‘Like Distant Thunder Over the Plains.’ In Which AI Rewrites My Kaleidoscope Review in the Voice of Steinbeck

Why Did This First-Time Conference Feel Like Déjà Vu All Over Again? My Thoughts on 8am’s Kaleidoscope Attending the inaugural Kaleidoscope conference in Austin this week, I couldn’t shake a strange feeling: I’d been here before. That was impossible, of course, as this was 8am’s very first customer conference. But the energy, the setup, the…

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Meta Just Escalated the AI Talent War With OpenAI

Meta has just degenerated the AI talent war with Openai. Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of Chatgpt and former principal scientist in Openai, joined Meta as chief scientist of her superintendent laboratories. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the appointment of Zhao on Friday in an article on social networks and described it as “pioneer” on the field which…

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The dry Philippines target the main exchanges of crypto in regulatory repression

The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed ten major cryptocurrency exchanges for exploitation without appropriate licenses, marking the most important law measures in the country since the blocking of Binance last year. The regulator published a public opinion August 1, 2025, targeting platforms OkxBybit, Kucoin and Kraken for breaking new rules that took effect…

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