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Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter agentic coding model with open weights, small enough to run locally. Zuckerberg is pitching it as the open-weight answer to closed coding APIs.
Banks financing US data center construction are tightening diligence as local opposition to new sites grows, adding permitting and siting risk to deals that were underwritten as straightforward infrastructure.
Submission volume is rising while the pool of volunteer reviewers is not, and AI-assisted papers are widening the gap. The piece walks through how the unpaid review economy is buckling and what journals are trying instead.
A reflection on a local church burying its own — what it looks like to keep company with people through death, and why a congregation that does this well is doing something no institution can substitute for.