GOOGLE $GOOGL IS BUILDING THREE NEW SUBSEA CABLES ACROSS THE AMERICAS, CALLING THE WHOLE PROJECT "AMERICAS CONNECT" The new systems, Alisios, Canoa, and OlaLuz, connect the Dominican Republic, Panama, Chile, Bermuda, and Florida, alongside a new branch of the existing Firmina cable and prior investments in Curie, Nuvem, and Sol. Alisios links the Dominican Republic, Panama, and Chile. Canoa connects the Dominican Republic to Bermuda, extending reach from Latin America and the Caribbean directly to Europe and North America. OlaLuz runs from the Dominican Republic straight to Florida. The buildout creates redundant rings across three regions: - Pacific: Chile to Panama to the US West Coast, serving Google Cloud regions in Chile, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas - Caribbean: Panama to the Dominican Republic, interlinking to the US East Coast and Google Cloud regions in South Carolina and Virginia - Atlantic: Dominican Republic to Bermuda, connecting to US East Coast and European Google Cloud regions in Madrid

The University of Michigan will drop grades for first-semester freshmen next year in an effort to “curb the mental health crisis unfolding among college-aged individuals,” Instead of a letter grade, first-semester transcripts will show “pass or no credit.” - WSJ

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OpenAI's former Chief Operating Officer, Brad Lightcap just announced he is stepping down from the company Here is the full letter Lightcap sent to OpenAI employees: "Team, it is bittersweet to share that I’ll be moving on from OpenAI to start something new. I feel incredibly fortunate to have spent most of the last decade pursuing our mission and building this company. Sitting here today, mission success feels within sight. It has been the honor of my life to help bring us to this point, and to do it alongside all of you. I joined OpenAI in 2018, eight years ago this month, because I wanted to work on something hard. @sama introduced me to @gdb and @ilyasut, who showed me a pitch deck suggesting that because models improve predictably with scale, AGI was not only possible but likely. If you had told me then that we’d be where we are today, I wouldn't have believed you. In the years that followed, I had the privilege of building the first versions of most of our operations and business teams – from Finance to Legal, People, CorpSec, GTM/Gov, Partnerships, and more. Among the most rewarding parts of this journey for me has been watching each of these teams mature under brilliant leaders. I am excited for the next decade in the hands of this incredibly capable team. At the same time, we grew from a small research lab to one of the most consequential companies of our time. I was reminded of that fact constantly – from serving our first user to our billionth, to the growing scale and ambition of our partnerships and the occasional curveball (the Blip, etc.). Through it all, I’m proud of how we’ve maintained our focus on people. It always amazes me how quickly the world has adopted our tools and rallied behind our mission. I hope we will continue to earn their trust. Over the last few months, I’ve been focused on the next horizon and what would stand in the way of mission success. I believe there are a few important new things the world will need to get right as we enter this next period. I’ll have more to share soon, but I believe in OpenAI more than ever and am excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point. I am deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to work with all of you, and to so many of you for the support through the years. The old OpenAI meme that “the real AGI is the friends you made along the way” really rings true for me. I will be around for the next few weeks. I am not going far and hope to continue to support you all however I can. I’ll always be a phone call away if you need me. Brad"