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Wendell Berry's death on Monday, at 92, was not accompanied by the now-customary farewell post from family on an official social media account, much less a valedictory Substack essay.

Widespread AI outage underway

Outages are common, but it's unusual for all three to go down at once.

Google's latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.

AI spots cyber gaps faster than financial firms can fix them

UK regulator says companies risk being overwhelmed by frontier models’ findings

‘It’s a total game-changer’: AI enters the household

Parents are using AI to organise their families, from managing busy schedules to researching preschools, planning meals and grocery shopping. Is this domestic relief, or a new kind of dependence?

There's an Easter egg hiding inside the $12.9303 billion price tag of the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal

"Special congrats if you find the Hugging Face and Nvidia references hidden in our $12,930,300,000 acquisition price," cofounder Thomas Wolf wrote.

The moral panic over data centres is foolish

THE SUPPLY of capital is not the only constraint on the investment of America’s AI companies. They must also worry about politics. In growing numbers and with growing fury, American voters oppose the building of data centres, which provide the computing power to train and run AI models. The opposition spans the nationalist right and the environmentalist left. Such is the backlash that the infrastructure has become one of the defining issues of this year’s midterm elections. Politicians are racing to outdo one another with restrictions, moratoriums and bans on building. Voters and politicians alike are making a big mistake.

AfterQuery: What is an Applied Research Lab?

Backed by Altos Ventures and Y Combinator, AfterQuery is an applied research lab that encodes human expertise into data to train reliable AI models

Axios Live: Florida doesn't need to ban data centers, former Gov. Jeb Bush says

Florida leaders want AI guardrails, not bans, when it comes to how the technology is showing up in their state

Average 401(k), IRA balances hit record highs

Retirement account balances rose in the second quarter amid market gains, according to Fidelity. At the same time, more savers tapped their accounts for cash.

Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion

Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.

Exclusive: OpenAI Convening Security Leaders Ahead of Cyber Announcement

A top executive is expected to make an announcement about expanding model access.