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🎧 Lumia launches a $250 smart earring, the smallest wearable yet Lumia has unveiled a $250 smart earring that packs full biometric sensing into a module weighing under 1 gram, claiming the title of the smallest wearable on the market. Only one earring contains the sensor it sits behind the ear, pressed against an artery that carries blood to the head. 🔸 The device tracks blood-flow changes to infer stress, focus, fatigue, sleep/wake cycles, and overall cognitive load. 🔸 Temperature sensing and other standard wearable metrics are included, though more advanced claims (menstrual cycle, infection detection) remain unproven. 🔸 The key breakthrough is miniaturization: the module detaches for charging, while the earring itself stays on. 🔸 Real-world concerns remain: battery life is advertised as 5–7 days, but the tiny form factor raises doubts. 🔸 Blood-flow sensing behind the ear is promising but new, accuracy issues and signal glitches are possible. 🔸 The form factor naturally limits the audience; without redesigns, the product skews toward users who already wear earrings.

Lumia’s concept is bold: the best wearable is the one you forget you’re wearing, but ultra-mini devices create as many questions as they solve.

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✅ Perplexity launches Comet browser on Android Perplexity’s Comet Browser is now live for Android users, bringing built-in AI that can answer questions about your open tabs, help with research, and even handle purchases. The team says an iOS version is on the way, set to roll out in the near future. A notable step in Perplexity’s push toward fully AI-assisted browsing. 📊 Powered by Crypto Insider

🤖 OpenAI drops group chats to steal back attention from Google For the second day in a row, OpenAI is rolling out new features at full speed, this time unveiling group chats in ChatGPT, right as Google dominates headlines. 🔸 The feature is straightforward: you create a chat, invite others, talk as usual, and pull the model into the conversation whenever needed. 🔸 It’s handy for small project discussions or collaborative problem-solving, but feels like a niche use case for most workflows. 🔸 The update is already live for all paid ChatGPT users.

A timely release and a clear attempt to redirect some of the spotlight back to OpenAI.

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⚙️ Learn Python, Docker, Git, DevOps & more, all in one interactive platform A new all-in-one learning resource has popped up with fully interactive courses covering Python, Docker, Git, DevOps, and many other tech topics, perfect for beginners and upskillers. 🔸 Step-by-step explanations for every concept, function, and method. 🔸 Interactive lessons with lots of hands-on practice and real examples. 🔸 Covers everything from basic syntax to advanced workflows.

For anyone looking to build strong technical skills from scratch, this is a clean, beginner-friendly place to start.

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🎨 Google lit up the Las Vegas Sphere with a Gemini-powered McLaren showcase. Ahead of the F1 Grand Prix this weekend, Google and McLaren unveiled a massive Sphere takeover where Gemini redraws the McLaren race car in a series of shifting artistic styles. A flawless example of Google landing the perfect collab at the perfect moment. 📊 Powered by Crypto Insider

⚡️ GPT-5.1-Codex-Max: Windows-native coding power with breakthrough longevity OpenAI has released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new coding model built to counter Gemini’s momentum and early impressions point to major capability jumps with a few unanswered questions. 🔸 Full Windows + PowerShell awareness marks a first for Codex, with native understanding of Windows paths, environment quirks, and a new Agent mode that can autonomously operate inside the terminal. 🔸 Long-horizon autonomy is the headline, with OpenAI claiming the model can work continuously for 24+ hours on multi-step tasks, rivaling Anthropic’s 30-hour benchmark and signaling that long-context scaling is far from saturated. 🔸 “Compaction” enables massive effective context, letting the model summarize older information and roll it into a fresh window, a kind of short-term/long-term memory hybrid that supports multi-cycle workflows. 🔸 New SOTA coding performance, hitting 77.9% on SWE-bench Verified and outperforming Gemini 3 and Claude Sonnet 4.5, while using ~30% fewer tokens thanks to more efficient reasoning paths.

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max looks like OpenAI’s strongest engineering model yet but real judgment will come once its autonomous Windows agent and API rollout hit broader production use.

