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.
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
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches
I suspect they might have been compressing the audio track to prevent video buffering. Leo S / @yeeleo15 : Streaming to 10-15 million a lot different than the 60 million they claimed from the Tyson fi...
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 …
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.
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 …
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!
Alibaba releases QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on “enhancing visual reasoning capabilities”, built on Qwen2-VL-72B
QVQ-72B-Preview is an experimental research model developed by the Qwen team … QwenLM on GitHub : Qwen2-VL — Introduction After a year's relentless efforts, today we are thrilled to release Qwen2-VL...
Alibaba agrees to merge its South Korean operations with E-Mart's Gmarket, creating a 50-50 joint venture; sources say the new company could be valued at ~$4B
- Companies announce JV deal in Korea, confirming earlier report — Alibaba seeks inroads abroad as growth slows in China
Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force that creates boom towns
The rural region is changing fast as electricians from around the country plug the tech industry's new, giant data centers into its ample power supply. X: @scottlincicome and @barbariancap . Forums: S...
Source: Microsoft and OpenAI wrangle over Microsoft's stake in the for-profit, use of OpenAI's IP, continued collection of 20% of OpenAI's revenue, and more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to convert the artificial intelligence developer, which is governed by a nonprofit, into a for-profit corporation.
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%+
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How some doctors are using AI tools, like DAX Copilot from Microsoft's Nuance, to automate administrative tasks like taking and summarizing notes
Millions are already being treated by doctors using artificial intelligence to take notes and draft emails to patients. Bluesky: @acidrains and @hypervisible Bluesky: Stephanie Rains / @acidrains : At...
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 …
Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124% week-over-week to $119B+ this past week, up from $2.5B per day average in November 2024
$20B daily, up 164% from the week before. December's $10B daily average crushes November's $2.5B. Retail is waking up, and the market's heating up fast! 🔥 [image] @pancakeswap : “PancakeSwap's 179% Yo...
A look at Toontown Rewritten, an unofficial recreation of Disney's Toontown Online game that shut down in 2013; Toontown Rewritten now has 10K DAUs and 50K MAUs
of teamwork, of working toward the greater good, of having fun—live on. It's a classic Disney ending.” — This quote captures what makes Toontown special. Its fictional story of “Work vs. Play” bec...
AppLovin was 2024's top performing US tech stock, up 758% as of December 24, followed by MicroStrategy, up 467%, and Palantir, up 380%; the Nasdaq jumped 33%
Artificial intelligence is still an abstract concept for many everyday consumers unsure about how it will change their lives.
An in-depth analysis of 62 AI queries: ChatGPT search beat Google on content gap analysis and disambiguation queries, but Google was better for most searches
Eric Enge / Search Engine Land :
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
at least $561 billion — has yet to be obligated or is not yet available for agencies to spend.” www.politico.com/news/2024/12... [images] X: @politico : Biden had just a single term to try to transfo...
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
This NVidia monopoly on #ai hardware is not good for anybody. … X: Nicholas Wilt / @cudahandbook : NVIDIA to churn the hardware instruction set with abandon, sometimes even committing featurecide and ...
Analysis: in 2024, ~66% of 39 public digital health companies lost value, while the Nasdaq rose 32%; in 2021, digital health startups raised a record $29.1B
Post-pandemic demand waned, bringing down former high fliers like Teladoc (-96% from 2021 highs) and Progyny (-60% YTD). … X: Ashley Capoot / @ashleycapoot : New: It's been nearly 5 years since Covid ...
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
more interesting than it sounds! LinkedIn: Ross Dawson : The frontier of “evals”. Evaluations comparing AI ahd human capabilities are evolving rapidly as AI rapidly leaves existing benchmarks in the ...
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