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Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B parameter open-weight models supporting 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/cohere-launches-a-family-of-open-mu…

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models | TechCrunch
Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges

Which programming languages are most token-efficient?
https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages-are-most-token-efficient/

Germany launches €45 million UkraineConnect program to mobilize private investment in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/germany-launches-million-ukraineconnect-program.html

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

No surprise that language models are good at language.
Large language models for simplifying radiology reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis of patient, public, and clinician evaluations.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2…

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/snapchat-launches-creator-subscription-in-the-u-s/…

Snapchat launches creator subscription in the U.S. | TechCrunch
Snapchat will let creators set their monthly subscription price.

Russia launches massive drone attack on Ukraine, 57 drones downed as strikes hit Odesa and Zaporizhzhia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/russia-launches-massive-drone-attack.html

Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/ai-startup-replit-launches-feature-to-vibe-code-mobile-apps.html

AI startup Replit launches feature to vibe code mobile apps
Replit launched a feature that lets users create publishable mobile apps using just natural language prompts.

The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…

Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2's 34.5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/goog

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app | TechCrunch
Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search