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A chatbot’s reply taps only 41 billion of its 675 billion parameters per word, and that gap is how free AI models stay fast and cheap to run

Inside the mixture of experts system that lets huge AI models like Mistral Large 3 answer instantly by activating a fraction ...
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Silent book clubs grow to 2,000 chapters across 62 countries

Silent book clubs have expanded to more than 2,000 chapters in 62 countries, offering quiet, no-homework reading meetups ...
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An Ohio factory melts 150 tons of glass a day for solar panels, and it is the first plant in the country that makes this hidden layer at all

An Ohio factory is now the first US plant producing solar panel glass at scale, melting 150 tons daily to cut import reliance ...
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Electric car buyers got an 11.4 percent sales share last September when a $7,500 tax credit expired, but the market has since settled at barely half that level

A year after the $7,500 federal EV credit expired, electric car sales settled near 5-6% of the market as hybrids and tariff costs reshape pricing.
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A pair of worn Forever 21 shorts from the early 2000s resold for nearly $200 on an app, and old mall clothes are now priced and sold as vintage treasure

A $198 resale of old Forever 21 shorts shows how Gen Z is turning mall-era clothing into a priced vintage market.