https://aimagazine.com/articles/is-worlds-biggest-data-centre-campus-in-texas-sustainable

NO KINGS 2.0 NATIONAL PROTEST - JULY 4TH, 2025 INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT TYRANNY

This Fourth of July, we're reclaiming America's promise; Freedom for all! Justice for all! NO KINGS! What started as a local protest is now a nationwide movement. This isn't about left vs. right; this is about the people vs. power unchecked. No more leaders above the law. No more silence when rights are stripped away. No more fear, manipulation, or false patriotism. From coast to coast, city streets to small towns, we're raising our voices: Against authoritarianism, corrupt leadership, racism, xenophobia, and injustice. For the rights of immigrants, workers, families, and everyday Americans For truth, transparency, and equality under the Constitution.

WHO'S INVITED? Everyone who believes in liberty - true liberty, not just the brand sold during election season.

July 4th No Kings 2.0

NO KINGS 2.0 NATIONAL PROTEST - JULY 4TH, 2025 INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT TYRANNY This Fourth of July, we're reclaiming America's promise; Freedom for all! Justice for all! NO KINGS! What started as a local protest is now a nationwide movement.

^Mobilize

Reporting Highlights

Winning Record: In the Texas Capitol, where the vast majority of bills fail to pass, all but three of Elon Musk’s public priorities became law this legislative session.

Company Gains: Musk’s wins include laws that will benefit companies like SpaceX and Tesla.

Playing the Long Game: Musk has steadily invested his personal and professional capital in Texas over more than a decade. Most of his businesses are now headquartered here.

How Changes to Texas Law Will Help Elon Musk’s Companies

While Elon Musk took Washington, D.C., by storm, his company representatives and lobbyists were also notching up big political wins in the heart of his vast business empire: Texas.

^ProPublica

https://finimize.com/content/microsoft-shifts-gears-on-ai-chip-design-plans

https://finimize.com/content/microsoft-shifts-gears-on-ai-chip-design-plans

Today we’re introducing two AI updates

new AI-powered search results carousel to suggest videos and topic descriptions by creators across YouTube. Imagine searching for “best beaches in Hawaii” — you could see an AI-generated carousel highlighting clips from videos showcasing the best snorkel spots and volcanic beaches

our conversational AI tool will be expanding to some non-Premium users in the US.

Today we’re introducing two AI updates

new AI-powered search results carousel to suggest videos and topic descriptions by creators across YouTube. Imagine searching for “best beaches in Hawaii” — you could see an AI-generated carousel highlighting clips from videos showcasing the best snorkel spots and volcanic beaches

our conversational AI tool will be expanding to some non-Premium users in the US.

The operation reportedly began with the detonation of a concealed minefield, forcing Israeli forces to seek shelter in nearby civilian homes.

Israeli Soldiers Killed, Wounded in Complex Resistance Attacks in Gaza - Palestine Chronicle

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Homes raided, people approached on the street, called from unknown numbers, arrested without warning: how British police are cracking down on activists

'Like a kidnapping': How UK police are hunting pro-Palestine activists

At 7am on 6 March, three men turned up at Lujane's door.  They said they were from the British Transport Police (BTP) and asked her to come for an interview regarding a video in which, several months before, she had been seen chanting pro-Palestine …

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A powerful new report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, is drawing sharp condemnation — not only from Israel but also from the United States.

Titled ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’, the report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, accusing private and state-linked companies of enabling apartheid, war crimes, and genocide.

Economy of Genocide: UN Report Links Western Firms to Israeli War Crimes - Palestine Chronicle

The report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its genocide in Gaza.

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Mirror

https://t.me/operativnoZSU/185304

Iran’s president has ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in commercial investments in artificial intelligence (AI). The first wave came after the 2012 ImageNet challenge, which was a pivotal moment in the history of artificial intelligence, particularly computer vision and deep learning. Then, advances in computing power—GPU hardware—powered neural network models trained on large amounts of data. Across industries, from construction to pharmaceuticals to finance, companies rushed to implement AI in their operations. This trend has only accelerated with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022. Even larger models trained on even larger datasets are showing even greater power, and AI applications are becoming ubiquitous across U.S. businesses (Babina, et al. 2024).

The rapid rise of commercial AI has inevitably brought concerns regarding its potential to displace human workers. There is evidence that AI can automate some cognitive tasks or increase worker productivity in a way that could reduce the number of workers needed. For example, Brynjolfsson, et al. (2025) find that AI tools make customer service workers much more efficient. Fedyk, et al. (2022) find that audit firms that use AI reduce their audit workforce. But the good news is that the labor-displacing effects seem confined to select sectors and occupations. On aggregate, recent academic research finds evidence that companies’ use of AI has been accompanied by an increase in the workforce.

