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Cloudflare acquires Deno
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Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters).
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Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 is our fastest, most capable small model. Built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents, and browser use.
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Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Psiphon, a software company that helps internet users under oppressive regimes evade online censorship, plans to leave Canada if the lawful-access bill passes.
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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Picard 3.0
The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download . MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.
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An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and more capable.
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Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid
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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Supabase is acquiring Turso
Supabase is acquiring Turso to build the database infrastructure for agentic AI
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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
We’ve renamed Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link. Here’s why the old name never did fit, and why this one finally does.
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Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers
Compare Jev decision models with Red Hat guardrails to evaluate AI safety performance, cost, and latency for enterprise implementation.
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Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
We are introducing Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows. Also launching: a new reinforcement learning platform that allows developers to fine-tune decision models using their own data.
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RIP, vector database
turbopuffer is pushing the frontier of search. To do that, we have to fundamentally redesign our storage architecture so the vector index is no longer primary.
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NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
KNOXVILLE, TN (September 29, 2026) – GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) today welcomed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) issuance of a construction permit to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at its Clinch River site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.The permit is the…
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World Labs is Joining AMD
Accelerating the future of AI research and compute
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Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on copyrighted books—show that executives and employees at both companies intentionally […]
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Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.
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Factorio that you can touch
Hello, we have very unusual Friday facts for you.
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ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…
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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
28.0% of 668,355 job postings open on employers' own careers sites have been up for more than 90 days. Age by category, country and applicant tracking system, the employers with the most open postings, closures and reposts. Measured at the source, monthly.
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Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
If signed, Seattle will become the first city in the nation to prohibit the pricing tactic Seattle, Washington – The Seattle City Council today passed…
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Transit rewards
Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and use their Visa card.
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An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord
We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.
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Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.
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OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
TypeSafe's Jev is a genuine breakthrough – snap judgments with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. My bet is OpenAI is already figuring out how to copy it, and then embed it inside its own models where Jev can't follow.
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9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
More than 93,000 visible appearances of brands promoting unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, gambling and speculative products were recorded during coverage of the largest FIFA World Cup in history, new research has found. Unhealthy food and drink brands accounted for more than seven in ten, with 65,722 appearances.
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Spymarks, not Watermarks
Watermarks that spy on users are no mere watermarks
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Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
The DRUGS Act (‘Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act, H.R. 6352 & S.3399) is legislation that would rob you and millions of Americans of daily medications that keep them healthy and alive. Worse yet, the legislation is backed by Big Pharma front groups.