💸 DeepSeek Refuses Venture Capital
The WSJ reports that DeepSeek's founder, Liang Wenfeng, is in no hurry to raise venture investments because he does not want to share control of the company.
Unofficial sources indicate that 84% of DeepSeek is owned by Liang Wenfeng himself. The remaining share is held by individuals associated with Wenfeng's hedge fund, High-Flyer.
🙅♂️ This kind of situation can happen; in one accelerator, we had a promising startup that consistently participated in all investment pitch sessions but refused to take any funding. They were doing well and did not want to dilute their shares; they simply wanted to grow, , maybe not that fast, but at their own pace.
After all, investor money is the most expensive money.
**Who left Paleozoic “dumbbells”?**
All over the world, scientists find **dumbbell-shaped fossils in rock outcrops** that **are called Bifungites** and a**re not fossilized animals but burrows left in an extinct creature’s wake**. ⬆️ Most are found in rocks from the more than 300 million years ago.
🪱 Not long ago, [Brazilian paleontologists](sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475924000029#bib4), exploring the bed of the Sambito River in northeastern Brazil, found imprints of **small worms** inside Bifungites, indicating that these organisms **produced them**.⬆️
Researchers suggest that:
📌 the that made Bifungites belonged to a group called __Annulitubus__
📌 species in the group lived in the shallow part of the ocean near the shores of prehistoric supercontinents and dug burrows into the seabed.
📌 the Annulitubus worms made these burrows to protect themselves against savage storms or probing predators
📌 the worms potentially wedged themselves into the peculiar bulging or arrow-like ends of the chamber.
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🐵 OpenAI is trying to reduce censorship in ChatGPT
The company has updated the set of rules it follows when training language models. OpenAI's new guiding principle is: do not lie, do not make false statements, do not omit important context. The essence is that ChatGPT, when answering questions, should take a neutral position even in cases where this may offend someone.
OpenAI denies that the changes are related to a desire to gain favor with Trump and states that they have changed their approach due to a "long-standing belief in giving users more control."
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Trump Initiates The American Sovereign Wealth Fund While Signing A Barrage Of Executive Orders!
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[APOD: 2025 February 2 – Comet G3 ATLAS Disintegrates](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250202.html)
[apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2502/AtlasDisintegrating_Majzik_1080.jpg ](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250202.html)APOD: 2025 February 2 – Comet G3 ATLAS Disintegrates What's happening to Comet G3 ATLAS?
After [passing near the Sun](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250120.html) in mid-January,
the head of the comet has become dimmer and dimmer.
By late January, Comet [C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_G3_(ATLAS))
had become a [headless wonder](newsweek.com/comet-atlas-disintegrating-brightest-solar-system-sun-2017615) -- even though it continued to show [impressive](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250124.html) [tails](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250126.html) after sunset in the skies of [Earth](earthobservatory.nasa.gov/)'s [Southern Hemisphere](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Hemisphere).
Pictured are images of Comet G3 ATLAS on successive January nights taken from [Río Hurtado](youtu.be/a5jUyVPIDAk), [Chile](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile).
Clearly, the comet's head is brighter and more [centrally condensed](reddit.com/media?url=https://i.redd.it/jvtxke42851c1.jpg) on the earlier days (left) than on later days (right).
A key reason is likely that the [comet's nucleus of ice and rock](science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets), at the [head](spaceplace.nasa.gov/comets/en/anatomy-of-a-comet.en.jpg)'s center, has [fragmented](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230903.html).
Comet G3 ATLAS passed [well inside](theskylive.com/c2024g3-info) the orbit of [planet Mercury](science.nasa.gov/mercury)
when at its solar closest, a distance that where heat [destroys](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010521.html) [many](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000808.html) [comets](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000913.html).
Some of comet G3 ATLAS' [scattering remains](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230903.html)
will continue to [orbit the Sun](apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240811.html).