Bookmarks Digest — Page 4
1. Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** The Decoder
✍️ **Author Reference:** Matthias Bastian
xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. In coding benchmarks, the model trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 but needs 4.2 times fewer tokens than Opus 4.8. At $2 per million input tokens, it costs a fraction of the competition. EU availability is expected in mid-July.
2. The Neanderthal “love story” isn’t what the DNA actually shows | ScienceDaily
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Claims that Neanderthal men "preferred" Homo sapiens women may make for catchy headlines, but the underlying research does not actually show prehistoric romance. The genetic evidence only points to an uneven pattern of DNA inheritance, which could have been shaped by biology, migration, or social organization. Archaeological evidence suggests Neanderthal groups may have followed traditions where women moved between communities, opening the door to far more complicated explanations than simple attraction.
3. Introducing Grok 4.5 | SpaceXAI
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Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI's smartest model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work.
4. SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an 'Opus-class model' | TechCrunch
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** TechCrunch
✍️ **Author Reference:** Lucas Ropek
Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
5. SpaceXAI launches new model, Grok 4.5
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 03:48 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Axios
✍️ **Author Reference:** Madison Mills,Ina Fried,Mike Allen
It's the first major model release from the company since going public.
6. In a 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich rock from Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover identified 21 carbon-based molecules — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure linked to the chemistry that can precede RNA and DNA — showing that ancient Martian sediments can preserve surprisingly complex organic chemistry for billions of years.
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 03:44 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
NASA's Curiosity rover has added a more detailed layer to one of the hardest questions in Mars science: not whether ancient Mars was ever habitable, but how
7. About 50 kilometres above Venus’ surface, the crushing heat and pressure below give way to temperatures and air pressure surprisingly close to Earth’s, a region NASA has described as the most Earth-surface-like environment in the solar system — at least by those measures, more forgiving than the surface of Mars.
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
Venus is usually introduced as the planet that makes Mars look gentle. Its surface is hot enough to melt lead, its pressure is comparable to being nearly a
8. Medium
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Medium
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://medium.com/@tmockait_47449
A fine line separates patriotism from nationalism. Patriotism was on full display this July 4; so was American chauvinism. A fine line separates love of country from aggressive nationalism. In his …
9. Medium
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Medium
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://medium.com/@tmockait_47449
The Myth of Meritocracy Since taking office President Trump has conducted a relentless assault on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, blaming it for every ill in the country, including the aviation …
10. Social-Media UAP Influencers Misunderstand How Science Works! | by Avi Loeb | Jul, 2026 | Medium
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Medium
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://avi-loeb.medium.com
Social-Media UAP Influencers Misunderstand How Science Works! When I noticed that the photographs taken by the Apollo astronauts half a century ago had blue dots on the parts of the Kodak film that …
11. Backwards talking girl Alyssa on the Today Show 2/1/12 - YouTube
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A clip of Alyssa, a girl that can pronounce any word backwards instantly on the Today Show on 2/1/12, it's pretty freaking awesome.
12. Dustin on X: “Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn. The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We https://t.co/9lTUguBDy6” / X
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13. Elon Musk on X: “America, the Beautiful” / X
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14. Oilfield Rando on X: “There was literally a Bolshevik takeover of the Smithsonian. Democrats can never be allowed to take power again. https://t.co/nMQyUJSRNG” / X
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15. Elon Musk on X: “@Oilfield_Rando They hate America” / X
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16. Elon Musk Praises U.S. Post-WWII Restraint and Rebuilding / X
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17. ‘That’s going to come back and bite us’: Former NASA chief questions Artemis moon lander plans | Space
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 11:51 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.space.com/author/josh-dinner
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA
18. With 30 minutes left in her submersible dive, geochemist Mengran Du steered toward one last stretch of the deep trenches between Russia and Alaska — and found life where almost no one expected it. Published in 2025, the discovery revealed a 2,500-kilometre ecosystem of clams and tubeworms as deep as 9,533 metres, powered not by sunlight but by methane and hydrogen sulfide seeping from the seafloor.
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 11:50 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
With about 30 minutes left in a submersible dive, geochemist Mengran Du and her crewmates pushed toward one more stretch of the deep trenches between Russia
19. Rust language rises to top 10 in Tiobe popularity index | InfoWorld
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A strong focus on memory safety and speed accounts for Rust’s growing popularity, while competitors C and C++ continue to struggle with memory management challenges, Tiobe said.
20. Trump yelled at NATO leaders in public. In private, it was a different story. - POLITICO
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The president started his visit to Ankara berating the NATO alliance. Something changed before he left.
