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INSIDE USA via @NZZ @NZZTech The dark side of Arizona’s chip boom: He dreamed of a coveted tech job - instead he faced workplace bullying & severe safety violations. An American shares his experience at @TWSemicon the company spearheading America’s high-tech manufacturing revival

Sie zählt zu den umstrittensten Softwarefirmen, weil sie die amerikanische Regierung und die Migrationspolizei ICE unterstützt. Von @MarieALanger trib.al/AsK7xBG

Die KI-generierten Filme von Open AI sind besser als die der Konkurrenz – doch die Sicherheitsschranken der Firma taugen nicht. Von @MarieALanger trib.al/abmMdBh

After the fires in Los Angeles, residents are pushing for their homes to be rebuilt quickly. But toxic ash and fumes threaten even those who were spared from the flames, @MarieALanger reports. nzz.ch/english/recons…

In the heart of America's AI sector, developers are in DeepSeek shock. A visit to San Francisco´s "cerebral valley", the heart of the AI-boom: #deepseek nzz.ch/english/chinas…

INSIDE USA via @NZZ @NZZTech The dark side of Arizona’s chip boom: He dreamed of a coveted tech job - instead he faced workplace bullying & severe safety violations. An American shares his experience at @TWSemicon the company spearheading America’s high-tech manufacturing revival

Smart person texts me: “Joe Biden has just removed the issue of pardons from the political arena for the next four years and Trump probably once again can’t believe his own dumb fucking luck at this point” Sadly, I think he’s right.

.@JaneMayerNYer reports on a previously undisclosed whistle-blower report on Pete Hegseth’s tenure as the president of a veteran advocacy group, which indicates that Hegseth misused funds, harassed women, and was repeatedly intoxicated on the job. nyer.cm/6fFEl77

Best AI experience in a while: asked Claude to build a video-summarizing tool I've always wanted (convert video to mp3, use Whisper to transcribe, use Llama to summarize the transcript) and it did it immediately. 20 minutes, brain to working app. Didn't write a line of code.

Why not cut out the middlewoman and just name Putin as director of national intelligence?

What’s next for American institutions? For the electorate? The Democratic Party? Part 2 of my conversation today w/ @ezraklein & @davidfrum:

Elon Musk "has been seen at Mar-a-Lago nearly every single day since Donald Trump won, dining with him on the patio at times" and "weighing in on staffing decisions, making clear his preference for certain roles," @kaitlancollins reports

In 2019, Trump tried to blackmail Ukraine's Zelenskyy to produce dirt on the Biden family. Zelenskyy courageously refused. Trump was rightly impeached for this abuse of office. Trump's actions now are motivated by revenge for past defiance. There's no grand "strategy."

@davidfrum please don´t retire!!!

Eight years ago this night, my son asked me: "What do we do now?" I answered, "We walk to the bar, strike up the band, and sing The Marseillaise." These past few months, my plan for 2025 was to retire from political journalism. Seems I'll have to make new plans.

Many residents say one issue is dominating their concerns this year: the soaring cost of food, writes @MarieALanger. nzz.ch/english/in-nev…

Very interesting article about OpenAI's recent metamorphosis and new modus operandi, which prompted many co-founders, execs, and research-oriented folks to leave. Morphing a non-profit open research outfit into a secretive, product-focused for-profit company is bound to cause many people to bail out. wsj.com/tech/ai/open-a…

Die USA-Korrespondentin @MarieALanger erklärt, wie sich die beiden Kandidaten geschlagen haben und fasst die wichtigsten Momente der Debatte zusammen. trib.al/qkDHUBp

"Almost from the start, Harris was in control. She had better moments and worse ones, but she was human when Trump was feral." From @davidfrum theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich hugs his mother Ella Milman after he arrived back in the United States as U.S. President Joe Biden looks on on August 1, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. 📸: @andyharnik @GettyImagesNews

@jimcarltonsf you americans are always good for a bog ending haha #hollywood material

It doesn’t get any sweeter than this ❤️ Welcome home Evan!