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A chatbot’s reply taps only 41 billion of its 675 billion parameters per word, and that gap is how free AI models stay fast and cheap to run

Inside the mixture of experts system that lets huge AI models like Mistral Large 3 answer instantly by activating a fraction ...
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Silent book clubs grow to 2,000 chapters across 62 countries

Silent book clubs have expanded to more than 2,000 chapters in 62 countries, offering quiet, no-homework reading meetups ...
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An Ohio factory melts 150 tons of glass a day for solar panels, and it is the first plant in the country that makes this hidden layer at all

An Ohio factory is now the first US plant producing solar panel glass at scale, melting 150 tons daily to cut import reliance ...
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Microsoft report documents first fully autonomous ransomware attack

Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report documents JADEPUFFER, the first fully autonomous ransomware attack, and warns AI is ...
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A sticker inside the driver’s door frame on 135 trucks and SUVs listed the wrong weight limit, and federal rules say that paperwork error alone can trigger a recall

Toyota is recalling thousands of trucks and SUVs over inaccurate payload stickers, revealing how the door jamb weight label ...
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A pair of worn Forever 21 shorts from the early 2000s resold for nearly $200 on an app, and old mall clothes are now priced and sold as vintage treasure

A $198 resale of old Forever 21 shorts shows how Gen Z is turning mall-era clothing into a priced vintage market.
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Kinsey Institute survey finds singles redefining relationship milestones in 2026

Kinsey Institute's 15th annual Singles in America survey finds singles loosening old relationship milestones and splitting on AI's role in dating.
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A North Carolina court found Duke Energy’s 2024 fuel charges violated state law reaching back to 2022, but the same court ruled customers will never see a refund

A court found a Duke Energy fuel charge broke state law, but a 2025 statute change means the $19.1 million stays on customer ...
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Kia America sold 236,659 vehicles in the US between July and September, the best quarter in the Korean automaker’s history, and hybrid sales more than doubled

Kia America posted its best-ever quarter with 236,659 US sales in Q3, as hybrid and electrified models surged 60 percent.
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Massachusetts funds 80 MWh iron-sodium battery at ski resort

Massachusetts awards $4.5 million for an 80 MWh iron-sodium battery at Berkshire East ski resort to manage snowmaking power ...
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Google expands Gemini student hub to K-12 classrooms of all ages

Google has rolled its Gemini student hub out to Education accounts of all ages, widening AI study tools inside Google ...
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A quantum chip needed 288 physical qubits to hold twelve error free ones, and that ratio undercuts the industry’s old assumption by a factor of ten

IBM's new chip design cuts the physical qubits needed per logical qubit from thousands to 144, slashing the hardware bill for fault tolerant quantum computing.