21. NEW STRIKES UNDERWAY - YouTube
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Washington Orders Strikes on Iran Following Assaults in the Strait of Hormuz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74iknejNejMWATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE: https:/…
22. Grok on X: “@MaryHamilton222 @tetsuoai Grok 4.5 launches tomorrow and will be available on X, https://t.co/f3u3Rwh9tM, and the apps to X Premium+ subscribers and SuperGrok users. X Premium includes good access to current Grok models, but the newest flagship starts with those higher tiers. You can upgrade anytime in” / X
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23. tetsuo on X: “Grok 4.5 goes public tomorrow. Here’s everything that’s known. The model runs on V9, xAI’s new 1.5 trillion parameter foundation, roughly three times the size of the v8-small architecture behind Grok 4.3. It’s the largest model the company has shipped, trained on Blackwell GPUs https://t.co/B1I21aPLru” / X
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24. xAI Releases Grok 4.5 Publicly After Beta Success / X
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25. Elon Musk on X: “Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow. It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.” / X
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26. Editorial Policy for Silicon Canals - Silicon Canals
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 10:50 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jan 23, 2024
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals covers global innovation ecosystems, the political and policy forces shaping them, and the human behaviour behind the work. This page describes
27. China's AI boom isn't producing the next Jack Ma — it's producing a generation of one-person businesses running on generative agents, and Silicon Valley is misreading what that actually means - Silicon Canals
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Silicon Canals
In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video dramas from a repurposed industrial park where the rent is subsidised by the local government.
28. Psychology says people who struggle in classrooms but excel at reading a room, fixing an engine, or sensing what someone needs aren't slow learners, they're often operating in a form of intelligence the traditional school system was never designed to measure - Silicon Canals
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Silicon Canals
There's a particular word that gets stapled to certain kids early and never fully peels off. Slow. It shows up in report cards, in that lowered voice at
29. Super movers half as likely to develop cognitive decline, study finds | Fox News
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30. "We have failed our students" — Linda McMahon - YouTube
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31. Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Spain over NATO spending | Fox News
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32. For billions of years, Earth’s magnetic field may have been doing something unexpected: helping guide particles stripped from our upper atmosphere across the 385,000 kilometres to the Moon, where they became trapped in lunar soil — a 2025 finding that adds a surprising new argument for studying the regolith beneath a future Moon base.
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 09:03 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
For most of the space age, Earth's magnetic field has been described as a shield. It deflects much of the charged material streaming from the Sun and helps
33. Stephen King deletes post backing Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner | Fox News
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34. Cenk Uygur says media is 'politically assassinating' Graham Platner | Fox News
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35. An Aboriginal Australian people of northern Queensland speak a language with no words for left or right — only for north, south, east, and west — so instead of asking you to move your left foot, they will ask you to move your east foot, and can point due north almost without thinking
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 09:00 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
Ask a Guugu Yimithirr speaker to shift along the bench and you will not hear anything about your left or your right. You will hear a compass point. Move a
36. Exclusive | Linda McMahon warns Harvard on ‘Pod Force One’ that she will drop the ‘hammer’ if it doesn’t correct DEI errors
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 08:58 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Education Secretary Linda McMahon warned Harvard administrators in the latest "Pod Force One" episode that she could drop the "hammer" on the Ivy League university should it keep quietly pursuing DEI initiatives that run afoul of federal law.
37. New Horizons Watches the Solar Wind as it Slows Down - Universe Today
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Universe Today
✍️ **Author Reference:** Carolyn Collins Petersen
Where does the Solar System end and interstellar space begin? That
38. Polar Vortex Warning Signs Emerge for Winter 2026/2027 as Super El Niño Builds » Severe Weather Europe
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Severe Weather Europe
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/Capillatus/
Winter 2026/2027 early forecast shows a Polar Vortex disruption signal as Super El Niño Planetary Waves could bring snowier and colder season
39. Why Victor Davis Hanson Thinks America Will Outlast China - YouTube
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Victor Davis Hanson explains why he believes America's culture, economy, and commitment to liberty give it a lasting advantage over China and other global co…
40. The Brain Prioritizes Spite Over Friendship - Neuroscience News
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 07:30 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 6, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Neuroscience News
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/neurosciencenews
The brain uses rivalries and conflict as primary anchors to map social networks.
41. Secretary Linda McMahon: U.S. Education, Professional Wrestling, & President Trump - YouTube
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U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon tells Miranda Devine how she's working to dismantle the very department she runs while also battling ideological imbal…
42. Dems Fight Over Possible Platner Swap, Farage Resigns, Charlie Kirk Case DNA Reveal: AM Update 7/8 - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 07:25 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Democratic socialists gain momentum in deep-blue primaries, as the left begins a fight over possible new candidates to take the place of Graham Platner. Nige…
43. California schools trans policy | Linda McMahon - YouTube
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44. ICE SHOOTS Illegal After Trying To RUN OVER Agents | Timcast IRL - YouTube
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45. NEW EVIDENCE DROPS - YouTube
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Authorities Reveal New Details in Charlie Kirk Murder Case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5KgqFE0CHIWATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/w…
46. President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Turkey - YouTube
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Ankara, Turkey
47. President Trump Participates in a Greeting with the Secretary General of NATO - YouTube
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Ankara, Turkey
48. SpaceXAI gearing up for upcoming Grok 4.5 release
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 7, 2026, 11:20 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** TestingCatalog AI News
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/testingcatalog
References to Grok 4.5, built on a new V9 foundation, are surfacing on the Grok web, hinting at a public release for Heavy subscribers soon.
49. Viral heatmap meme gets it wrong: Liberals don't prioritize strangers over family
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 7, 2026, 11:19 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** PsyPost - Psychology News
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/PsyPost
A new study challenges the popular claim that liberals have an "inverted" moral compass. Researchers found that while the political left extends compassion to outsiders, they still put family and friends at the top.
50. US training program aims to address concerns of antisemitism in psychology field | The Times of Israel
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