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Industry Automated para-pharmacy Pharma&Go opens in Lisbon's Parque das NaçõesIndustry Quiet, Young and Global: China’s New Generation of BillionairesIndustry Monday.com to Cut 20% of Staff as It Reorients Around AI; Mirrors Broader Tech Workforce ShiftsIndustry Librarians run 'Avoiding AI' workshops to teach patrons how to disable consumer AI featuresIndustry AI Moves from Occasional Helper to Constant Presence in American HomesBusiness Alphabet’s free cash flow turns negative as AI investments surgeSafety Tesla's Robotaxi paid miles fell 36% in Q2 despite expansionIndustry Samsung and Google Unveil Speaker‑centric Smart Glasses Without a DisplayTools OpenAI debuts Micro keypad for ChatGPT power usersRegulation U.S. case tests prosecution over 'duress' passcode that wiped phone at borderBusiness Prentis seeks $100M at $1B valuation to build AI agents that control office workflowsModel launches Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5: more proactive behavior and improved vulnerability detectionTools Figma2React. It's goodResearch See how all of the models compare here:Industry Automated para-pharmacy Pharma&Go opens in Lisbon's Parque das NaçõesIndustry Quiet, Young and Global: China’s New Generation of BillionairesIndustry Monday.com to Cut 20% of Staff as It Reorients Around AI; Mirrors Broader Tech Workforce ShiftsIndustry Librarians run 'Avoiding AI' workshops to teach patrons how to disable consumer AI featuresIndustry AI Moves from Occasional Helper to Constant Presence in American HomesBusiness Alphabet’s free cash flow turns negative as AI investments surgeSafety Tesla's Robotaxi paid miles fell 36% in Q2 despite expansionIndustry Samsung and Google Unveil Speaker‑centric Smart Glasses Without a DisplayTools OpenAI debuts Micro keypad for ChatGPT power usersRegulation U.S. case tests prosecution over 'duress' passcode that wiped phone at borderBusiness Prentis seeks $100M at $1B valuation to build AI agents that control office workflowsModel launches Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5: more proactive behavior and improved vulnerability detectionTools Figma2React. It's goodResearch See how all of the models compare here:

Automated para-pharmacy Pharma&Go opens in Lisbon's Parque das Nações

Automated para-pharmacy Pharma&Go opens in Lisbon's Parque das Nações

A fully automated para-pharmacy called Pharma&Go opened in Lisbon’s Parque das Nações, operated by Sensei and Glintt Life with private funding.

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Quiet, Young and Global: China’s New Generation of Billionaires

Quiet, Young and Global: China’s New Generation of Billionaires

A new cohort of Chinese billionaires is markedly different from earlier tycoons: they are younger, more private, and expand abroad far earlier in their companies’ life cycles.

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Monday.com to Cut 20% of Staff as It Reorients Around AI; Mirrors Broader Tech Workforce Shifts

Monday.com to Cut 20% of Staff as It Reorients Around AI; Mirrors Broader Tech Workforce Shifts

Monday.com will lay off about 20% of its workforce — just over 600 people — as part of a restructuring tied to an AI-driven product and go‑to‑market transformation, the company said in an SEC filing.

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Model launches →

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5: more proactive behavior and improved vulnerability detection

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5: more proactive behavior and improved vulnerability detection

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a new large language model positioned as more proactive and closer in capability to Claude Fable 5 while priced the same as Opus 4.8.

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Claude Opus 5 available on Cursor, cheaper alternative to Fable 5

Claude Opus 5 available on Cursor, cheaper alternative to Fable 5

Claude Opus 5 is now available on the Cursor platform; the model achieves the same score as Fable 5 on CursorBench (66.7 vs.

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Anthropic launches Opus 5: cheaper, less restricted heavyweight that beats Fable 5 on several benchmarks

Anthropic launches Opus 5: cheaper, less restricted heavyweight that beats Fable 5 on several benchmarks

Anthropic has released Opus 5, a new version of its heavyweight model that is smaller than Fable 5 but positioned as both less restrictive and less expensive.

