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Vance visits Armenia, a country no U.S. president or vice president has ever visited

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🔥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Armenia,JD Vance ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Vice President J.D. Vance arrived in Armenia on Monday — a country no U.S. vice president or president has visited before — where the Trump administration offered economic opportunities as it works to advance a U.S.-brokered deal aimed at ending the decades-long conflict with Azerbaijan. Vance and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed an agreement to advance negotiations on a civil nuclear energy agreement, and Vance said that the United States is ready to export advanced computer…

From nightmarish noir to Bolero on trampolines: the audacious Holland Dance festival hits dizzy heights | Stage

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Dance,Ballet,Nederlands Dans Theater,Festivals,Netherlands,Philip Glass,Devendra Banhart,Kronos Quartet,Laurie Anderson,Steve Reich,Culture,Europe 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Suited dancers swing around a streetlight in Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau’s Horses but it’s not exactly Singin’ in the Rain. The mood is more like a stray dog has sidled up to that lamp-post and cocked its leg. The lamps multiply on these squalid, mean streets: uprooted, they become giant props for performers to illuminate and edit the action on a vast stage with its wings exposed and no artificial backdrop. A suspicious figure roams…

Harvey reportedly amassed an $11 billion valuation just months after reaching $8 billion

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✨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,TC,Harvey,In Brief ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: There seems to be no stopping legal AI startup Harvey's explosive growth, with venture capital constantly pouring money into it. Sources told Forbes that the company is in talks to raise another $200 million at a valuation of $11 billion, led by Sequoia and Singapore's GIC. If the deal is completed, Harvey's valuation will jump by $3 billion within months. In December, the company confirmed it had raised $160 million at an $8 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz last fall. (Harvey declined to…

Aston Martin: The new Formula 1 car is “one of the most extreme interpretations” of the new rules

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🚀 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Formula 1 design legend Adrian Newey says Aston Martin's new car is "one of the most extreme interpretations" of this year's new rules.Newey's comments came as Aston Martin launched its new season on Monday, at a lavish event in Saudi Arabia that was plagued by technical problems and only revealed the color scheme of the 2026 car, not the team's new design.That was waiting for us across the King Fahd Causeway at the Bahrain International Circuit, where the second pre-season test begins on Wednesday.Newey, who…

Jack Grealish confirms surgery, saying he ‘didn’t want the season to end like this’

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jack Grealish says he "didn't want the season to end this way" after confirming he underwent surgery on a broken foot.Grealish, who was on a season-long loan to Everton from Manchester City, suffered the injury on January 18 during a 1-0 win over former club Aston Villa.The 30-year-old midfielder has made 22 appearances in all competitions for Everton this season, scoring two goals and providing six assists.“I didn't want the season to end this way, but that's football, I'm devastated,” he wrote in an Instagram…

What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Static types, algebraic data types, making illegal states unrepresentable: the functional programming tradition has developed extraordinary tools for reasoning about programs. I have spent over a decade writing Haskell professionally, and I believe in all of it. But the very effectiveness of these tools creates a particular susceptibility. We sometimes mistake reasoning about programs for reasoning about systems. These are not the same activity, and the instincts that make you good at one do not automatically transfer to the other. This is not a uniquely…

Watch: The Senate reconvenes amid trade offers between Democrats and the White House on funding the Department of Homeland Security

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💥 Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Homeland Security,senate,White House 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have begun tentative talks with the White House over their demands for “dramatic” new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown, discussing a potential deal just days before funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that Democrats have sent the White House their list of demands for Immigration, Customs Enforcement and other federal law enforcement agencies. The White House said Monday evening that it responded with…

Review of the last photo – a talking dog leads a journey from terror to hope | stage

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,York,Culture,Holocaust,Antisemitism ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CDo we really learn from history? That's the question hanging over Catherine Dyson's The Last Portrait – which was first shared in a rehearsed reading at York Theater Royal as part of the RSC's 37 Plays initiative in 2023 and is now receiving a full production. It is a piece that constantly moves between past and present, testing the empathic capacities and limits of theater as an art form.There is a touch of Tim Crouch in Dyson's writing, which invites the…

ChatGPT poses ads | TechCrunch

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🔥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Anthropic,ChatGPT,sam altman 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI announced on Monday that it has begun testing ads in the United States for users on the Free and Go subscription tiers. The newest Go plan is a low-cost subscription priced at $8 per month in the US and rolled out globally in mid-January. Subscribers to paid OpenAI plans, including the Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education tiers, will not see ads, the company said. OpenAI sought to address concerns about how ads impact user experience, saying in a blog post: "Ads do…

Super Bowl 2026: Is Seattle Seahawks’ Sam Darnold the greatest redemption story in the NFL?

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🔥 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Quarterbacks grab all the headlines, for better or for worse, but they simply can't do it all alone in this ultimate team sport. Tom Brady regularly had, and needed, top-10 defenses on his team to win Super Bowls, while Patrick Mahomes lost two of them because he got hit hard by opposing defenses.In Seattle, Darnold found the perfect storm for a team with a front and defensive end assembling a crack unit that would go on to dominate the NFL, needing only a solid quarterback…