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The AI wealth wave is cresting into philanthropy. A new generation of billionaires, their fortunes built on artificial intelligence, are making public pledges to give it all away. It's a compelling headline, but Wired is asking the harder question — what exactly does a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise mean, and who decides where that money lands?
On the model benchmarking front, DeepSeek's V four Flash, released July thirty-first, is drawing attention after scoring eighty-two point seven percent on Terminal-Bench two point one using a public evaluation harness. That's a notable result for a model that remains openly testable, and it signals that the race for capable, transparent AI systems is very much still running.
Meanwhile, a developer on Hacker News has quietly shipped something genuinely useful — a minimal Python command-line tool that brings Google Quick Share to Linux desktops, no Bluetooth adapter required. Android phones on the same network can send and receive files just as they would with any other Android device. Small project, real problem solved.
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