Mary Branscombe

A reminder that for every dollar of revenue Meta reported this year, it generated 41 cents of operating profit. This company is not in poverty. www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED wired.com

Sure, banning words will fix prompt injection techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/y...

You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunch techcrunch.com

"Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data" www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va

Say what now. www.businessinsider.com/bi-today-sun...

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AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.

The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press

This is the coolest summer of the rest of our lives. I mostly don't care what sci-fi has to say about AI; instead read @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social 's Water Knife and KSR's Ministry for the Future. And then asking yourself what *systemic* change you're making. www.bbc.com/news…

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There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...

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6 years ago, I left Red Hat and joined Microsoft to help build a Linux distro for internal services to standardize on. Today, we announced we're making it available to Azure customers with our upcoming 4.0 release! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/05...

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For the basics on how circuits and features build up from scratch: distill.pub/2020/circuit... (On CNNs, not Transformers, so you can visibly see the function)

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I'm sorry, but you have. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... They are not Markov chains. They work via circuits, which function as fuzzy logical inference on latent (conceptual) states.

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there is a very simple story to tell about AI revenue and "earning back" all this capex: global IT spending is $6T a year and what we're seeing is a redirection of that existing spending toward a small number of companies. they are commandeering existing flows www.bloomberg.co…

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Musk is in Beijing with Trump instead of in court for closing arguments in Musk v. Altman - the billionaire beef of the century (so far)... www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/m...

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