Ripple-65B is a new 65 billion-parameter model released under Apache 2.0, trained from scratch for $32M. It scores 80.5 on TerminalBench 2.1 and fits on a single node.
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Params: 65B
Training cost: $32M
Benchmark: 80.5 on TerminalBench 2.1, beating a 501B model on agentic coding
License: Apache 2.0, enterprise source stays local
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Affirm transformer underwriting model lifts conversion 3.4%
Affirm's new transformer-based underwriting model raises conversion by 3.4% while keeping credit losses flat. It approves more applicants with the same risk.
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Conversion: +3.4% conversion.
Credit losses: flat.
Risk: same risk, more approvals.
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Marble beta launch on App Store with 15,000 waitlist
Marble beta launches on iPad, Mac, iPhone via the App Store, offering a personal learning world for kids. The beta follows a waitlist of 15,000 families and features interactive exploration guided by character mentors.
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Launch: beta now available on the App Store for iPad, Mac, iPhone.
Waitlist: 15,000 families on waitlist.
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Geospatial Data Analysis with Python added to ChapterPal collection
Geospatial Data Analysis with Python by Suborna Ahmed (2026) is now in ChapterPal's open textbook collection. The book teaches geospatial Python from basics using forestry and conservation datasets for GIS automation.
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Author and year: Suborna Ahmed, 2026
Included in: ChapterPal's collection of open textbooks
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Effective Pandas textbook added to ChapterPal open collection
Effective Pandas by Tom Augspurger is now in ChapterPal's collection of open textbooks. The book covers Pandas, a fast, powerful, open-source data manipulation library for Python. It describes Pandas as functioning like spreadsheets running on code.
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Announcement: Effective Pandas added to ChapterPal's open textbook collection
Description: Pandas is a fast, powerful, open-source data manipulation and analysis library for Python
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Jellypod connects to Buffer, adds TikTok Instagram Facebook
Jellypod now connects to Buffer, letting users post creations to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Meta, and other Buffer channels. Buffer also centralizes creation and publishing.
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Connect Jellypod account to Buffer
Post to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Meta, and any other Buffer supported channel through Buffer
Buffer helps centralize both creation and publishing
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Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python added to ChapterPal collection
Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python by Joakim Sundnes is now in the ChapterPal open textbook collection. Python is described as a free, high-level, general-purpose language designed for human readability.
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Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python by Joakim Sundnes added to ChapterPal collection.
Python is a free, high-level, general-purpose programming language designed to be easy for humans to read and write.
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Germany AI-enabled air combat systems code ownership
Germany took ownership of the source code for its AI-enabled air combat systems. It is the first Western defense program to formally separate AI software ownership from the contractor.
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Ownership: Germany took ownership of the source code for its AI-enabled air combat systems.
First: First Western defense program to formally separate AI software ownership from the contractor.
