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| From DeepSearchLabs today. Sentiment for Google Gemini cratered a couple of days ago after the high-profile imaging disaster, but it looks like people have already forgotten about it for the most part. |
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| | | 🌍 Global Perspectives | 🇳🇿 New Zealand repealed a world-first tobacco ban. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Biden announced Israel agreed to halt military activity over Ramadan. 🇱🇧 Hezbollah will pause fire if Hamas agrees to a Gaza truce, continuing the cycle of conditional ceasefires. 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Kremlin warned if any NATO members send troops to Ukraine, the conflict will spread. 🇺🇬 Thousands of Ugandans may sue over unpaid wages and medical bills from U.S. security work in war zones. 🇺🇸 Janet Yellen urged unlocking frozen Russian Central Bank assets for Ukraine's reconstruction. |
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| | | | | | 🧠 Errata | Choose North Korea for your next ski trip! Tourism returns to the hermit kingdom. Billionaire bunkers are full of guns and gold. More Americans are more concerned about immigration than the economy. The Humane AI Pin, a wearable assistant, is surprisingly impressive but limited by immature hardware. Over 70 Senegalese migrants were packed into a cramped basement in NYC, charged $300/month each, sleeping in shifts. |
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| | 📺 What to Watch Today | Have we all forgot about this already? | | Neil deGrasse Tyson reacts to US intel that Russia could attempt to deploy a space-based weapon |
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