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Is silence actually good for you? New study shows silence can
significantly impact health
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most surprising findings involves the hippocampus, which is the brain
region responsible for memory. Scientists found that after three days
of sustained silence, participants showed measurable growth of new
brain cells in this area. This kind of neurogenesis was previously
believed to require long-term interventions.

For individuals regularly exposed to noise, the effects were even more
pronounced, suggesting that those most stressed by sound may benefit
the most from silence-induced brain changes. Silence also alters
brainwave activity, shifting from "fast, high-alert beta waves" to
"slower alpha and theta waves" associated with calm, focus, and
creativity. By the third day of silence, participants reached these
states more quickly than before.

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Klarna's revenue per employee soars to nearly $1M thanks to AI
efficiency push | TechCrunch
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This wasn’t empty talk for the buy now, pay later giant. The company
not only ended its pricey contract with Salesforce CRM, but also
curtailed its hiring efforts, allowing AI to do some of the work
previously performed by humans.

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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the birth of the agentic web
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Today, I’m talking with Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of
Microsoft and one of the company’s AI leaders. This is Kevin’s
third time on Decoder, and he’s one of my favorite guests. He thinks
a lot about the relationship between technology, art, and culture, and
he’s unusually willing to dive into the weeds of it all, which
obviously I can never resist.

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This Is Your Priest on Drugs - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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In October, 2015, Hunt Priest, then a minister at Emmanuel Episcopal
Church on Mercer Island, in Washington State, was flipping through The
Christian Century, a progressive Protestant magazine, when an
advertisement caught his eye: Seeking Clergy to Take Part in a
Research Study of Psilocybin and Sacred Experience. Psilocybin is a
hallucinogenic compound found in certain mushrooms; researchers at
Johns Hopkins University and N.Y.U. wanted to administer it to
religious leaders who had an interest in further exploring and
developing their spiritual lives.

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El Salvador arrests prominent human rights lawyer who defends
deportees
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Ruth Eleonora Lopez, 47, a senior figure at the rights group Cristosal
and a vocal critic of El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, a Trump
ally, was detained late on Sunday.

























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Waymo gets OK to expand robotaxi service into more of Silicon Valley |
TechCrunch
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The California Public Utilities Commission has approved Waymo’s
request to expand its commercial robotaxi service area, opening the
door for the Alphabet company to bring its driverless ride-hailing
vehicles into more communities south of San Francisco.

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Israel's Netanyahu acknowledges pressure from allies in decision to
resume Gaza aid
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said on Monday that his decision to resume aid to Gaza after a
weekslong blockade came after pressure from allies.

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YouTube viewers will start seeing ads after 'peak' moments in videos |
TechCrunch
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Imagine you’re watching a highly anticipated video from your
favorite YouTube creator — perhaps the moment a famous couple
finally gets engaged — when an ad pops up immediately after the
clip. This is part of YouTube’s new ad format called “Peak
Points.”

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In Eastern Europe, Centrists Hold Off 2 Nationalist Challenges
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The political center, eroded by nationalist forces aligned with
President Trump, held in the end. But only just.

























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It pays to use AI on the sly at work - FT (No paywall)
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Thats why companies need to think of ways to encourage open adoption

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China unveils Tiangong, the open-source humanoid robot with big
ambitions
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When it comes to the future of robotics, China just raised the
bar--electrically and open-source. Meet Tiangong, a sleek, full-sized
humanoid robot designed not just to impress, but to accelerate
innovation by opening its inner workings to the world.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?
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Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery,
it’s easy to see its value. It’s used in billions of laptops,
cellphones, power tools, and cars. Global sales top US $45 billion a
year, on their way to more than $100 billion in the coming decade.

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Is it better to shower in the morning or at night? Here's what a
microbiologist says
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It's a question that's long been the cause of debate: is it better to
shower in the morning or at night? Morning shower enthusiasts will say
this is the obvious winner, as it helps you wake up and start the day
fresh.



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Mark Zuckerberg Is the Latest Super Achiever to Say He Swears By the
80 Percent Rule
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The Facebook founder just explained his approach to productivity and
it's identical to the 80 percent rule that so many executives and
experts swear by. Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Getty Images

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Russia bans 'undesirable' Amnesty International
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The federal prosecutor’s office declared in a statement that Amnesty
was the “center of preparation of global Russophobic projects” and
was in league with Ukraine, which Russia has waged war on for more
than a decade.

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Sweden: a socialist paradise overflowing with billionaires - FT (No
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The country is generating the kind of wealth that raises the risk of
an anti-capitalist revolt

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Britain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research -
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Solar gEOENGINEERING is a heated topic. The core idea is to
deliberately interfere with the environment in order to cool the
climate, thus averting the worst consequences of the unintentional
interference caused by rampant fossil-fuel combustion. Most of the
potential methods involve reflecting sunlight back into space, thereby
stopping that energy being trapped in the atmosphere as heat. Those in
favour of researching them point to their potential to cheaply and
substantially reduce global temperatures. Critics, meanwhile,
highlight the risk of altering weather systems and disrupting
atmospheric chemistry (with global and ungovernable consequences)
while distracting countries from the hard but necessary work of
cutting carbon emissions.

























