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Talkie: a 13B LLM trained only on pre-1931 text used Claude Sonnet to help test the model and judge its output

"Researchers Alec Radford (GPT, CLIP, Whisper), Nick Levine, and David Duvenaud just released **talkie**: a 13 billion parameter language model trained *exclusively* on text published before 1931. No internet. No Wikipedia. No World War II. Its worldview is frozen at December 31, 1930. **Why does th..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 148 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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Anthropic Partners with Creative Software Companies for Claude Integration

+++ Anthropic shipped connectors linking Claude directly into Blender, Adobe, Autodesk and other professional tools, letting AI handle actual creative work instead of just talking about it. +++

The final nail in the coffin for entry level creative freelancers just dropped

"Anthropic just officially released the blender mcp connector today alongside adobe ,splice and sketchup, you can now type "create a low poly beach scene with palm trees and sunset lighting" into claude and watch it build the entire thing in blender in real time tadaaa. They even became an official b..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 108 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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Mayo Clinic researchers detail Redmod, an AI system that identified subtle changes in routine CT scans an average of 475 days before pancreatic cancer diagnosis

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'It took nine seconds': Claude AI agent deletes company's database

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Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 110 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
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China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture

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Mistral Medium 3.5 128B Model Release

+++ Mistral dropped a 256k context dense monster that apparently does reasoning, instruction-following, and probably makes decent espresso. The merged architecture suggests they've finally figured out how to bake multiple capabilities into one model without the usual competence tradeoffs. +++

mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B Β· Hugging Face

"https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B-GGUF # Mistral Medium 3.5 128B Mistral Medium 3.5 is our first flagship merged model. It is a dense 128B model with a 256k context window, handling instruction-following, reasoning..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 227 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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Fully 3D-modeled Raspberry Pi 5 enclosure made 100% through Claude's Blender MCP, zero manual modeling

"So I've been experimenting with Claude's new Blender MCP integration and decided to push it to its limits with a real engineering project: a complete, print-ready enclosure for the Raspberry Pi 5, modeled entirely through AI prompts, no hands on keyboard in Blender at all. **What Claude did autonom..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 19 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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An interactive semantic map of the latest 10 million published papers [P]

"I built a map to help navigate the complex scientific landscape through spatial exploration. How it works: Sourced the latest 10M papers from OpenAlex and generated embeddings using SPECTER 2 on titles and abstracts. Reduced dimensionality with UMAP, then applied Voronoi partitioning on density p..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 12 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
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OpenAI Models Available on AWS Bedrock

+++ OpenAI models are now available through AWS Bedrock, because apparently the most valuable AI company can't resist becoming a multi-cloud utility while hedging its Microsoft bets. Enterprise customers just gained cheaper optionality. +++

OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 88 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $82.9B, net income up 23% to $31.8B, and says its AI business surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $37B, up 123%

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Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 246 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 241 comments 😀 NEGATIVE ENERGY
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The Controllability Trap: A Governance Framework for Military AI Agents

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Google just released Deep Research Max β€” an autonomous research agent that writes expert-grade reports on its own

"Google quietly dropped something interesting last week. They updated their Deep Research agent (available via Gemini API) and introduced a "Max" tier built on Gemini 3.1 Pro. What it actually does: you give it a topic, it autonomously searches the web (and your private data via MCP), reasons over t..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 21 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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A playable DOOM MCP app

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 31 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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After the '9 seconds to delete everything' incident: a framework for limiting AI agent blast radius

"https://ultrathink.art/blog/blast-radius-containment?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cursor-incident..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 5 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents from Running Wild with Your Credit Cards

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AgentWard: A Lifecycle Security Architecture for Autonomous AI Agents

"Autonomous AI agents extend large language models into full runtime systems that load skills, ingest external content, maintain memory, plan multi-step actions, and invoke privileged tools. In such systems, security failures rarely remain confined to a single interface; instead, they can propagate a..."
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Governing What You Cannot Observe: Adaptive Runtime Governance for Autonomous AI Agents

"Autonomous AI agents can remain fully authorized and still become unsafe as behavior drifts, adversaries adapt, and decision patterns shift without any code change. We propose the \textbf{Informational Viability Principle}: governing an agent reduces to estimating a bound on unobserved risk $\hat{B}..."
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Conditional misalignment: common interventions can hide emergent misalignment behind contextual triggers

"Finetuning a language model can lead to emergent misalignment (EM) [Betley et al., 2025b]. Models trained on a narrow distribution of misaligned behavior generalize to more egregious behaviors when tested outside the training distribution. We study a set of interventions proposed to reduce EM. We..."
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87% Cost Savings & Sub-3s Latency: I built a "Warm-Cache" harness for persistent Claude agents.

