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Bitcoin is holding firm above seventy-nine thousand dollars after a remarkable week, posting gains of roughly twenty-three percent. Most other tokens slipped as traders took profits, though XRP had a particularly wild ride — surging nearly forty-five percent on the week before cooling off sharply, running into what analysts are calling a firm technical ceiling.
On a very different note, Detroit is making a quiet but meaningful infrastructure decision permanent. A pilot program offering free bus rides to students through the city's transit system has been greenlit as an ongoing service. It started as an experiment, but the data apparently made the case — and for a city where mobility shapes opportunity, that matters.
And for the builders out there, Anthropic's Claude Desktop now supports running open-source AI models locally through Ollama. That means developers can route local model inference directly through the Claude interface, blurring the line between proprietary and open ecosystems. It's a small integration, but it signals something larger about where the AI tooling conversation is headed.
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