NASA's tour-bus-sized Roman Space Telescope lifted off from Florida this morning. It will survey wide swaths of sky to probe dark energy and is expected to identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
Tencent open-sourced Hy4: 770B total parameters with 49B active, a 1M-token context window, and 1.56TB of weights on Hugging Face — a big jump from July's 295B Hy3. Willison walks through what the size increase does and doesn't buy.
With a key inflation gauge still running high, Fed chair Warsh used Jackson Hole to signal that rate hikes may be needed rather than the cuts markets wanted. AP rounds up what that means for the September meeting.
Dan Luu on why engineers and whole organizations stop seeing certain classes of bugs: once a failure mode is normalized, it becomes invisible, and the fix is changing what you measure and reward rather than exhorting people to look harder.