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🎓 100+ free neural network courses now on GitHub for AI enthusiasts A massive collection of over 100 neural network courses has been gathered on GitHub, ranging from Stanford’s top AI classes to tutorials on fine-tuning AI agents. 🔸 Covers theory, coding exercises, and practical projects for all skill levels. 🔸 Includes both foundational courses and cutting-edge materials for large model training. 🔸 Fully free and open, making it easier than ever to upskill in AI development.

For anyone looking to learn AI from scratch or level up, this is now a one-stop repository.

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📊 10 key takeaways on how AI is reshaping development, GitHub Octoverse 2025 🔸 Developer growth is booming: GitHub added 36M new developers in 2025; 80% adopted AI tools immediately. 🔸 TypeScript takes the crown: surpassing Python as the most popular language. 🔸 AI repos explode: over 1M AI-focused repositories now exist. 🔸 India leads: 5M new Indian developers joined GitHub this year. 🔸 Commits hit 1B: a 25% increase over 2024. 🔸 Faster vulnerability fixes: automation cuts fix time from 37 to 26 days. 🔸 Python dominates AI repos: still the go-to language for AI projects. 🔸 Six languages rule new repos: Python, JS, TS, Java, C++, C# cover ~80% of new projects. 🔸 Top coding error: Broken access control, AI often overlooks authentication checks. 🔸 Productivity up: more bugs fixed and pull requests merged thanks to AI-assisted development.

AI isn’t just assisting developers, it’s accelerating growth, speeding fixes, and shifting language popularity across the platform.

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🧪 Google’s Antigravity IDE: clever features meet rough edges Google has released Antigravity, a free AI IDE on Mac, Windows, and Linux, giving users 50 requests every 5 hours. Early users are impressed but also frustrated. 🔸 Standard editing, autocomplete, and agent chat work as expected, but the overall experience feels raw, similar to Cursor. 🔸 The standout is Inbox mode, an asynchronous panel where you assign tasks to multiple agents, track progress, and run projects in parallel or queue. 🔸 Chrome integration lets agents launch apps, browse sites, test elements, take screenshots, and more, appearing more capable than Cursor. 🔸 Weak points include GitHub/git support, occasional macOS lag, and VPN logins that can stall indefinitely.

Antigravity is promising, but early adopters will need patience while Google irons out stability and integration issues.

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🚲 Citi Bike now charges for pedal assistance, welcome to the new “freemium mobility” Citi Bike has rolled out a new paid feature: pedal assistance on its e-bikes. A small boost is free for the first 45 minutes, after which it costs $0.25 per minute. Full assistance? That’s $0.25 per minute from the start. 🔸 It’s basically “microtransactions for biking”, a tiny upgrade that suddenly isn’t so tiny when the meter starts running. 🔸 The pricing model mirrors classic app economics: a free taste, then pay-as-you-go for the real power. 🔸 And surprisingly, there’s still no extra subscription tier… which probably means they just haven’t gotten around to launching it yet.

Mobility keeps finding new ways to upsell even if the upsell is literally your own legs.

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⚡️ Grok 4.1 rolls out with major upgrades in empathy and accuracy According to early testers, the new Grok 4.1 feels noticeably more emotionally aware and expressive, with sharper creative writing and responses that better read the mood of the conversation. 🔸 The model now delivers state-of-the-art performance on EQ-Bench, a test focused on soft-skill reasoning and emotional intelligence, though there’s still no direct comparison to GPT-5.1. 🔸 The biggest breakthrough: Grok 4.1 hallucinates three times less than the previous version, marking one of the most meaningful improvements in reliability to date. 🔸 On the competitive side, Grok’s “Thinking” variant reclaimed the top of the LMArena leaderboard, surpassing Gemini 2.5 Pro by 31 points.

The update is already live and for many users, the real upgrade isn’t just smarter answers, but far fewer wrong ones.

