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OpenAI launches Sora in select countries; ChatGPT Pro offers up to 500 videos per month at up to 1080p, and ChatGPT Plus offers up to 50 videos at up to 720p — We're moving our video generation model out of research preview. — Learn more System Card — Our video generation model … | Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube: |
A review of OpenAI's Sora video generator: excels at landscapes, people, and stylistic content, but often fails with basic physics like object permanence — SORA generates videos. This is the first review.Get up to 40% off on last minute gifts at https://ridge.com/MKBHDThe (real) birding video: https://youtu.be/F...| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap — Google today introduced its latest quantum chip — Willow (~100 qubits) — coinciding with two key achievements run on the new chip … | Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
Filing: TikTok asks a US court to put on hold a law forcing a sale or ban of the app until SCOTUS can review it and the Trump admin can determine its position — TikTok asked that a US law forcing a sale or ban of the app by China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. be put on hold to give the US Supreme Court a chance to review.| Patrick McKenzie / Bits about Money: |
A deep dive into “debanking”, which crypto advocates, including a16z, claim has been used against them by US political actors and agencies without due process — Recently, noted VC Marc Andreessen kicked off a discussion about debanking, in a podcast with his co-founder Ben Horowitz … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Norwegian payment service Vipps launches the world's first Apple Pay alternative on iOS, following Apple's move to open NFC access to developers from iOS 18.1 — Norwegian payment service Vipps has become the world's first company to launch a competing tap-to-pay solution to Apple Pay on iPhone … | Trefor Moss / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Vinted, a popular app in the EU for selling secondhand clothes that went from near collapse to a €5B valuation and plans to expand in the US — Vinted is wildly popular in Europe and disproving the conventional wisdom about the resale market. Can it eventually crack the U.S.?| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
The US Commerce Department finalizes a $6.1B+ subsidy for memory chipmaker Micron under the CHIPS Act to fund its factory projects in New York and Idaho — The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized a subsidy of more than $6.1 billion for memory chip maker Micron Technology (MU.O) … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft unveils a new data center design that aims to use zero water, down from the 125M litres per year a typical center uses, rolling out since August 2024 — New design will use no water to cool the facilities' servers and chips. — Microsoft Corp., trying to mitigate the climate impact … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery using quantum algorithms and AI, raised $38M led by Cathay Innovation, after raising €30M in January 2024 — Aqemia, a French startup that's meshing “quantum-inspired physics” with machine learning to find new drugs … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Software testing service LambdaTest, which supports 5K+ browser and OS combinations, raised a $38M Series D led by Avataar, taking its total funding to $108M — LambdaTest, a cloud-based software testing platform, has raised $38 million in a Series D funding round as it looks to expand … | Aaron Kirchfeld / Bloomberg: |
TeamViewer says it plans to buy 1E, which makes automated remediation software, from Carlyle for $720M, closing in early 2025, its biggest ever acquisition — - German remote-working software firm's biggest ever acquisition — Transaction will help expand company's North America footprint| Financial Times: |
Sources: in October 2024, EU regulators asked Google for more information on its secret ads deal with Meta which skirted Google's own rules for targeting minors — Regulators request information after FT investigation into partnership that skirted search giant's rules on minors
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