Inception Labs’ Mercury 2 AI Beats Google’s DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game
Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligence in the trade. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
So … what’s your In the Weights score? Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over…
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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
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OpenRouter’s Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark
OpenRouter’s compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
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Why a resilient jobs market keeps turning into a Bitcoin sell signal
Good news for the American worker came at the worst possible moment for Bitcoin. Initial jobless claims fell by 4,000 to 226,000 for the week ending June 13. Layoffs are in the historically low range they’ve held for most of the post-pandemic era, and the unemployment rate has remained at 4.3% for a third straight…
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AI, user data and the asymmetry of understanding
Every time users belatedly discover that an artificial intelligence feature has been drawing on their data in ways they did not fully grasp, the reaction is often an instinctive sense of violation – of trust, consent and privacy. Accusations and outrage have always followed potentially invasive AI integrations, with examples ranging from email content used…
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Republican lawmaker proposes prediction markets insider trading ban, not including White House officials
The bill did not specifically bar members of the US Congress from using the platforms or making sports bets, but prohibited policy wagers. Source: cointelegraph.com Read Full Story
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The riskiest SpaceX stock trade of all had a big first week
SpaceX’s IPO did not just mint the biggest debut in market history and a trillionaire, but it also triggered a historic land grab in risky leveraged ETFs. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story
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