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⚠️Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on a “latent bug” According to TechCrunch, Cloudflare’s network suffered a wide-reaching outage affecting major services like ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify and X, caused by a previously undetected bug in a bot-mitigation service that crashed after a routine configuration change. 🔸 The fault arose when the latent bug triggered cascading failures across Cloudflare’s global network; the company confirmed the event was not an attack, but rather a fault in its internal infrastructure. 🔸 Cloudflare acknowledged that the bug went unnoticed during testing and pledged to publish a detailed breakdown of the incident and its remediation steps. 🔸 The incident underscores how dependent the internet is on a handful of infrastructure providers: Cloudflare serves around 20% of all websites, making even a single error capable of major disruption.

For startups and infrastructure teams, the outage is a stark reminder that resilience isn’t just about external attacks, latent internal bugs in core services can bring down the ecosystem.

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✨ 7000 ready-made n8n workflows to automate your job with AI A massive collection of 7,000+ n8n automation templates just dropped, the largest guide so far for applying AI directly to your role, tasks, and daily operations. 🔸 Each workflow comes with step-by-step instructions, so you can implement automations without guessing or engineering everything from scratch. 🔸 Templates cover dozens of professions from marketing and sales to engineering, HR, operations, finance, support, and solo-founder use cases. 🔸 The library includes both AI-powered flows (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, local models) and classic n8n automations for email, CRM, analytics, and data pipelines. 🔸 For teams, it serves as a plug-and-play playbook: browse your job area, copy a workflow, adapt it in minutes, and ship automation that normally takes days.

This isn’t just a template pack, it’s a ready-to-deploy automation encyclopedia that can upgrade an entire workflow stack overnight.

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🧹 A robot vacuum that doubles as a real-time metaverse scanner A new “metaverse-grade” robot vacuum is making the rounds online not because it cleans well, but because it can reconstruct full 3D environments in real time using onboard AI. 🔸 The design stands out immediately: rugged, futuristic, and equipped with oversized wheels that let it climb over obstacles and even operate outdoors. 🔸 The real magic is in the head-mounted sensor array, a voxel-based neural pipeline running on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, generating photorealistic 3D maps as the robot moves. 🔸 With a bit more resolution, this is essentially a portable metaverse scanner, capturing full spatial meshes of homes, offices, and outdoor areas on the fly. 🔸 The entire software stack is built in Rust, includes day/night SLAM, dynamic obstacle detection, and low-latency path planning, letting the robot squeeze into tight corners and navigate complex spaces.

If robot vacuums become high-fidelity 3D mappers by default, the real metaverse hardware platform might quietly roll in from under our furniture.

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⚠️ Chinese open-source models quietly become Silicon Valley’s hidden AI backbone A new Bloomberg analysis highlights how much of the U.S. AI boom is now running on top of Chinese open-weight models, a shift driven by cost, licensing freedom, and sheer model quality. 🔸 Alibaba’s Qwen family has taken over Hugging Face: more than 40% of newly uploaded LLMs in 2024–25 are Qwen-based derivatives, dwarfing Meta’s LLaMA line. 🔸 Multiple U.S. startups are suspected of using Chinese base models under the hood: Cursor is linked to DeepSeek, while Cognition’s Devin is rumored to lean on Zhipu AI’s Z-series. 🔸 Developers cite price and permissive licensing, Qwen models are cheap to run, fully open-weight, and allow commercial fine-tuning without legal friction. 🔸 The trend is big enough that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has warned China may “win the AI race” through developer scale even if the U.S. leads in advanced chips.

As Chinese models quietly become the substrate for U.S. AI products, the question isn’t just technical, it’s geopolitical: who truly owns the future stack that Silicon Valley is building on?

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🤖 OpenAI publishes its official guide to perfect prompting for ChatGPT 5.1 OpenAI has released a comprehensive manual on how to interact with the new ChatGPT 5.1, a collection of best practices for getting clearer, faster, and more precise results from the model. 🔸 Inside: detailed prompting tips, practical techniques, and ready-made request templates for dozens of everyday and professional tasks. 🔸 The guide helps users unlock the full efficiency of 5.1, reducing the need for rewrites, clarifications, and constant corrections.

For anyone using ChatGPT daily, from coding to research to creative work, this is the fastest way to level up your prompting game.

