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GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

A Chinese model that costs pennies and matches frontier performance isn't just a product story — it's a pricing crisis for every AI lab burning billions on compute.

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articleSixth Tone
Poultry Returns: Botanist Fights Off the Desert With 50,000 Chickens

A botanist studying degraded grasslands in northern China accidentally discovered that free-range chickens are an astonishingly effective weapon against advancing desert.

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videoPractical Engineering
The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans

Katrina didn't flood New Orleans. A specific, identifiable engineering flaw did. Grady Hillhouse traces the failure in precise, infuriating detail.

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articleWired
Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan

James Webb found the same spectral fingerprint on Pluto and Titan. It doesn't match anything in any database. Nobody knows what it is yet.

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articleResponsible Statecraft
Hormuz chokepoint? Turkey wants to be king of the Middle Corridor

The Strait of Hormuz closure is now the largest supply disruption in oil market history. Turkey is racing to make the rerouting permanent.

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