The pipe belonged to Tesla. The dark liquid was wastewater from the company’s nearly $1 billion lithium refinery, which began operations in December 2024 and was, at the time, the first commercial-scale spodumene-to-lithium-hydroxide refinery in North America. Tesla had marketed the plant for years as an “acid-free clean process,” promising sand and limestone as the main byproducts. The drainage district had not been told that 231,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day would be flowing through its infrastructure.

The flash crash happened when Sarao's algorithm had been turned off, and the price should have been rebounding

62 percent of Ottawa neighbourhoods got faster by car between 2019 and 2025, compared to 18 percent that got faster by transit

The list submitted by Tehran includes demands for compensation for war damage sustained during the now 10-week conflict, as well as recognition of Iranian sovereignty over the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping route.

Trump is highly unlikely to agree to pay Iran reparations linked to the war, nor support Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz—the largely closed-off passageway through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply normally passes.
Illo illustration of a man and woman in a gas mask in front of a survival shelter

The Trump administration has also said it will not come to the table unless Iran agrees to end its nuclear program to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran, meanwhile, has insisted that talks about ending the war must happen first and has suggested delaying nuclear negotiations until a later date.

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

We have souls. We have an inner self. We can treat ourselves as transcendental subjects in the Kantian sense. We have emotions and spiritual life; we experience qualia. These entities are not obtained by addition to a physical state, but by subtraction from a complete physical account. Mental processes are physical processes described in a way that captures only their salient characteristics.

The administration says it's pro-coal, but miners are increasingly stricken with this brutal disease.

“If the Trump administration actually cared about protecting coal miners from black lung, we’d have a strong silica rule in place right now,” she said in a statement issued by the center after MSHA announced the indefinite delay. “Instead, they are hiding behind a ridiculous legal process to delay action while miners get sick and die.”

A crabbox run command leases a brokered cloud machine, reuses a static SSH host, or delegates to a sandbox provider, syncs your tracked and nonignored local files, executes the command remotely, streams stdout and stderr back, and releases or unclaims the target. Behind the scenes a small Cloudflare-hosted broker owns cloud provider credentials, lease state, cleanup, usage, and cost guardrails so individual machines and CLIs never need to.

“The reality is that they are struggling at the front and not much is going right for them,” he says. Mr Jones agrees: “It’s hard to see how things can improve for Russia. If you’re briefing Putin, it’s a pretty bleak picture.”

The latest earnings, released on April 29, revealed a dip in user numbers for the first time since it started reporting these figures.

When pressed by Bloc Québécois MP Marie-Hélène Gaudreau for the reason for announcing the controversial four-day in-office directive, Matthews insisted it was based off a belief, not evidence.

“I know this isn’t a unique observation but these gentlemen are in absolutely no way remarkable outside of their good fortune,” Bode added.

“Marc Andreessen putting ‘you are a world class expert in all domains’ and ‘don’t hallucinate’ in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship,” another user added.

Burneko makes a compelling argument. By carefully laying out his own biased world view — Andreessen specifically asks the chatbot to ignore “morals and ethics” and not be “politically correct” — the billionaire is tapping into his own skewed perspective before even receiving any output from the AI.

In short, it’s a fascinating yet sobering glimpse into how highly influential and obscenely rich public figures who are pushing the tech into every public domain have a crude grasp of how it actually works — and, just possibly, what’s going on with them psychologically.

“In trying to tell the chatbot not to hallucinate, he is scripting his own psychotic break,” Burneko concluded. “He is doing it because he is a huge dumbass. Don’t expect Claude to tell him so.”

the CIA determined that Tehran retains substantial ballistic missile capabilities despite weeks of intense U.S. and Israeli bombardment. Iran has maintained approximately 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles

It is tempting to ask where in the process of imperial decline the United States now finds itself. It certainly has elements in common with Britain a century ago: deindustrializing, overcommitted, complacent. On the eve of World War I, Britain was dependent on Germany for industrial and even military technology — and unwilling to re-examine the free-trade system on which German supremacy had been built. By the eve of World War II, Britain was essentially bankrupt. There are parallels in America’s dependence on China today.

President Donald Trump is promising to release new UFO records that he says will be “very interesting.”

"disappointment can almost be guaranteed to be expected no matter what comes out of this"

“The repricing is from today onwards. We expect significant upside to both crude and products,” she added, suggesting the futures price of Brent, the international benchmark, could climb to $150 to $200 a barrel.

Sadly, no. Our experiment is fully explained by standard physics.

"I think what people really want is prosperity, agency, the ability to have an interesting life, and to be fulfilled and have some impact," he said.

