A growing cohort of AI startups are recruiting experts to train models on highly specialized tasks for sensitive sectors like finance, defense, and health care
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : X: @saritharai X: Saritha Rai / @saritharai : PhDs, radiologists, accountants in places like Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Philippines & Vietnam are teaching AI to perform comp...
Alibaba releases 32.5B-parameter QwQ-32B-Preview under Apache 2.0 and claims the “reasoning” AI model beats OpenAI's o1-preview on the AIME and MATH tests
Introduction QwQ-32B-Preview is an experimental research model developed … Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : Alibaba's New AI Model Outperforms OpenAI's o1 In Specific Benchmarks, Now Available For Free Dow...
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021
In April 2022, about four months after Kazakhstan's government violently cracked down on nationwide protests … Forums: r/privacy Forums: r/privacy : How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub
Kazakhstan-based Kaspi.kz agrees to acquire a majority share, or 65.4%, of Turkish e-commerce platform Hepsiburada for ~$1.13B, expected to close in Q1 2025
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu :
Kaspi.kz, which runs two super apps in Kazakhstan, raised $1B+ in its US IPO, with the stock rising 4.3% on its debut, giving the company a market cap of ~$18B
Amy Or / Bloomberg :
Kazakhstan-based mobile app provider Kaspi.kz raised $1B+ in its US IPO, with the stock rising 4.3% on its debut, giving the company a market cap of ~$18B
The American depositary shares, which were trading below their IPO price until the final minute of their New York debut Friday …
Filing: Kazakhstan-based mobile app provider Kaspi.kz's CEO and other shareholders plan to sell 9M shares for $873M; Kaspi.kz's Super App had 13.5M MAUs in 2023
Bloomberg :
Kazakhstan arrests ex-Group-IB executive Nikita Kislitsin for his alleged role in the 2012 LinkedIn and Dropbox hacks; US and Russia issue extradition requests
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Source: Russia is circumventing sanctions by importing advanced chips through countries such as Turkey and the UAE; shipments from China to Russia have surged
they're made in G7/EU countries, then shipped there via Turkey, UAE and others https://www.bloomberg.com/... Annmarie Hordern / @annmarie : Kazakhstan provides a key example of how Russia looks to be ...
Facebook's Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report: in a first, none of the top 20 posts broke platform rules; sources detail Meta's latest fight against spammy content
linked to individuals associated with the US military — operated across many internet services and focused on Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tajikist...