France is running full sprint backwards.
🔴 🇫🇷 ALERTE INFO - DU JAMAIS VU: UNE TAXE SUR CHAQUE GIGAOCTET INTERNET VOTÉE À L’ASSEMBLÉE
Les députés ont adopté un amendement prévoyant de taxer les producteurs de données numériques à hauteur de 5,5 centimes par Go transmis.
💰 Objectif affiché : jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros par an.
Netflix, YouTube, cloud, jeux dématérialisés… les grands services numériques pourraient être concernés, avec un risque de répercussion sur les prix pour les consommateurs.
📌 Source : Assemblée nationale
#France #Budget2027
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L'amendement instaurant cette taxe a été adopté à l'Assemblée par 11 voix contre 10 en première lecture du budget 2027, contre l'avis du gouvernement. Il n'est pas définitif et doit encore franchir les étapes parlementaires suivantes.
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True. There are many reasons for it, but I believe it can be fixed. Bring new blood. Make shows great again!
When you remember that the classic STAR TREK SHOWS were able to crank out:
STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - 3 seasons, 79 episodes (1966–1969)
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - 7 seasons, 178 episodes (1987–1994)
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - 7 seasons, 176 episodes (1993–1999)
STAR TREK: VOYAGER - 7 seasons, 172 episodes (1995–2001)
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE - 4 seasons, 98 episodes (2001–2005)
A TOTAL OF 703 EPISODES ACROSS FIVE SERIES IN 39 YEARS (1966–2005)...
...the idea that MASSIVE STREAMERS like Netflix and Amazon can only produce 8-10 episodes of GARBAGE TV...
...followed by 2-3 year hiatuses...
...becomes even more pathetic, doesn't it?
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Patrick Stewart in the final scene on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
It’s extremely simple, but reveals so much of his character if you watched. Somehow his sense of duty and sensitivity, along with the admiration of his crew shines through.
RIP Captain.
Oh no. RIP Captain.
Patrick Stewart, the legendary British actor best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the long-running "Star Trek" TV series, has died. He was 86. cnn.it/3W0RSFn
Just found out Apple released a new laptop. Does "better display" still sells in 2026?
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I disagree with Elon. Abundance doesn’t mean everyone owns a yacht or private jet. Status hierarchies and class distinctions would remain, and it’s unclear whether free necessities would actually reduce discontent at the bottom. Humans tend to look up, not down or sideways. The neighbor’s grass is always greener.
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Saving money for the distant future is pointless with the advent of super intelligent abundance
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My kid's teacher asked the students to put their notes into ChatGPT and request it to create an exam. Then have it explain the errors and how to improve (he got 19 out of 20). This is the way!
They're pulling out the big guns now.
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, and second only to Claude Opus 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index
Gemini 4 Carbon scores 59 on Intelligence Index v5, driven by leading performance in complex reasoning, knowledge, and scientific tasks. It also has large gains in coding and knowledge work, particularly when compared to other Gemini models, but it is not leading in all these areas.
As with launch of Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 4 Carbon is being rolled out to selected users and is not yet publicly available. Google is offering a 50% launch discount, with no confirmed end date. All our charts and figures use standard pricing for both Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon.
Key results for Gemini 4 Carbon with high reasoning:
➤ Gemini 4 Carbon leads the Intelligence Index v5, with the #1 score in 4 of the 9 Index evaluations: HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench-Science, AA-Omniscience, AutomationBench-AA. Carbon makes substantial gains elsewhere but is not leading in coding and knowledge work
➤ Behind only Claude Opus 5.5 on coding agents: With Antigravity CLI, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) scores 59 only 3 points behind Claude Code with Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 62) on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index. Carbon ranks second on both Terminal-Bench 4.0 (64%) and FrontierCode v1.1 (51%), behind Claude Opus 5.5 (max) at 56%. Google has historically underperformed in this area and so this improvement stands out
➤ Improved agentic knowledge work, but not yet leading: On AA-Briefcase, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) scores 1609 Elo, a 126-point improvement over Gemini 4 Argon (high, 1483), but still behind models including Grok 4.7 (xhigh, 1638), Muse Wonder (max, 1659) and Kimi K3.1 Pro (1678). The largest gain comes from Presentation, up 293 Elo to 1598, alongside a 120-point improvement in Analytical Quality to 1671
➤ Lower Cost per Task than Claude Opus 5.5 for comparable overall intelligence: Gemini 4 Carbon costs $7.76 per Intelligence Index task, ~23% less than Claude Opus 5.5 (max, $10.04) but ~1.2x GPT-6 Astra (max, $6.25). It uses 123k output tokens per task, 29% fewer than Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 173k). At the same $4/$20 standard pricing, its Cost per Task is in line with Gemini 4 Argon ($7.68), while scoring 9 points higher on the Intelligence Index
➤ Leading AA-Omniscience v1.1 score, with low hallucination: Gemini 4 Carbon scores 54 on our recently updated AA-Omniscience v1.1, 6 points ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 48) and 8 points ahead of Gemini 4 Argon (46). Accuracy (% correct) rises 10 points over Argon to 58%, while its hallucination rate rises from 4% to 11%. This is still the second lowest of any model, behind only Argon, compared with 50% for both Claude Opus 5.5 (max) and GPT-6 Astra (max)
Key model details:
➤ Context Window: 1M tokens
➤ Multimodality: Text, image, video, and speech input, with text output
➤ Pricing: $4/$20 per 1M input/output tokens, the same as Gemini 4 Argon’s standard pricing, with a 50% discount. Cached input tokens receive a 95% discount ($0.20 per 1M)
Congratulations to the @GoogleDeepMind team!
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Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, it's a big jump over Argon which we released just 2 weeks ago.
Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA on cyber, long horizon tasks, ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis V5, significantly improves on usability in domains like coding, and is more aligned.
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BlueChip. Built in America.
America made the first electronic computer to win a war.
Now we depend on our greatest adversaries to build the computers that run our economy and defend our nation.
Today, we bring it home.
Introducing Genie 4 from @GoogleDeepMind, our most realistic and interactive world model yet 🌍
Now you can use natural language to dynamically steer the world and its soundscape in real-time, whether you're changing the weather, moving the camera, or introducing new elements to the environment.
So, how does the model do that?
Behind the scenes, Gemini acts as the "brain" of the simulation. It translates your requests into actions, plans out complex events, watches the scene unfold to keep track of what's happening, and adjusts as you change the story. Genie 4 also introduces ambient audio and real-time interactive human dialogue that adapts on the fly.





