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🔔 A full NanoBanana cheat sheet: prompting tricks, hidden rules, and a look inside the system prompt Many people already use NanoBanana confidently, but collecting all the quirks, techniques, and edge-case behaviors in one place is still a challenge. A new deep-dive article finally puts everything together. 🔸 Prompting as engineering: Treating the model like a system with levers, constraints, and failure modes rather than a magic box. 🔸 Visual prompts stress-tested: Kittens with heterochromia, precise hex-color control, rigid composition constraints and how NanoBanana handles them. 🔸 Pure HTML/CSS/JS rendering: Using the model to generate a fully functional webpage layout from scratch. 🔸 Hybrid JSON characters: ultra-detailed spec sheets like “Paladin + Pirate + Starbucks Barista,” and the wonderfully weird results when everything is fused together. 🔸 Mini reverse-engineering of the system prompt: Using the “fridge magnets” trick, the author reconstructs NanoBanana’s internal rules: Markdown structure, uppercase MUST directives, penalties for SD-style prompting and how these constraints steer the model away from classic 2022 AI-art errors. The author also bundled clean testing code and handy utilities into one repo.

If you’re building products on top of NanoBanana/Gemini or doing serious prompt design, this breakdown is gold.

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📣Друзья и коллеги, приглашаем вас на Ogon.AI Hackathon: Early-Stage Product Competition! 🔥 Вы ждали — мы сделали! Это уже третье событие от Ogon.AI Hackathons, и на этот раз мы готовим конкурс для тех, кто уже запустил свой продукт или собирается запустить его в самое ближайшее время, и готов вывести его на новый уровень! Что вас ждёт: 🔸 экспертная оценка продукта, UX и технической реализации, 🔸 обратная связь от опытных основателей, 🔸 помощь в масштабировании вашего продукта на глобальный рынок, 🔸 призы и нетворкинг для команд, готовых к росту! ❕Важно: Продукты должны быть живыми или готовыми к запуску очень скоро. Мы оцениваем качество, ранние показатели и потенциал роста. 🎁 Призы и возможности: ✔️ 1 место — $1,500 USD ✔️ 2 место — $1,000 USD ✔️ 3 место — $500 USD Победители также получат индивидуальные консультации с экспертами Ogon.AI по масштабированию и выходу на новый рынок! ⏰ Таймлайн (Dubai time): 🔸 Регистрация — уже открыта! 🔸 1–5 декабря — отправка аналитики и ссылок на продукт 🔸 5 декабря, 23:59 — дедлайн подачи заявок 🔸 6–16 декабря — тестирование и оценка жюри 🔸 17 декабря — финальная церемония и объявление победителей 📍Формат: Онлайн Участвуйте командой (до 10 человек) или индивидуально!

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⚠️ Jimmy Wales walks out of interview after a 48-second dispute over being “founder” vs “co-founder” On the German political podcast Jung & Naiv, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales lasted just 48 seconds before abruptly leaving all because the host asked whether he is the founder or co-founder of Wikipedia. 🔸 The question hit a 20-year nerve: while Wales introduced himself as the founder, early press and Wikipedia itself list Larry Sanger as co-founder, a point Wales has long rejected. 🔸 In 2005, Wales was caught editing his own Wikipedia page to downplay Sanger’s role, sparking a scandal that cemented the rift between them. 🔸 Host Thilo Jung is known for blunt opening questions; Wales seemingly expected a light interview and instead got the one topic he considers “the dumbest controversy in the world.” 🔸 When Jung insisted co-founder status is a “matter of fact,” Wales called it “a matter of opinion” and walked out.

The clip went viral, and Wales’s insistence that he “doesn’t care” ironically became the clearest sign that he still very much does.

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🤖 A new top-tier presentation generator just dropped Allweone A fresh AI tool called Allweone is blowing up: it creates full presentations from a single prompt and instantly fills them with visuals. 🔸 Generates slides, images, and charts on any topic automatically. 🔸 Everything is editable right after creation, no rigid templates. 🔸 Supports Russian input and instructions. 🔸 Completely free to use at launch.

A strong new contender in the race for AI-native presentation tools.

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