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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scored 89.0% on ARC-AGI-1 and 61.4% on ARC-AGI-2, according to results verified by the ARC Prize Foundation. The Max variant reaches both scores at $0.02 and $0.04 per task respectively, one of the lowest costs reported for this level of performance in abstract reasoning.

The US Department of the Interior paid $1.2 billion to RWE so the German company would abandon its offshore wind projects in California, Louisiana, and New York. In exchange, RWE will invest much of that money in natural gas, including an LNG terminal in Louisiana. It’s the third deal of this kind signed by the Trump administration in 2026.

A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million for damages to the mental health of children on its platforms, bringing the company’s total penalties to $942 million since March 2026. The ruling also requires Meta to improve age verification and report its compliance every six months.

A botany blog post unknowingly describes a prerequisite graph for self-teaching any subject. Here we adapt that logic to a technical curriculum, with Python and Node.js code to automatically order what to study first.

An article about Mario Kart 8 is the excuse to explain the Pareto frontier, a century-old method that discards objectively worse options without needing predefined weights. The same logic applies to choosing AI models, cloud instances, or frameworks.

A botany blog famous for its self-taught reading list revives the debate over how to learn computer science without a college degree. TeachYourselfCS, the guide that organizes canonical books like SICP and CLRS, remains the reference for thousands of self-taught programmers in 2026.

Zed Industries opened early access to DeltaDB, a version control system that records every operation between commits and links it to the AI agent conversation that originated it. There’s still no public CLI: the only step available is joining the waitlist.

Four Google veterans, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, unveiled Discovery Loop, a lab aiming to automate the entire scientific research cycle with artificial intelligence. The project will start with machine learning before expanding into other disciplines.