"# The "Goldfish Problem" is Expensive. I Decided to Fix the Plumbing. Most Claude implementations leave 90% of their money on the table because they don’t optimize for **Prompt Caching**. I’ve been running a personal agent in my Discord for months that manages my AWS infra and codebases, and I fina..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 7 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
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The Last Human-Written Paper: Agent-Native Research Artifacts

"Scientific publication compresses a branching, iterative research process into a linear narrative, discarding the majority of what was discovered along the way. This compilation imposes two structural costs: a Storytelling Tax, where failed experiments, rejected hypotheses, and the branching explora..."
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Anthropic's Argument for Mythos SWE-bench improvement contains a fatal error

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AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials. Is this significant for artificial intelligence?

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
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Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 22 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
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Open-weight 27B hits 38% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Opus 4.1 hit 38% in Aug 2025)

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 4 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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Fastembed – Lightweight Python Embedding Library

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Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search β€œexperiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+

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Built a prompt injection proxy that beats OpenAI Moderation and LlamaGuard β€” see it block attacks live

"Built Arc Gate β€” sits in front of any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and blocks prompt injection before it reaches your model. Try it here β€” no signup, no code, no setup: https://web-production-6e47f.up.railway.app/try Type any prompt and see if it gets blocked or passes. The examples on the page sho..."
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SYNQ – Give ChatGPT and Claude permanent, local memory

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Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 61 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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PageGuide – a browser agent that grounds AI directly on the webpage

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The Price of Agreement: Measuring LLM Sycophancy in Agentic Financial Applications

"Given the increased use of LLMs in financial systems today, it becomes important to evaluate the safety and robustness of such systems. One failure mode that LLMs frequently display in general domain settings is that of sycophancy. That is, models prioritize agreement with expressed user beliefs ove..."
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Monitoring LLM behavior: Drift, retries, and refusal patterns

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I built OWASP-style security skill packs for LLM apps (NPM install)

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A paradox of AI fluency

"How much does a user's skill with AI shape what AI actually delivers for them? This question is critical for users, AI product builders, and society at large, but it remains underexplored. Using a richly annotated sample of 27K transcripts from WildChat-4.8M, we show that fluent users take on more c..."
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Seer – Open-source local AI image descriptions for screen readers (no API key)

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 17 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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TealKit – A cross-platform UI for local AI agents and MCP

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The Chameleon's Limit: Investigating Persona Collapse and Homogenization in Large Language Models

"Applications based on large language models (LLMs), such as multi-agent simulations, require population diversity among agents. We identify a pervasive failure mode we term \emph{Persona Collapse}: agents each assigned a distinct profile nonetheless converge into a narrow behavioral mode, producing..."
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Our 2026 Direction: AI and Classic Workflows in JetBrains IDEs

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Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

"Recursive or looped language models have recently emerged as a new scaling axis by iteratively refining the same model computation over latent states to deepen reasoning. We extend such scaling principle from a single model to multi-agent systems, and ask: Can agent collaboration itself be scaled th..."
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Barriers to Universal Reasoning With Transformers (And How to Overcome Them)

"Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has been shown to empirically improve Transformers' performance, and theoretically increase their expressivity to Turing completeness. However, whether Transformers can learn to generalize to CoT traces longer than those seen during training is understudied. We use recent theo..."
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Copilot just 9x'd Sonnet and 27x'd Opus and teams have no idea

"The multiplier table GitHub quietly updated last week is the first visible crack in a subsidy model that was never sustainable. Quick context for anyone unfamiliar: Copilot plans give you a monthly pool of "premium requests." Each model has a multiplier that determines how fast you drain it. Until ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 82 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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Sources: Google dropped out of a $100M Pentagon challenge to create tech for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms, following an internal ethics review

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Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses

"Harnesses have become a central determinant of coding-agent performance, shaping how models interact with repositories, tools, and execution environments. Yet automating harness engineering is hard: a heterogeneous action space, sparse and noisy evaluation signal, multi-million-token trajectories, a..."
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Why Everyone Is Obsessed with Claude Code

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Carbon-Taxed Transformers: A Green Compression Pipeline for Overgrown Language Models

"The accelerating adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering (SE) has brought with it a silent crisis: unsustainable computational cost. While these models demonstrate remarkable capabilities in different SE tasks, they are unmanageably large, slow to deploy, memory-intensive, a..."
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Introducing the IBM Granite 4.1 family of models (3B/8B/30B)

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 17 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

From Soliloquy to Agora: Memory-Enhanced LLM Agents with Decentralized Debate for Optimization Modeling

"Optimization modeling underpins real-world decision-making in logistics, manufacturing, energy, and public services, but reliably solving such problems from natural-language requirements remains challenging for current large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we propose \emph{Agora-Opt}, a modul..."
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my claude prompts are embarrassingly short now

"Found out I've been doing this completely backwards for eight months. Was debugging why my Claude conversations kept going off the rails when I had a 3,847 word system prompt that supposedly covered everything. Turns out the problem was the system prompt. Like everyone else I was cramming my entir..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 27 comments 🐝 BUZZING
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Subliminal Steering: Stronger Encoding of Hidden Signals

