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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 25, 2026?
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Why Your Newborn Already Knows Physics (And Why LLMs Still Cant)
By @zbruceli [ 21 Min read ] Inside the biological tricks that let three-pound brains outlearn trillion-parameter machines — and the radical new architectures trying to close the gap Read More.
Companies Pay YouTube to Show Ads While Users Pay to Escape Them
By @technologynews [ 4 Min read ] Companies pay YouTube billions to force ads in front of viewers, while viewers pay YouTube monthly fees to avoid seeing those same ads Read More.
U.S. Export Controls May Be Training China’s AI Stack to Survive Without Nvidia
By @ttassos [ 16 Min read ] This article examines how Huawei, DeepSeek, and cloud infrastructure are reshaping China’s AI sovereignty strategy under U.S. export controls. Read More.
Why Modern Search Systems Use Both Dual-Encoders and Cross-Encoders
By @abhinavbohra [ 11 Min read ] Why does your vector search return close but not quite right results? The fix is usually a two-stage pipeline: dual-encoder retrieval + cross-encoder Read More.
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