanets, supernovae, and rapidly changing cosmic events, aiming to operate by decade’s end.
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Linus Torvalds used Google’s Antigravity AI IDE to “vibe code” a Python audio visualizer for his hobby AudioNoise project. He treats AI as a practical helper, not a code-writing replacement, especially for nonexpert areas, reflecting a pragmatic, low‑hype stance.
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Wikipedia’s nonprofit arm now sells high-speed, large-volume API access to major AI firms, monetizing training use of its content. This offsets rising infrastructure costs, but declining human traffic and community skepticism about generative AI pose long-term sustainability and trust challenges.
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OpenAI is launching a cheaper paid tier, ChatGPT Go, in the US while also announcing ads will come “soon,” even for Go subscribers. Commenters and the article highlight how charging $8 and still serving ads is a confusing, unpopular pitch.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sharply criticized the U.S. decision to allow Nvidia and AMD AI chip sales to China, calling it a major national security risk and likening it to selling nuclear weapons—despite Nvidia being a major investor and crucial infrastructure partner.
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Webb’s new Helix Nebula image reveals unprecedented detail in a dying Sun-like star’s gas shell. Color-coded temperatures and chemistry show hot ionized gas, cooling molecular hydrogen, and dust-rich regions—illustrating how a star’s final “breath” seeds material for future planets.
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Google has temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced SRV3 caption format, citing playback bugs. New SRV3 uploads are blocked and many existing videos lose custom captions. Google promises a fix but gives no timeline, raising creator worries about long-term support and reliability.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean can instantiate abstract classes.
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Deep Agents is an agent harness built on langchain and langgraph. Deep Agents are equipped with a planning tool, a filesystem backend, and the ability to spawn subagents - making them well-equipped to handle complex agentic tasks.
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⭐ 2273, 🖖 121
The media player for language learning, with dual subtitles, AI-generated subtitles, real-time translation, and more!
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⭐ 14770, 🖖 1154
Agentic IM Chatbot infrastructure that integrates lots of IM platforms, LLMs, plugins and AI features. ✨
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⭐ 44590, 🖖 2931
Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop
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⭐ 2735, 🖖 383
An enterprise-grade Cloud-Native application platform for Kubernetes.
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