Nearly 100 Billionaires Donate to Collins in Race That May Decide Senate Control
The donors’ net worth is $888 billion, nearly nine times Maine’s entire 2025 economic output. None are Maine residents.
The New School Guts Faculty and Staff as Higher Ed Intensifies Austerity
“If this kind of austerity can happen at The New School, it can happen everywhere,” says professor Jeremy Varon.
10 Years After Pulse, Protecting Queer Spaces Is Critical for Liberation
LGBTQIA+ bars are places to dance and drink, but they are also sites for building our futures.
VFUSE: Virulent Feature Understanding With Sparse AutoEncoders
Abstract Generative models have shown remarkable progress in a variety of domains such as protein design, but such power enables the opaque generation of hazardous proteins. In…
Do k-Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Thinking Patterns? Interpretable Features in a Small Reasoning Model
Executive Summary Problem Statement of the Project Models such as sparse autoencoders (SAEs) and k-sparse autoencoders have been used as an effective medium to extract meaningful…
Why I think a global AI pause (almost) certainly won't happen
Nuclear arms treaties happened AFTER nukes had been demonstrated. AI pause would need to happen BEFORE ASI comes into existence. If I had to explain the issue in just 2 sentences,…
Fox Is Buying Roku For $22 Billion
Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion, combining Fox's sports, news, entertainment, Tubi, and Fox One offerings with a streaming platform that reaches about 100 million people. The…
Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Aims To Build an 'Artificial General Engineer'
Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an "artificial general engineer" capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs,…
NEWS: Republicans Blast Iran Deal, Trump Suggests Selling "Dirty" and "Poor" Puerto Rico, Court Orders Major Epstein Release, and More
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Gwyneth Paltrow Deserves Every Bit of the Hate She's Getting Over Her Israel Ad
Even in the celebrity-filled universe of cowardice, Paltrow selling apartments in an apartheid state is beyond pale.
Justice Department Approves Paramount's $111 Billion Acquisition of Warner Bros.
The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring divestitures or other concessions. The deal still…
Becoming by Max Cooper
Released a few days ago, this is the official video for Max Cooper’s Becoming , directed by Brandon Eversole . It’s mesmerizing, trippy, and a little bit glitchy. The video is…
DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be...
DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be performing a “collaborative reimagination for orchestra” of his seminal album Endtroducing… in December . Tickets are already sold…
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Robert Freetard with a comment on our post about AI replacing workers: Ultimately the the best positions to replace in…
First Draft: Iran War Deal Declared – But Will It Last?
An old law of journalism says, ‘any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.’ As Trump enjoyed his birthday, his deal to end his illegal war prompted…
June 13, 2026
Those of you celebrating the Knicks’ victory in the NBA Championship should enjoy yourselves and leave this one for later.