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The advanced flight helmet—designated the "Next-Generation Fixed-Wing Helmet" (NGFWH)—will be manufactured by the Gentex ...

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Just last week the Chinese firm Moonshot AI released its latest open-weight model, Kimi K2.5, which came close to top proprietary systems such as Anthropic’s Claude Opus on some early benchmarks. The ...