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ai
DoorDash to Acquire Instacart — Hacker News — Front Page
Can Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning — Latent Space — Newsletter/Podcast
😸 New York curbs AI chatbots for kids — The Neuron — Newsletter
Nightly build v0.10.3-beta.1 — Prime Agent — Releases (watched repo)
Arco — Product Hunt — Feed (AI launches surface here)
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon tops the charts (for now) — The Rundown AI — Newsletter
Patch release v5.21.1 — HF Transformers — Releases (watched repo)
Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees — Hacker News — Front Page
money
Full story: Senegal faces the question of what strategies will tackle its debt
UK Government aims to spend 3% of GDP on defense by 2030, Chancellor says, but not everyone's convinced — MercoPress
Full story: A cap can protect drivers and still shrink the ride
BYD, Geely lean on global growth as China market enters 'harshest winter' — Nikkei Asia
technology
Chain of failures: 5 key takeaways from report on Tai Po blaze — South China Morning Post
us-politics
Full story: Protesters in Israel demand a unity government after the election
world
Full story: Afghan farmers pushed to opium farming to make a living
Record number of purges as Xi emphasises 'party discipline' at China political gathering — BBC News — World
Nothing beats a Jet2… charter? Low-cost airline unveils business class-only plane — Euronews
China elevates key military official as expulsions remove 'hidden dangers' — Nikkei Asia
Breaking | China promotes General Zhang Shengmin to Politburo — South China Morning Post
Brazilians divided after defeated candidate Bolsonaro flees to US — Africanews