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Thoughts on this? I hate LLM but I think this article does a disservice by depicting the victims as perfectly normal before their mental health collapsed. They must have had some kind of preexisting problems that got exacerbated by their use of ChatGPT.

The point about these chatbots being sycophantic is extremely true though. I am not sure whether they are designed to be this way--whether it is because it sells more or if LLMs are too stupid to be argumentative. I have felt its effects personally when using Deepseek. I have noticed that often in its reasoning section it will say something like "the user is very astute" and it feels good to read that as someone who is socially isolated and is never complimented because of that.

I guess the lesson here is to use these chatbots as tools rather than friends because they are not capable of being the latter. I have tried a few times having discussions about politics with Deepseek but it is a terrible experience because of the aforementioned predisposition to being sycophantic. It always devolves into being a yes man.

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Chip restrictions lead to economic cost for U.S. companies while pushing China to scale up domestic technology (foreignpolicy.com)

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China’s First 3v3 Robot Soccer AI Match Kicks Off in Beijing (chinaminutes.com)

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China-led study proposes global green-energy network to solve power crisis (www.scmp.com)

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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup (www.middleeasteye.net)

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Protesters blockade Palantir’s offices calling for an end to ‘totalitarian police surveillance’ as tech company aids ICE deportations (www.yahoo.com)

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China debuts new generation of self-developed, fully controllable server processor chips (www.globaltimes.cn)

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SemiDrive to supply cockpit chips in European EVs as Chinese firms go global (www.scmp.com)

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Open source model that does photoshop-grade edits without affecting the rest of the pic: OmniGen 2 (vectorspacelab.github.io)

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https://github.com/VectorSpaceLab/OmniGen2

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Scientists Develop Continuous Fiber Materials Using High-titanium Lunar Soil Simulant (english.cas.cn)

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China hails new helicopter engine as a milestone for its aviation ambitions (www.scmp.com)

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China offers an alternative to Western ‘technofeudalism’ (www.scmp.com)

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Huawei and ByteDance plan major investments in tech sectors in Brazil (www.scmp.com)

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Bezos' Venice wedding party venue moved following protests – DW – 06/25/2025 (www.dw.com)

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Jan-nano-128k: A 4B Model with a Super-Long Context Window (huggingface.co)

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Jan-nano-128k is model fine-tuned to improve performance when enable YaRN scaling (instead of having degraded performance). This model will require YaRN Scaling supported from inference engine.