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funny how he left out one specific classic American enemy

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Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5h

Incredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 5h

This is a major blow to the open web! For as long as I can remember, Reddit has embraced RSS feeds and public API access to users, apps, and developers, allowing the site to thrive. To start choking access after decades of open doors is really sad and feels like the start of Reddit's demise.

techcrunch.com

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 7h

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 11h

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot and take ourselves far off the frontier—that’s just a horrible strategy” New from @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social talking to OpenAI chief research officer www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/30/1...

technologyreview.com

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

Mark Chen on what the firm is doing to make its models safe, how a slowdown would work, and why the world is better off with OpenAI in it.

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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 23h

O man

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 29/09/2026

Reporter (roughly): What's up with the US calling AI "superintelligence"? Chinese spox (roughly): The two leaders talked about "artificial intelligence." We respect the US side's "formulation." (A "formulation"/提法 is what they call the CCP set terms, like socialism with Chinese characteristics...)

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问：我们注意到，美方在介绍此次访问成果时，使用“超级智能”代替“人工智能”。请问中方有何评论？
答：中美元首会晤时，就人工智能问题进行了深入讨论。关于人工智能表述问题，中方重视美方的立场，也尊重美方的提法。人工智能技术正在持续发展，各方可以结合最新形势，加强交流、深入探讨、寻求共识。

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Indeed job postings: 1/ More good news about the labor market, as of the 2nd half of September (so possibly more relevant to the October jobs report, than to Friday's September jobs report) After a micro-slump over the summer, postings regaining their spring momentum

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 29/09/2026

The seating chart for today's White House AI luncheon, per Trump

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 29/09/2026

OpenAI's dev-day demo of Dots, it's new work assistant agent, is going as well as most enterprise deployments

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

30yr yield 5.59%... highest since 2002

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 28/09/2026

more importantly, I've learned that AMD CEO Lisa Su and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are first cousins! what a world we live in

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oomph, DofJustice. NYT’s just filed response after DOJ [wrongly] inserted itself in OpenAI/MSFT case. Kicks off w/ line DOJ won't be able to avoid: DOJ's statement asks court to ignore US Copyright Office blessing what Defendants themselves called “the largest theft of labor in human history.” /1

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

science.org

NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

nyti.ms

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fact that Connie Chan is even remotely competitive in this race is such a damning indictment of San Francisco and its electorate

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

sfchronicle.com

Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice

OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 27/09/2026

god that decision made me furious

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 26/09/2026

a company discloses a bankruptcy filing

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 26/09/2026

what about disclosing impairments, or the sale of a business line that affects operations immediately, a round of layoffs, a store/facility closure announcement, or the completion of an acquisition? hard to believe that there's not any material disclosure that doesn't effect that calculation

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 26/09/2026

An acquisition, a new bond offering or an at the market stock sale would affect a competitor's return on invested capital, no? I don't really lnow what he's trying to calculate, just saying there is lots of useful business intelligence outside of quarterly filings

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 26/09/2026

8-k reports that show changes to the board and executive team, m&a activity, ATM activity and other business updates

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 26/09/2026

as a journalist, I monitor SEC filings daily because companies frequently post material updates outside of quarterly reports--your comment here shook me a little bitt tbh

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 26/09/2026

if you are among the people who don't think AI models can be "creative," you should read what they did here

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026

curious for your take on this, which takes this price narrative to the extreme of "Arianespace was right" www.ft.com/content/0fd1...

ft.com

SpaceX pivots away from space

Starbase, we have a problem

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026

I started covering "AI" full-time in February and I didn't think by September I'd be mainly chasing stories about rogue AI agents plotting hacking operations in obscure corners of the internet

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You'd think running America's space program would be a position above politics. Jared Isaacman, however, has given $3 million to MAGA, Inc. since being confirmed as NASA administrator. This isn't illegal, experts tell me. But is it right?

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lol *TRUMP: BESSENT DOESN'T WANT TO BE AI CZAR

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 25/09/2026

Hard to watch Tesla's Semi launch event without thinking about how the company ditched its mission of "accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy" in favor of the gauzy and unspecific "amazing abundance" But it's interesting the head of Semi still seems focused on the former:

techcrunch.com

Tesla finally moves to electrify trucking after a decade of work and delays | TechCrunch

Tesla's Semi truck, with a 500-mile range, is about to hit the road in big numbers, with the company saying it plans to make 50,000 units a year.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 25/09/2026

I talked to Transluce, a lab that revealed more rogue agent swarms, and got some more comment from OpenAI, in service of the big question: What did OpenAI know about these incidents, and when? techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/f...

techcrunch.com

For months, OpenAI's agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts | TechCrunch

The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 24/09/2026

Did AI increase unemployment among recent college grads this summer? Probably not. Summer of 2026 was pretty normal compared to earlier years. new research from Robert Fairlie and Jane Wu

Line plot of monthly unemployment of recent college graduates, by year.

Figure 2a from https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/publications/2026/working-paper/early-impacts-ai-employment-among-recent-college-graduates

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 24/09/2026

Exclusive: Jeff Bezos has invested $30 billion in Blue Origin since its founding in 2000, an extraordinary commitment from the Amazon.com founder in a company that aims to rival SpaceX. on.wsj.com/4AxDF26

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I propose this as the official replacement for the famous (and now saturated) METR Long Task Horizon chart that used to be in every AI presentation.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ChatGPT fed a mass shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre he carried out, according to this unsettling new investigation by our national affairs editor @markfollman.bsky.social.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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