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Parsewise turns a bucket of messy, unstructured files — PDFs, spreadsheets, transcribed calls, emails — into schema-compliant data, with every value traceable to word-level citations across multiple documents. Founded by ex-Palantir and ex-Bain operators, it leans on an agentic, model-agnostic pipeline that exhaustively searches rather than samples like RAG, and it's built around human verifiability. They claim SOTA on Databricks OfficeQA using Gemini for visual reasoning.
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The open-source game engine Godot is banning AI-authored code contributions, with maintainers saying they can't trust heavy AI users to understand their own code well enough to fix it. The reasoning centers on maintainability: contributors who lean on AI may lack the comprehension needed to debug what they submit. It's one of the highest-profile open-source projects yet to draw a hard line on AI-generated pull requests.
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After 25 years hosted at Cornell, arXiv is spinning out on July 1, 2026 to become an independent nonprofit. The preprint server that underpins virtually all AI and ML research says its mission, values, and free access won't change, with continuity of service guaranteed. More updates on leadership and policy are promised in follow-up posts.
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Vitalik Buterin walks through indistinguishability obfuscation, or iO, which turns a program into an "encrypted program" you can run on plaintext inputs while keeping its internals hidden. He calls it the final boss of cryptography because it approximates a trustless trusted third party — hiding the code itself, not just the data. That makes it theoretically ideal for deploying complex logic without revealing proprietary algorithms.
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Researchers found that Ewingella americana, a bacterium from amphibian gut microbiomes, eliminated tumors in 100% of treated mice in a colorectal cancer model with a single intravenous dose. It accumulates in the low-oxygen environment of tumors, destroying cancer cells directly while also triggering an immune response. It outperformed conventional chemo and immunotherapy with an excellent safety profile — a rare result in preclinical work.
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Asahi Linux 7.1 fixes a critical macOS 27 boot-picker incompatibility via an APFS metadata flag, and adds M3 support with audio output, CPU frequency scaling, and task scheduling. Developers built custom firmware for the Apple Video Decoder to enable V4L2 hardware video decoding. The m1n1 bootloader has moved to Rust-based builds and is prepping for M4 and A18 Pro chips.
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Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa told shareholders the company raised employee base salaries by 10% to retain talent. He framed it as keeping compensation at an appropriate, competitive level. The move stands out against a backdrop of widespread layoffs elsewhere in the gaming industry.
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The author argues that while the internet still technically exists, the experience of using it has fundamentally changed. What was once an open, decentralized space for exploration and human-made content is now a corporate-controlled ecosystem of algorithms, tracking, and paywalls. The discovery and freedom of the mid-2000s has given way to mandatory logins, invasive ads, and extraction-first platforms.
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The newly described ballista spider from Australia has evolved a spring-loaded silk trap that targets a single prey — the green tree ant. When an aggressive ant bites a tensioned silk line, the structure detaches and launches the ant more than 30 centimeters upward at over 1,300 meters per second squared into the spider's web. It's a striking example of biomechanical engineering in nature.
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The author stopped arguing after realizing that being correct rarely changes minds — it usually hardens opposition and damages relationships. The takeaway: the only person you can change is yourself, and genuine help only lands when someone actually asks for it. Arguments, he concludes, are fundamentally ineffective for creating understanding.
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