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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced what his government is calling the largest clean energy investment in North American history. The announcement signals a major federal push into decarbonized infrastructure, and comes at a moment when energy policy has become deeply entangled with questions of economic sovereignty and continental trade tensions.
Meanwhile, in the open source AI space, Alibaba's Qwen three-point-eight, twenty-seven billion parameter model is drawing serious attention from developers. Released under an Apache two-point-zero license with downloadable weights, it's being positioned as a frontier-class coding and reasoning system that runs entirely on local hardware — no cloud subscription required. For developers wary of API costs and data privacy, that's a meaningful shift in what's accessible outside the big lab ecosystems.
And on a lighter note, someone has built a working dial-up internet experience at fifty-six-k-dot-rip, letting curious users reconnect with the painfully slow, oddly nostalgic web of the nineteen nineties. It's a small project, but it's a reminder that the internet's past isn't just history — sometimes it's a mirror held up to how much we've gained, and what we've quietly lost.
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