Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside’s Laguna S 2.1 is a new Western open-weight coding AI model that rivals larger systems on benchmarks with ...
Unite.AI

Thinking Machines Lab Unveils Inkling, Its First Open-Weights Multimodal AI Model

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first general-purpose artificial intelligence model, giving developers access ...
xxlmag

Skepta Furious Over Male Model Hugging North West

Model Matteo Sinet has responded to the backlash he's been receiving, commenting on XXL's Instagram post on June 29 about the situation. "I hadn’t even noticed that ! it all happened so fast! If it ...
Washington Times

Former California State Parks official charged with videotaping naked male lifeguards in locker room

Los Angeles-area prosecutors have charged a former California State Parks official with using hidden cameras to record naked lifeguards in a men’s locker room. The Orange County District Attorney’s ...
techtimes

Cursor’s GitHub Rival Origin and New SpaceX Model Raise Code Custody Stakes

At Cursor's inaugural Compile conference on June 16, the San Francisco AI coding company debuted three products simultaneously: Origin, a git hosting platform built for AI agents rather than human ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...
24/7 Wall St

Microsoft Just Unveiled a New Coding Model — and the Real Question Is Whether It Can Stand Toe‑to‑Toe With Claude Code

Bill Ackman has bet heavily on Microsoft shares, suggesting the stock's AI-driven upside remains undervalued by the market. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI ...
Palm Beach Post

Guns? Weapons hunters can use in Florida's python challenge

Florida holds an annual 10-day Python Challenge to control the invasive Burmese python population. Participants compete for prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize for removing the most pythons. The ...
The Diplomat

India’s Eye in the Sky: The Rise of a State-Deep Tech Startup Space Partnership

India made a remarkable announcement on May 3, 2026, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed that Indian startup GalaxEye had successfully launched the world’s first OptoSAR satellite. The ...
Miami Herald

A giant python was hiding beneath a Miami-Dade sidewalk. A hunter found 20 eggs

South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) python removal contractor Guillermo Tapanes captured a Burmese python and its nest containing about 20 eggs in Cutler Bay on Saturday, May 23, 2026.
MassLive

Unresponsive male minor pulled from pond in Mass. state forest

First responders pulled an unresponsive male minor from a pond at a state forest in Andover Tuesday afternoon, according to Andover police. Around 4:30 p.m., police and firefighters responded to a ...
Post and Courier

MALE TRACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Greer chases state title

David Greer brings the speed, endurance and will to get the job done. The Summerville junior has been one of Summerville’s top distance runners the past couple of seasons so he has multiple cross ...