In May 2025, Prime Intellect unveiled INTELLECT-2, a 32B-parameter LLM trained on a globally distributed swarm of volunteer GPUs. INTELLECT-2 is the first model of its scale trained via fully asynchronous reinforcement learning across hundreds of heterogeneous, permissionless machines on chakra.dev. PRIME-RL coordinates the training loop by separating experience generation on inference workers from policy…
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NLWeb is an open protocol unveiled by Microsoft at Build 2025 to put ChatGPT-like conversational interfaces on websites. NLWeb works by indexing a site’s content using HTML, RSS feeds, and Schema.org metadata and exposing it to AI models via a standard JSON over REST API with a core ask method. The system is model-agnostic and…
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MoM was released in May 2025 as a linear-attention sequence model that preserves long-term context without forgetting. MoM breaks the single-memory bottleneck by maintaining multiple independent memory states and using a token router to assign information to memory slots. A trained router assigns each token to the top-k most relevant memory modules, with typical settings…
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Since 31 December 2020, Ireland follows EU drone rules (Regulations 2019/947 and 2019/945) enforced by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA). Drones are categorized by risk as Open, Specific, and Certified, with Open and Specific covering most operations today. Operator registration is required for drones 250 g or heavier or any drone with a camera, costs…
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On July 1, 2025, the ATLAS telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, detected 3I/ATLAS near Jupiter’s orbit with a hyperbolic, interstellar trajectory. 3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object identified, following 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Estimates place 3I/ATLAS at 7–10 billion years old if formed in the Milky Way’s thick disk, making it possibly…
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The HANTRU-1 cable is 2,917 km long with a 160 Gbps design capacity, extended to Majuro and Kwajalein/Ebeye in 2010, linking to a Pohnpei hub and onward to Guam. A 2017 HANTRU-1 cable fault caused a nationwide 3-week outage, forcing a 97% bandwidth cut as the islands relied on limited satellite links. The East Micronesia…
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The Nothing Phone 3 was officially unveiled on July 1, 2025, with pre-orders opening July 4 and a full market release on July 15, 2025. Prices start at $799 for 12GB RAM/256GB storage and $899 for 16GB RAM/512GB, with India pricing ₹79,999 and ₹89,999. The 6.67-inch flat AMOLED display offers 1260×2800 resolution (460 ppi), 20:9…
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Ammonite is the informal name for the trans-Neptunian object 2023 KQ14, discovered by the FOSSIL survey with Subaru’s 8.2-meter telescope in early 2023. Follow-up observations in July 2024 with the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope and archival data from 2005 extended its observational arc to 19 years. Ammonite is a sednoid, a distant trans-Neptunian object with a highly…
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Google scheduled its Made by Google event for August 20, 2025 in New York City, where four Pixel models—Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold—will debut alongside the Pixel Watch 4. The Pixel 10 family will run Android 16 with a redesigned UI and be powered by Google’s Tensor G5…
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Apple plans to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup in the week of September 8, 2025, with the event likely on September 9 or 10. There will be four models: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be about 6mm thick, very lightweight,…
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