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Volkswagen is expanding its electric vehicle lineup with a more accessible entry point for the ID. Cross. The compact SUV can now be ordered with a thirty-seven kilowatt-hour battery, offering a range of up to three hundred twenty-four kilometers — enough for daily commuting and city driving without the premium price tag that has kept many buyers on the sidelines.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a team of engineers published findings this week on fine-tuning a two hundred thirty-five billion parameter mixture-of-experts model using just four consumer GPUs. The real twist in the story is what happened next — after pulling it off, they concluded the resulting model wasn't actually necessary for their use case, raising honest questions about when raw capability outpaces practical need.
And in the authentication space, a piece circulating among developers this week tackles a persistent tension in passkey adoption — who actually owns the identifier tied to your credential. As passkeys move toward mainstream use, the question of portability and user control is becoming less theoretical and more urgent for anyone building systems that people have to trust.
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