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The Brief

Tragedy and tension
  • One Nation claimed a historic byelection victory in the Western Australian seat of Secret Harbour, winning its first seat in the WA parliament and sending shockwaves through both major parties.
  • Tencent released Hy4, a 770B-parameter open-weight model with 49B active parameters, under a permissive license, marking a significant open-source LLM release.
  • NASA launched the Roman Space Telescope on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, beginning a mission to map billions of galaxies and probe dark energy.
  • disaster impact ▼ -92.4% to 1,263.
  • overfishing research ▼ -53.7% to 2,736.
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State of the World

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Australia

5 total today

One Nation claimed a historic byelection victory in the Western Australian seat of Secret Harbour, winning its first seat in the WA parliament and sending shockwaves through both major parties.

AI & Technology

12 total today

Tencent released Hy4, a 770B-parameter open-weight model with 49B active parameters, under a permissive license, marking a significant open-source LLM release.

Science & Medicine

14 total today

NASA launched the Roman Space Telescope on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, beginning a mission to map billions of galaxies and probe dark energy.

A catastrophic glacial outburst flood in Nepal and Tibet has killed at least 800 people with over 3,000 missing, as rescue teams drill into tunnels to reach trapped workers.

Geopolitics & Markets

15 total today

Icelandic voters rejected reopening EU accession talks 52.8% to 47.2%, in a referendum shadowed by Trump's Greenland threats.

Society

13 total today

A shooting at a rave in Switzerland left one dead and five injured, with a manhunt underway.