This article synthesizes recent research—including new findings from Babina, et al. (2024) and Babina, et al. (2023)—to assess the real-world impacts of AI on firms and workers. Contrary to common fears, we find that AI has so far not led to widespread job loss. Instead, AI adoption is associated with firm growth, increased employment, and heightened innovation, particularly in product development. However, the effects are not uniformly distributed: AI-investing firms increasingly seek more educated and technically skilled employees, alter their internal hierarchies, and contribute to rising industry concentration. These trends carry important implications for public policy, including workforce development, education and reskilling initiatives, and antitrust enforcement. This article reviews the evidence and highlights key takeaways for policymakers navigating the AI-driven economy.

The effects of AI on firms and workers

Synthesis of new research assessing the real-world impacts of artificial intelligence on firms and workers.

^Brookings

Sembra strano, e non pensavo si sarebbe mai potuto dire (e per giunta in questa economia…?), ma probabilmente a proposito dell’imparare le lingue c’è qualcosa di buono che si può prendere persino da quel fallito di JumboDrillo…! (Che chiamo così solo perché è la singola proprietà attorno alla quale tutto il suo canale è sviluppato, […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-07-02 14:26:58

“IMPARO il CINESE in 30 GIORNI” (JumboDrillo è meglio di noi…)

Sembra strano, e non pensavo si sarebbe mai potuto dire (e per giunta in questa economia…?), ma probabilmente a proposito dell’imparare le lingue c’è qualcosa di buono che si può prendere persino da quel fallito di JumboDrillo…! (Che chiamo così solo perché è la singola proprietà attorno alla quale tutto il suo canale è sviluppato, non perché penso sia un fallito… certamente io sono più fallita di lui, insomma, sia ben chiaro.)

youtube.com/watch?v=v-4ntXPLOF…

Lui da assoluto pazzo, ma indubbiamente più bravo di noi, ha deciso di imparare il cinese in 30 giorni… e per soli 30 giorni (e mi chiedo se poi abbia continuato… ma temo si sia fermato) non sembra essere andato per niente male. Il suo motivo certamente è poco condivisibile… voleva praticamente solo rimorchiare in discoteca… però bisogna apprezzare l’impegno. Purtroppo, per quanto il metodo poi sia stato relativamente efficace, c’è anche da piangere, perché non è per tutti: a parte Duolingo, qualche canale YouTube apposito, e il fatto che nel mentre di tutto ha preso tanti appunti vari (“tra l’altro con i colori come le ragazze“), una parte della storia si è sviluppata con lui che si è messo un po’ a frequentare Chinatown e aveva 2 coetanei cinesi con cui studiare… e sono questi ultimi dettagli il problema, insomma. Almeno nell’imparare qualcosa che non sia il cinese, perché il quartiere strambo non esiste per altre nazionalità, e quindi nemmeno le persone. Vabbè, pace, gli altri elementi sono comunque buoni per sfuggire ad una morsa troppo totalizzante del gufo.

#cinese #imparare #JumboDrillo #lingue

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

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In my community !action_movies@piefed.social , I've made two posts sticky (the "Welcome" post and the "Free, legal movies" post) using my Piefed mod account, but:

• viewing in PieFed, neither post is at the top. (They do have inverted angle brackets around the title.)
• viewing in Lemmy, The "Free, legal movies" post is sticky (at top, with pushpin icon) but the "Welcome" post isn't.

How do I get them both displayed at the top in both PieFed and Lemmy? Or is this a bug?

https://neuters.de/legal/government/chinas-huawei-must-face-us-criminal-charges-judge-rules-2025-07-01/

This paper introduces DiffuCoder, a 7B-scale open-source masked diffusion large language model (dLLM) specifically designed for code generation.

The research provides insights into how dLLMs generate content, distinguishing their decoding behavior from that of autoregressive (AR) models. Unlike AR models, dLLMs can intrinsically adjust their generation causality and increasing sampling temperature diversifies not just token choices but also their generation order, creating a rich search space for reinforcement learning (RL).

This flexibility allows dLLMs to be more non-autoregressive and generate tokens in a less sequential, more "human-like" code writing manner.

To leverage this diversity and improve performance, the paper proposes coupled-GRPO RL algorithm. This method utilizes a coupled-sampling scheme that constructs complementary mask noise during training to reduce the variance of token log-likelihood estimates while maintaining training efficiency.

Experimentally, coupled-GRPO significantly boosts DiffuCoder's performance on code generation benchmarks, notably improving EvalPlus scores by 4.4% with training on only 21K samples. The research also shows that coupled-GRPO trained models experience a smaller performance drop when decoding steps are halved (resulting in a 2x speedup), indicating increased parallelism and reduced reliance on AR bias during decoding.

available at huggingface.co/apple/DiffuCode…

apple/DiffuCoder-7B-cpGRPO · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/business/energy-environment/trump-bill-solar-panels-china.html