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Wednesday, June 24, 2026
We read the launch post so you don't have to. 3 to act on · 1 to test · 1 to monitor.
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3- Mistral OCR 4 now provides citation-ready, structured output, including bounding boxes and confidence scores, for 170 languages from a single self-hosted container. source
- Google Home is enhancing facial recognition to better identify tagged individuals even when not directly facing smart home cameras, rolling out now. source
- Datasette 1.0a35 adds a "Create table" interface, supported by a new JSON API endpoint, allowing users to define column and primary keys. source