Star Sky

“This world is nothing but the shadow of a cloud, the dream of a sleeper.”

[Arena.ai @arena]

News is reporting that the next version of GLM is upon us. Stay tuned for it to hit the Arena.

In the meantime, check out how GLM-5.2 (Max) landed in the Frontend Code Arena below (#2 overall, and #1 in open).

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Grocery prices are insane. They’re still rising. Addressing this problem should be the number one priority of every elected leader. End the stupid foreign wars and focus on this issue. It’s one of the main reasons socialists are gaining power.

[Star Sky @LeeXpress2]

@shaunrein China intentionally does this everyday but this move by the USA is due to emergency

[Star Sky @LeeXpress2]

@JoePompliano When playing football 🏈 is more important than scientific research 🧪

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

How a fake ass economy generates GDP.

[Bloomberg @business]

China has more to lose from a breakdown in trade relations with the EU than its rhetoric suggests, writes @julianaliu (via @opinion) https://t.co/n0pVhp46bf

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

Meet Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork.

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

this might be the single greatest promo video for AI

[Venice @AskVenice]

Chat with Qwen 3.8 Max

https://t.co/ZYluIXs3A3

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

Appreciate it! Now let's understand the world through the eyes of Qwen3.8. 🥳

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@HedgieMarkets I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning

[Cline @cline]

DeepSeek silently updated their changelog with a new V4-Flash upgrade 1 hour ago.

Their new Terminal-Bench score is 82.7, a massive +25.8 point leap from its initial April preview score of 56.9.

Currently only available via their API, open weights release will follow shortly.

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

Textbooks in Number Theory:
1) https://t.co/wL0rIZ695v
2) https://t.co/fIHYi5Z4Tu
3) https://t.co/XfMCFWsxPK
4) https://t.co/up9ZebCJPK
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#Mathematics #NumberTheory

[Chen Weihua （陈卫华） @chenweihua]

He should be fired now

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) in Mathematics — 13 volumes: https://t.co/phGsHKPOf9 — 🌟BRILLIANT🌟

Precalculus
Calculus
Number Theory
Prealgebra
Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
Geometry
Probability
Solutions Manuals
and more!

Read this and then get the books….

[Psyche Wizard @PsycheWizard]

It happens almost all the time.

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

"The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance" is a book by Josh Waitzkin, chess prodigy and martial artist. The book outlines his journey in mastering multiple disciplines and the principles he employed to achieve success.

Get the book at https://t.co/eHqhBF1UG3

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: China has begun mass producing domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet lithography machines, a technology crucial to advanced chipmaking, marking a key step forward in Beijing's drive to reduce its reliance on foreign technologies https://t.co/jFIWhQvLXE