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Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
Hospitals spent $7.8B on consulting over a decade with no meaningful improvements in finances, staffing, operations, or patient outcomes, a new study finds.
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First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed
Once completed the tunnel located in the Fehmarn Belt will hold the record as the longest immersed tunnel in the world.
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Proton Meet
Protect the conversations that matter with a secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing from Proton.
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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
We’ve raised Claude's usage limits and agreed a new compute partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our capacity in the near term.
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Why most product tours get skipped
Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation.
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Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue
The trademark infringement issue has now been resolved. The author of the website and project in question has removed all uses of the Notepad++ trademark from his product, website, and related materials. The unauthorized references have been taken down, and the trademark infringement is no longer ongoing.
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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
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Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes
The UK new car market grew by 24.0% to reach 149,247 registrations last month, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The increase reflects...
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Agents for financial services and insurance
Ten new Cowork and Claude Code plugins, Microsoft 365 integrations, new connectors, and an MCP app for financial services and insurance.
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Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
We’re raising $950 million from new and existing investors, at a valuation of over $15 billion. We have never had such conviction in the opportunity for Sierra and our customers.
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Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Several users have recently reported a website pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++: notepad-plus-plus-mac.org
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Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
Preview, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Round 4, Laguna Seca
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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
5 projects are awarded a total of $31K
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Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Wonder why chromax.black fans take longer to launch? Black colouring additives alter how advanced polymers mould, meaning they require entirely new toolings and months of testing.
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Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
Citadel Securities is an award-winning global market-maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity products.
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Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
Hello Windows Insiders I’ve now spent the past two months in this expanded role leading the Windows Insider Program. Two themes hav
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A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
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Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
As global battery demand continues to surge, the number of end-of-life batteries from electric vehicles alone is expected to grow from 1.2 million in 2030 to 14 million by 2040. Battery circularity technologies enable the reuse and recycling of these batteries and, as with battery technologies more generally, Asia…
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Mistral Medium 3.5
Introducing Mistral Medium 3.5, remote coding agents in Vibe, plus new Work mode in Le Chat for complex tasks.
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Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Code.overheid.nl platform is now live, enabling government organisations to jointly develop and publish open-source software independently.
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We decreased our LLM costs with Opus
We switched to a frontier model and our costs went down. Here's the architecture that made it possible.
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Claude for Creative Work
New connectors let Claude work inside Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk Fusion, SketchUp, and music production tools to support creative workflows.
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Waymo in Portland
Waymo is coming to the Rose City!
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Laguna XS.2 and M.1
We've released the first two models in the Laguna family, Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, alongside the runtime we use to train and operate agents, available through two product experiences in research preview.
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Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
The membership has been shifed to a singuar donation.
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An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
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United Wizards of the Coast
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.