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Hulu's 'Handmaid's Tale' spinoff 'The Testaments' is about girlhood in Gilead

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Election 2026 Live Results

See live results from the 2026 Wisconsin State Supreme Court election as votes are counted.

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Former Migos rapper Offset is stable after being shot outside a Florida casino, spokesperson says

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Wireless Festival canceled after UK bars rapper Ye over antisemitic remarks

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Gov. DeSantis signs measure shifting Naples Airport Authority control to voters

All 5 seats will appear on the ballot beginning with the 2026 General Election.

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Apr 7 • 11:07 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Former Migos rapper Offset is stable after being shot outside a Florida casino, spokesperson says

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UK government blocks rapper Ye from entering Britain to headline festival

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Georgia congressional election pits Fuller against Harris

The winner would need to run again in separate primaries and a general election later this year to keep the seat

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Ye offers to meet Jewish community as his right to enter UK for festival is put under review

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Ye offers to meet Jewish community as his right to enter UK for festival is put under review

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Q&A: ‘If you are in the business of peace, you must talk to those who are at war’

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on why he believes direct engagement is the only path to peace – and why he wants to lead the UN

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MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science

Source: NBER With all the other terrible news right now, you may not have noticed that Donald Trump is in the process of killing American science. OK, that’s an exaggeration — but not that much of an exaggeration. The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal calls for a gigantic increase in military spending combined with severe cuts to social programs. But as the chart above shows, it also calls for debilitating reductions in research funding. Furthermore, Trump appointees have already been strangling science by sharply reducing the rate at which research grants are approved. Here, for example, is the number of new grants approved by the National Science Foundation: Source: Nature Large numbers of existing grants have also been frozen or terminated, especially in the study of infectious diseases. Add to this a sharp drop in visas issued to foreign students, who often play a direct role in research and who help support academic departments that do research: Put all of this together, and much U.S. scientific research is set to come to a screeching halt — not a few years from now, but over the course of the next year or two. This new assault on U.S. science is taking place at a time when the role of American science in the world has already been greatly eroded. The chart below, based on research recently reported by the National Bureau of Economic Research, measures national strength in science by the share of publications in highly ranked journals. In the 1990s the United States had more such publications than the rest of the world combined. Since then we’ve dropped into third place — well behind China and slightly below the European Union. And this was before the Trump administration’s attack on science had time to take its full effect. Source Some erosion in U.S. scientific preeminence was inevitable given China’s growing sophistication and wealth. But we’ve also fallen behind Europe, even though everyone says that Europe is lagging economically and technologically. Claims about Europe’s underperformance are, in fact, dubious if one looks hard at the data. But it’s still striking to see America lagging. What’s going on? There are presumably multiple factors behind America’s scientific lag. But even before Trump II the growing hostility of the U.S. right to science surely had some negative effect. And since the rise of MAGA G.O.P. attitudes toward science in general have become overwhelmingly hostile. This is true even for the Republican rank and file: And while I haven’t been able to find good survey data, it’s obvious that the anti-science turn has been even more pronounced — and began earlier — among the Republican political elite. Chris Mooney published The Republican War on Science in 2005, and even then was describing a longstanding trend. Why have Republicans turned so anti-science? Part of the answer is that they believe that scientists don’t support them. And they’re right! A study of who scientists give money to shows that only a small percentage gave money to Republicans even 20 years ago, and that almost none of them donate to Republicans now: Social scientists have always been strongly pro-Democratic, while there used to be a significant number of physical, “hard” scientists supporting the GOP. But these days physicists are almost as uniformly Democratic, or at least non-Republican, as sociologists. Why are there almost no Republican scientists? It’s not a mystery. GOP political orthodoxy includes positions that are at odds with the scientific consensus on multiple issues, ranging from the validity of the theory of evolution, to the reality of climate change, to the efficacy and safety of vaccines. In each case the scientific consensus is solidly grounded in evidence. But even before the rise of MAGA the U.S. right was increasingly hostile to evidence-based policymaking — especially, of course, where the evidence is unfavorable to fossil fuel interests or quack medicine, both financial mainstays of right-wing politics. So scientists don’t support Republicans, and the feeling is mutual. Today’s Republican Party doesn’t like science or scientists. It doesn’t like having its preconceived views challenged by appeals to evidence. It knows that very few scientists are on its side electorally. In general, it sees scientific research as a threat to its grasp on political power. Add in MAGA’s combination of rabid anti-intellectualism and allergy to any hint of criticism, and one has the makings of a drastic anti-science turn in policy. “Ignorance is strength” might was well be an official MAGA motto. And as I said, we aren’t talking about something that will happen over the course of multiple years: The U.S. scientific enterprise is threatened with severe damage, even collapse, over just the next year. There are many reasons to find this prospect horrifying: Think of all the beneficial advances, affecting almost every part of life, that won’t happen because U.S. science — still crucial to the world — has been eviscerated. But think, also, of America’s international standing. Can a nation that has forfeited its role as a leader, or even a contender, in global science, still be a Great Power? No. MUSICAL CODA

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Apr 7 • 6:31 AM EDT • Science • paulkrugman.substack.com
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The science, and luck, behind the early health advantage fueling the Yankees' and Mets' starts

Are the New York Yankees and Mets, specifically, and the sport, in general, getting better at keeping players healthy?

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Apr 7 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • nypost.com
The science, and luck, behind the early health advantage fueling the Yankees' and Mets' starts

Are the New York Yankees and Mets, specifically, and the sport, in general, getting better at keeping players healthy?

