Alex Heath
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writing sources.news, co-hosting the Access podcast
Buy Anthropic. Short Perplexity. Notes from this year’s Cerebral Valley Summit
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What insiders really think about the AI race
Buy Anthropic. Short Perplexity. Notes from this year’s Cerebral Valley Summit. Also: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev this week on ACCESS.
https://sources.news/p/what-insiders-really-think-about
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Sources: During a recent private call, OpenAI's investors asked about external signs that ChatGPT's growth is slowing. CFO Sarah Friar said time spent was down since "content restrictions" were added in Q3, but that the trend is expected to "reverse"
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ChatGPT's quiet slump, Zuck's AI bubble warning
OpenAI’s CFO told investors that ChatGPT's engagement has softened. Also: Mark Zuckerberg's AI bubble warning to Meta employees.
https://sources.news/p/chatgpts-quiet-slump-zucks-ai-bubble
2 days ago
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recap of a big NYC week: inside the Sources launch party, shooting the Breaker Media pod, speaking at the Media Summit indie media panel, and joining the Altogether collective
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Inside the Sources launch party
Tech and media leaders gathered in Manhattan for tequila, sushi, and poker. Also: Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela on this week's ACCESS.
https://sources.news/p/inside-the-sources-launch-party
7 days ago
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did a very NYC tech thing last night
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Election night at Kalshi HQ
Inside Kalshi’s quiet Manhattan office on election night, co-founder Tarek Mansour showed how his fast-growing prediction market is calling races faster than the media.
https://sources.news/p/election-night-at-kalshi-hq
9 days ago
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very excited to be part of this
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New collective brings direct sales support to independent journalists
Alltogether's founding portfolio of journalist creators includes some of the biggest names in business, technology and political news.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/independent-journalists-creators-alltogether-collective
10 days ago
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Sources launch party tonight is gonna be great
11 days ago
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Sources: YouTube announces opt-in layoffs and major leadership changes. “Looking to the future, the next frontier for YouTube is AI” per internal memo from CEO Neal Mohan. “We need to set ourselves up to make the most of this opportunity.”
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YouTube announces AI reorg and layoffs
Neal Mohan's internal memo about YouTube's "next frontier" and opt-in layoffs.
https://sources.news/p/youtube-announces-ai-reorg-and-layoffs
16 days ago
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Sources: Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join his Neuralink rival Merge Labs The hire suggests that, unlike Neuralink, Merge will take a noninvasive BCI approach that relies on gene therapy + ultrasound
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Altman taps leading researcher for BCI startup Merge Labs
The hire suggests that Merge is taking a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Also: Sources IRL and reactions to yesterday's Snap scoop.
https://sources.news/p/altman-taps-leading-researcher-for
21 days ago
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Google is getting back into AR glasses with Gemini / Android XR We had the head of Android on the pod this week, and I wanted to know what Google learned from the original Glass launch in 2013
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21 days ago
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Sources: Snap is in talks to raise at least $1 billion for AR glasses Multiple investors involved, including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund Plan is to move Specs into a new independent subsidiary and structure similarly to Waymo/Alphabet
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Snap eyes $1 billion fundraise for AR glasses
New details on Evan Spiegel's quest to win the AR race. Also: this week on ACCESS.
https://sources.news/p/snap-eyes-1-billion-fundraise-for
22 days ago
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Today's issue of Sources: Google targets Gemini 3 for December Perplexity just hit $200 million in ARR
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Google readies Gemini 3, Perplexity hits its goal
Reporting on Google's next model release and Perplexity's business. Also: AI job moves and some links.
https://sources.news/p/google-readies-gemini-3-perplexity
28 days ago
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I spent time with AI and Hollywood folks this week, and it was clear that if nothing changes, Hollywood is going to get mostly steamrolled by technology that’s moving faster than its leaders can comprehend.
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Hollywood has no idea what to do about AI
OpenAI is moving fast while the entertainment industry wrings its hands. Also: this week on ACCESS and some links.
https://sources.news/p/hollywood-has-no-idea-what-to-do
about 1 month ago
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at a conference and the guy next to me seemed like he was on the phone talking to a colleague about deal flow or something, kept saying stuff like "it's hard to hear you?" he's talking to ChatGPT
about 1 month ago
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talked with OpenAI's Greg Brockman about Stargate, the deal with AMD, and an AI bubble
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Q&A: OpenAI's Stargate Man
"We see the fundamentals, and we were investing heavily in those." My conversation with Greg Brockman at OpenAI DevDay.
https://sources.news/p/openai-stargate-greg-brockman-amd-interview
about 1 month ago
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Notes from today’s big OpenAI event, including what Sam Altman and Jony Ive talked about plus a bunch of juicy tidbits from a post-keynote exec Q&A
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ChatGPT eats the world
Notes from DevDay, featuring Q&A with Sam Altman and OpenAI execs.
