Governments seek stakes in AI & US export controls on AI

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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad [https://try.lindy.ai/tad] - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron [https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron] - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily [https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily] Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily [https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily] TODAY'S TOPICS: GOVERNMENTS SEEK STAKES IN AI - THE US AND INDIA ARE WEIGHING MINORITY OWNERSHIP IN FRONTIER AI LABS, HINTING AT A NEW GOVERNANCE MODEL WHERE THE STATE GAINS INFLUENCE, INFORMATION RIGHTS, AND A SHARE OF AI UPSIDE. US EXPORT CONTROLS ON AI - US RESTRICTIONS BRIEFLY FORCED ANTHROPIC TO DISABLE FRONTIER MODELS BEFORE A RAPID ROLLBACK, SPOTLIGHTING UNPREDICTABLE AI RELEASE RULES AND RENEWED CALLS FOR CLEARER CYBERSECURITY STANDARDS. CHINA’S GLM MODEL PRESSURE - BEIJING STARTUP Z.AI’S GLM-5.2 IS DRAWING ATTENTION FOR STRONG CODING AND AGENT-LIKE PERFORMANCE AT LOWER COST, INTENSIFYING GLOBAL COMPETITION AND PUTTING DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON AI PRICING. MICRON AND INFINEON FAB EXPANSIONS - MICRON IS EXPANDING MEMORY PRODUCTION IN JAPAN WHILE INFINEON OPENS A MAJOR POWER-CHIP FAB IN DRESDEN, UNDERSCORING HOW AI DEMAND IS RESHAPING INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND CHIP SUPPLY CHAINS. NASA FUNDS NEW LUNAR LANDERS - NASA IS FUNDING MULTIPLE COMMERCIAL LUNAR LANDER DELIVERIES THROUGH 2028 TO DEPLOY REPEATABLE INSTRUMENTS ACROSS SITES, IMPROVING SAFETY DATA AND ACCELERATING MOON BASE PLANNING. TRI-NATION SIXTH-GEN FIGHTER PUSH - THE UK, ITALY, AND JAPAN ADVANCED THE GCAP SIXTH-GENERATION FIGHTER PROGRAM WITH A MAJOR CONTRACT AND NEW FUNDING, POTENTIALLY RESHAPING DEFENSE PARTNERSHIPS AND FUTURE EXPORTS. ENTERPRISE AI SHIFTS TO SERVICES - MICROSOFT’S NEW FRONTIER COMPANY REFLECTS A BROADER MARKET SHIFT TOWARD HANDS-ON AI IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES AS ENTERPRISES STRUGGLE TO TURN MODELS INTO MEASURABLE WORKFLOW RESULTS. Episode Transcript Governments seek stakes in AI AI is starting to look less like a normal software market, and more like something governments want to partially “own” the way they think about energy grids or telecom networks. Reports say U.S. officials and OpenAI have at least discussed the idea of a small government stake, while India has explored a similar minority position in a domestic AI company tied to state-backed compute support. None of this is finalized, but the public conversation itself is the signal: policymakers are looking for ongoing leverage, not just rules on paper. Ownership can mean closer visibility into decisions, stronger alignment with national-security priorities, and—politically speaking—a way to argue the public shares in the upside if AI reshapes jobs and concentrates power. US export controls on AI That push for influence is happening while the U.S. is still figuring out how to control access to the most capable models—and doing it in ways that can feel abrupt. Anthropic had to disable two frontier models after new export controls landed, only for those restrictions to be rolled back shortly afterward. The immediate pressure is off, but the episode left a mark: it reinforced the perception that access to U.S. models can change quickly, with limited transparency. For companies and governments abroad, that unpredictability is a practical risk, especially if AI tools are being used in critical operations like security research. The result is more interest—particularly in Europe—in sovereign or open alternatives, even though that brings its own complications around safety and misuse. China’s GLM model pressure Meanwhile, competition in AI isn’t just U.S. labs trading punches. A Beijing-based startup called Z.ai has launched a large language model, GLM-5.2, that’s getting talked about outside China for surprisingly strong performance at a much lower cost. What’s catching attention is its ability to handle coding work and carry out multi-step tasks with less hand-holding—exactly the capabilities companies want when they’re trying to automate real workflows. After last year’s