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EU Commission Awards €180M Sovereign Cloud Tender to Four Providers
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Subsidized AI Services Extract User Code for Model Improvement
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Interesting shift. These highly subsidized subs are out there to get your code to improve their models. If you use AI for things useful to you, but not code, you are not valuable to them.
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Anthropic Copied Features and Cut Off Subscription Access
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The defaults were tailored for subscription use before Anthropic copied our features and then cut us off
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Google’s Magika 1MB AI Model Detects Malware Disguised as PDFs
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Google released a 1MB AI model that quickly catches malware disguised as PDFs.
— AlphaSignal AI (@AlphaSignalAI) 20 avril 2026
Magika is an open source file detection system.
It doesn't trust file extensions.
Instead, it reads the actual content to figure out what a file really is.
That means malware disguised as a PDF… pic.twitter.com/b7LRgu68kuGoogle released a 1MB AI model that quickly catches malware disguised as PDFs. Magika is an open source file detection system. It doesn't trust file extensions. Instead, it reads the actual content to figure out what a file really is. That means malware disguised as a PDF
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Optimizing for Respect Over Retention in Tech Design
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One way I’m starting to think about this: Instead of optimizing for retention, optimize for respect.
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Open Source vs Closed Source: Data Ownership and Control
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Open Source vs Closed Source.
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Geopolitical Blocs and Tech Power Dynamics in Global AI Competition
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Sorry but the metaphor is perfect. The metaphor of being a group of individual countries that get put under pressure of larger blocks is literally what LATAM has right now and the EU is moving towards. All potential history analogs included. In a world of giants you can't be
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DeepMind’s Self-Improving AI Masters Table Tennis Robotics
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DeepMind’s Self-Improving Table Tennis #AI Takes on the Game
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 20 avril 2026
via @ZappyZappy7#Robotics #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #Innovation pic.twitter.com/9KWRsfwS8gDeepMind’s Self-Improving Table Tennis #AI Takes on the Game
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Amazon’s AI Coding Boom Creates Development Challenges
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Amazon’s AI coding boom is creating a mess. Vibe coding their way to chaos.
