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Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for frontier AI labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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Disney confirms it hasn't started showing ads on ad-free Disney+ plans after report incorrectly said it had — but that hasn't stopped some angry fans from closing their accounts

* Disney has denied that ad-free tiers on Disney+ will start showing ads during movies and shows * Last weekend, reports emerged that ad breaks would become commonplace for all fans * Some users furiously closed their accounts over the incorrect claims Disney+ fans have been left angered — and then confused — after incorrect