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Apr 7 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • nypost.com
Ye offers to meet UK Jewish community as calls mount for him to be ditched from Wireless Festival

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Ye offers to meet UK Jewish community as calls mount for him to be ditched from Wireless Festival

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Ye offers to meet UK Jewish community as calls mount for him to be ditched from Wireless Festival

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Ye offers to meet UK Jewish community as calls mount for him to be ditched from Wireless Festival

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Taylor Frankie Paul faces protective order hearing in Utah after 'Bachelorette' cancellation

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Apr 7 • 12:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
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Rapper Offset shot in Florida, spokesperson says he is stable

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Apr 7 • 12:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Rapper Offset shot in Florida, spokesperson says he is stable

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Apr 7 • 12:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Rapper Offset shot in Florida, spokesperson says he is stable

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Apr 7 • 12:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
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Rapper Offset shot and is in stable condition, spokesperson says

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Apr 6 • 11:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Lil Nas X enters a mental health program intended to lead to dropped charges of attacking police

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Apr 6 • 8:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Wireless Festival boss stands by Ye headlining concerts as sponsors pull out

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Apr 6 • 6:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Savannah Guthrie returns to 'Today' anchor desk for first time since mother's disappearance

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Apr 6 • 2:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Apple Sued by Three YouTube Channels

Three established YouTube channels have sued Apple, alleging that the company violated the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by unlawfully accessing and scraping millions of copyrighted videos from YouTube to train its AI models.

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Apr 6 • 11:53 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Savannah Guthrie returns to 'Today' anchor desk for first time since mother's disappearance

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Apr 6 • 11:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Savannah Guthrie returns to 'Today' anchor desk for first time since mother's disappearance

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Savannah Guthrie returns to 'Today' anchor desk for first time since mother's disappearance

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Savannah Guthrie back at 'Today' anchor desk for the first time since her mother's disappearance

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Apr 6 • 8:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Savannah Guthrie back at 'Today' anchor desk for the first time since her mother's disappearance

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Savannah Guthrie back at 'Today' anchor desk for the first time since her mother's disappearance

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ECU Health’s plan to reopen hospital offers hope to Martin County

Martin County has been without a hospital since 2023. A $220M plan aims to make it home to North Carolina's first Rural Emergency Hospital.

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Apr 6 • 4:20 AM EDT • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org
Savannah Guthrie returns to 'Today' for the first time since her mother's disappearance

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Savannah Guthrie returns to 'Today' for the first time since her mother's disappearance

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Savannah Guthrie returns to 'Today' for the first time since her mother's disappearance

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Oakland audit finds troubling gaps it business tax collection system

While auditors point out that it's difficult to say exactly how much tax revenue the city lost out on, they estimate that about $9 million to $12 million would generally be referred to collections or liens annually.

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Pressure mounts on Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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Pressure mounts on Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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Pressure mounts on Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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Pressure mounts on Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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Pressure mounts on Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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Pressure mounts on Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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Pressure mounts on Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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Screenwriters union and Hollywood studios reach four-year tentative agreement

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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally

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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally

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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally

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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally

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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally

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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally

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Pressure mounts on Kanye West to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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Pressure mounts on Kanye West to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally

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Screenwriters union and Hollywood studios reach four-year tentative agreement

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Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

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How Graham Platner is using trivia games and happy hours to help power his Maine Senate campaign

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How Graham Platner is using trivia games and happy hours to help power his Maine Senate campaign

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Trump administration asks appeals court to pause order halting White House ballroom construction

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Week in Politics: Trump's latest speech; SCOTUS on birthright citizenship; Pam Bondi

President Trump claimed victory in Iran during a prime-time address to the nation. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi is out, and the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on birthright citizenship.

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How Pam Bondi lost her job

Her time in office showed her willingness to go where previous attorneys general wouldn’t and mold the Justice Department to a president’s political vision.

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Hollywood's narrative on UFOs and ETs reaches back many decades

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‘This is a recalibration’: Trump Cabinet worries no one is safe after Bondi and Noem firings

When President Donald Trump ousted his attorney general, Pam Bondi, it sent a clear message to his remaining Cabinet members: The job security they’ve enjoyed until now is no longer guaranteed.

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N.Y. attorney general, other AGs sue over Trump mail-in voting executive order

It calls for the Social Security Administration to prepare a list of verified eligible voters and requires absentee ballots to only be sent to each state's approved list.

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Fact-checking key moments in Bondi's tenure as Trump's attorney general

PolitiFact has fact-checked Bondi since 2010, during her Florida attorney general run, a seat she held from 2011 to 2019. Here are some key moments and falsehoods from her year-plus in the nation’s top law enforcement spot.

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Georgia lawmakers fail to settle voting machines conflict before end of annual session

The Georgia General Assembly ended its annual session early Friday without a plan for new equipment to overhaul the state's voting system by a July deadline, plunging into doubt the future of elections in the political battleground.

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Colorado sues Trump administration, calling new election order ‘unconstitutional’

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined a multistate coalition suing President Donald Trump over a new executive order on elections, arguing the directive unlawfully intrudes on states’ authority to run their own voting systems and threatens access to mail ballots for millions of voters. The lawsuit argues that Trump’s executive order is unconstitutional because […]

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Former Turnstile guitarist is accused of hitting an ex-bandmate's dad with his car

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Former Turnstile guitarist is accused of hitting an ex-bandmate's dad with his car

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Former Turnstile guitarist is accused of hitting an ex-bandmate's dad with his car

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Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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