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Cloudflare is opening up a range of features previously locked behind its enterprise tier to all customers, a move that signals a broader industry shift toward using premium capabilities as a retention tool rather than a revenue wall. For smaller teams, that's a meaningful upgrade without the contract negotiation.
Shifting gears, a presidential offhand remark has triggered a domain name land rush. After Donald Trump announced the United States would rebrand artificial intelligence as superintelligence, registrations for dot-s-i domains — that's Slovenia's country code, and Melania Trump's birthplace — exploded by more than one hundred times in a single month, with over twelve thousand new registrations logged in a single day. It's a strange collision of politics, branding, and speculative real estate.
And in a story that blurs the line between robotics research and a weekend project, a hobbyist has trained a small robot dog to teach itself to walk using a spiking neural network, with no reward signal guiding it at all. The approach mimics biological neurons more closely than conventional deep learning, and the results are surprisingly fluid for hardware you can hold in one hand.
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