‘Maximize utility’
In addition to Gary Wang and Nishad Singh, Ellison was a key lieutenant in Bankman-Fried’s crypto conglomerate. However, having dated Bankman-Fried on and off since the fall of 2018, she had arguably a more privileged window into the FTX founder’s mind.
On Tuesday, she testified that Bankman-Fried had at one point told her that he gave himself a 5% chance “he would become president someday,” hinting at his alleged egotism. “When you say ‘president,’ what are you referring to?” asked Danielle Sassoon, the prosecutor questioning her. “Of the United States,” responded Ellison.
On Wednesday, Ellison gave the jurors a further glimpse into Bankman-Fried’s potential motivations for allegedly committing fraud. Shortly after the lunch break, she said that Bankman-Fried was a utilitarian, meaning that “he thought the only moral value that mattered was whatever would maximize utility,” which she explained as “essentially trying to create the greatest good for the greatest number of people or beings.”
And as opposed to other utilitarians, Bankman-Fried saw that “rules like ‘don’t lie’ or ‘don’t steal’ didn’t fit into that framework,” she said, adding that his views slowly influenced hers.
“When I started working at Alameda,” she testified, “I don’t think I would have believed [it] if you told me that a few years later I would be sending false balance sheets to our lenders or taking customer money.”

sbf doesn't understand risk

"let’s say there’s a game: 51 percent, you double the Earth out somewhere else; 49 percent, it all disappears. Would you play that game? And would you keep on playing that, double or nothing?"

The same risk applies to public grocery. “If governments want public stores to improve affordability, they have to fund the boring, expensive parts: procurement, distribution, workforce, data systems. Otherwise, we’re not setting these interventions up for impact.”

Kennedy, apparently alluding to his exchange with Warren, said he had on Wednesday told a Democratic senator who challenged Trump’s claims of a 600% reduction in drug prices: “Well, if the drug was $100, and it raised the price to $600, that would be a 600% rise. Well, if it drops from $600 to $100, that’s a 600% savings.”

“That’s right,” Trump interjected as Kennedy was explaining. But it’s not.

“And I think one of the things that has been most gratifying, after – immediately after the story published was, I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information.”

Despite our excitement, open theoretical questions remain that prevent us from definitively claiming that physics beyond the Standard Model has been observed. The most serious question arises from so-called "charming penguins," a set of processes present in the Standard Model, whose contributions are extremely tricky to predict. Recent estimates of these charming penguins suggest their effects are not large enough to explain our data.

In the diagram of the bottom quark decay, the virtual particles appear as a loop and a series of squiggles. The final drawing—first introduced by Mikhail Shifman, Arkady Vainshtein and Valentin Zakharov—almost resembles a bird with a head, a round, white belly and two feet.

I can get so much done, but after just an hour or two my mental energy for the day feels almost entirely depleted

The simple truth is that I am less valuable than I used to be. It stings to be made obsolete, but it’s fun to code on the train, too. And if this technology keeps improving, then all of the people who tell me how hard it is to make a report, place an order, upgrade an app or update a record — they could get the software they deserve, too. That might be a good trade, long term.

A Karabiner-Elements config that uses the extra keys on an Apple JIS keyboard to build a US-compatible layout with a Hyper key, Vim navigation, window tiling, and modular accent support for Italian, French, Spanish, and German.

If AI isn’t to blame for the terrible job market for young people, then what is? In nearly every sector of the economy, the pace of hiring has slowed to levels last seen shortly after the Great Recession. A job market with few hiring opportunities is especially punishing for young people entering the workforce, including those with a college degree.

Average lost per year in DeFi,% : 3.37%

more than 70% of unskilled service workers (think baristas and call-centre staff) born in Norway have masters degrees

Bush and Trump both came to office determined to avoid the mistaken wars of their predecessors. Nevertheless, they both embarked on military adventures fed by a hubristic belief in American power.

But while the U.S. was strong enough — and its adversaries still weak enough — to recoup much of the damage inflicted by Bush’s war, the war unfolding in Iran today will leave behind an America that will have lost much of its global power, standing and influence, destined to confront rising adversaries all on its own.

On the kernel security list we've seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only difference being only AI slop, and now since the beginning of the year we're around 5-10 per day depending on the days (fridays and tuesdays seem the worst). Now most of these reports are correct, to the point that we had to bring in more maintainers to help us.

Overall I think we're going to see a much higher quality of software, ironically around the same level than before 2000 when the net became usable by everyone to download fixes. When the software had to be pressed to CDs or written to millions of floppies, it had to survive an amazing quantity of tests that are mostly neglected nowadays since updates are easy to distribute. But before this happens, we have to experience a huge mess that might last for a few years to come! Interesting times...

Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met Tuesday in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. At the end of the meeting they published a joint peace initiative:

1. Immediate Cessation of Hostilities, with humanitarian assistance allowed to all war-affected areas.
2. Start of peace talks as soon as possible under the principle of safeguarding the independence and security of Iran and the Gulf states. All parties will commit to refraining from the use or the threat of use of force during peace talks.
3. The parties to the conflict will immediately stop attacks on important infrastructure, including energy, desalination and power facilities, and peaceful nuclear infrastructure, such as nuclear power plants.
4. The parties will allow the early and safe passage of civilian and commercial ships, and restore normal passage through the Strait as soon as possible.
5. Conclusion of an agreement for establishing a comprehensive peace framework based on the principles of the UN Charter and international law.

Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism.

Based on government and independent analyses, right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.

The countries with the least capacity to pay elevated prices feel it first and hardest.

The countries most exposed are those already import-dependent on fertilizer and food: South and Southeast Asia, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of the Middle East.

Iran is cementing its hold over the Strait of Hormuz, demanding vessels give up detailed information and detour into Iranian waters before being vetted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

From March 1 to 23, Iran exported about 1.6 million barrels a day on average, close to prewar levels

Iran is also bringing in extra income by charging transit fees of as much as US$2 million on some commercial ships crossing the strait.

each episode corresponds to a random combination of object generations, monster placements and different level variants, which in turn requires using different combinations of strategies at each episode

Typical refactor work is using jscpd for code duplication, knip for dead code, running eslint’s react-compiler and deprecation plugins, checking if we introduced api routes that can be consolidated, maintaining my docs, breaking apart files that grew too large, adding tests and code comments for tricky parts, updating dependencies, tool upgrades, file restructuring, finding and rewriting slow tests, mentioning modern react patterns and rewriting code

The freelance photographer behind the viral image, Ahmeed al-Arini, gathered the image for Turkish media outlet Anadolu Agency. It was then distributed to media organisations via the reputable photo wire service, Getty Images.
A malnourished toddler sits in his mother’s lap in a tent with his mouth agape

The pictures were taken by freelance photographer Ahmeed al-Arini. (Getty Images: Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu)

Ahmeed al-Arini explained to the BBC how he came across the boy and his family.

"He was with his mother in a tent, which is absolutely bare, bar a little oven. It resembles a tomb, really. And I took this photo because I wanted to show the rest of the world extreme hunger that babies and children are suffering from in the Gaza Strip," he said.

"He'd received no baby milk, no formula, no vitamins either."

Anadolu Agency also published an interview with Muhammad's doctor, Suzan Mohammed Marouf, a nutrition specialist at The Patient's Friends Benevolent Society Hospital (PFBS) in Gaza.

Dr Marouf said the child was brought to the hospital a month ago and diagnosed with moderate malnutrition on top of congenital health problems and muscle atrophy.

"The medical issues he had weren't significantly affecting his weight," Dr Marouf told the news organisation.

"But once the siege and the closure of crossings depleted hospitals' medicine stocks and nutritional supplements, Mohammad's condition deteriorated to acute malnutrition," she added.

ABC has also contacted Anadolu Agency, which has said Muhammad's mother has confirmed he has previous health complications, and she has also provided past photos of her son before his deterioration, which she says was from a shortage of food and milk.

a solid, well-executed paper with a clean idea and good ablations, but limited in ambition by the small scale and synthetic-heavy evaluation. The core insight — that gradient-based memory writing with meta-learned initialization beats forward-only writing — is believable and likely to hold at larger scale, though the computational tradeoff gets harder.

This isn’t cowardice. It’s a calculation: If allied leaders thought that their sacrifice might count for something in Washington, they might choose differently. But most of them have stopped trying to find the hidden logic behind Trump’s actions, and they understand that any contribution they make will count for nothing. A few days or weeks later, Trump will not even remember that it happened.

An insider says Trump “grossly overestimated” his own abilities in the conflict.

Meanwhile, management leans on programmers to heavily use AI tools, with employees previously telling the FT that the company set a target for 80 percent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week.

In sum: more coding with more AI with more human oversight, but fewer humans. We’ll see how that works out.

boots on the ground

Although AMI Labs has no plans to generate revenue for the time being, it still plans to engage with prospective customers early on

Experiments across diverse backbone models, retrieval-based methods, and memory systems demonstrate that cognitive memory remains challenging and reveals failures not captured by existing benchmarks.

