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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 23, 2025?
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The Great Office Debate: Are RTO Mandates Really About Collaboration or Control?
By @victordey [ 4 Min read ] Major corporations are dialing back on remote work policies, citing collaboration and innovation as key reasons. Read More.
The Truth Algorithm: From Fire Circles to ChatGPT, a History of Thought Engineering
By @3l4d [ 8 Min read ] A journey through history’s hidden curators of truth. From myth to media to machine. Revealing how algorithms, old and new, shape what we believe. Read More.
Chinese AI Model Promises Gemini 2.5 Pro-level Performance at One-fourth of the Cost
By @thisweekinaieng [ 5 Min read ] Chinese startup MiniMax is back in the spotlight with their new open-weight reasoning model, MiniMax-M1, and it is nothing short of impressive. Read More.
MCP Demystified: What Actually Goes Over the Wire??
By @val314159 [ 28 Min read ] lets explore manually sending the JSON over the wire for the MXP protocol Read More.
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