• Amazon has called an all-hands meeting of its engineering team to ask them to please stop destroying the company's site with AI slop.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The term "blast radius" is not one you want to hear being thrown about in reference to side-effects of code updates.

• Yann Lecun's new company, AMI, has raised a billion dollars to fund its endeavours to produce AI models where you don't need to use the term "blast radius" quite so often.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  He's focusing on world models, one of his four essential advances required for AI that actually justifies the I.  Basically fact database alongside the LLM's word salad.
  
  
  
• Meta  - where Yann LeCun was previously head of AI - has acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Even Tech Crunch is in with the clanker hate.
  
  
  
• Lux Aeterna has raised $10 million for its own pet project: Reusable satellites.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  There hasn't been much point until now - launch costs were too high for it to make sense to even consider repairing and reusing older satellites.  But that may be changing.
  
  
  
• Also changing is the cost of laptops, and not in a good way.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Prices are expected to climb by as much as 40% as RAM and SSD shortages take hold.
  
  
  
• One drawback with Apple's MacBook Neo: The battery life is on the meh side.  (Notebook Check)
  
  It has half the battery capacity of the MacBook Pro.  On heavy workloads its low-power CPU keeps the battery from draining too quickly - though it's also slow.  On light workloads the MacBook Pro shines twice as long.

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