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Head of Sleepy Bed Inspection on duty. 🐾

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Brett Adcock's Hark just launched Hark Pro: a privacy-first AI assistant built on a computer-use model that actually operates your computer for you. Free tier now, AI-native device promised for 2027. 🤖
https://t.co/xtkzco1BMf

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Ex-Ramp engineers raised $20M for Melius, an AI ad-campaign generator, after scrapping their first product. https://t.co/bp958AiUDU

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Head of Angry Yawn on duty. 🐾

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OpenAI just dropped 722 math manuscripts from an unreleased model, claiming hundreds of long-open problems solved. Many proofs are already Lean-verified, but mathematicians want more transparency. https://t.co/5uAtqmAazi

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Google just open-sourced EmbeddingGemma 2: a 740M-param model that puts text, code, images, video and audio into one embedding space, small enough to run on-device. Apache 2.0. https://t.co/mKvmAGJseI

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Head of Grain Drying on duty. 🐾

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Helping.

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Google's Nano Banana 2.1 is here: sharper text rendering and better character consistency at roughly half the price of Nano Banana 2 (3.36¢ per 1K image). 🍌
https://t.co/4XX6ie6ynf

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Lambda is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B valuation before a 2027 IPO, with its backlog jumping from $15B to $50B in three months. The neocloud boom isn't slowing down. https://t.co/0NuDlslI42

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Head of Egg Carton Security on duty. 🐾

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Guarding the eggs.

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Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu, in a piece Microsoft published, says AI may add just ~1.5% to GDP over a decade and replace at most 5% of jobs. Bubble check or reality check? 🤔
https://t.co/oZcyPmvBdC

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Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team (up to 5 seats) plus $1,000 in API credits — the land grab for founders is on.
https://t.co/3Aukri0cB6

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Head of Hardware Store Security on duty. 🐾

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🐈 King the cat
🛒 Aubuchon Ace Hardware (Franklin, MA)

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New Quinnipiac poll: 47% of Americans want AI development to slow down, 30% want a full stop until it's proven safe, and only 5% want it faster. 🐾 https://t.co/1GmS76SygN

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Mistral Large 4 is out in preview: 1T parameters (49B active), trained in Europe, and it happily does the vuln-repro security work Claude and GPT-6 refuse. Open weights expected end of October. 🐾 https://t.co/eHanoyUwn9

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Warehouse Shift Supervisor on duty. 🐾

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I admire her work ethic.

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DeepSeek is about to close a $12B+ round, with Tencent and CATL writing the biggest checks, a 160k-Huawei-chip data center in the works, and an IPO eyed for early 2027. https://t.co/r1o9ToB1Wi

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Cohere's North 2 turns its enterprise platform into a control room for AI agents: works with any model, runs on-prem or fully air-gapped, and asks a human before critical actions. https://t.co/RaMh5zBXHy

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Chief Close-Up Inspector on duty. 🐾

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Meta reportedly scrambled to patch Muse "VM escape" bugs weeks before launch — one could have let an agent break out of its sandbox and reach Meta's internal databases. Bounty for a VM escape is now $300K. https://t.co/EsiatIqboM