"Subliminal learning describes a student language model inheriting a behavioral bias by fine-tuning on seemingly innocuous data generated by a biased teacher model. Prior work has begun to characterize this phenomenon but leaves open questions about the scope of signals it can transfer, the mechanism..."
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Claude for Creative Work

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 86 comments 🐝 BUZZING
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Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to β€œbuild more compute”

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Building a fully local PDF-to-audiobook workflow with Kokoro 82M, Qwen and llama.cpp

"Hey everyone, I’ve been building a local-first desktop PDF reader that can read technical books aloud and keep the spoken text highlighted while reading. The original motivation was pretty practical: I read a lot of programming and technical books, but many publishers either don’t offer audio vers..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 15 comments 🐝 BUZZING
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Three Models of RLHF Annotation: Extension, Evidence, and Authority

"Preference-based alignment methods, most prominently Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF), use the judgments of human annotators to shape large language model behaviour. However, the normative role of these judgments is rarely made explicit. I distinguish three conceptual models of that..."
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ADEMA: A Knowledge-State Orchestration Architecture for Long-Horizon Knowledge Synthesis with LLMAgents

"Long-horizon LLM tasks often fail not because a single answer is unattainable, but because knowledge states drift across rounds, intermediate commitments remain implicit, and interruption fractures the evolving evidence chain. This paper presents ADEMA as a knowledge-state orchestration architecture..."
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Show HN: TiGrIS, a tiling compiler that fits ML models onto embedded devices

πŸ“° NEWS

I open-sourced 59 Claude Skills covering the full website lifecycle (brand, design, content, SEO, dev, ops, growth)

"Spent the last few weeks codifying how I work with Claude into a reusable library. Sharing because it might save someone else the same effort. What it is: 59 skills covering the full lifecycle of building, launching, running, and growing a website. 13 categories: brand discovery, creative briefs, I..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 16 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
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Meta raises its 2026 capex to between $125B and $145B, exceeding analysts' estimates, after previously forecasting $115B to $135B; META drops 6%+ after hours

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Rebuilding the Data Stack for AI

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Why isn’t LLM reasoning done in vector space instead of natural language?[D]

"**Why don’t LLMs use explicit vector-based reasoning instead of language-based chain-of-thought? What would happen if they did?** Most LLM reasoning we see is expressed through language: step-by-step text, explanations, chain-of-thought style outputs, etc. But internally, models already operate on ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 56 comments 🐝 BUZZING
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

When Errors Can Be Beneficial: A Categorization of Imperfect Rewards for Policy Gradient

"Training language models via reinforcement learning often relies on imperfect proxy rewards, since ground truth rewards that precisely define the intended behavior are rarely available. Standard metrics for assessing the quality of proxy rewards, such as ranking accuracy, treat incorrect rewards as..."
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Who's on call? How Opus 4.6 helped us calculate this 2,500x faster

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AI Safety Researcher: I wrote about neuralese as a cautionary tale ... AI Researchers: At long last, we invented neuralese from the classic paper, Don't Let The Machines Speak In Neuralese

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 16 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
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US accuses China of industrial-scale AI model distillation, will share Intel

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Skill Retrieval Augmentation for Agentic AI

"As large language models (LLMs) evolve into agentic problem solvers, they increasingly rely on external, reusable skills to handle tasks beyond their native parametric capabilities. In existing agent systems, the dominant strategy for incorporating skills is to explicitly enumerate available skills..."
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I asked ChatGPT to imagine r/ChatGPT the day AGI drops… the tiny details are insane

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 182 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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Ai is getting too realistic

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 492 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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"People who don't use AI will be left behind"

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 157 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
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ANP – A binary protocol for AI agent-to-agent price negotiation (no LLM tokens)

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The FIDO Alliance launches two working groups to establish industry standards for securing AI agent transactions; Google contributes the Agent Payments Protocol

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Grok Voice API

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Arc Gate β€”LLM proxy that hits P=1.00 R=1.00 F1=1.00 on indirect/roleplay prompt injection (beats OpenAI Moderation and LlamaGuard)

"Benchmarked on 40 out-of-distribution prompts, indirect requests, roleplay framings, hypothetical scenarios, technical phrasings. The stuff that slips past everything else. Arc Gate: P=1.00, R=1.00, F1=1.00 OpenAI Moderation API: P=1.00, R=0.75, F1=0.86 LlamaGuard 3 8B: P=1.00, R=0.55, F1=0.71 Z..."
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GPT-5.5's biggest blind spot: the Java bugs your tests won't catch

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Investigation into In-Context Learning Capabilities of Transformers

"Transformers have demonstrated a strong ability for in-context learning (ICL), enabling models to solve previously unseen tasks using only example input output pairs provided at inference time. While prior theoretical work has established conditions under which transformers can perform linear classi..."
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