Ir.lv: From one microphone to Europe: LNSO’s 100-year story The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra is marking its centenary. Its predecessor, the Riga Radiophone Orchestra, began daily broadcasts on September 5, 1926 with just 14 musicians, exactly as many as its single microphone could pick up. The piece also traces the station’s own origins: parliament allocated 140,000 lats for […]
links: 04.08.2026
SBS News: ‘Unfounded and premature’: Why experts say parents shouldn’t panic about screen time A new international study following more than 3,000 children since 2009 found no link between screen-time duration and developmental difficulties at age five or ten. Australian experts note that worries about an “iPad baby” generation may be both unfounded and premature — the study […]
links: 30.07.2026
TechCrunch: Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag TechCrunch reports that Microsoft booked a $3.2 billion gain on its Anthropic investments for the quarter, while writing down its OpenAI stake by about $600 million over the same period. A single quarter of Anthropic gains nearly matched a full year of OpenAI gains, which […]
links: 29.07.2026
Axios: Anthropic’s lonely island Axios writes that Anthropic, guided by its company values and principles, has become something of a rare bird. It was the only major AI lab not to sign the Nvidia-led letter against restricting open-weight models, the Pentagon blacklisted it in February, and this summer export controls forced its newest models offline for almost three […]