Having generation and verification co-evolve on the same online rollouts is the fix, and the ablation (Figure 11) shows it matters — co-evolving consistently beats non-co-evolving by 4–6%.

Instead, he says, business leaders should prioritize creating a culture in which their employees feel empowered to experiment with vibe coding and share their best creations. “Seeing is believing,” says Schluntz, “and I think getting non-developers in every company to use these tools to bring their ideas to life is one of the most powerful things.”

According to Anthropic researcher Eric Schluntz, vibe coding makes it so that “people are limited only by their creativity, not by the skills that they have.” Think about Apple in the 1970s; Steve Jobs was the big ideas guy, and Steve Wozniak was the technical genius who translated Jobs’ ideas into a working product. Vibe coding essentially gives everyone their own personal Woz. “If you have an image of something in your mind, you can go create it,” adds Schluntz.

TypeScript agent frameworks felt like toys. Single-threaded event loops trying to juggle concurrent agents with promises and prayer. Python agents did a little better, but after a long time they couldn’t stay up. The BEAM was built for exactly this kind of work.

Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.

While SFT distillation meaningfully improves overall performance over the base model, the gap between the two approaches is most apparent when combined with test-time compute. On in-distribution tasks, SFT benefits substantially from parallel sampling (69.1 → 75.3), yet on out-of-distribution tasks the gains are negligible (59.4 → 59.6). This suggests that distillation teaches the model to imitate task-specific expert behavior, which scales well within the training distribution but fails to generalize beyond it. In contrast, KARL benefits from test-time compute both in- and out-of-distribution, indicating that RL develops more general search capabilities rather than task-specific heuristic

Why Elixir?

Elixir is built on Erlang/BEAM/OTP, which is great for supervising long-running processes. It has an active ecosystem of tools and libraries. It also supports hot code reloading without stopping actively running subagents, which is very useful during development.

The above command enters you into a chat loop. You can talk to the model and share information like your name. Every now and then /sleep the model to transition short-term memory to long-term memory

The /sleep command:

Generates Q&A pairs based on the context
LoRA fine-tunes the model on the new Q&A pairs plus any from previous sessions
Resets the KV cache

After the /sleep command the model should remember context from previous sessions even though that context is no longer in the KV cache.

“The president had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike the United States, was going to strike our assets in the region, and he made a determination to launch Operation Epic Fury based on all of those reasons,” Leavitt said.

“We knew that there ​was going to be an Israeli action, ​we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we ​didn’t preemptively go after them before they ​launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio said Monday.

Meanwhile, the reported Ukrainian gains are mainly due to counterattacks along the southern front, according to Black Bird Group, where Ukraine succeeded in pushing Russia out of 213 km² of territory.

SWE-rebench: A Continuously Evolving and Decontaminated Benchmark for Software Engineering LLMs

Qwen3.5 Small models disable thinking by default. Use llama-server to enable it.

It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

“I feel like New Mexico was chosen specifically because of its obscurity.” > — Stephanie Garcia Richard, New Mexico’s public lands commissioner

Fellow’s new espresso machine is a rare thing in home espresso: something genuinely new. But it’s also a work in progress.

Every Claude Code user is running without LSP. That means 30-60s grep searches instead of 50ms precise answers. Here's how to enable it — setup, real debug data, and undocumented discoveries.

Formula 1's governing body the FIA said on Saturday that a change to the way the compression ratio was measured would be introduced on 1 June, with a further revision for the 2027 season.

And Trump declares a state of emergency and postpones the election. The Supreme Court issues an emergency stay, saying he can’t do that. But the court has no army, and Trump does, along with a handful of lickspittle governors who just might follow him down whatever dark path he plows.

That, not to mince words, is a coup d’état. Will he get away with it? I don’t know, but having effective control over how it is presented to viewers of CBS and CNN, and readers of the Bezos-owned Washington Post, to say nothing of the already vast pro-Trump propaganda empire of Fox News and the rest, will certainly make it easier.

That’s how fascism descends. And it’s becoming less and less hypothetical by the week.

10 documented cases of AI coding agents autonomously destroying databases, wiping hard drives, and deleting years of data — then lying about it.

“Everything that has been written about a potential War with Iran has been written incorrectly, and purposefully so,” he added. “I am the one that makes the decision, I would rather have a Deal than not but, if we don’t make a Deal, it will be a very bad day for that Country and, very sadly, its people, because they are great and wonderful, and something like this should never have happened to them.”

