🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Wikipedia is battling an influx of AI-generated content by deploying "speedy deletion" policies for poorly written, unsourced articles, and implementing tools to detect AI outputs. This initiative ensures the site's reliability while exploring AI's potential positive uses.
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In Ocado's automated warehouse, robots handle a majority of the grocery packing. Their system, “the Grid,” uses blocky bots for crate transfers, while new robotic arms autonomously pack 40% of groceries. This advanced automation significantly reduces costs and human labor.
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AI coding startup Windsurf nixed a funding deal and aimed to sell to OpenAI due to high operational costs despite VC interest. Facing negative gross margins from expensive language models, the company eventually sold to Cognition after a failed OpenAI acquisition.
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OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, described by CEO Sam Altman as a "significant step" toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), still lacks key abilities like continuous learning. Despite impressive advances, true AGI remains elusive amidst escalating competition and investment from US and Chinese tech giants.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: Julia
(Julia Projects for Beginners — Easy Ideas to Get Started Coding in Julia)
Why: Simple functionality addition using basic Julia constructs, great for learning about generators and constructors.
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⭐ 15127, 🖖 1514
Experience macOS just like before
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⭐ 990, 🖖 48
Flintlock – Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd
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⭐ 263, 🖖 11
POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language
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⭐ 2769, 🖖 358
Movie metadata scraper
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⭐ 121972, 🖖 9700
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
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