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France is at a crossroads tonight. Roughly eight hundred thousand people marched in cities across the country Saturday, students and Yellow Vest supporters united over the cost of living and crumbling public services. By day's end, around twelve hundred arrests had been made and one hundred fifty officers were injured, underscoring just how much pressure has been building beneath the surface.
Shifting to the infrastructure that quietly holds our connected world together, Meta has announced Petal, what it describes as the first petabit-class transoceanic subsea cable. To put that in perspective, a petabit represents a scale of capacity that would make current undersea links look like garden hoses. It signals just how seriously the major platforms are investing in owning the physical backbone of the internet rather than renting it.
And on the software side, a developer has spent two years building a tool called Risphai, designed to close the gap between what AI can actually do and what most people manage to get out of it. The idea is simple but meaningful — automatically selecting the right model, the right reasoning effort, and the right prompt for each request, so that less technical users stop leaving so much capability on the table.
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