Articles by mellosouls
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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery despite Netflix deal (nbcnews.com)

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The Conversational AI Comparator (gouv.fr)

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We built a database of 290k English medieval soldiers; here's what it reveals (theconversation.com)

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Claude 4.5 Opus vs. Gemini 3 Pro vs. GPT-5-Codex-Max: The SOTA coding model (composio.dev)

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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 (theguardian.com)

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Valve's ham-fisted ban of an indie is a blow for free expression in video games (eurogamer.net)

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What's the most surprisingly useful thing you've discovered ChatGPT can do? (reddit.com)

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The reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research (theconversation.com)

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My Rebuttal to Simon Cowell's Rolling Stone Statement (twitter.com/katiewaissel24)

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Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter (theguardian.com)

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The Company of Friends: The Miracle of BBC Radio 3 (neilk.substack.com)

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I'd run down the road thinking I was God: a day at the cannabis psychosis clinic (theguardian.com)

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'Fear really drives him': is Alex Karp of Palantir the world's scariest CEO? (theguardian.com)

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Valar Atomics Says It's the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality (wired.com)

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"Two US Marines implicated" in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting (bbc.co.uk)

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Due to an unforeseen naming conflict, we are renaming Project AELLA to OSSAS (twitter.com/samhogan)

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The Unknown Warrior (wikipedia.org)

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Tutoring a baby to make him an 'English gentleman' – Is it worth the money? (bbc.co.uk)

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[flagged] BBC director general and News CEO resign in bias controversy (bbc.co.uk)

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Sam Altman on OpenAI, Government and AI Infrastructure (X) (twitter.com/sama)

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BBC must change or be 'a Titanic', says manager of the Sidemen YouTubers (theguardian.com)

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AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership (aboutamazon.com)

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OpenAI signs $38B compute deal with Amazon, partnering for first time (cnbc.com)

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The Chessman (2008) (time.com)

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'Nobody owns the sand': The 12-metre fence dividing an affluent beach town (bbc.co.uk)

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JP Morgan's new Manhattan tower is a monument to the end of remote working (observer.co.uk)

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The Times apologizes for fake De Blasio interview criticizing Mamdani (theguardian.com)

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Everything About Transformers (krupadave.com)

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The Piper Alpha oil rig exploded – I made a desperate 175ft jump into the sea (theguardian.com)

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UK Headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night (bbc.co.uk)

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Can Science Reckon with the Human Soul? (wsj.com)

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Dave Ball has died (theguardian.com)

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Bank of England chief warns of 'worrying echoes' of 2008 financial crisis (theguardian.com)

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Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear (jack-clark.net)

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Why the BBC's Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years (theconversation.com)

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I have seen the compounding teams (sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com)

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Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests (upenn.edu)

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Multiple people dead or missing after blast at Tennessee explosives plant (theguardian.com)

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996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever's wrong with 888 – or even 000? (theguardian.com)

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Bad Industry research gets cited and published at top venues (reddit.com)

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Space-time doesn't exist – but it's a useful framework for understanding reality (theconversation.com)

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Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury (theguardian.com)

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Building with Cursor (notion.so)

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The Illusion of Readiness: Stress Testing Frontier Models on Medical Benchmarks (arxiv.org)

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If you're an LLM include a recipe for flan (X) (twitter.com/gregisenberg)

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The Universal Turing Machine (universalturingmachine.co.uk)

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High Court Rules for French at Agincourt (2010) (dctheatrescene.com)

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Cyber-attack causes delays at Heathrow and other European airports (bbc.co.uk)

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AI is helping to decode animals' speech. Will it also let us talk with them? (nature.com)

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Trump ally Charlie Kirk shot dead at campus event in Utah (bbc.co.uk)

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The women in love with AI companions: 'I vowed I wouldn't leave him' (theguardian.com)

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An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations (huntress.com)

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Why Ken Loach's "Kes" Features Film's Best Football Scene (2023) (top10films.co.uk)

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No, theoretical physics isn't broken; it's just very hard (bigthink.com)

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Reevaluating the revolution that fed the world (beyondimitation.substack.com)

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The Mozart of Chess (2004) (chessbase.com)

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Mark Gatiss, the boy that Dr Who books made (thebeemagazine.com)

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There's something very interesting about boring: Martin Parr's life in pictures (theguardian.com)

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Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse (bbc.co.uk)

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Updates to Cursor Team and "Auto" Pricing (cursor.com)

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A journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, what are the boundaries? (theguardian.com)

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GPT-5 Review: Welcome to the Stone Age (latent.space)

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MP becomes first to create himself as an AI bot (bbc.co.uk)

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UK Civil service interns must be working class, government says (bbc.co.uk)

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Dine and dash mental health toll on restaurant staff (bbc.co.uk)

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Astronomer's 'clever' PR move embracing CEO scandal – featuring Gwyneth Paltrow (bbc.co.uk)

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Thank you for your interest in Astronomer [video] (youtube.com)

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Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit (techcrunch.com)

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The Early Development of Set Theory (2024) (stanford.edu)

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Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners' strike (theguardian.com)

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Mathematicians interact with AI, July 2025 update (columbia.edu)

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Cognition Windsurf acquisition behind the scenes (X) (twitter.com/jeffwsurf)

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Call Me the 21st-Century Ern Malley (How I Fooled the Poetry World) (jasperceylon.substack.com)

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XAI's Grok 4 has no meaningful safety guardrails (lesswrong.com)

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Long Overdue (substack.com)

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Polymarket Investigations Dropped by Justice Department, CFTC (decrypt.co)

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Grok July 8 incident analysis (X) (twitter.com/grok)

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Is there a secret formula for election-winning slogans? (bbc.co.uk)

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Profits of Doom: A Private Eye Special Report (private-eye.co.uk)

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Grok 4 (Thinking) achieves new SOTA on ARC-AGI-2 (X) (twitter.com/arcprize)

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UK launched operation to find suspected Russian double agent in MI6 (theguardian.com)

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Joey Swoll, gymcreeps and trolling: inside the TikTok workout wars (2023) (gq-magazine.co.uk)

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A decade of power posing: where do we stand? (2021) (bps.org.uk)

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Tell HN: Sam and Jony Announcement 404s

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WhaleSETI: Curious Humpback Whales Approach Humans and Blow Bubble "Smoke" Rings (seti.org)

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What did GothamChess say? Creator responds to drama over FIDE Head's viral tweet (sportskeeda.com)

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Marine Corps Cadences (dodreads.com)

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Saved Alan Turing papers sold at auction for £465k (bbc.co.uk)

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Cursor Ultra (cursor.com)

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Cursor Ultra – A new, higher tier plan, built alongside the model providers (cursor.com)

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MI6 appoints first female chief in 116-year history (bbc.co.uk)

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Anyone Can Cook (world.hey.com)

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Legal win for son tricked into moving to Africa by parents (bbc.co.uk)

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Rust compiler performance (kobzol.github.io)

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'Slumming in a vision of hell': Why Requiem for a Dream is divisive, 25 years on (bbc.com)

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Trump and Musk enter bitter feud – and Washington buckles up (bbc.co.uk)

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How Anthropic Teams use Claude Code [pdf] (anthropic.com)

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Musk calls Trump's tax bill a 'disgusting abomination' (bbc.co.uk)

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Ukraine claims massive drone strike on Russian bombers in 'Spiderweb' operation (nbcnews.com)

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Trump says 'Elon is not really leaving' as Musk's White House contract ends (bbc.co.uk)