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“It doesn’t mean you don’t belong here, it means you’re being challenged.”

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@MSFTExchange what’s the deal with KB5129955?

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@AskWoody any news on KB5129955? Seems like a phantom release!

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@qasimbizs Congrats. At what point did you think it was ‘good enough’ to ship?

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@OverclockersUK what does it take to get a reply from support? Been over a week with one canned response!

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@farman4x 4…..!!

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@Mimiiben1 63!

[Fish Audio @FishAudio]

Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro.

>It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio
>2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs
>most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc

We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production.

If you're a business and we can't cut your voice AI costs by 50%, we'll give you 1 year of Fish Audio for free.
Book a demo: https://t.co/vHkyZf9JoG

To celebrate our first birthday, we'll give you 1 month of S2.1 Pro for free. Like, retweet, and comment “Fish” to get it.

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@FishAudio This is impressive, excellent work @FishAudio!

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@Offloopagents any invite codes available?

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@alexquach @unusual_whales This is a joke. Yet to see another that looks like this.

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@AGONbyAOC I got two aoc, all I ever known! One massive one would be amazing 🤩

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@minchoi Price on 5.4 is bonkers though!

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@ClarksonsFarm1 Research on just about everything, contradicting everything else.

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@piersmorgan Here you go - https://t.co/W0YmEygji9

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#Budget2026

Businesses: lower writing-down allowances (corporation tax capital allowances reduced) → higher effective tax on capital. Also business-rates tweaks (transitional relief for retail/hospitality/leisure, local retention changes) that are temporary on average.

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#Budget2026

Drivers / EV owners: from Apr 2028 there will be a mileage-based charge on electric and plug-in hybrid cars (~half current petrol fuel duty rate); petrol/diesel fuel duty effectively frozen until Sep 2026.955762674-OBR-Economic-and-Fisc…

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#Budget2026

Impacts on households, businesses, and sectors

Households: benefit from winter fuel payments returning and UC two-child limit removal if eligible; face higher income tax/NICs density over time (threshold freezes, dividend/property/savings tax increases).

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#Budget2026

Increase tax rates on dividends / property / savings income by +2 percentage points ~£2.1bn in 2029-30.

Other tax measures (~£11bn by 2029-30): mileage-based charge on electric/plug-in hybrids from April 2028 (~£1.4bn)

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a joke #Budget2026

Freeze personal tax thresholds (from 2028-29 for three years) ~£8.0bn in 2029-30; large “fiscal drag” effects (more taxpayers into higher bands).

Charge NICs on salary-sacrificed pension contributions ~£4.7bn by 2029-30.

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@r_dominkovic08 @pmitu Interesting approach, I went the other way. First Claude code. Kept making mistakes. Then moved to Cursor and felt so much more superior, like it understands my intent in almost one shot.