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Congress Passes $1.2 Trillion Federal Budget After Weeks of Bipartisan Negotiations

The U.S. House and Senate approved a sweeping federal budget deal early Thursday, averting a government shutdown and funding key domestic programs through fiscal year 2027.

The Washington Post·1 hour ago·7 min read

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Congress Passes $1.2 Trillion Federal Budget After Weeks of Bipartisan Negotiations

The U.S. House and Senate approved a sweeping federal budget deal early Thursday, averting a government shutdown and funding key domestic programs through fiscal year 2027.

The Washington Post·1 hour ago

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5 with Real-Time Multimodal Reasoning and 10x Speed Improvement

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5 on Monday, claiming a tenfold improvement in inference speed and native real-time audio, image, and video understanding — a leap that analysts say resets the competitive landscape for AI assistants.

The Verge·2 hours ago

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Technology8 min

OpenMind's AGI-Adjacent Model Scores 94% on Human Expert Benchmarks — Researchers Divided

The newly released Prometheus-4 model from OpenMind Labs has cleared expert-level thresholds in medicine, law, and engineering, reigniting debate about the timeline to artificial general intelligence.

MIT Technology Review·4 hours ago

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Technology8 min

Google DeepMind's Gemini Ultra 2 Beats Human Experts in Medical Diagnosis Study

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet found that Gemini Ultra 2 correctly diagnosed rare diseases with 91.2% accuracy, outperforming specialist physicians in 8 of 12 clinical categories.

The Lancet / STAT News·5 hours ago

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Apple Unveils M4 Ultra Chip with Dedicated Neural Engine Delivering 38 TOPS for On-Device AI

Apple's new M4 Ultra processor features a 32-core Neural Engine capable of 38 trillion operations per second, enabling fully private, on-device AI processing for the Mac Pro and Mac Studio without cloud dependency.

Ars Technica·8 hours ago

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Technology7 min

Meta Releases Llama 4 Open-Source Model, Claiming It Rivals GPT-5 on Key Benchmarks

Meta AI dropped Llama 4 as a fully open-weight model on Monday, with the 405-billion-parameter version posting scores within 3% of GPT-5 on MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH benchmarks — reigniting the open vs. closed AI debate.

Wired·11 hours ago

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Technology7 min

Microsoft Copilot Gets Autonomous Agent Mode — Can Now Execute Multi-Step Tasks Without Human Input

Microsoft's new Copilot Agents feature allows the AI assistant to autonomously browse the web, write and run code, manage files, and send emails on behalf of users — marking a shift from AI assistant to AI agent.

TechCrunch·14 hours ago

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Technology7 min

EU Passes Digital Markets Enforcement Act, Forcing Apple to Open App Store by Q4

The European Parliament voted 423-109 to pass binding enforcement rules that will require Apple, Google, and Meta to comply with interoperability mandates within 180 days or face fines up to 20% of global revenue.

The Guardian·9 hours ago

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World Politics8 min

Taiwan Strait Tensions Rise as China Conducts Largest Naval Exercise in Five Years

Beijing's three-day naval drill involving 47 warships and 120 aircraft has drawn sharp condemnation from Washington and Tokyo, with the U.S. Seventh Fleet repositioning two carrier strike groups to the region.

Associated Press·11 hours ago

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