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Introducing the File Search Tool in the Gemini API, our hosted RAG solution with free storage and free query time embeddings 💾 We are super excited about this new approach and think it will dramatically simplify the path to context aware AI systems, more details in 🧵


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PER MILE TAXATION AND ITS ONLY ON FUCKING ELECTRIC CARS IS THIS GOVERNMENT ON CRACK???????

🚨 NEW: Electric vehicle drivers will face a 3 pence per-mile tax from 2028 under plans set to be announced in the Budget [@benrileysmith]



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JUST IN: Apple to use Google Gemini for next version of Siri


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Our TPUs are headed to space!  Inspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space, harnessing more of the sun’s power (which emits more power than 100…

sundarpichai's tweet image. Our TPUs are headed to space! 

Inspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space, harnessing more of the sun’s power (which emits more power than 100…

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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is accused of editing a Trump speech to make him seem to back the Capitol riot. A whistleblower memo says Panorama “completely misled” viewers by cutting key lines Watch @gordonrayner’s full breakdown ⬇️


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The incredible thing about the post is how, in reality, it is the exact opposite

jimthegiant's tweet image. The incredible thing about the post is how, in reality, it is the exact opposite

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In 1850, about half the mammal biomass was wild animals and the other half was us and the ones we've domesticated. Now it's 95% us and our favored mammals.

cremieuxrecueil's tweet image. In 1850, about half the mammal biomass was wild animals and the other half was us and the ones we've domesticated.

Now it's 95% us and our favored mammals.

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This is why politicians lie to voters. It’s because voters can’t handle the truth and prefer being lied to.

The fundamental problem: 58% of voters want public spending maintained or increased. 67% want taxes to stay at their current level or be cut. In reality, it’s a binary choice. Taxes go up, or spending is cut. That’s it.

DanNeidle's tweet image. The fundamental problem:

58% of voters want public spending maintained or increased. 

67% want taxes to stay at their current level or be cut. 

In reality, it’s a binary choice. Taxes go up, or spending is cut. That’s it.


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That’s probably one of the most amazing charts about the US ever. How did it happen?

MichaelAArouet's tweet image. That’s probably one of the most amazing charts about the US ever. How did it happen?

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It is TWICE as expensive to install a megawatt of nuclear reactor on US soil than it is to put a megawatt of nuclear power into a US Aircraft Carrier. Why? The US Navy doesn't have to go through the NRC.

Honestly, the US Navy should just become America's nuclear power provider. US Navy Cost: $2 billion for 2 x 400 MW reactors in Ford-class aircraft carrier NuScale: $10 bn for 500 MW reactor Westinghouse: ~$8 bn for 1000MW reactor



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The US Navy has managed a total of 273 nuclear reactors, 6200 reactor-years, over 177 million miles, averaging 4 new reactors per year over 70 years. They have done this with a perfect safety record. Zero accidents. Zero injuries, zero deaths, zero environmental pollution.

The view that the US has stopped producing nuclear reactors is actually pretty inaccurate. Over the last decade the US Navy has commissioned 1-2 new nuclear reactors per year. They currently operate 100 reactors, more than any other org on the planet.

Andercot's tweet image. The view that the US has stopped producing nuclear reactors is actually pretty inaccurate.

Over the last decade the US Navy has commissioned 1-2 new nuclear reactors per year. 

They currently operate 100 reactors, more than any other org on the planet.


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Fun fact: GPT-2 was released the same year as Stranger Things season 3...... And season 5 isn't even out yet.

We've trained an unsupervised language model that can generate coherent paragraphs and perform rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization — all without task-specific training: blog.openai.com/better-languag…



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The fundamental problem: 58% of voters want public spending maintained or increased. 67% want taxes to stay at their current level or be cut. In reality, it’s a binary choice. Taxes go up, or spending is cut. That’s it.

DanNeidle's tweet image. The fundamental problem:

58% of voters want public spending maintained or increased. 

67% want taxes to stay at their current level or be cut. 

In reality, it’s a binary choice. Taxes go up, or spending is cut. That’s it.

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According to this paper, the Unitree G1 humanoid robot secretly and continuously sends sensor and system data to servers in China without the owner's knowledge or consent. arxiv.org/abs/2509.14139

sebkrier's tweet image. According to this paper, the Unitree G1 humanoid robot secretly and continuously sends sensor and system data to servers in China without the owner's knowledge or consent. arxiv.org/abs/2509.14139

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$GOOGL After 7 years of buybacks and a 13% reduction in share count, Alphabet has returned its share count to levels last seen in 2006.

KoyfinCharts's tweet image. $GOOGL After 7 years of buybacks and a 13% reduction in share count, Alphabet has returned its share count to levels last seen in 2006.

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Hoping for a nuclear war to win a $20 bet is peak crypto

LilMoonLambo's tweet image. Hoping for a nuclear war to win a $20 bet is peak crypto

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been meditating about how much opportunity cost has been lost due to doom scrolling

amritwt's tweet image. been meditating about how much opportunity cost has been lost due to doom scrolling

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never been more obvious what the next move is gonna be yes it’s ads

jakobgreenfeld's tweet image. never been more obvious what the next move is gonna be

yes it’s ads

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There are so, so many horrible things Digital ID could be used for. And there are almost no benefits. I don't understand why anybody wants it.


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