shockwave from DeepSeek, this is another reminder that Chinese AI teams are iterating fast and narrowing gaps that many assumed would hold. If models like this keep improving, the global impact is straightforward: more price pressure, more choice for developers, and faster adoption by organizations that couldn’t justify premium model bills. Micron and Infineon fab expansions All of this AI momentum is ultimately constrained by hardware, and today’s chip news reads like a map of national strategy. Micron has broken ground on a major expansion at its Hiroshima site in western Japan, aimed at advanced memory production—especially high-bandwidth memory, a crucial ingredient for AI accelerators. Shipments are expected around 2028, and Japan is backing the build with large subsidies as it tries to rebuild semiconductor capacity for economic and security reasons. This is also a story about supply chains: Micron’s Hiroshima footprint traces back to its Elpida acquisition, and the company says much of the site’s materials are already sourced inside Japan, which matters when countries are trying to reduce exposure to overseas choke points. NASA funds new lunar landers In Europe, Infineon has opened a new major semiconductor plant in Dresden, positioning it as part of the EU’s push for “tech sovereignty.” This facility is focused on power-management chips—the less glamorous silicon that quietly determines how efficiently electric vehicles, renewable-energy systems, and data centers actually run. With AI data centers consuming more power and expanding rapidly, these components become strategically important in a different way than cutting-edge AI GPUs, but no less essential. The broader theme is scale: governments are helping fund big fabs because once production ramps, per-chip costs can fall sharply—making the region more competitive and less dependent on external suppliers. Tri-nation sixth-gen fighter push NASA also made a move designed to speed up learning through repetition. The agency awarded close to six hundred million dollars to three commercial companies for four lunar lander deliveries by late 2028. The idea is to send the same core set of instruments to multiple lunar locations, more like deploying a network of “weather stations” than running one-off stunts. By comparing similar measurements across sites—things like surface hazards, dust kicked up during landing, and radiation exposure—NASA says it can plan safer human activity and build confidence for sustained operations. This is the practical side of the Moon push: boring on purpose, because repeatable data is what turns exploration into infrastructure. Enterprise AI shifts to services On the defense and aerospace front, Britain, Italy, and Japan have awarded a multibillion-pound contract to a new joint venture, Edgewing, pushing the Global Combat Air Programme into its next development phase. The UK also confirmed a major multi-year funding commitment after delays tied to budget pressure. The goal is a sixth-generation stealth fighter by the mid-2030s, and the timing is notable: a rival Franco-German effort recently stumbled, which could reshape how Europe organizes its next wave of defense projects. There’s also the geopolitics of participation—other countries have shown interest in joining, largely because spreading the cost is appealing, and because these programs often define alliances and industrial capabilities for decades. Story 8 Finally, a quick note on the enterprise AI reality check: Microsoft has unveiled a new operating business called the Frontier Company, built around embedding teams to help large organizations adopt AI across workflows. The headline isn’t the branding—it’s the admission baked into the strategy: many companies aren’t struggling to buy AI tools; they’re struggling to make them deliver measurable results in messy, real environments. Expect more of this “hands-on implementation” model across the industry, whether it’s from cloud giants, AI labs, or consulting firms. The battleground is shifting from who has the smartest model to who can reliably turn AI into outcomes that survive audits, security reviews, and day-to-day operations. 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DuckDuckGo blocks YouTube video ads & OpenAI and Grok AI battle - Tech News (Jul 9, 2026)

