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Techmeme surfaced this July 4, 2026 item in its Mechanical Turk maintenance cluster, linking to Simon Sharwood’s July 3 Register article, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers - and not even AI can save it. The story tracks AWS placing Mechanical Turk into maintenance and closing it to new customers on July 30, 2026, a small product notice with unusually long historical reach.

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Engineering at Meta’s official engineering blog published Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale, a July 1, 2026 post by Sidharth Bajaj and Venkatraghavan Srinivasan about how Meta changed its BLOB-storage stack for AI training workloads.

The post is interesting because it treats AI storage as part of the training system rather than as a passive backing store. At frontier-training scale, the expensive resource is not storage media; it is stalled GPU time. A storage path that was good enough for consumer products and data lakes can become too slow once hundreds of thousands of GPUs synchronize in lockstep and wait on the slowest dataloader. Meta’s central engineering move is to redesign BLOB storage around bounded tail latency, local data availability, and research iteration speed.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 4, 2026 item in its top-news cluster on ByteDance’s Seedance video generator, linking to Nilesh Christopher’s Los Angeles Times story, China-backed AI tool behind fake Brad Pitt fight making Hollywood inroads. The piece is dated July 3, 2026, and it reports that ByteDance is pushing Seedance into Hollywood through pricing, filmmaker outreach, model quality, and production-oriented controls such as timeline-based prompting.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 By Invitation article by Judith Dada, listed in the contents as Judith Dada on the stakes for Europe in AI and published under the headline How Europe must respond to America's AI warning shot.

The essay argues that Donald Trump’s order forcing Anthropic to block non-Americans from its newest frontier models should jolt Europe out of complacency. For the first time, a government had compelled the withdrawal of publicly released advanced AI from foreign users. Whether the ban lasts is less important than what it revealed: Europe depends on American firms, American infrastructure and American political tolerance for access to the most powerful AI systems.

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Autopsy released of Mississippi baby killed by police (r/news)

• MaidoftheBrins: Why is it taking so long for any video to be released? Walmart, dashcam and body cam all need to be given to Crump and the ME.
• mustardmeated: The cop’s gonna get off on qualified immunity, without a doubt.
• PorQuepin3: The US is a third world country

More people than thought may be at risk for red meat allergy caused by ticks (r/news)

• whowhodillybar: It’s crazy to think of how life changing it would be to just become allergic to meat and potentially dairy.
• dskot: My MAGA neighbor just put a sign out front of his house about how Billy Gates is behind this one and they want us all to eat lab meat. Wonderful.
• FireRotor: I met a guy in French lick Indiana, who would smoke meat for veterans and I asked him what he smoked and he said just chicken because everyone has the damn allergy.

Vatican excommunicates all members of ultra-conservative rebel group SSPX (r/news)

• CoalCrackerKid: Chicago Pope doesn’t play around
• rhino910: This was a good move by the Pope. A radical right-wing group in the Church that refuses to acknowledge the Pope or the Church’s teachings is bad for the church
• GearhedMG: SSPX Excommunicado 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time.

‘Moscow will fall’ — 13 Russian power stations shut down across occupied Ukraine, military says (r/worldnews)

• Scribble_Box: What an absolute, colossal fuck up this has been for Putin. You love to see it. Slava Ukraini!
• BKinBC: SOMEBODY has to be thinking, ‘maybe I can get him near the window…’
• MustardEnema007: Have they hit the distilleries?

What’s a movie that was clearly meant to start a franchise but failed? (r/AskReddit)

• wish1977: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• MidnightPrevious4473: Eragon
• Tels315: Jumper

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Google L7 to Anthropic T6 (Blind)

• 6️⃣7️⃣: You can say no
• scHR67 (Uber): they starting to low ball now hahah
• BLaA58 (Google): Lol no

OpenAI Proposes 5% US Gov Stake: A New Precedent for Tech Regulation? (Blind)

• iqbdh (Meta): Scam Altman
• dfgjbvv (Meta): Corrupt mfers
• 46cahdY (DoorDash): Bribe.

