Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 1/30/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 1/30/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/senorcoconut/re-leothreads-22wzpry4p?referral=senorcoconut
Drop in here if you have any ideas
Stem cells used to partially repair damaged hearts
A group of German researchers have developed a method for repairing the heart using new muscle generated from stem cells. The results are promising and they have started clinical trials. The technique involves creating sheets of cells and combining them into a single patch that can be attached to the heart's exterior. In experiments, the scientists found that the added tissues integrated into the hearts functionally and immature stem cells did not form tumors. The implants weren't problem-free - some of the stem cells in the sheets appeared to be uncommitted to a mature state and one animal generated an immune response to the implanted cells.
#technology #health #science #stemcells
On DeepSeek and Export Controls
DeepSeek's achievements make export control policies more existentially important than they were a week ago. Export controls keep democratic nations at the forefront of AI development. The idea that the technology getting cheaper and more powerful is a reason to lift export controls makes no sense - they are one of the most powerful tools for preventing authoritarian governments from behaving aggressively on the world stage. DeepSeek's release is roughly on the expected cost reduction curve, which big tech has already factored into its calculations - it will still require billions of dollars of infrastructure to make AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things.
#technology #deepseek #ai
China secretly building world’s largest nuclear fusion laser, US satellite exposes
China is developing a laser fusion research facility in the southwestern region of the country. It will be larger than the US National Ignition Facility, the current world's largest inertial confinement fusion facility. The new development could have huge implications for both nuclear weapons research and clean energy production. China has not revealed the purpose of the facility.
#technology #china #nuclearfusion #laser
The X Everything App will launch this year, aiming to compete with Apple Pay
X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that X will launch its Everything App this year. The app will allow for secure and instant funding to X Wallets via Visa Direct. Users will be able to connect their debit cards for P2P payments. There will be an option for users to instantly transfer funds to their bank accounts.
#technology #x #everythingapp
Inleo are position so well! Lets hope we can keep up and dont get left behind
Elon Musk claims Tesla will launch a self-driving service in Austin in June
Elon Musk claimed during a recent earnings call that Tesla plans to launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June. The vehicles will use the yet-unreleased 'unsupervised' version of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software. That software is expected to be released to Tesla owners in California and other regions in the US this year. Tesla owners will not be able to add their cars to the Tesla ride-hail fleet until at least next year.
#technology #ev #tesla
THORChain's Ice Age
THORChain's experimental lending protocol froze $200M in user funds as validators scrambled to prevent a death spiral triggered by its flawed leverage model. While its core DEX remains operational, the protocol now faces a 90-day race to restructure debt and salvage trust, exposing yet another DeFi experiment gone wrong.
#technology #crypto #thorchain #defi #lending
The Thorchain drama is quiet interesting to follow. I hope that most of the community can rally behind one of the proposals.
After that its time to go back to the basics and then onward to Valhalla 🦁
That being said, I'm buying the dip hahah hopefully $RUNE makes a comebacl
NFA
Yea, totally!
I like what Khal says about it. ThorCHain should be the Bitcoin of cross-chain protocols. Solid and reliable.
Experimentation and testing should be done on friendly forks such as Maya
100% agree with that
Why has this crypto cycle been so hard?
This crypto cycle has been especially difficult due to factors like PTSD from past market crashes, regulatory crackdowns, a lack of major innovation, and a shift towards short-term trading and financial nihilism. With BTC attracting new institutional buyers while altcoins struggle, success now requires a more strategic approach, whether through fundamentals-driven investments, active trading, or niche plays like airdrop farming.
#technology #crypto #market
Pectra hard fork explained — Will it get Ethereum back on track?
Ethereum's upcoming Pectra hard fork, scheduled for March, aims to improve scalability by doubling data availability blobs from an average of three to six (max of 9 per block), though experts believe this will only suffice until late summer. The subsequent Fusaka upgrade is expected to implement Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS), similar to peer-to-peer torrenting, which could further increase efficiency and scalability.
#technology #ethereum #hardfork #pectra
Introducing Kraken Pay
Kraken Pay is a new payment service that enables instant, free transfers of 300+ crypto and fiat assets globally, with automatic cross-asset conversion capabilities during transfers. The product has paylinks, which allow users to send crypto payments via any messaging service, and customizable Kraktags that serve as unique identifiers. The service is now live for all Kraken clients.
#technology #crypto #payments #kraken
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Extreme demand took down LA's water system during the Palisades Fire. Here's how other U.S. cities can prepare
Some 20% of hydrants failed during the fight to save the Pacific Palisades from LA's massive fire on Jan. 7. Here's how other U.S. cities can better prepare.
As thousands of homes started to burn across Los Angeles on Jan. 7, fire hydrants stopped working. The rapid spread of flames in winds up to 100 miles per hour was happening too quickly for water pumps to keep up. It shocked the system and those fleeing the flames.
"This area is known for having fire issues, so you would think that they would be prepared for this," said Joan Zoloth, 70, who said she first moved to the area when she was 6 years old.
Zoloth's childhood home burned down in the Palisades Fire. Her own home around the corner and her son's home nearby were also lost.
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"My mother was a teacher," Zoloth said. "What people don't realize is how much Malibu is filled with those types of people — not just movie stars."
The remains of Joan Zoloth's childhood home in Malibu, California, shown on Jan. 21, 2025, after it burned down in the Palisades Fire.
CNBC went to the wreckage of the Palisades Fire to ask officials what happened to the water system in LA, and what other cities can do to be better prepared. As many as 1 in 6 Americans now live in areas with significant wildfire risk.