https://sources.news/p/chatgpt-eats-the-world
about 1 month ago
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wrote about using the new Sora app
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OpenAI made AI Vine
Keep reading for my chat with Daniel Ek about stepping down as CEO of Spotify and some good links.
https://sources.news/p/openai-made-ai-vine
about 1 month ago
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We've got the one and only
@zoink.bsky.social
on the second episode of ACCESS! We discuss: - Figma's IPO and what's next - MCP / how he's thinking about AI - The future of design Out everywhere you can get podcasts
about 2 months ago
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SOURCES: OpenAI is planning to bring ads to ChatGPT. Also: In a message to employees, Sam Altman says he wants 250 gigawatts of compute by 2033. He calls OpenAI's team behind Stargate a "core bet" like research / robotics. "Doing this right will cost trillions."
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OpenAI is looking for a head of ads
Fidji Simo is on the hunt for someone to oversee all monetization efforts, including bringing advertising to ChatGPT. Plus: Sam Altman's internal note to employees about Stargate.
https://sources.news/p/openai-ads-leader-sam-altman-memo-stargate
about 2 months ago
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Trump’s EO on H-1B visas has thrown the tech industry into chaos overnight I just published an email Google sent H-1B employees yesterday warning them to not leave the US / to return by midnight tonight
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about 2 months ago
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First issue of Sources is out! It’s a deep dive into the (very cool) new Meta Ray-Bans. They’ve got a display, neural band that feels like sci fi, & suggest a lot about where things are headed Feat. my interview w/t Zuck (full convo airs on the Access podcast tomorrow)
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Inside Meta’s display glasses with Zuck
I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg to try Meta’s impressive new Ray-Ban Display glasses and its neural band.
https://sources.news/p/meta-ray-ban-display-glasses-zuck
about 2 months ago
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I’m launching Sources, a new publication about the tech industry’s inside conversation, and Access, a tech interview podcast with my friend
@hamburger.bsky.social
. The first issue of Sources drops tomorrow, featuring an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, which airs in full on Access this Thursday.
about 2 months ago
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big week
2 months ago
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Mia Sato
2 months ago
I wrote about Charlie Kirk and the viral content machine that sprang to life in the wake of his shooting — and how this time, even people running the country are partaking in the churn.
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How Charlie Kirk’s death fed the content machine
Moments after the news broke, the content started
https://www.theverge.com/analysis/776497/charlie-kirk-shooting-utah-content-creators-influencers
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monopoly business is a booming
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Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger
Now, the two giants are collaborating on AI.
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/773260/google-apple-search-deal-money-ai
2 months ago
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Steve Kovach
2 months ago
And Apple stock's up 4% after hours because it can keep collecting free money from Google in the search deal.
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The Verge
3 months ago
The power shift inside OpenAI
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The power shift inside OpenAI
Sam Altman wants to focus on getting more GPUs, not running ChatGPT.
https://buff.ly/jEwI8cE
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“It’s never been a better time to be a telegenic nerd, and never a worse time to be only good at delivering clean copy.”
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media companies want reporters and writers to become more like creators, yet not TOO creator-like
It’s a good time to be a telegenic journalist…
https://www.deezlinks.com/p/media-companies-want-reporters-and
3 months ago
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Jake Kastrenakes
3 months ago
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@alexeheath.com
sat down with Sam Altman for a big, spicy interview: -Altman says they "totally screwed up" some of the gpt5 rollout -He thinks they'll overtake IG + FB in web traffic -OpenAI has "better models" they can't offer!? -Altman has stopped using Google
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Sam Altman on ChatGPT 5 backlash and the future of OpenAI
The CEO of ChatGPT thinks we’re in an AI bubble.
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/759897/sam-altman-chatgpt-openai-social-media-google-chrome-interview
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had dinner with sam altman last night and he uh, said some stuff
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Sam Altman on ChatGPT 5 backlash and the future of OpenAI
The CEO of ChatGPT thinks we’re in an AI bubble.
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/759897/sam-altman-chatgpt-openai-social-media-google-chrome-interview
3 months ago
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Jeff Horwitz
3 months ago
"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it. AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
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Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/
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From my interview with OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT: It was surprising to see the “level of attachment” people had to 4o. “It’s not just change that is difficult for folks, it’s also the fact that people can have such a strong feeling about the personality of a model.”
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ChatGPT won’t remove old models without warning after GPT-5 backlash
The head of ChatGPT says ‘we have to give people some level of predictability when there’s a major change.’
https://www.theverge.com/openai/758537/chatgpt-4o-gpt-5-model-backlash-replacement
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I've been dreading this turn for months — the war over AI scraping data is undercutting a load-bearing part of the internet, and it will probably only get worse.
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Corruption at its finest. TikTok will be next.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it
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ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it
GPT-5 will no longer be the default.
