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An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits — Finally, a verifiable, numbers-based description of artificial general intelligence has arrived!
More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Sherwood News, and The Verge
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Source: Microsoft and OpenAI wrangle over Microsoft's stake in the for-profit entity, use of OpenAI's IP, continued collection of 20% of OpenAI's revenue, more — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to convert the artificial intelligence developer, which is governed by a nonprofit, into a for-profit corporation.| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry — This isn't ambiguous. — The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate, and it's over H-1b visas.
More: Mashable India and Washington Examiner
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| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to high-skilled H-1B visas and green cards by leveraging the sway of Elon Musk over the GOP — A holiday blowup over immigration between Trump's tech advisers and the GOP base suggests the road may be littered with obstacles.
Bluesky: @ignotumaliquis and @antiquequaalude
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3.
More: GitHub, TechCrunch, TestingCatalog, and Analytics India Magazine
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| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Finland says it suspects an oil tanker in Russia's shadow fleet of damaging three undersea internet cables on December 25, the latest Baltic Sea cable damaged — Helsinki opens investigation into damaged power line in latest suspected sabotage attack on Baltic Sea infrastructure
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky launches Trending Topics in beta on its desktop and mobile apps in English; a user's muted words and phrases won't appear in their trending topics — Social network Bluesky said on Christmas that it is testing a trending topics view. The trending topics are visible both on the desktop … | New York Times: |
Japan Airlines temporarily halted ticket sales and delayed more than 40 flights on Thursday after a cyberattack, and says there was no impact on flight safety — The airline also temporarily stopped selling tickets for flights departing Thursday, but said that there was no impact on flight safety.
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| Ruth Reader / Politico: |
US federal lobbying disclosure forms reveal how Meta, with a team of 14 directly employed lobbyists, led efforts to block the passage of KOSA in Congress — The billionaire and his company needed Speaker Mike Johnson's help to stop legislation that would have regulated social media for the first time.
More: Politico, Optimus on YouTube, and Tennessee Lookout
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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft adds Copilot to Microsoft 365 in Australia and Southeast Asia and raises 365's price, a sign of how it aims to turn a profit from its AI investments — The tech company has made Copilot part of its 365 subscription service in several markets and raised prices| Malcolm Moore / Financial Times: |
Italian energy giant Eni launches its HPC6 supercomputer, the most powerful outside the US, costing €100M to build and using 14K AMD GPUs, to find oil and gas — Italian energy giant switches on the world's most powerful machine outside the US — Italian energy giant Eni is firing … | New York Times: |
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