Q: What does Google/Alphabet now have that OpenAI and Anthropic don’t?

The first of the active region is now currently appearing over the Sun's eastern limb! Are you ready?

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

Black hole sun Won't you come And wash away the rain? Black hole sun Won't you come… www.theage.com.au/national/wha...

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate shorturl.at/OFfig

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

NATO seeks drone defense amid Russian airspace incursions

Fifty miles off the Tuscan coast, in a sparkling blue expanse, ancient creatures are roosting beneath the waves. They spend their days feasting on an unlikely source of nourishment: methane, a potent greenhouse gas that leaks out of cracks in the seafloor. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...

BIRD COMBAT SEASON: First time I've ever gotten a still of a bird grabbing another's tail merely to sit in a perch for 40 seconds. Woo! 🪶

I need more foodie friends around here. I want to make pickled cauliflower, and my recipe makes approximately one metric fuckton of pickles. In an ideal world, I’d swap a jar or two with someone else.

This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

Tonight's Harvest Moon, above the Oakland Hills. Emeryville, California. #moon #nature #eastcoastkin

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live

We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU

The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis remembered her Sunday as a fierce, curious and funny child who “didn’t water herself down.” Read more: https://cnn.it/4ptwVNy

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.

Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.

The governors of Arizona and Maine have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions.

In Opinion | In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing, our columnist Thomas L. Friedman writes that instead of focusing on talks between Ukraine and Russia or the Israelis and Palestinians, Trump should “make peace at home. Make peace between Americans.”

South Africa has reopened the investigation into the death of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko — 48 years after he was killed in police custody.

NUS-led study, among the largest ex-vivo drug testing efforts, confirms AI-guided personalized medicine for lymphoma. QPOP accurately predicted treatment response in ~75% of 117 patients, showing its potential to tailor therapies. #CancerResearch #AI #PrecisionMedicine ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

Eli Lilly launched TuneLab, an AI platform for biotechs to access drug discovery models trained on its data. https://biztoc.com/x/873133c60ddc9497 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #BioTech #DrugDiscovery

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Hello, I didn’t check the delivery address when I ordered some Chipotle delivery just now so if you are in Chicago and would like a chicken burrito go to: The Chicago Hotel Ambassador 1301 N State Pkwy Chicago, IL 60610 It’s at the front desk. Enjoy!

Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit #authors #AI www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n...

⚖️🤖🌐 Google dodges the harshest antitrust penalties. A judge blocked exclusive search deals but spared Chrome and its $20B Apple pact. Wall St. cheered, DOJ fumed, and AI may prove the real disruptor. 🔗 t.ly/DCxLC #Antitrust #BigTech #AI #Google #Apple

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In my contribution to @newrepublic.com's issue on Trump and history, I argue that Trump has wrapped himself in the mantle of the American Revolution while undermining its principles.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

APHA comments on shooting at CDC. Read full statement online: www.apha.org/news-and-med...

Read @kashhill.bsky.social: Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals. The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky. This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy. 1/n

When you combine these things, you get the differences below. First pic shows vintage Levis (shuttle loom, natural fading, chain stitching). Second pic shows jeans from the mid-1990s, when denim was almost entirely mass produced (projectile loom, pre-washed, lockstitch).

I've had enough. In this thread, I will tell you, definitively, whether Sydney Sweeney has great jeans. This way, you will be more informed when shopping for your wardrobe . 🧵

🧪 New Science Poetry Podcast 🖋️ 'Version Drift' Research published in ‪The Lancet found nearly half of 232 US health datasets were changed, mostly replacing 'gender' with 'sex', without logging or explanation. 🔗 scipoetry.podbean.com/e/episode-31... #SciComm 🍎 🐡 #Poetry #Health #Data

My office just received word that the 9th Circuit ruled in favor of Angelenos. The Temporary Restraining Order to stop unconstitutional and reckless raids has been upheld. This is a victory for Los Angeles — I will ALWAYS fight for our city. mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-b...

The 9th district court affirmed what we already knew: you can’t just snatch people up for being brown and working hard. Not in the fields, not in a Home Depot parking lot, and NOT on our watch. This is a victory for the many, and not by the few. 1/

Obviously this young mathematician is amazing. But the article is an enjoyable read about the universal human story of looking for a path, for proof, the value of interaction w other great minds, & the silliness of institutions' valuing traditional credentials over the advances she *had* achieved.

With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

BBC’s Steve Rosenberg: Russia is staying quiet on Trump's nuclear move www.bbc.com/news/article...

Once upon a time at STSF I approached Jonathan Frakes at his table. “I bought a picture with you later, and I brought two trombones. Could I—“ “Bring them.” This was the result: