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December 9, 2024, 1:45 PM

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Review of OpenAI's Sora video generator: excels at depicting landscapes, people, stylistic content, but it 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...
John Russell / HPCwire:
Google says it had 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 …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers, which lets select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English  —  As more AI companies gobble up Reddit's data to fuel their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing a new conversational AI feature of its own.
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Chinese state media: the State Administration for Market Regulation opened an anti-monopoly investigation into Nvidia tied to its Mellanox acquisition in 2020  —  - Probe from the market regulator is looking into Mellanox deal  — Nvidia shares dropped in early trading after the announcement
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware:
Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5's power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe and no camera or display ports  —  Cramming a Raspberry Pi 5 into a keyboard  —  Tom's Hardware Verdict … When the Raspberry Pi 400 was released …
SemiAnalysis:
A look at Intel's problems, starting with 2016's 10nm node: 7/11 board members have no chip experience, most CEO options are worse than Pat Gelsinger, and more  —  Intel's board is incompetent and its horrible decisions over the decades are going to push it towards death.
Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg:
Researchers: Meta let 25 Facebook Pages run 4,100+ ads attacking Romania's pro-EU candidate and promoting far-right figures, with 199M+ views since August 2024  —  - Political ads promoted far-right figures including Georgescu  — Network of Facebook pages shared similar, polarizing messaging
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