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MiniMax M2.5: 更快更强更智能，为真实世界生产力而生

MiniMax releases M2.5, claiming the model delivers on the "intelligence too cheap to meter" promise, priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens (MiniMax)
https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m25

MiniMax M2.5: 更快更强更智能，为真实世界生产力而生

Klingbeil will klare Regeln bei sozialen Medien für Kinder
An Einschränkungen komme man nicht mehr vorbei, sagt der Vizekanzler. Er habe seine Meinung geändert.
https://www.heise.de…

Climate change is straining Alaska’s Arctic. A new mining road may push the region past the brink https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/climate-change-is-straining-alaskas-arctic-a-new-mining…

Climate change is straining Alaska's Arctic. A new mining road may push the region past the brink
AMBLER, Alaska (AP) — In Northwest Alaska, a proposed 211-mile mining road has divided an Inupiaq community already devastated by climate change. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd has plummeted 66% in two decades while salmon runs have collapsed from record rainfall and warming waters. The Trump-approved Ambler Access Road would unlock copper deposits and other […]

Ukraine launches first lithium mining project: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/13/ukraine-launches-first-lithium-mining.html

The 2027 NFL draft class is stacked! 45 players to watch over the next 15 months https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47600341/2027-nfl-draft-top-prospects-early-look-every-position-manning-moore

Muddled.
'Value' has specific meanings in Marxist political economy.
It isn't the appropriate term for what Boillier is discussing.
'Wealth' is closer but still not right.
It's a matter of standpoint: the abundance of nature isn't purely for human use, so those two terms don't apply well, or at all.
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative - resilience

Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative
The bounty brought by rainfall, fertile soil, and biodiversity cannot truly be expressed through quantitative proxies, prices, algorithms, or markets because this “wealth” doesn’t exist in static, objectified forms or essentialist identities

Wie der BGH mit einem 70er-Jahre-Gesetz die digitale Weiterbildung lahmlegt
Urteile des BGH unterwerfen Online-Kurse strengen Regeln eines Gesetzes aus den 1970er Jahren. Für die Branche ist das ein Desaster, analysiert Joerg Heidrich.

Social Media erst ab 16: Ein Irrweg
Creator wollen jetzt Newsletter an Teenies schicken. Das Social-Media-Verbot wird damit ziemlich obsolet, meint Eva-Maria Weiß.
https://www.heise.de/meinung/Social-Med…