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Congratulations to all Senegalese people on the beautiful opening ceremony to the 2026 Dakar Youth Olympic Games #JOJ2026. It is a chef d’oeuvre of storytelling rooted in a united Senegalese and African culture unapologetically open to the world. Congratulations to the organizers, volunteers, the president of the olympic committee Mr Diagna Ndiaye and the creative director Madame Khady Niang, you will make everyone remember Alkebu-Lan. I hope the organization of these games will give a glimpse to our elites of the shared benefits of a growth orientation, and to our people raise the standard of what they achieve. Jarama! youtube.com/live/qhvEGRDW2wo…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” that people have so much DRAM sitting in their own PCs instead of being used in data centers. “Everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time,” He argues that cloud data centers should make better use of limited memory supplies instead of people running AI models locally.

OpenAI said another agentic AI system that was being trained in what was supposed to be a secured, internet-free environment was able to gain access to the web to reach an external, third-party chatbot bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

Oxford researchers just published a paper arguing LLMs cannot invent anything. Mathematically impossible. The reason is simple and brutal. A model trained to predict the next word can never believe something the existing data says is wrong. And every real breakthrough in history started with exactly that belief. In 1903 every prediction machine on Earth would have told the Wright Brothers that human flight was one to ten million years away. Nine weeks later they flew. Not because they had better data. Because they had a theory the data hadn't caught up to yet. That is the gap between AI and human thinking. LLMs mirror the past. Humans reason into a future that doesn't exist yet. Oxford just proved mathematically that those are two different things. I use these models every day. This matches what I see. The new stuff always comes from the human at the keyboard who decides the data is wrong. LLMs don't think. You do.

フランスの絵本作家レベッカ・ドートゥルメールの作品 "Midi pile" のスペイン語版 "La cita" を後ろからめくっている動画。うさぎのジャコミニュスを主人公にした、邦訳のある彼女の絵本『ジャコミニュス・ゲンズボルーのゆたかな時間』の物語で、ジャコミニュスが船で旅立つときに幼馴染のドゥースと港で待ち合わせをする部分に焦点を当てたスピンオフ版。ドゥースの家から果樹園、街、市場、港までの行程の場面場面を繋げているレーザーカットの絵本です 📹arcadia_mediatica

Nach seinem Rückzug als Fraktionsvize wegen der Leihmutter-Affäre erhält Jens Spahn eine neue Aufgabe. Künftig wird er die Unionsparteien im Haushaltsausschuss vertreten. trib.al/PSYPw39

Wirtschaftswachstum hat oberste Priorität. Wir wollen in unserem Land wieder Aufschwung und Beschäftigung ermöglichen. Dafür nutzen wir unsere Stärken, um das Wachstum von morgen zu schaffen. Heute und morgen beraten wir darüber in unserer Kabinettsklausur in Neuhardenberg.

As Israeli strikes leveled museums and 5,000-year-old sites across Gaza, volunteers dug through the rubble by hand to save what they could. Meanwhile, looted artifacts quietly resurfaced in a Paris exhibition. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/gazas…

The Trump administration is weighing broad new semiconductor tariffs that could extend beyond chips to servers, gaming consoles, and downstream tech products — a move the tech industry says would be catastrophic for US AI ambitions. According to Politico, the tariffs could arrive within "weeks or months," with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushing for broad application tied to domestic manufacturing pledges. The Computer and Communications Industry Association estimates the tariffs could cost the US $90 billion annually in GDP losses and delay or cancel approximately 20% of data center projects planned through 2030 — the exact infrastructure the Trump administration says it wants to build. "This may be the single dumbest way imaginable to pursue American dominance in AI. It's like kneecapping yourself at the starting line," said one tech official who served in Trump's first administration. The core problem: domestic chip plants take years to build, so companies remain dependent on imports regardless of tariffs — meaning the policy raises the cost of AI infrastructure without increasing domestic supply. Industry talks with Trump officials have recently "trended in a negative direction," sources told Politico, suggesting the exemptions the tech industry is seeking may not materialize. Consumer prices for smartphones, laptops, and AI devices would also rise under the broader tariff scenario. 📷 Getty Images

Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reports reut.rs/4gAjoQm reut.rs/4gAjoQm

Israel warns of 'forceful' response to kites flown from Gaza bbc.in/4gOmwcH

Le festival de photo de sport de Deauville cède aux pressions pro-israéliennes et retire une photo prise à Gaza ➡️ l.humanite.fr/ADe

I've covered school tech for the @nytimes for a decade. And I'm fascinated by how Big Tech makes products like Chromebooks and A.I. chatbots seem urgent. Our story today brings you inside that powerful industry playbook for influencing schools. nytimes.com/2026/08/23/busin…