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OPENAI AND GROK AI BATTLE - OPENAI BROADENED ACCESS TO GPT-5.6 AND LAUNCHED GPT-LIVE VOICE MODELS, WHILE GROK 4.5 ENTERED THE RACE WITH CLAIMS OF LOWER COST AND STRONGER EFFICIENCY FOR CODING AND KNOWLEDGE WORK. CHINA WEIGHS AI MODEL CONTROLS - CHINESE OFFICIALS ARE REPORTEDLY DEBATING LIMITS ON FOREIGN ACCESS TO ADVANCED AI MODELS EVEN AS SELECTED FIRMS MAY GET APPROVAL TO BUY NVIDIA H200 CHIPS, SHOWING HOW AI POLICY AND COMPUTE SUPPLY ARE BECOMING STRATEGIC TOOLS. TYPESCRIPT AND BUN RESHAPE CODING - MICROSOFT RELEASED TYPESCRIPT 7 WITH A MUCH FASTER NATIVE COMPILER, BUN MOVED ITS RUNTIME FROM ZIG TO RUST, AND ENTIRE LAUNCHED NEW GIT HOSTING AIMED AT AI CODING AGENTS. CLOUDFLARE BUILDS TOUGHER GLOBAL CONSENSUS - CLOUDFLARE UNVEILED MEERKAT, AN EXPERIMENTAL CONSENSUS SYSTEM FOR ITS GLOBAL NETWORK THAT AIMS TO KEEP CRITICAL CONTROL-PLANE DATA CONSISTENT AND AVAILABLE ACROSS HUNDREDS OF DATA CENTERS. SPACE FUNDING, MOON TECH, NUCLEAR - CANADA IS PUSHING DEEPER INTO ARTEMIS MOON WORK, BLUE ORIGIN IS SEEKING MAJOR OUTSIDE FUNDING, AND A NUCLEAR-POWERED CUBESAT HAS REACHED ORBIT AS COMMERCIAL SPACE AMBITIONS KEEP BROADENING. DEFENSE TECH SHIFTS AROUND UKRAINE - NATO ALLIES ARE PLANNING A MAJOR LONG-RANGE MISSILE EFFORT, THE U.S. MAY LET UKRAINE MANUFACTURE PATRIOT SYSTEMS, AND DRONE WARFARE CONTINUES TO RESHAPE MILITARY PLANNING ACROSS EUROPE. APPLE AND DEERE FACE RULES - THE EU COURT BACKED APPLE’S DIGITAL MARKETS ACT DESIGNATION, WHILE JOHN DEERE AGREED TO EXPAND REPAIR ACCESS IN A MAJOR RIGHT-TO-REPAIR SETTLEMENT WITH THE FTC AND SEVERAL STATES. META GLASSES SPARK PRIVACY CONCERNS - META IS REPORTEDLY TESTING SMART GLASSES THAT CAPTURE IMAGES EVERY FEW SECONDS, A CONCEPT THAT COULD BOOST AI MEMORY FEATURES BUT ALSO INTENSIFY PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE CONCERNS. Episode Transcript DuckDuckGo blocks YouTube video ads We’ll start with the browser story. DuckDuckGo says its browser can now block most video ads, including many that appear inside YouTube playback. The company says it is leaning on open-source filter lists commonly associated with uBlock Origin, with some of its own tweaks mixed in. It is not pretending the feature is perfect, though. Users may see longer buffering or the occasional playback glitch. Even so, this is a notable escalation in the long-running fight between privacy tools and ad-funded platforms, because YouTube video ads are one of the biggest targets on the web. OpenAI and Grok AI battle Staying with consumer tech and privacy, Meta is reportedly testing smart glasses that capture images every few seconds, effectively moving toward an always-on memory device. The pitch is easy to imagine: an AI assistant that remembers where you left something or recalls part of your day. The problem is also easy to imagine. If passive capture happens without the obvious recording light people are used to, the privacy implications become much harder to ignore. This looks like a clear example of AI convenience running straight into social trust. China weighs AI model controls In AI, the competition at the top is getting even tighter. OpenAI says it will publicly release its GPT-5.6 family after initially limiting access at the request of the U.S. government, and it also rolled out a new voice system called GPT-Live for more natural back-and-forth conversations. At nearly the same time, Grok 4.5 arrived with promises of faster performance, lower cost, and better token efficiency for tasks like coding, writing, and research. The bigger story here is not one benchmark or one launch. It is that leading AI labs are now competing on access, price, voice experience, and government relationships all at once. TypeScript and Bun reshape coding That pressure is also showing up in geopolitics. Chinese officials are reportedly considering whether advanced domestic AI models should remain openly available to the world, or whether frontier systems should stay closer to home. At the same time, a limited number of major Chinese firms may get approval to buy Nvidia H200 chips. Put those two developments together, and the picture is pretty clear: both the models and the hardware behind them are now being treated as strategic assets, not just commercial products. Cloudflare builds tougher