How did Darth Vader know what Luke was getting for Christmas? He felt his presents.
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Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). It performs strongly in software engineering and professional...
Published: 08/10/2026
https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. It succeeds Claude Haiku 4.5 with stronger coding, computer use, and...
Published: 07/10/2026
https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5
Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro. It improves product recontextualization,...
Published: 06/10/2026
https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1
Schematron V2 Turbo is a 3B-parameter HTML-to-JSON extraction model from Inference.net. It prioritizes throughput for high-volume extraction workloads. Extraction instructions must be supplied through a JSON schema in response_format rather...
Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:35:49 GMT
Schematron V2 Small is a 3B-parameter HTML-to-JSON extraction model from Inference.net. It prioritizes extraction quality for complex schemas and long pages. Extraction instructions must be supplied through a JSON schema...
Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:35:33 GMT
The US Environmental Protection Agency has approved the first permit under the its new “Good Samaritan” law to remediate abandoned mine workings. The permit has been issued to Trout Unlimited, a fishing and sportsmen focused nonprofit that engages in riverine conservation all over the West. The Good Samaritan act passed in 2024 with broad bipartisan […] The post First Permit to Clean Up Old Mine Waste Issued for WA State Under 2024 ‘Good Samaritan Act’ appeared firs...
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Published: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:30:04 +0000
Episode Description: An approach to treating degenerative blindness has been in development for more than ten years across research institutions in Spain. The result is not a surgery, a gene therapy, or an implant. It is eye drops. Light-activated compounds that restored vision in blind animal models by stepping in where lost photoreceptors used to […] The post Podcast Transcript September 11th, 2026— NYC bans AI for 500,000 students, and seven other solutions first appeared on The Optimis...
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Published: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:30:13 +0000
We know the tools for building transformative schools, but they must be in the hands of those who will most benefit from such a transformation.
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Published: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:21:52 +0000
Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: […] The post Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ by Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network .
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Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:18 +0000
2,516 years ago today was one of two days in the ancient era of world history that, if events had gone a different way, Western Civilization as we know it may never have sprouted. Athenian citizen soldiers, demonstrating superb athleticism and courage, ran a little over a mile in their heavy armor to smash a […] The post Good News in History September 12 appeared first on Good News Network .
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Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000