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Small banks fuel revival in blank-cheque Spac deals - FT (No paywall)
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Boutique groups have rushed to fill the gap left by Wall Street
heavyweights

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Trump Says Russia and Ukraine Will Begin Negotiations
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke for two hours on Monday in what
the U.S. President described as an "excellent" conversation,
announcing that Russia and Ukraine would immediately begin
negotiations toward a ceasefire.

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I got fooled by AI-for-science hype--here's what it taught me
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I’m excited to publish this guest post by Nick McGreivy, a physicist
who last year earned a PhD from Princeton. Nick used to be optimistic
that AI could accelerate physics research. But when he tried to apply
AI techniques to real physics problems the results were disappointing.

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Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France
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Paris wins approval from Berlin to remove anti-nuclear bias in EU
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Apples $100 Billion-a-Year App Store Will Never Be the Same -
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Apples $100 billion-a-year App Store business will never be the same
again after getting upended by lawsuits. Also: Inside Apples
artificial intelligence crisis and what comes next; new details on iOS
19, iPadOS 19 and visionOS 3; and CarPlay Ultra is finally ready if
you can afford it.

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NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to
scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
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"People see me now, and they just assume, 'oh, she had it easy,'" she
says, but Rose Ferreira has had it anything but easy. The trajectory
of her life has been so turbulent, in fact, that NASA, her previous
employer, published a feature article about her determination on its
website. That story chronicles her journey from a poverty-stricken
childhood in the Caribbean and years living unhoused, to pursuing her
education and rising to become a NASA intern, which ultimately led to
working at the space agency full-time.

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Duolingo CEO says there may still be schools in our AI future, but
mostly just for childcare - Business Insider (No paywall)
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Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo, recently shared his vision for the
future of education on the No Priors podcast with venture capitalist
Sarah Guo, and it centered on AI transforming the very role schools
will play.

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We're so back, why everyone is suddenly so thirsty for designers
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Earlier this month, Sir Jony Ive took the stage at Stripe Sessions to
reflect on design, responsibility, and the role of taste in a
metrics-obsessed world. The hour-long conversation quenched a very
specific thirst, one that’s been building for years among designers
who came up in the golden age of Apple, rode the wave of creative
tooling, and now find themselves shilling for engagement loops and AI
wrappers.

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AI Was the Last Nail in the Coffin of Venture Capital As We Know It
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Smaller teams, faster cycles, and smarter tools powered by AI are
rewriting the startup funding playbook

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What We Can Learn from Taylor Swift - Harvard Business Review (No
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When our colleague Kevin Evers wrote Theres Nothing Like This: The
Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift, we knew we had to talk about it. For
so many women, shes a role modelpersonally and professionally.

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The tech industry is hugeand Europes share of it is very small - WSJ
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Europe lacks any homegrown alternatives to the likes of Google, Amazon
or Meta. Apples market value is bigger than the entire German stock
market. The continents inability to create more big technology firms
is seen as one of its biggest challenges and is a major reason why its
economies are stagnating. The issue is even more urgent with the
prospect of higher tariffs threatening to further curb economic
growth.

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Race for Polands presidency blows wide open
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Sundays first round of the election saw centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafa
Trzaskowski squeeze out an unexpectedly narrow victory with 31.4
percent of the vote against Karol Nawrocki, supported by the populist
right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, who secured 29.5 percent.



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Why Apple Still Hasnt Cracked AI - Bloomberg (No paywall)
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Insiders say continued failure to get artificial intelligence right
threatens everything from the iPhones dominance to plans for robots
and other futuristic products.

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Melania Trump says new revenge porn law will protect children online
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The Take It Down Act criminalises posting "intimate images" - real or
AI-generated - online without an individual's consent and requires
technology companies to remove the content within 48 hours.

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The Geography of Loneliness
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Soichiro “Soichi” Koriyama is my walking partner in Japan. He is a
seasoned and worldly documentary photographer, a man in energetic
middle age, a storyteller with a raucous laugh and a quick step. He is
on an unlikely mission: To record every human being we encounter along
our 1,400-kilometer walking route through rural Japan. Whenever
Koriyama spots a villager—an old farmer bent over an onion patch, a
couple walking their dog, a woman hanging bed sheets—he raises his
camera. He snaps the shutter without breaking stride. He shoulders his
camera and marches on with the determined step of the soldier he once
was.

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Joe Biden had unrivaled medical care. How did his cancer go
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The news that the former president is battling an aggressive, stage-4
prostate cancer that has spread to the bone ignited a public debate
about why a person with peerless access to medical care was diagnosed
at such an advanced stage with a disease that is quite common in men
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Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK
study finds
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The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse
about themselves after spending time on social media. Half (50%) would
support a “digital curfew” that would restrict their access to
certain apps and sites past 10pm, while 46% said they would rather be
young in a world without the internet altogether.

