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Towering tornadoes of plasma the size of planets dance over the Sun's surface in this timelapse from the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

Credit: NASA GSFC/SDO

"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."

tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.

engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-y

Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study
science.org/content/article/ra
Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted

Full paper here sciencedirect.com/science/arti (paywalled)

@citc It might have been a clash of personality types playing a greater role than just pecuniary interests that brought the relationship to an end.

🇺🇸 **Is It Really The End Of The Bromance?**

Just arrived home after spending the day away from the news. It seems that the bromance that was the Trump-Musk relationship has ruptured. Who could have envisaged this outcome at the start when all those hundreds of millions of dollars were first donated by Musk to Trump's MAGA presidential campaign?

🇺🇸 "Rejected" or ejected?

Gift Articles  
Revealed: Elon Musk wanted to stay in White House but was rejected https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/93ea18ab2ba8f028

🇬🇧 **Five outstanding manuscripts acquired for the nation**

“_Together, these manuscripts shed exceptional light on the study of Hebrew by Christian monks in medieval England, on the administration of a medieval English town, and on spiritual devotion in medieval England and Ireland._”

🔗 blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscrip.

@medievodons @histodons

**Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say**

"_Researchers estimate glaciers will eventually lose 39% of their mass relative to 2020, a trend that is already irreversible no matter what comes next and will likely contribute a 113-millimeter increase to global sea level rise._"

🔗 edition.cnn.com/2025/06/02/cli.

@climatechange @science

**Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts**

“_We found that learning constrained to the language domain captures human-level conceptual representation in non-sensorimotor dimensions such as valence and emotional arousal but yields impoverished representation of sensorimotor knowledge._”

Xu, Q., Peng, Y., Nastase, S.A. et al. Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts. Nat Hum Behav (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-022.

@ai @psychology

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