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it’s almost like we should not be cheering government intervention in how we get information! (which is really what age gating is at scale) full episode here:
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
love a midnight surprise scoop from
@alexeheath.com
in command line: sam altman gets in the mix on huge payouts to keep ai researchers
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OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus
It’s good to be an AI researcher.
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/756561/openai-employees-bonus-sam-altman-ai-talent-wars
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Yesterday, Sam Altman told OpenAI researchers and engineers they’re getting “special one-time” bonuses due to “movement in the market” for AI talent. The bonuses will be worth millions for some. “We very much intend to keep increasing comp”, wrote Altman in Slack.
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OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus
It’s good to be an AI researcher.
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/756561/openai-employees-bonus-sam-altman-ai-talent-wars
3 months ago
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GPT-5 is here for all ChatGPT users It’s “the best model in the world” at coding and writing, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Automatically routes to reasoning mode when needed, hallucinates less, gives “safe completions” for prompts it would have previously refused
www.theverge.com/openai/74801...
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GPT-5 is being released to all ChatGPT users
Sam Altman says that GPT-5 is “the best model in the world.”
https://www.theverge.com/openai/748017/gpt-5-chatgpt-openai-release
3 months ago
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Jay 🦋
3 months ago
Excited to see what the Verge does with this!
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Esther Cohen
3 months ago
It’s been a whole baby (nine months!) since we launched The Verge’s subscription, and today we’re rolling out a new slate of subscriber-only columns packed with incredible journalism and a lot of heart. Only way to read is to subscribe so do it:
theverge.com/subscribe
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OpenAI's first open-weight model in 6 years is here. GPT-OSS is free to download, shows its reasoning process, performs similarly to o3 on coding, and can run on a laptop or single GPU.
www.theverge.com/openai/71878...
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OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run right on your laptop
GPT-OSS is OpenAI’s first open-weight model in six years.
https://www.theverge.com/openai/718785/openai-gpt-oss-open-model-release
3 months ago
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the new version of Grok generated a topless video of Taylor Swift "The 'spicy' preset also isn’t guaranteed to result in nudity... But several defaulted to ripping off most of her clothing."
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Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.
https://www.theverge.com/report/718975/xai-grok-imagine-taylor-swifty-deepfake-nudes
3 months ago
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those who follow Apple know how absolutely wild it is for Cook to come out and say — on an earnings call, no less — that the company is looking at acquisitions shows how much pressure Apple is feeling on the AI front
www.theverge.com/news/716790/...
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Tim Cook says Apple is ‘open to’ AI acquisitions
What’s next for AI Siri?
https://www.theverge.com/news/716790/apple-earnings-q3-2025-ai-tim-cook
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Had a blast on Decoder chatting with
@alexeheath.com
about the AI talent wars & why some researchers are getting traded like NBA superstars. Talked about my Windsurf scoop & Meta feature, plus tales from AI industry folks watching it all unfold on the inside.
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Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars
Meta’s AI talent war is reshaping the industry and resulting in some of the most lucrative job offers on the planet.
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/716633/ai-talent-war-meta-mark-zuckerberg-openai-nba-all-stars
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AI was supposed to kill Google. Instead: - Search is growing - Gemini is growing - DeepMind is firing on all cylinders I think it’s safe to say that Google is back.
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Google gets its swag back
People who work in the AI industry think Google is quietly winning.
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/713603/google-search-chatgpt-openai-earnings-ai-race-swag
4 months ago
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are we past peak writing? feels like reading is moving into luxury territory
4 months ago
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Anil Dash
4 months ago
This is such a great example of how just giving new people a platform opens up such interesting ideas. I always like The Vergecast, and I read tons of stuff by
@miasato.bsky.social
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@franhoepfner.bsky.social
but this lens on celebs using online platforms is brilliant
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A-lister antics and Schedule A shenanigans | The Vergecast
YouTube video by The Verge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74Muyyxlj4
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first podcast I've started with "damn we are cooked" sincerely though, I appreciate a CEO building deepfakes being real about the good and bad tradeoffs of ever-better ones proliferating
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We are not ready for better deepfakes
Captions CEO Gaurav Misra on his company’s alarming AI deepfake report and what has him worried for the future.
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/712542/captions-ceo-gaurav-misra-interview-deepfakes-ai-misinformation
4 months ago
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my colleague
@tomwarren.co.uk
reports that OpenAI is targeting August for the launch of GPT-5 (Sam Altman just mentioned testing it on Theo Von) plan is to also ship open-weight reasoning model before GPT-5
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OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
GPT-5 is expected to arrive in early August
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-model-release-date-notepad
4 months ago
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4 months ago
New from me: The internet is built on sameness. People hawk the same stuff, use the same music, write the same SEO articles. Now the aesthetics and modes of the web have escape into the real world. If you thought your feeds were derivative, wait until you see dupes:
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How dupes turned online shopping upside down
Getting copied is devastating — but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/709635/knock-it-off
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