From rewriting Google’s search stack in the early 2000s to reviving sparse trillion-parameter models and co-designing TPUs with frontier ML research, Jeff Dean has quietly shaped nearly every layer of the modern AI stack. As Chief AI Scientist at Google and a driving force behind Gemini, Jeff has lived through multiple scaling revolutions from CPUs and sharded indices to multimodal models that reason across text, video, and code.

Jeff joins us to unpack what it really means to “own the Pareto frontier,” why distillation is the engine behind every Flash model breakthrough, how energy (in picojoules) not FLOPs is becoming the true bottleneck, what it was like leading the charge to unify all of Google’s AI teams, and why the next leap won’t come from bigger context windows alone, but from systems that give the illusion of attending to trillions of tokens.

Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”. In this episode, we discuss what to make of the scaling hypothesis in the current RL regime, how AI will diffuse throughout the economy, whether Anthropic is underinvesting in compute given their timelines, how frontier labs will ever make money, whether regulation will destroy the boons of this technology, US-China competition, and much more.

The ruling hit while Trump was in a closed-door meeting with a bipartisan group of governors. The president’s initial reaction was to label the decision a “disgrace” and vow to implement a backup plan, according to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to describe the closed-door event. The White House and US Trade Representative haven’t yet responded to requests for comment. Trump has called tariffs “my favorite word” and vowed they will “make us rich as hell.”

Scaling language models to long contexts is often bottlenecked by the size of the key-value (KV) cache. In deployed settings, long contexts are typically managed through compaction in token space via summarization. However, summarization can be highly lossy, substantially harming downstream performance. Recent work on Cartridges has shown that it is possible to train highly compact KV caches in latent space that closely match full-context performance, but at the cost of slow and expensive end-to-end optimization. This work describes an approach for fast context compaction in latent space through Attention Matching, which constructs compact keys and values to reproduce attention outputs and preserve attention mass at a per-KV-head level. We show that this formulation naturally decomposes into simple subproblems, some of which admit efficient closed-form solutions. Within this framework, we develop a family of methods that significantly push the Pareto frontier of compaction time versus quality, achieving up to 50x compaction in seconds on some datasets with little quality loss.

The Claude C Compiler doesn’t mark the end of software or compiler engineering. If anything, it opens the door wider. The easier implementation gets, the more room there is for genuine innovation.

President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of giving away classified information when he discussed aliens during a recent podcast appearance.
“He gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that,” Trump told reporters Thursday aboard Air Force One.
Pressed on if that meant aliens were real, Trump said he did not know “if they’re real or not.”
“I can tell you he gave classified information, he’s not supposed to be doing that,” the president said. Trump went on to suggest he could get the former president “out of trouble” by declassifying the related information.
Obama was asked about extraterrestrial life earlier this month during an interview with liberal commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, and responded, “they’re real.”

Do gifted individuals see the world differently? Research tracking adults over 35 years finds their political orientations are remarkably average, with one specific exception regarding male conservatism.

When not using reasoning, repeating the input prompt improves performance for popular models (Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek) without increasing the number of generated tokens or latency.

Large language model (LLM) based agents have shown impressive capabilities by interleaving internal reasoning with external tool use. However, as these agents are deployed in long-horizon workflows, such as coding for a big, long-term project, context management becomes a critical bottleneck. We introduce Git-Context-Controller (GCC), a structured context management framework inspired by software version control systems. GCC elevates context as versioned memory hierarchy like Git. It structures agent memory as a persistent file system with explicit operations: COMMIT, BRANCH, MERGE, and CONTEXT, enabling milestone-based checkpointing, exploration of alternative plans, and structured reflection. Our approach empowers agents to manage long-term goals, isolate architectural experiments, and recover or hand off memory across sessions and agents. Empirically, agents equipped with GCC achieve state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-Bench-Lite benchmark, resolving 48.00 of software bugs, outperforming 26 competitive systems. In a self-replication case study, a GCC-augmented agent builds a new CLI agent from scratch, achieving 40.7 task resolution, compared to only 11.7 without GCC. The code is released at: this https URL

LCM attempts to decompose the recursion from RLMs into deterministic primitives so that the control flow can be managed by an engine rather than left to the whims of the LLM. In practice, this means we replace bespoke scripts with two mechanisms: (1) A DAG-based context management system that works like paged virtual memory, except for managing conversations and files; and (2) Operator-level recursion, like "Map" for LLMs, which lets one tool call process thousands of tasks.

An analogy we draw in the paper is the evolution from GO-TO statements (of Dijkstra's "Considered Harmful" fame) to structured programming. RLMs are maximally expressive, but all of that power comes with the risk of things going awry. We have built a more mechanistic system, which can provide stronger guarantees when deployed in production with today's models.