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TECHNOLOGY
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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian discusses innovation at CloudNext
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@GoogleCloud CEO Thomas Kurian joined us at our booth to talk shop and sign our wall. Incredible energy at #GoogleCloudNext as we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in the cloud. -
Databricks Partners with OpenAI to Launch GPT-5.5 on Unity AI Gateway
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Databricks is excited to partner with @OpenAI on GPT-5.5, their latest frontier model. GPT-5.5 will be available in Unity AI Gateway on launch. You can use it with coding tools such as Codex, or to power your enterprise agents.
— Databricks (@databricks) 24 avril 2026
GPT-5.5 is state-of-the-art on many benchmarks… pic.twitter.com/UMWUFJgwCVDatabricks is excited to partner with @OpenAI on GPT-5.5, their latest frontier model. GPT-5.5 will be available in Unity AI Gateway on launch. You can use it with coding tools such as Codex, or to power your enterprise agents. GPT-5.5 is state-of-the-art on many benchmarks
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Synthetic Aperture Radar: Satellite Tech for Global Monitoring
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The same satellite tech can track a convoy through dense cloud cover at night, flag a sinkhole weeks before it opens, catch a village built on a collapsing slope, and even map the inside of a pyramid from orbit.
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 23 avril 2026
It's called Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and a lot of the data… pic.twitter.com/vz4xBT18MJThe same satellite tech can track a convoy through dense cloud cover at night, flag a sinkhole weeks before it opens, catch a village built on a collapsing slope, and even map the inside of a pyramid from orbit. It's called Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and a lot of the data
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AI Superpower Competition: The Race for Global Dominance
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“The leader in AI will rule the world.” This is the greatest technology competition in history. And, yes, it is existential. Only two countries have the capacity to become an AI Superpower, integrating the entire supply chain of Intelligence, from the mine to the model. (And
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Instant Model Continues Using Version 5.3 Implementation
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An interesting detail is that for the Instant model we continue to use version 5.3
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See-through-wall vision and drone neutralization for finding enemies
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With my @anduriltech-style see-through-wall vision I can find enemies in building
— @levelsio (@levelsio) 23 avril 2026
And then launch my drone to neutralize them!https://t.co/jtocKZuIiE https://t.co/no8kNoYaCJ pic.twitter.com/oUO1ePtKX3With my @anduriltech
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Poor indexing of legacy appliance manuals frustrates users
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haha the worst part is opening a manual for an old washer or appliance now and realizing nobody indexed it for retrieval
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27B Model Running Locally on 5090 Beats Frontier Model
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A 27B running locally on a 5090 beating a frontier model is where 2026 actually gets interesting.
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LiteParse Web Version Built with Claude Code in One Hour
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That browser version of LiteParse is available here: https://
simonw.github.io/liteparse/ Detailed notes on how I built it using Claude Code (running for an hour) on my blog: https://
simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/23/li
teparse-for-the-web/
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