πŸ™ˆ Useless Fact of the Day

Residents of Houston, Texas lead the U.S. in eating out - approximately 4.6 times per week.
πŸ“… This Day in History
🎭 On February 24, 1607...
Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, considered the first fully developed opera, premiered in Mantua.
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Studies show top AI models can reproduce large parts of copyrighted books nearly verbatim, revealing far more memorization than claimed. This undermines β€œfair use” and β€œno copying” defenses, raising major legal, privacy, and training-cost risks for AI companies worldwide.
Finnish startup Donut Lab’s solid-state EV battery passed its first independent test, charging 0–80% in 4.5–9.5 minutes without active liquid cooling, while retaining nearly full capacity. It promises higher energy density and lifespan, but key chemistry and safety questions remain.
The article explains why PDFs are still very hard for AI to read reliably, despite advances in language models. It covers technical challenges (layout, OCR, structure), new specialized PDF models, Reducto’s multi-model approach, and why fully accurate parsing remains unsolved but economically crucial.
Guide Labs open-sourced Steerling-8B, an 8B-parameter LLM with a β€œconcept layer” that makes every token traceable to training data. It aims to keep emergent abilities while enabling robust interpretability, safer controls, and regulatory compliance, targeting frontier-level performance with less data.
πŸ’ͺ Jeff Dean Fact of the Day

Jeff Dean acquired Sawzall readability after writing 58 lines of Sawzall code. As part of his readability review, he pointed out a flaw in the style guide which was promptly corrected by the reviewer.
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