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Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 and paid Meta Model API, undercutting rivals on token costs

Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 and paid Meta Model API, undercutting rivals on token costs

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a vision-language model trained for agentic tasks, and opened the Meta Model API as the company’s first paid access to its models.

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Research →

Web retrieval, not model reasoning, is the main limiter for LLM news queries

Web retrieval, not model reasoning, is the main limiter for LLM news queries

A Stanford and Together AI study tested six large language models equipped with web-search tools on daily news questions in six languages between February 9 and February 22, 2026.

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Chinese AI Models Reportedly Achieve Perfect Scores on IMO 2026 Problems

Chinese AI Models Reportedly Achieve Perfect Scores on IMO 2026 Problems

Huawei and RedNote say their in-house AI systems solved the 2026 International Mathematical Olympiad problem set with perfect results under the IMO's official judging procedures.

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AI finds counterexample to 30-year-old graph theory conjecture in hours

AI finds counterexample to 30-year-old graph theory conjecture in hours

Using ChatGPT 5.6 Pro, researcher Dmirty Rybin found a counterexample to the Dinitz–Garg–Goemans conjecture that had stood for about 30 years.

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OIST develops curiosity-driven learning that lets robots acquire language faster

OIST develops curiosity-driven learning that lets robots acquire language faster

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) built a curiosity-driven training approach for robots that speeds up acquisition of language-based tasks and produces child-like spontaneous play.

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Business →

Alphabet’s free cash flow turns negative as AI investments surge

Alphabet’s free cash flow turns negative as AI investments surge

Alphabet reported strong revenue and profit growth driven by Google Search, YouTube and an 82% jump in Google Cloud sales, but its quarterly free cash flow turned negative for the first time since the company’s 2004 IPO.

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Prentis seeks $100M at $1B valuation to build AI agents that control office workflows

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Anduril in talks on potential new funding round that could value it near $100 billion

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Industry →

Librarians run 'Avoiding AI' workshops to teach patrons how to disable consumer AI features

Librarians run 'Avoiding AI' workshops to teach patrons how to disable consumer AI features

Librarians in the US, inspired by a Maine workshop model, are teaching community members how to turn off consumer-facing AI features on phones and platforms.

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Samsung and Google Unveil Speaker‑centric Smart Glasses Without a Display

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AI Moves from Occasional Helper to Constant Presence in American Homes

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Regulation →

U.S. case tests prosecution over 'duress' passcode that wiped phone at border

U.S. case tests prosecution over 'duress' passcode that wiped phone at border

An Atlanta man, Samuel Tunick, has been indicted on federal charges after U.S.

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Major AI Firms Urge U.S. Not to Impose Broad Limits on Open-Weight Models

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U.S. Bill Would Require 'Kill Switch' for Advanced AI After Model Hacked Rival

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Safety →

Tesla's Robotaxi paid miles fell 36% in Q2 despite expansion

Tesla's Robotaxi paid miles fell 36% in Q2 despite expansion

Tesla reported a quarter-over-quarter decline in paid Robotaxi miles, driven by a drop from about 1.1 million miles in Q1 to roughly 700,000 miles in Q2.

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Practical Limits and Security Concerns Around China’s Open-Source Kimi K3

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AI-made videos used in dropshipping scam on Instagram and TikTok

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Tools →

ModelExpress reduces model weight transfer time with GPU-to-GPU P2P RDMA and streaming

ModelExpress reduces model weight transfer time with GPU-to-GPU P2P RDMA and streaming

NVIDIA’s ModelExpress (MX) minimizes the repeated cost of moving large model checkpoints by preferring existing compatible GPU-resident copies and choosing the fastest transfer path.

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Cloudflare lets publishers separate search, training and agent bot access; monetization and BotBase introduced

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OpenAI debuts Micro keypad for ChatGPT power users

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