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Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing — Investment, more than export controls, will keep the U.S. ahead of Beijing, Commerce secretary says| Bloomberg: |
The US awards a $4.75B CHIPS Act grant to Samsung and $1.6B to Texas Instruments for new factories in Texas and Utah, rounding out the program's largest grants — - Incentives will go toward new factories in Texas and Utah — Biden administration is racing to complete federal grants| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy — Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.| Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: |
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| Reuters: |
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November — Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month …
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
How Britannica survived the Wikipedia era by changing itself into a maker of education software and AI agents, as it reportedly weighs an IPO at a $1B valuation — The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public.| Esha Dey / Bloomberg: |
Tesla's shares are up 73% since Election Day, as several analysts see the Trump administration easing rules for self-driving tech, benefiting Tesla's ambitions — - Stock was down 2% before election, gains 73% since Trump's win — ‘Hard to imagine an upside’ from here: Wisdomtree's Gannatti
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| Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg: |
A look at India's quick food delivery market as Swiggy and Zomato enter the sector; report: online food delivery market in India to reach $15B by March 2029 — - Zomato, Swiggy among those who now have quick food delivery — Some social media users have voiced concerns on food quality
More: CNBC, The Economic Times, and Times of India
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems — Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters. Short words are represented by a single token …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency — But there's a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough up more data.
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| Financial Times: |
Report: hedge funds employing crypto strategies posted 46% gains in November, bringing their YTD returns to 76%, outpacing the industry average of 10% YTD gains — Crypto strategies made more than 30 per cent in November following Donald Trump's election victory
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| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Tether says it is on track for a record $10B net profit in 2024 and expects to invest $2.5B to $3B in 2025 across AI, finance, biotech, education, and mining — Exit Content Preview … - Ardoino says the company is tracking toward a record $10 billion in net profits this year.| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says safety researchers can sign up for o3 preview today and that it decided not to name the new model o2 “out of respect” for the UK telecom company — The new AI system, called o3, is expected to launch early next year. — OpenAI is preparing to launch …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
A profile of AWS CEO Matt Garman, including his first few months on the job, what his stewardship means for the business, and his opportunities and challenges — Matt Garman joined Amazon Web Services as an intern nearly two decades ago. But his appearance earlier this month … Sponsor Posts
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