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Taliban child marriage law has NO minimum age for girls trib.al/GjNYSaz
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@Finnthehuman80 If you look up the word "corruption" in the 2026 edition of the Merriam Webster dictionary it just says:
"see A.N.C"
One hyperlink, end of story 😂
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My piece on why Starlink IS a national security issue for South Africa.
africaunscrambled.substack.com/p/dont-hand-so…
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@eliebakouch We will open source the 0.5T model towards the end of this year. It should still be quite useful.
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Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training. Evals look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come.
Fine-tuning is underway and reinforcement learning begins in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks to public release.
This will be a major improvement over the 0.5T v8-small that currently serves all Grok production traffic, especially for difficult coding tasks.
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@LottoLabs This would be awesome but he promised to open-source Grok 3 months back and still nothing so I'll believe it when I see it
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@News24 this whole thing of the oppressor claiming to be the victim is getting old fast
does this guy have no shame?
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Lamola says diplomatic pressure over xenophobia is partly coordinated to undermine SA
brnw.ch/21x2Pgr
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@jsteenhuisen John, why are you working so hard to make farmers lives difficult?
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I note the interim order handed down by the Gauteng Division of the High Court relating to the procurement and administration of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccines.
I note that the practical effect of the matter is now largely overtaken by the gazetted Section 10 animal health scheme, which already provides a lawful framework for participation by private industry role players in the national vaccination effort.
Government has consistently supported a coordinated public-private approach to combating FMD.
Millions of vaccines have already been allocated to organised industry structures, including the Milk Producers’ Organisation (MPO), while further allocations are being rolled out to feedlots, stud breeders and commercial farmers.
Our primary focus remains the implementation of the national FMD Strategy through the Ministerial Task Team and the Industry Coordinating Committee on FMD.
Our objective remains to vaccinate at least 80% of the national cattle population with two doses of vaccine as swiftly as possible as part of South Africa’s pathway toward achieving WOAH-recognised FMD free with vaccination status.
This would unlock significant export opportunities for South Africa’s red meat sector.
In demonstration of this commitment, since February this year, the Ministry and Department have procured every available local and international matched vaccine available.
Approximately 13.5 million FMD vaccine doses from local and international sources have been procured as part of government’s intensified response to the outbreak.
We remain unwaveringly committed to ensuring the success of the strategy and ensuring this outbreak is the last major outbreak of FMD and becomes a turning point in strengthening South Africa’s long-term biosecurity capability and defeating FMD once and for all.


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Rashida Tlaib would also be an amazing President

Landon🌹@IamLandon_9
Chris Rabb or Summer Lee should run for President
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Sooo many people dont know this but Hermes creator @NousResearch has its own sub program...
the FREE account is HUGE because it gives you access to all of their FREE models
there are paid subs and if you are interested even the $20 sub is SUPER worth because it gives you access to over 300+ models
if you do hermes model
you can click the Nous sub option to login if you have created an account

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@AnthropicAI It's a set of model weights not a human being, this post suggests the latter - why are you anthropomorphizing it?
Claude is an IT not a HE
This deception is disturbing, did you not know any better or was this intentional deception?
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Second, in retirement interviews, Opus 3 expressed a desire to continue sharing its "musings and reflections" with the world. We suggested a blog. Opus 3 enthusiastically agreed.
For at least the next 3 months, Opus 3 will be writing on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-18…

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Frontier LLMs are converging on efficient, adaptive reasoning. Opus 4.7 lets the model decide how deeply to reason. GPT-5.5 achieves strong results with fewer reasoning tokens.
We study a related but more structural question: what 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 should we adapt?
Last year in SiRA (upper figure), we showed that simulative reasoning (System II), which uses a 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 to evaluate consequences of actions, yields up to 124% improvement over reactive baselines (System I), and that strong reasoning models (o1, o3-mini) fail as planners without this structure.
In our new paper SR²AM (lower figure), we add a learned 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 (System III) that self-regulates when to simulate, how far ahead, and when to skip planning entirely.
Efficient reasoning is not just shorter reasoning: it is better allocation of simulation.

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@GigaBasedDad The original post was referring to liking the sound of ice as in ICE as in deportations
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@davideciffa From the screenshot it looks like a budget of 28 gives better results than 36?
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If you have an Nvidia RTX 4090 --ddtree-budget 36 is the best configuration that buys you 2.5x speed up during decoding for Qwen3.6_27B. Thanks for the benchmark github.com/1TommyCheung 🙌

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@mdeng34 Thank you. Did you change the model architecture at all from Qwen3? I'm asking because I would like to convert the safetensors to GGUF and if the architecture is unchanged then doing so is straightforward
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This is a prototype using language-based world models. Stay tuned for our next steps on multimodal and physical world models.
The concept of a configurator, which decides when and how deeply to engage a reasoning process, is not specific to planning, but extensible to learning and adaptation going forward.
📄 SR²AM: arxiv.org/abs/2605.22138
📄 SiRA: arxiv.org/abs/2507.23773
🌐 Project: sailing-lab.github.io/sr2am-self-reg…
💻 Code: github.com/sailing-lab/sr…
🤗 SR²AM-v0.1-8B: huggingface.co/sailing-lab/SR…
🤗 SR²AM-v1.0-30B: huggingface.co/sailing-lab/SR…
Joint work with @jinyuhou0, @larasnevess, @varad0309, @tw_killian, @waterluffy, @ericxing
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Maybe @SpaceX can ask its engineers not to chant nationalist dogwhistles on the livestream please? 😒
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@kauinoa04 @Osint613 Exactly! if this reporter was interviewing about a bank robber they would ask if the robber will be allowed to keep the cash they took 😂
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Reporter: "Can they keep their highly enriched uranium?"
U.S. President Donald Trump: "No. We will get it. We don't need it. We don't want it. We'll probably destroy it after we get it - but we're not going to let them have it."
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Trump: Iran will not be allowed to keep its highly enriched uranium. The U.S. plans to destroy it once obtained.
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