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI (r/technology)

• Sufficient-Skill9530: Says the guy that always talks about the antichrist and looks like a demon.
• Tessa7: Another person that ran out of people to tell him ’no’ a long time ago and now thinks he has some sort of special insights
• Silicon_Knight: I never thought anyone could make Elon Musk look sane.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!” (r/technology)

• ottwebdev: Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers from saying what he really thinks during live interview…..
• williamgman: Is ketamine the new CEO breakfast of champions?
• jobrien80: Congratulations to Drugs. Clear winner of the war on drugs.

Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them (r/technology)

• BoppinMonkey: Welcome to Little Tikes Democracy. You may be holding a wheel, but Big Brother is pushing you wherever he wants.
• Hi_Im_Dadbot: Someone should call the police about that.
• sad_cosmic_joke: It’s almost as if “fighting crime” isn’t the actual purpose of these systems??

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Techmeme surfaced this July 3, 2026 story in its top-news cluster on Alibaba banning Claude Code, and the concrete original URL is The Information’s briefing, Alibaba Bans Employees From Using Claude. The Information reports that Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code and told them to remove Claude models from work machines, citing internal security concerns about recently discovered hidden code that could identify Chinese users.

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Egg producers will pay \$3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price fixing claims (r/news)

• Imnotsureanymore8: Fines are worthless. These folks should see jail time.
• thirtytwoutside: And the average consumer who paid the higher prices will see none of that.
• aschesklave: The people who shouted “the price of eggs is Biden’s fault” must feel really dumb right now.

U.S. beats Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to round of 16 and keep its World Cup dreams alive (r/news)

• DieHardNole: Okay Seattle we need your stadium to do your thing Monday
• halfredowl: does this effect lebron james legacy?
• Adventurous-Fact-523: USA, Canada, and Mexico are still alive. USA are gonna be slight favorites vs belgium

Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico (r/worldnews)

• noidontwantto: A trade deal that he negotiated himself, fucking guy
• CountOnBeingAwesome: The fart of the deal
• Rsantana02: Canada and Mexico are leaving the US behind and looking for other trade partners and allies. It is a loss to the US.

What was the shortest lived fad? (r/AskReddit)

• willieyobslayer: Backwards pants a-la Kriss Kross.
• silently_fluid: 3D TV
• SpeedBlitzX: NFTs

People who are highly observant: what is a tiny, almost invisible psychological ’tell’ that instantly reveals someone’s true intentions or character? [Serious] (r/AskReddit)

• tretschinken: How they treat people they don’t need anything from. It’s surprisingly hard to fake consistently.
• dinkinflicka02: The assumptions they make about other people’s intentions tells you more about a person than almost anything else.
• GordonGartrellShirt: doing something good when they think no one is watching

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Microsoft Layoffs are Only just getting started (Blind)

• ❓Vain❓ (Microsoft): Bunch of word salad
• dNrMySDE (Microsoft): Cool story
• nbfigure (Meta): Ok Rajesh.

How much of your AI code do you actually understand? (Blind)

• texF34 (Meta): Needs “nothing” option
• vVoT00 (Amazon): none of it sometimes
• Dumped (Robinhood): Every character

Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI” (r/technology)

• Winter_Particular904: Yankovic is a national treasure
• Quenz: He’s a good dude. He’s turned down advertising for alcohol because it would put him at odds with his demographic.
• the_astro_cat: We need more Al, and less AI

New California study finds highly educated workers most harmed by AI (r/technology)

• Entrefut: They don’t see highly skilled workers as as asset, they see them as an expense. They want to remove the concept of skilled labor from their business models.
• drkstar1982: For now, if the rich have their way, AI will come for all jobs.
• --Edit_Deleted--: Well yeah, ai ain’t flipping burgers or kicking tyres now.

‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution. (r/technology)

• Haunterblademoi: And as long as data centers continue to be built, that will increase.
• MisterSanitation: Whoa the paid supporters got in here FAST
• supercali45: These Datacenters are going to be raided for parts soon

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Techmeme surfaced this July 2, 2026 story in its top-news cluster on OpenAI’s possible government stake proposal, and the concrete original URL is the Financial Times report, OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake. The report says OpenAI has discussed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company as a way to clear political obstacles, share some AI upside with the public, and align itself more closely with an administration that is increasingly willing to intervene in frontier AI.