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MOONSHOT AI LAUNCHES KIMI K2.6 ON KIMI CHAT AND APIS

Kimi K2.6 features robust capabilities for coding and agentic tasks across chat and agent modes on kimi.com, with weights on Hugging Face and APIs via platform.moonshot.ai. The lineup includes K2.6 Instant for quick replies, K2.6 Thinking for complex reasoning, K2.6 Agent for document and web tasks, and K2.6 Agent Swarm for large-scale processing. Kimi K2.6 claims top open-source benchmark scores, surpassing competitors like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 in SWE-bench Multilingual and BrowseComp.

HOW THE HECK DOES SHAZAM WORK? (AN INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION)

Shazam identifies songs by converting audio waveforms into spectrograms and extracting "peak" frequencies to create a sparse constellation map. These peaks are paired to generate unique fingerprint hashes based on their frequencies and the precise time intervals between them. The system confirms a match when it finds consistent timing between the user's clip and a known song by comparing these hashes against a massive database.

TIM COOK STEPPING DOWN AS APPLE CEO, JOHN TERNUS TAKING OVER

Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down after 15 years in the role, transitioning to executive chairman while hardware chief John Ternus becomes CEO on September 1. Cook leaves behind a $4 trillion company with massively expanded services and wearables businesses, despite some product missteps like Vision Pro. Ternus, a longtime Apple engineer, is expected to continue shaping the company's hardware and sustainability efforts as he takes over leadership.

AMAZON TO INVEST UP TO ANOTHER $25 BILLION IN ANTHROPIC AS PART OF AI INFRASTRUCTURE DEAL

Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic as part of an expanded agreement to build out AI infrastructure. The investment includes $5 billion into Anthropic now, with up to $20 billion tied to certain commercial milestones. Anthropic has committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years. It has secured up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training and deploying its models.

WHAT PHYSICAL ‘LIFE FORCE' TURNS BIOLOGY'S WHEELS?

This article tells the story of how scientists figured out how the flagellar motor worked. The flagellar motor was discovered by Howard Berg, who set out in the early 1970s to apply his training in physics to understand how bacteria move. Bacteria move quickly, so Berg had to invent and build an automatic tracking microscope to keep them in view. He hypothesized how the mechanism worked 50 years before scientists discovered how the motor works.

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