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Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions — Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments following legislative changes …
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Taiwan's FTC blocks Uber's $950M acquisition of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda, arguing it would decrease competition as their combined market share would be 90%+ — - Fair Trade Commission concerned deal would limit competition — Uber had sought Delivery Hero's Foodpanda unit in Taiwan
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Alibaba's Qwen unveils QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on “enhancing visual reasoning capabilities”, built upon Qwen2-VL-72B — Language and vision intertwine in the human mind, shaping how we perceive and understand the world around us.| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Filing: Apple asks to participate in the remedial phase of Google's US antitrust case, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements — Apple (AAPL.O) has asked to participate in Google's upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely …
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| The Block: |
Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124% week-over-week to $119B+ this past week; it averaged just $2.5B per day in November 2024 — - The weekly total is 124% higher than the previous week's total. — The following is an excerpt from The Block's Data and Insights newsletter.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Analysis: roughly two-thirds of 39 public digital health companies have lost value in 2024, while the Nasdaq is up 32% — If the Covid era marked a boom time for digital health companies, 2024 was the reckoning. — In a year that saw the Nasdaq jump 32%, surpassing 20,000 for the first time this month … | Politico: |
Examining Biden's tech legacy and the CHIPS Act, as the White House says $446B has been announced for chips and electronics manufacturing since he took office — President Joe Biden had just a single term to try to transform the nation's approach to energy, climate change, technology and jobs.| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
President Biden signs the $895B 2025 defense policy bill, including $3B for the FCC's “rip and replace” program to get rid of Chinese networking equipment — The annual defense policy bill signed by President Joe Biden Monday evening allocates $3 billion to help telecom firms remove … | Bloomberg: |
Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace approves lifting its ban on “certain widely used foreign platforms”, naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps — - Allowing WhatsApp and Google Play may placate opponents — Major social networking sites have been blocked for years| Tharin Pillay / Time: |
A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging in response to the rapid progress of models, including FrontierMath, Humanity's Last Exam, and RE-Bench — Despite their expertise, AI developers don't always know what their most advanced systems are capable of—at least, not at first.| Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: |
Opensignal ranks Japan #1 in G7 mobile reliability experience between July 1 and September 28, followed by France, Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK — Research highlights impact of poor network performance on consumers — Mobile users in the UK had the least reliable experience …
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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and total cost of ownership, but software bugs hold it back — Intro — SemiAnalysis has been on a five-month long quest to settle the reality of MI300X. In theory, the MI300X …
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