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Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing — Investment, more than export controls, will keep the U.S. ahead of Beijing, Commerce secretary says| Bloomberg: |
The US awards a $4.75B CHIPS Act grant to Samsung and $1.6B to Texas Instruments for new factories in Texas and Utah, rounding out the program's largest grants — - Incentives will go toward new factories in Texas and Utah — Biden administration is racing to complete federal grants| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy — Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.| Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: |
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms — We will appeal the Court's decision but the process requires that we first file proposed remedies. This is a case about contracts.
More: Google, Search Engine Land, BBC, Android Police, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, The Mozilla Blog, Thurrott, Search Engine Journal, PhoneArena, New York Times, 9to5Google, Business Insider, and New York Times
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Android
| Reuters: |
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November — Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month …
More: Associated Press, Bloomberg, Mashable, The Indian Express, Newser, Al Jazeera, and Agence France-Presse
| Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg: |
A look at India's quick food delivery market as Swiggy and Zomato enter the sector; report: online food delivery market in India to reach $15B by March 2029 — - Zomato, Swiggy among those who now have quick food delivery — Some social media users have voiced concerns on food quality
More: CNBC, The Economic Times, and Times of India
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems — Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters. Short words are represented by a single token …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency — But there's a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough up more data.
More: Boston Herald, NHTSA, TechCrunch, Reuters, and Advocates for Highway …
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| Financial Times: |
Report: hedge funds employing crypto strategies posted 46% gains in November, bringing their YTD returns to 76%, outpacing the industry average of 10% YTD gains — Crypto strategies made more than 30 per cent in November following Donald Trump's election victory
More: crypto.news
| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Tether says it is on track for a record $10B net profit in 2024 and expects to invest $2.5B to $3B in 2025 across AI, finance, biotech, education, and mining — Exit Content Preview … - Ardoino says the company is tracking toward a record $10 billion in net profits this year.| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says safety researchers can sign up for o3 preview today and that it decided not to name the new model o2 “out of respect” for the UK telecom company — The new AI system, called o3, is expected to launch early next year. — OpenAI is preparing to launch …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
More: Pivot to AI, OpenAI on YouTube, OpenAI, Interesting Engineering, The Decoder, Analytics India Magazine, Yahoo Finance, The Verge, CNBC, and ARC Prize
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Forums: r/artificial, r/technews, and lobste.rs
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data — OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion
More: Hindustan Times and TechCrunch
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Forums: r/technology and r/singularity
| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
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