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Love the @Arsenal | Brave new era

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇷🇺 Putin says the phrase a courageous Dagestani cop gave in defiance to ISIS before being shot

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

Antonee Robinson could not have hit this any better 🤯

(Via @USMNT)

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

Rodri and #ManCity "are not so far from reaching an agreement” over a new contract, although the midfielder is taking his time before making a final decision. @ManCity has put a ‘weighty proposal’ on the table to convince him.

[@MatteMoretto via @RadioMARCA]

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

England players WILL be allowed to complete transfers during the FIFA World Cup, says Thomas Tuchel.

Tuchel: "If anyone has chance to complete a transfer, we’ll not stand in the way, but it has to align with our schedule and goals which is to be focused and prepare for matches. The last day before the match and the second last day, not.

“Until now, no player approached me. The doctor is ready to take any medical if needed! We’re always happy to help have clarity around the player…” [via @CraigHope_DM]

[Hater Central @TheHateCentral]

Anthony Gordon vs the Ball

Roadrunner. 💎

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

When I spoke out against the Gaza genocide, a bunch of midwit VCs ganged up on me both in public and tried to hurt me in private too.

Many of those who stood by me were also VCs. Just the better ones. Both morally, and in return profile.

The best way to avoid sociopaths is to have them self select out of your life by standing for your beliefs.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.

No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.

It is weird.

[Actu Ligue 1 @ActuL1_]

🚨🚨 CLASH ENTRE LES BLEUS ET LA FFF SUR LES PARIS SPORTIFS ! ⚡️🇫🇷

Furieux contre la FFF, Kylian Mbappé et Rayan Cherki contestent leur apparition dans une pub Betclic (avec Désiré Doué, Michael Olise et Ousmane Dembélé).

Les joueurs refusent de promouvoir les paris sportifs et accusent la fédération de les avoir piégés.

Le groupe promet de régler ses comptes juste après le Mondial. 😳

(@lequipe)

[Mateo S @MateoS26_]

Esta cláusula la creo Gigio Donnarumma, cuando hizo fichar y renovar al Milan a su hermano Antonio que no tapaba ni en Serie C.

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

Google has published a paper that might end the transformer era.

For the last 7 years, every major AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, has been built on the exact same architecture: The Transformer.

But Transformers have a fatal flaw.

To remember context, they have to process every single word against every other word. It’s called quadratic complexity. As your prompt gets longer, the compute cost explodes.

The alternative is the old-school RNN (Recurrent Neural Network). RNNs are incredibly cheap and fast, but they have a fixed memory size. If you give them a long document, they get amnesia.

Until today.

Google researchers published Memory Caching: RNNs with Growing Memory.

And it fixes the biggest bottleneck in AI.

Instead of an RNN having a fixed, rigid memory that constantly overwrites itself, Google gave it a "save" button.

The technique allows the RNN to cache checkpoints of its hidden states as it reads.

The memory capacity of the RNN can now dynamically grow as the sequence gets longer.

They built four different variants, including sparse selective mechanisms where the AI actively chooses exactly which checkpoints matter most.

The results rewrite the rules of efficiency.

On long-context understanding and recall-intensive tasks, these new Memory-Cached RNNs closed the gap with Transformers.

They achieved competitive accuracy without the explosive, quadratic compute cost. It perfectly bridges the gap between the cheap efficiency of an RNN and the massive capability of a Transformer.

We have spent billions scaling Transformers because we thought they were the only way an AI could remember a long conversation.

But Google just proved we don't need to process the whole history every single time.

We just needed a smarter cache.

[jack @actionjack69]

this is what made it possible btw

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

A software engineer was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work. Legal experts say others may follow now that the Pope has raised concerns about the tech's impact on humanity. https://t.co/Cn2BvGc4xc

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Arsenal are trying to beat Tottenham to the signing of William Saliba, having agreed a deal worth £27m including add-ons, while Spurs offered the same amount but were willing to pay more of the fee up-front, but Arsenal have since returned to match their offer. [@pbsportswriter]

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Arsenal are set to win the race to sign centre-back William Saliba after the 18-year-old opted for Arsenal over Tottenham, with the deal close to completion. He will be loaned back to Saint-Etienne next season. [@bbcsport_david] #afc

[Eduardo Hagn @EduardoHagn]

At first, it was Tottenham who were going to disrupt @Arsenal’s pursuit for William Saliba. They vanished from the picture. Now, Wolves and Roma have entered the race, and will probably be vanished as well. One thing is clear here, William Saliba wants to be a Gunner. ⏰ to do it

[Guardian sport @guardian_sport]

William Saliba decides to join Arsenal instead of rivals Tottenham. By @FabrizioRomano https://t.co/zM5WclILee

[Oliver Kay @OliverKay]

Imagine how much patience Conte would have shown if he'd been as restricted as Arteta was during his first 3 windows at Arsenal: mediocre squad and with Mari, Cedric, Gabriel, Ceballos (loan), Partey, Willian, Odegaard (loan) Ryan (loan) his only signings https://t.co/bbQVYJtU4d

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Dharmesh Sheth (Sky reporter) on Saliba: “We’re told both clubs [Arsenal & Tottenham] are close to agreeing a deal. We think it could then be left to the player to decide if both clubs agree that deal, where he goes.” #afc

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Tottenham are trying to hijack Arsenal’s deal to sign Saint-Etienne centre-back William Saliba by offering a marginally better deal. Spurs have offered the same amount as Arsenal - €30m - but with better add-ons. [@FabrizioRomano] #afc

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Saint-Etienne are trying to get ‘a few more million’ in the bidding war between Arsenal & Tottenham to sell centre-back William Saliba, but the player prefers a move to Arsenal. [@ManuLonjon] #afc