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Vijf rozenkwartssteentjes had de antieke ring oorspronkelijk. Er miste er eentje: onvoorzichtigheid van mijn kant.

De Oekraïense inlichtingendiensten behoren inmiddels tot de beste ter wereld. Hun operaties tegen de Russische oorlogsmachinerie reiken niet alleen tot diep in het achterland van Poetin, ze verlopen ook zonder noemenswaardige ‘collateral damage’.

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NEW YORK (ANP) - De Amerikaanse talkshow 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' wordt voor onbepaalde tijd stopgezet wegens uitspraken van de host Jimmy Kimmel over de recente moord op de conservatieve activist Charlie Kirk. Dat maakte Nexstar Media Group woensdag (lokale tijd) bekend. De talkshow wordt 's avonds laat uitgezonden op ABC. Een woordvoerder van de zender bevestigt dat de talkshow wordt stopgezet.

"We hebben een nieuw dieptepunt bereikt dit weekend met de MAGA-gang die dat kind dat Charlie Kirk heeft vermoord probeert neer te zetten als iets anders dan een van hen," zei Kimmel tijdens zijn show maandagavond. Daarmee suggereerde Kimmel dat de 'Make America Great Again'-beweging de persoonlijke achtergrond van de verdachte van de moord op Kirk gebruikt om diens dood te politiseren. Volgens niet-bevestigde mediaberichten zou de verdachte linkse ideeën hebben.

Kimmel werd fel bekritiseerd voor zijn opmerkingen, onder meer door de Federal Communications Commission, de overheidsdienst die toezicht houdt op de media.

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Microsoft is now prioritizing Anthropic's Claude 4 over OpenAI's GPT-5 in Visual Studio Code's auto model feature, signaling a quiet but clear shift in preference. The Verge reports: "Based on internal benchmarks, Claude Sonnet 4 is our recommended model for GitHub Copilot," said Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, in an internal email in June. While that guidance was issued ahead of the GPT-5 release, I understand Microsoft's model guidance hasn't changed.

Microsoft is also making "significant investments" in training its own AI models. "We're also going to be making significant investments in our own cluster. So today, MAI-1-preview was only trained on 15,000 H100s, a tiny cluster in the grand scheme of things," said Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman, in an employee-only town hall last week.

Microsoft is also reportedly planning to use Anthropic's AI models for some features in its Microsoft 365 apps soon. The Information reports that the Microsoft 365 Copilot will be "partly powered by Anthropic models," after Microsoft found that some of these models outperformed OpenAI in Excel and PowerPoint.

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Two Xpeng AeroHT flying cars collided during a rehearsal for the Changchun Air Show in China, with one vehicle catching fire upon landing. While the company reported no serious injuries, CNN reported one person was injured in the crash. The BBC reports: Footage on Chinese social media site Weibo appeared to show a flaming vehicle on the ground which was being attended to by fire engines. One vehicle "sustained fuselage damage and caught fire upon landing," Xpeng AeroHT said in a statement to CNN. "All personnel at the scene are safe, and local authorities have completed on-site emergency measures in an orderly manner," it added.

The electric flying cars take off and land vertically, and the company is hoping to sell them for around $300,000 each. In January, Xpeng claimed to have around 3,000 orders for the vehicle. [...] It has said it wants to lead the world in the "low-altitude economy."

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