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December 26, 2024, 12:35 PM

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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
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!
New York Times:
Japan Airlines halts ticket sales after a cyberattack hit its network equipment, causing delays to more than 40 flights, and says flight safety was not impacted  —  The airline also temporarily stopped selling tickets for flights departing Thursday, but said that there was no impact on flight safety.
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.
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Bluesky launches a Trending Topics feature in beta on its desktop and mobile apps in English, and says users' muted words will transfer to Trending  —  Social network Bluesky said on Christmas that it is testing a trending topics view.  The trending topics are visible both on the desktop …
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  —  Disconnection of power line follows series of suspected sabotage attacks on Baltic Sea infrastructure
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters:
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 …
Qwen:
Alibaba releases QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on “enhancing visual reasoning capabilities”, built on Qwen2-VL-72B  —  Language and vision intertwine in the human mind, shaping how we perceive and understand the world around us.

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