global consensus For developers, today brought a cluster of meaningful changes. Microsoft announced TypeScript 7, a major rewrite that promises a dramatic speed boost for large projects and much snappier editor performance. Bun, meanwhile, said it has moved its runtime from Zig to Rust after stability issues tied to manual memory management, and it framed the rewrite as a major win for reliability without giving up speed. Then there’s Entire, a new Git hosting effort from former GitHub chief Thomas Dohmke, built around the idea that AI coding agents need their own workflow and audit trail. Taken together, the message is simple: the software stack is being reworked for an era where humans are coding alongside machines, not alone. Space funding, moon tech, nuclear On the infrastructure side, Cloudflare introduced an experimental system called Meerkat, designed to keep critical control-plane data consistent across more than 330 data centers. That may sound abstract, but the practical point is straightforward. Cloudflare wants a system that stays reliable even when links fail or individual machines go down, without leaning so heavily on a single leader node. For users, this is the kind of plumbing that only becomes visible when it breaks, so improving resilience at global scale is a serious story even if it stays behind the scenes for now. Defense tech shifts around Ukraine In regulation, two big cases pushed in the same direction: more openness. In Europe, Apple lost a challenge to its designation under the Digital Markets Act, giving regulators more room to keep pressing on how iOS and the App Store operate. In the U.S., John Deere settled with the Federal Trade Commission and several states over repair restrictions, agreeing to give farmers and independent shops broader access to tools and software. Different industries, same basic theme: regulators are increasingly unwilling to let dominant companies keep tight control over ecosystems that others depend on. Apple and Deere face rules Space news was unusually busy. Canada is trying to deepen its role in NASA’s Artemis program, not just by sending astronauts but by contributing lunar vehicles, robotics, and even power systems for a long-term moon presence. Blue Origin, meanwhile, is reportedly raising about 10 billion dollars in outside funding, a sign that investors still want in on the private space race despite the costs and setbacks. And in orbit, City Labs launched what it calls the first commercial nuclear-powered CubeSat, using a tiny betavoltaic system for a demonstration payload. None of that means a moon base is around the corner, but it does show how quickly space is shifting from symbolic exploration to durable infrastructure and commercial competition. Meta glasses spark privacy concerns There was also an intriguing space security development. A new Nature study proposes a way to check whether satellites are carrying nuclear weapons by looking for neutron signatures in orbit. This is still a feasibility concept, not an operational system, but it matters because the Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in orbit without offering much of a practical inspection framework. If that gap can eventually be narrowed, verification in space could become more than a political promise. Story 10 And finally, on defense tech, the Ukraine war continues to reshape military planning well beyond the battlefield. NATO allies are lining up behind a long-range missile program intended to strengthen Europe’s strike capability over the next decade. President Trump also said the U.S. will give Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot air defense systems, which could help Kyiv build a more sustainable defense against missile attacks. At the same time, Ukraine’s drone campaign is reaching deeper into Russian infrastructure, showing how cheaper, adaptable systems are changing the balance of military innovation. The technology lesson is hard to miss: drones, air defense, and long-range precision weapons are now central to how governments think about deterrence. 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9. Juli 20266 min

Agentic ransomware reaches real world & Australia and UN push AI guardrails - Tech News (Jul 7, 2026)

Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - SurveyMonkey, Using AI to surface insights faster and reduce manual analysis time - https://get.surveymonkey.com/tad [https://get.surveymonkey.com/tad] - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron [https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron] - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad [https://try.gamma.app/tad] Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily [https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily] TODAY'S TOPICS: AGENTIC RANSOMWARE REACHES REAL WORLD - SECURITY FIRM SYSDIG SAYS JADEPUFFER BECAME THE FIRST FULLY AGENTIC RANSOMWARE CASE, WITH AI PLANNING, ADAPTING, AND EXECUTING AN ATTACK AFTER EXPLOITING EXPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE. KEYWORDS: AGENTIC RANSOMWARE, JADEPUFFER, AI CYBERSECURITY, LANGFLOW, AUTONOMOUS ATTACK. AUSTRALIA AND UN PUSH AI GUARDRAILS - AUSTRALIA IS TESTING FRONTIER AI MODELS THROUGH ITS AI SAFETY INSTITUTE, WHILE A MAJOR UN SUMMIT IN GENEVA IS PUSHING FOR GLOBAL AI GOVERNANCE BEFORE RISKS OUTRUN REGULATION. KEYWORDS: AI SAFETY, AUSTRALIA, UN SUMMIT, AI REGULATION, FRONTIER MODELS. AI CODING CHANGES SOFTWARE ECONOMICS - A NEW AI-ASSISTED SOFTWARE WORKFLOW IS RESHAPING THE ENGINEER ROLE, WHILE ANALYSTS WARN THAT COMPARING MODELS BY TOKEN PRICE CAN HIDE TRUE COSTS. KEYWORDS: AI CODING, SOFTWARE ENGINEER, COST PER TASK, TOKEN PRICING, AI PRODUCTIVITY. NVIDIA AND MINERALS TEST SUPPLY CHAINS - REPORTS OF A POSSIBLE NVIDIA KYBER SYSTEM DELAY AND FRESH CHINESE MINERAL EXPORT PRESSURE ON JAPAN BOTH HIGHLIGHT THE PHYSICAL BOTTLENECKS BEHIND THE AI BOOM. KEYWORDS: NVIDIA, KYBER NVL144, RARE EARTHS, JAPAN, SUPPLY CHAIN. ROBOTICS RACE CENTERS ON MANUFACTURING - A CHINATALK INTERVIEW ARGUES ROBOTICS IS BECOMING A GENERAL-PURPOSE TECHNOLOGY, WITH CHINESE FIRMS GAINING FROM DENSE SUPPLY NETWORKS AND FAST HARDWARE ITERATION. KEYWORDS: ROBOTICS, UNITREE, MANUFACTURING, HUMANOIDS, INDUSTRIAL POLICY. YOUTH APP RULES FACE LEGAL FIGHTS - TEXAS CAN KEEP ENFORCING APP-STORE AGE CHECKS FOR NOW, WHILE FRANCE FACES EU RESISTANCE OVER ITS PLAN TO RESTRICT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CHILDREN UNDER 15. KEYWORDS: APP STORES, AGE VERIFICATION, TEXAS, FRANCE, DIGITAL SERVICES ACT. EUCLID FINDS RECORD ANCIENT QUASARS - THE EUCLID TELESCOPE DISCOVERED 31 QUASARS, INCLUDING THE TWO OLDEST YET SEEN, OFFERING A NEW LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE JUST 670 MILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG. KEYWORDS: EUCLID, QUASARS, EARLY UNIVERSE, REIONIZATION, BLACK HOLES. FUSION FUNDING SURGES IN EUROPE - PROXIMA FUSION RAISED A MAJOR ROUND BACKED BY GOOGLE, SIGNALING STRONGER CONFIDENCE IN STELLARATOR FUSION AS A LONG-TERM SOURCE OF CLEAN, FIRM ENERGY. KEYWORDS: FUSION, PROXIMA FUSION, GOOGLE, STELLARATOR, CLEAN ENERGY. Episode Transcript Agentic ransomware reaches real world We start with cybersecurity, where the most striking story of the day comes from Sysdig. Researchers say they have documented what may be the first fully agentic ransomware attack, called JADEPUFFER. The claim is not that AI helped write malware, which is already familiar, but that the model planned steps, adjusted when something failed, and kept moving without a human steering it in real time. If that finding holds up, it marks a shift in cybercrime from AI as an assistant to AI as an operator. The bigger lesson is less exotic than it sounds: exposed admin tools, weak defaults, and unpatched systems are still what open the door. Australia and UN push AI guardrails That story lands just as governments are trying to get more serious about AI safety. At a UN summit in Geneva, policymakers, researchers, and civil society groups argued that AI governance is lagging behind the speed of development. In Australia, the government says its AI Safety Institute is already testing frontier models and working through existing regulators instead of waiting for one giant AI law. The common theme is that safety is slowly moving from theory to practice. Regulators do not want to look anti-innovation, but they also do not want to discover dangerous behavior only after these systems are widely deployed. AI coding changes software economics In the software world, two separate debates are starting to converge. One is the idea that a new kind of ultra-productive