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The Taiwan Tightrope - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
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Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum
for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs.
The magazine has featured contributions from many leading
international affairs experts.

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Gen-Z Trusts Social Media for Financial Advice More Than Any Other
Generation - Inc (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=188843&nl=daily]
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Nearly 70 percent of Gen-Zers admit to being influenced by a financial
trend they discovered online, according to a recent survey of 2,200
American adults by H&R Blocks banking app Spruce. Only 51 percent of
Millennials and 27 percent of Gen-X respondents said the same.

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Trump's science adviser calls for return to 'gold-standard' research
to kickstart stalled advances - STAT (No paywall)
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President Trumps science adviser, Michael Kratsios, called for a
return to reproducible and transparent research to kickstart what he
characterized as years of stalled scientific progress, in his first
detailed public remarks on science policy since taking office in
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Democratic Rep. McIver Hit With Federal Assault Charges Over ICE Clash
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The Justice Department on Monday charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J.,
with assaulting federal agents during a confrontation outside an
immigration detention center in New Jersey earlier this month, a move
the Congresswoman denounced as purely political.

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At least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally,
report finds
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The report comes amid a sprawling crackdown on immigrants in the US.
On Monday, the supreme court ruled that the Trump administration could
proceed with efforts to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for
Venezuelans. Ending TPS, which protects foreign citizens who cannot
return home because of war, natural disaster or other extraordinary
circumstances, could open up approximately 350,000 people for
potential deportation.

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Dramatic dip in baby hospitalizations for RSV linked to vaccine and
treatment
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New vaccines and treatments are linked to a dramatic decline in RSV
hospitalizations for babies, according to a new study from the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Is the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"?
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Ten years ago, when I was still writing freelance articles in my spare
time, I wrote a post for The Week in which I mused about America
becoming like China’s Ming Dynasty — powerful but insular, rich
but stagnant, arrogantly disdainful of science and technology, and
ignorant of progress being made in the world outside:



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Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant
impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
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SAG-AFTRA Calls Out 'Fortnite' Over Darth Vader AI Voice
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Imagine having the ability to make Darth Vader, Star Wars‘ most
eloquent villain, say whatever you want him to say. Fortnite players
have been having a blast doing just that since the feature was
introduced. But now there’s controversy attached to this new
iteration of the iconic character—and it has nothing to do with him
uttering too many f-bombs. Instead, it has to do with SAG-AFTRA’s
prescribed procedure on the use of AI voices.

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Record-Breaking Fusion Lab More Than Doubles Its 2022 Energy
Breakthrough
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The world’s only fusion experiment that actually gives back more
energy than it takes in is now breaking its own records. According to
TechCrunch, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory recently pushed its fusion yield—first to 5.2
megajoules, and then to 8.6 megajoules—more than doubling the energy
released in its historic shot in 2022.

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Getting materials out of the lab
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I’m writing these words using plastic keys, on a composite wood
desk, looking at a Gorilla Glass screen. The screen is linked to a
machined-aluminum computer, inside of which doped silicon switches on
and off a billion times per second.

























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Reeves eyes Gulf trade pact as next deal, Bank of Englands Pill says
pace of interest rate cuts too rapid business live
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The company, famous for its sausage rolls and vegan alternatives, said
like-for-like sales (at outlets open at least a year) rose by 2.9% in
the first 20 weeks of 2025. In the first nine weeks sales had
disappointed with a 1.9% rise, its worst performance since the
pandemic, for which it blamed bad weather and a tough macroeconomic
backdrop.

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UK fire chief took his life after alleged harassment over
qualifications, inquest hears
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In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116
123, or email [email protected] or [email protected]. In the US, you
can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat
on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis
counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11
14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org

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An America First Policy for the Antarctic - Foreign Policy (No
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Argument: An America First Policy for the Antarctic

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What to Do If Your Child Is the Bully - Scientific American (No
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I spend a lot of time speaking to parent groups and students about
bullying, and its common for parents to approach me after a talk with
questions about their personal situation. A mother once asked for my
thoughts about a situation in which her eight-year-old son had been
accused of bullying another boy.

























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Sylndr, with fresh $15.7M, allows users to buy, sell, finance, and
service used cars in Egypt | TechCrunch
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This marks the third deal announced by the recently launched
London-based VC firm in the past month, following investments in
Egypt’s digital savings and credit platform MoneyFellows and
proptech startup Nawy.

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Microsoft Introduces GitHub AI Agent, Now With More Vibe Coding
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In brief Microsoft announced that GitHub Copilot is evolving into a
full AI coding agent. The update reflects a broader trend of "vibe
coding" using artificial intelligence. Copilot's new capabilities aim
to streamline development while maintaining existing security
protocols.

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