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Samsung’s memory chip employees negotiated $340,000 bonuses this year

48,000 Samsung workers had threatened to strike unless bonus caps were lifted. | Photo: Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses of $340,000. The proposed 18-day strike had hinged on Samsung's bonus cap for employees in the semiconductor division and followed a substantial rise in the possible bonuses available to employees of SK Hynix, another South Korean chipmaker enjoying a boom thanks to demand f...

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NuExtract3 released: open-weight 4B VLM for Markdown, OCR and structured extraction (self-hostable) [P]

Disclaimer: I work for Numind, the company behind this open-weight model We just released a 4B model based on Qwen3.5-4B, under Apache-2.0 license. The goal is to make information extraction from complex documents more practical with an open model: PDFs, screenshots, forms, tables, receipts, invoices, multi-page documents, and other visually structured inputs. Try it, we have a huggingface space that is completely free (you don't even have to sign-up): [https://huggingface.co/spaces/numind/NuExtract3](https://huggingface.co/spaces/numind/NuExtract3) If you ever used [NuMarkdown](https://hu...

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Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting

During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singularity is the theoretical future moment when AI rapidly exceeds human intelligence and dramatically transforms the world. But what struck me as I listened in the…

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We survived nukes... barely

Vague Reddit post with unclear subject; insufficient content for substantive analysis.

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Anthropic, Microsoft in talks for AI chip deal after $5 billion investment

The Information reported Anthropic is exploring use of Microsoft's second-generation Maia AI server chips as a way to expand compute capacity for Claude beyond its existing AWS and Google Cloud footprint. The talks are early and may not lead to a deal; Maia 200 was announced in January but has yet to ship on Azure. A deal would mark a notable diversification away from Nvidia in the AI infrastructure race.

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2024 vs 2026

Reddit discussion comparing OpenAI's capabilities or trajectory between 2024 and 2026; lacks substantive content or credible source.

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FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group were caught trying to sell advertisers packages based on "active listening", with this deck which claimed: Smart devices capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers I wrote about this in September 2024 . My theory: I think active listening is the term that the team came up with for “something...

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Novel Problems in VLA [R]

Reddit discussion: researcher seeking novel VLA directions after discovering concurrent work on equivariant approaches.

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