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Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model (qwen.ai)

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Qwen3-TTS Update: 49 Timbres and 10 Languages and 9 Dialects (qwen.ai)

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Stanford Agentic Reviewer: Get detailed AI feedback on your research paper free! (paperreview.ai)

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AlphaFold shows why science may be AI's killer app (fortune.com)

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DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] (huggingface.co)

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Effective harnesses for long-running agents (anthropic.com)

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Why developers still flock to Python (github.blog)

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We Asked Roblox's CEO About Child Safety. It Got Tense (nytimes.com)

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We're entering 'stage two of AI' where bottlenecks are physical constraints (fortune.com)

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AI Ignites the Return of Bezos the Inventor (wsj.com)

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Meta is building an AI-powered morning brief in push to compete with ChatGPT (washingtonpost.com)

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Kids Are on ADHD Pills. For Many, It's the Start of a Drug Cascade (wsj.com)

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The Crypto Industry's $28B in 'Dirty Money' (nytimes.com)

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Bags of Cash and a Gold Toilet (ft.com)

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Let the Mind-Control Games Begin (nytimes.com)

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Gen Z wants to know what their coworkers earn (fortune.com)

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The Robot Swarms Are Coming (wsj.com)

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Riding in a Chinese Robotaxi Is Pretty Smooth–That's a Problem for Waymo (wsj.com)

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Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings (nytimes.com)

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A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot' (nytimes.com)

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Bypass Paywalls Clean (gitflic.ru)

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Tesla Is Obsessed with Musk's Pay Package. Musk Is Obsessed with AI (wsj.com)

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IBM to Cut Workers Amid A.I. Boom (nytimes.com)

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3 Years Ago It Was a Casting Agency. Now It Has $1B in Drone Contracts (nytimes.com)

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Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance (nytimes.com)

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How Trump Is Using Generated Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (nytimes.com)

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Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco (nytimes.com)

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Chinese Criminals Made More Than $1B from Those Annoying Texts (wsj.com)

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 Is Awarded to László Krasznahorkai (nobelprize.org)

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[flagged] SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes (nytimes.com)

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Silicon Valley Enlists in the Business of War (nytimes.com)

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The 20-Somethings Are Swarming San Francisco's A.I. Boom (nytimes.com)

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[flagged] It's Known as 'The List'–and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses (wsj.com)

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SimpleX – messaging network operating without user identifiers (github.com/simplex-chat)

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Onlook: The Cursor for Designers (github.com/onlook-dev)

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Plane: Open-source project management that unlocks customer value (github.com/makeplane)

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Essential Gardens to See in Your Lifetime (nytimes.com)

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Bryan Johnson Sought Control via Confidentiality Agreements (nytimes.com)

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Competitive social feedback amplifies the role of early life contingency (science.org)

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SurfSense: Personal AI Assistant for Internet Surfers and Researchers (github.com/modsetter)

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AIHawk: AI bot to automatically apply for jobs (github.com/feder-cr)

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AIHawk: AI bot to automatically apply jobs (github.com/feder-cr)

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Zuo: A Tiny Racket for Scripting (github.com/racket)

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Joyce Project (joyceproject.com)

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Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death (economist.com)

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The super-strength Irish 'moonshine' making waves (bbc.com)

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In this Ukrainian village, almost no men are left (washingtonpost.com)

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Can a Tech Giant Be Woke? (nytimes.com)

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Neovim interactive evaluation for Lisp family languages (github.com/olical)

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Home-schoolers dismantled state oversight. Now they fear pushback (washingtonpost.com)

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Myanmar-based gangs force trafficking victims to scam Americans online (cnn.com)

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The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft for Copyright Infringement (cnn.com)

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Southeast Asian Scam Hubs Drawing Global Scrutiny as Reach Grows (voanews.com)

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The Next Frontier of Drugs Like Ozempic (nytimes.com)

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U.S. Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards for Children (nytimes.com)

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Discord became a perfect conduit for a leak of government secrets (washingtonpost.com)

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Wanted for Wirecard's Missing $2B. Now Suspected of Being a Russian Spy (wsj.com)

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Chatbot Hype or Harm? Teens Push to Broaden A.I (nytimes.com)

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Cheating Fears over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests (nytimes.com)

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Adolescent boys struggle with disorganization and distraction (wsj.com)

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23andMe Hack Is a Wake-Up Call for Your Password Habits (wsj.com)

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Elon Musk's messiah complex may bring him down (economist.com)

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Nova: macOS native code editor capable of using VSCode extensions (nova.app)

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The pandemic's toll on schooling emerges in terrible exam results (economist.com)

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One Year of ChatGPT: How A.I. Changed Silicon Valley Forever (nytimes.com)

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The $10M Quest to Ace a High-School Math Test (wsj.com)

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Talking to Chatbots Is Now a $200K Job. So I Applied (wsj.com)

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Why house prices have risen once again (economist.com)

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Microsoft's Satya Nadella Kept the 'Best Bromance in Tech' Alive (nytimes.com)

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What revolt at OpenAI means for Microsoft (economist.com)

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Gang crisis shaking Sweden (ft.com)

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Janet Language (github.com/janet-lang)

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Racket version 8.11 is now available (racket-lang.org)

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Fake Reviews Are Rampant Online. Can a Crackdown End Them? (nytimes.com)

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Why Silicon Valley billionaires like Peter Thiel turned against Trump (washingtonpost.com)

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Why does my latte cost so much? (washingtonpost.com)

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Police Arrest Pirate Site Operators Following 3-Year Investigation (torrentfreak.com)

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Google Antitrust Trial Exposes Deepening Rift with Microsoft (wsj.com)

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Artificial intelligence will transform fame (economist.com)

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Heat Pump Installations Slow, Impeding Biden's Climate Goals (nytimes.com)

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Six books you didn't know were propaganda (economist.com)

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Meta to Require Political Advertisers to Disclose Use of A.I (nytimes.com)

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As Meta chased younger users, employees raised safety concerns (washingtonpost.com)

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The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download New Software (wsj.com)

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Epic targets Google app store after losing to Apple (washingtonpost.com)

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WeWork Bankruptcy Would Deal Another Blow to Ailing N.Y. Office Market (nytimes.com)

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Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Grown Up Criminal, Not an Impulsive Man-Child (nytimes.com)

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Sharp U.S. Hiring Slowdown Signals Cooling Economy Ahead (wsj.com)

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Existential Harm from A.I.? It's Already Here, Says Harris (nytimes.com)

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Those Promotions Promising a 'Free' iPhone? It Isn't Free (nytimes.com)

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Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe (nytimes.com)

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A curated list of Domain-Driven Design resources (github.com/heynickc)

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From mommy bloggers to TikTok stars: How creators built a $250B industry (washingtonpost.com)

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I Was Skeptical of EMDR Therapy. I Tried It Anyway (gq.com)

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Hamas Hijacked Victims' Social Media Accounts to Spread Terror (nytimes.com)

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Spy, womaniser, cad: the writer who created James Bond (economist.com)

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Can You Hide a Child's Face from A.I.? (nytimes.com)

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ERPNext: Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (github.com/frappe)

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Twenty: A Modern open-source CRM (github.com/twentyhq)

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France races to stamp out bedbug 'scourge' before Olympics (reuters.com)