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Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental “reasoning” model that “explicitly shows its thoughts” and can use them to strengthen its reasoning — Google has released what it's calling a new “reasoning” AI model — but it's in the experimental stages …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Researchers unveil Genesis, an open-source generative physics engine that trains robots in simulated reality 430K times faster than in the real world — On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system …
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Sony's shares in Japan surged 50%+ from an August low to reach its new all-time high since 2000 last week, as investors are bullish on its gaming growth in 2025 — - Next year ‘one of the greatest’ for video games: Smithers — M&A and good management boost stock's appeal: Janus Henderson| Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India — A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as “BREAKING NEWS” or “The president steps down …
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| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
The UK ICO criticizes Google as “irresponsible” after the company announced plans to let advertisers employ fingerprinting techniques from February 16, 2025 — ICO says allowing advertisers to track digital ‘fingerprints’ will undermine consumers' control over information| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Crypto executives say EU's MiCA crypto regulation may end up draining liquidity from markets without achieving EU's goals like preventing money laundering — - Executives are concerned that removing USDT will sap liquidity — European Union cryptoasset regulations set to take full force …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life since 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has an economy of ~$650M per year — Linden Lab has spent $1.3 billion building the Second Life virtual world, which debuted back in 2003 in the first era of the metaverse.| Bloomberg: |
Malaysia says it has identified WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Telegram, WeChat, and TikTok as platforms that need to obtain a license by next year — The platforms include Meta Platforms Inc.'s WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram; Elon Musk's X; Google's YouTube; Pavel Durov's Telegram …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple researchers say the company's open-source ReDrafter method on Nvidia GPUs led to a 2.7x speed increase in generated tokens per second for greedy encoding — Apple's latest machine learning research could make creating models for Apple Intelligence faster, by coming up with a technique … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky updates its app to include a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections against username squatting, and new controls for replies sorting — Social network Bluesky has released a new update to its app that includes a separate mentions tab in notifications …
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Q&A with Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on what led to the country's under-16 social media ban, enforcement, unintended consequences, more — Australia passed one of the strictest internet crackdowns in the world last month, banning children under 16 from being on social media or opening new accounts.
Bluesky: @mmasnick
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU commission approves Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli AI workload management startup Run:ai, saying the takeover raises no competition concerns in the EU — - EU says the deal won't hamper competition in key market — Run:ai has been a close collaborator with Nvidia since 2020Sponsor Posts
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