models, mines, and measures

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

My name lives in millstones, my son’s in a river.

1. The U.S. homeownership rate is 65% — or maybe 51%
2. Kimi K3: China’s open-weights 2.8 trillion parameter model drops July 27
3. Anthropic is hollowing out CS departments — ‘I’m joining Anthropic’ is the new meme
4. 2-billion-year-old water, 3km underground — a researcher tasted it
5. AI companies bulk-buying physical books to escape AI-contaminated training data
6. Chinese tech giants recruiting 13-year-olds for AI pipelines