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Stealth model reveal 👀 Many of you have been excited to know who made Quasar Alpha & Optimus Alpha, which both topped the charts during testing. Today we can announce that they were early test versions of...

On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after, by Ethan Mollick open.substack.com/pub/oneusefult…

A great example of what's possible when someone connects their passion with their purpose to make a real difference. DxGPT, a rare disease diagnostic tool, is now live, showing how AI can be applied to help truly improve lives.

As the new hosts of the competition that celebrates the best data journalism from around the world, GIJN is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 sigmaawards. 🧵 Please join us in celebrating — and being inspired by — this year’s 10 winners: twp.ai/4inl5E

Introducing the next generation: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the world’s best coding model. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, delivering superior coding and reasoning.

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) were large, nationally representative surveys conducted in over 90 lower- and middle-income countries around the world. They provided core information such as birth and mortality rates, which are otherwise poorly recorded in many

Mangroves preserve biodiversity, support livelihoods & are essential for the nutrition & food security of millions. We all benefit from mangroves. Protecting them is protecting the health of our planet. #WetlandsCOP15 #GenerationRestoration #MangroveDay

Personal news: I've decided to leave my job as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the Thomson Reuters Foundation to go independent. It's a scary move but I want to concentrate on amplifying under-reported stories.

I'm planning a few projects but first step will be to relaunch my newsletter Proximities. It summarises three non-Western news stories a day and you can read it in under two mins. Monday - Friday it's completely free. There will also be a paid tier with a bonus Saturday edition.

Read more about Proximities - and subscribe! - here. proximities.news

Nearly 60,000 people have been displaced by escalating violence in #Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province. A new Al Jazeera English article draws on ACLED data: more than 6,100 people have been killed since the beginning of the insurrection. 🔗 Read: aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/5/…

#Mozambique Conflict Monitor | 14 July – 3 August 2025 The latest update with Zitamar News & Mediafax tracks ISM’s push into Ancuabe and Chiúre districts, continued attacks in northern Cabo Delgado, and a coordinated propaganda campaign. 🔗Read: acleddata.com/update/mozambi…

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

The September 2025 edition of Significance is out now and it's an Africa special issue. Find out more at ow.ly/Tgcu50WCKLm or start reading at ow.ly/sbRL50WCKLn #statistics #data Oxford Journals

Gemini's new #nanobanana image editing makes it easy to isolate a single building or object and turn it into an isometric model. Just open Gemini, upload your image, and prompt "Make an isometric model of the [object] only." Here are some examples for inspo 🧵

New from the Anthropic Economic Index: the first comprehensive analysis of how AI is used in every US state and country we serve. We've produced a detailed report, and you can explore our data yourself on our new interactive website.

As we continue to grow and offer opportunities to our member pilots, we'd like to present our partnership with Open Planet - a royalty-free video library specializing in video for climate-related storytelling. medium.com/africandrone-o…

[DOSSIER] France-Algérie, anatomie d'une déchirure Depuis 1830, les relations franco-algériennes sont traversées par la violence humaine. Découvrez 7 de nos cartes qui illustrent le nouveau livre de T. Snégaroff et B. Stora ➡️ La carte du jour : Algérie géopolitique

The moment you've ACTUALLY been waiting for... Introducing Deep Research! Rolling out now, Deep Research browses hundreds of sites to craft an organized report AND gives you an annotated list of sources for deeper exploration, all of which you can add directly to your notebook.