engineer is emerging, not because one person suddenly types faster, but because skilled developers can direct fleets of AI tools to draft, reason through, and organize code. The other debate is about how companies judge those tools. A growing argument says price per token is the wrong metric because different models count text differently and can burn through hidden reasoning costs. In plain terms, the cheapest-looking model is not always the cheapest one to get real work done. Nvidia and minerals test supply chains On the infrastructure side, the AI boom is running into the hard realities of hardware. SemiAnalysis reported that Nvidia's next Kyber AI rack may be delayed by manufacturing issues tied to a key circuit board, though Nvidia says its roadmap is still on track. Whether the report proves right or not, it underlines a broader point: the most advanced AI systems still depend on very physical, very fragile production chains. That point got sharper today with data showing China has sharply reduced exports of several critical minerals to Japan. Rare earths and related materials are not glamorous, but they sit underneath everything from defense systems to advanced electronics. Software may scale instantly; supply chains do not. Robotics race centers on manufacturing That same hardware reality is central to the growing robotics race. A ChinaTalk interview made the case that robots could become the next big general-purpose technology, especially if companies can make them good enough and cheap enough for real jobs. The comparison was to DJI's rise in drones, and the company in focus was Unitree, which has moved quickly from robot dogs toward humanoid machines. The interesting part is not the science-fiction version of robotics, but the practical one: logistics, data centers, construction, and entertainment are likely to adopt robots in uneven, task-by-task waves. The geopolitical angle is just as important. China appears to have an advantage in supplier density, vertical integration, and lower-cost components, while the United States is being reminded that it cannot software its way around missing manufacturing depth. Youth app rules face legal fights Meanwhile, the fight over how to protect children online is getting more serious on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, the Supreme Court is letting Texas enforce a law requiring app stores to verify ages and get parental consent before minors can download most apps, at least while the case continues. In Europe, the European Commission warned that France's proposed ban on social media for children under 15 may clash with EU law. Put together, these stories show the same tension: governments want stronger protections for minors, but the legal route is messy when free speech, platform rules, and national versus federal or EU authority all collide. Euclid finds record ancient quasars In space news, the Euclid telescope has found 31 quasars, including the two oldest ever observed. That pushes direct observations back to a time when the universe was only around 670 million years old. Quasars are powered by supermassive black holes, so spotting them this early helps scientists test ideas about how the first big structures formed after the cosmic dark ages. It is also another reminder that the early universe may have built galaxies and black holes faster than many models expected. Euclid's advantage is scale: it can scan huge stretches of sky efficiently, which is turning rare-object hunting into something much more systematic. Fusion funding surges in Europe And finally, a forward-looking energy story. Proxima Fusion has raised a major funding round with backing from Google and other investors, in a sign that fusion is still attracting serious money despite the long road to commercialization. Proxima is working on a stellarator design, which is one of the more technically ambitious routes to fusion power. The headline here is not that fusion is suddenly around the corner. It is that large investors are increasingly willing to fund the manufacturing, magnets, and engineering needed to move these projects out of the lab phase. In a week full of reminders about hardware constraints, that may be the quiet theme tying everything together. 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