"A firefight at this size, such an urban conflagration, any system is going to have its challenges in maintaining water pressure," said State Fire Marshall Daniel Berlant, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.
Water pressure was the primary problem, rather than a lack of supply, fire officials and water experts told CNBC.
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Much of the water in the Palisades is provided by three 1 million gallon tanks that sit up in the hills, using gravity to maintain water pressure in the hydrants and homes they supply below.
Pumps forcibly move water from main lines and surrounding reservoirs to those tanks. The tanks were full when the fires started, but the pumps couldn't replenish water in the tanks as quickly as firefighters were using it below. As the tanks depleted, so did the water pressure, until some 20% of hydrants ran dry.
"The hydrants would have run dry anywhere in the world with a fire event like this in the topography where this occurred," said Greg Pierce, director of the UCLA Human Right to Water Lab.
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The closure of a 117 million gallon reservoir nearby complicated matters. Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA city council members called for investigations into why the Santa Ynez Reservoir hadn't yet reopened after being drained almost a year ago to repair a tear in its cover.
"That would have made a difference," Pierce said. "But even, by all accounts, if that reservoir was full, it wouldn't have stopped the fire."
Typically, fires are also fought by aircraft dropping water and fire retardant from above, but high winds kept them grounded for several hours on the first night of the fire.
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Firefighters adapted with three tactics. They shuttled water through multiple engines connected to functional hydrants, drove it to locations in large water tenders, and pumped water directly from backyard swimming pools.
The LA Department of Water and Power said it quadrupled the water flow to the area and summoned 15 water tankers to directly refill fire trucks. It wasn't enough.
The blame game
As immediate danger calmed, misinformation ran wild. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, reactivated its rumor response site, and the LA Fire Department directly responded to inaccurate social media posts.
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President Donald Trump, for instance, claimed that water ran out in LA because of policies meant to protect a small endangered fish called the Delta smelt.
"It's just simply false. It's nonsense," said Peter Gleick, co-founder of the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank. Gleick has been researching water issues for four decades.
On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order titled "Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California." After visiting with Newsom in LA, Trump signed another executive order directing federal officials to find ways to override "disastrous" California water policies.
!summarize #scientist #woke
"There's lots of conversations about California water policy and how we allocate water to protect fish or ecosystems versus deliver water to different kinds of users, but that had no role whatsoever to play in water availability for firefighting," Gleick said.
Southern California reservoirs are at above-average levels for this time of year because of two plentiful rainy seasons, he added.
"Misinformation about how if we just had more water from Northern California in Southern California, that would have made the difference, that's not true," UCLA's Pierce said. "Even if you have water stored fairly close by in the region, you can't just move it quickly up to an area like the Palisades."
!summarize #democrats #hypocrisy #rfkjr #senate
That's why billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick are also not to blame for the Palisades Fire, the water experts who spoke with CNBC said.
The Resnicks own the Wonderful Company, which includes brands such as Pom and Fiji Water, and have sprawling farmlands in the San Joaquin Valley that grow pistachios, oranges and pomegranates. They've been the subject of attacks on social media, some of which are antisemitic, that blame them for the water pressure problems in LA because of their investment in a public-private water bank that's 100 miles north of LA and that has no ability to impact water pressure in the Palisades.
!summarize #victordavishanson #stanford #universisty #elite #liberal
"There's absolutely no connection between the two. This is a localized problem," said Felicia Marcus, former chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board.
The fires also resurfaced criticism around state and local water decisions, from taking down dams to not building enough reservoirs.
The real culprit is extremely dry conditions, experts told CNBC. Before the fires, LA saw close to zero rain since May, and 2024 was the hottest year on record for the planet, Gleick said.
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"Higher temperatures means more demand for water by soils and vegetation and people and agriculture," he said. "Climate change is in many ways a water problem. It's being manifested by drought and floods and wildfires."
More resilient water systems
This is not the first time hydrants ran dry in a major firefight. They're designed to handle one or two structure fires, not hundreds burning at the same time.
Similar water pressure problems plagued the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire, which destroyed more than 3,000 homes, and two Ventura County fires that each burned more than 1,000 homes in 2017 and 2018.
The problem extends beyond California. Texas saw the largest fire in its history last February. As population booms, more people are moving to areas at high risk of fires between dense developments and wildland.
California is home to the top six cities at highest wildfire risk in the U.S., but Texas, Colorado and Oregon also have cities in the top 15.
A firefighting helicopter draws water from the first-ever installed Heli-Hydrant to quickly stop the Blue Ridge Fire in Yorba Linda, California, on October 28, 2020.
!summarize #deportation #media
!summarize #petealonso #ryanstanek #nymets #mlb
There are three key components to making water systems more resilient, Pierce said: increasing water supply, improving local infrastructure, and bolstering power.
After a 2008 fire that destroyed 280 homes, Yorba Linda Water District in California addressed all three. It added backup generators at water pump stations that had failed during the fire, added a long-planned underground reservoir, and installed a first-of-its-kind water tank called a Heli-Hydrant.
That $70,000 tank can automatically refill itself and is reserved for helicopters to dip from, reducing the length of flight times between water pickups and drops. It was used to quickly stop the Blue Ridge Fire in 2020.
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"Cal Fire was able to jump on it and use our Heli-Hydrant, trigger it and keep the fire to five acres," said John DeCriscio, who was operations manager at the Yorba Linda Water District at the time. "That was a huge success."
San Francisco implemented a comprehensive solution after the city was almost completely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and resulting fire, which also caused most hydrants to run dry.
In 1913, the city developed a unique fire-suppression water system separate from the rest of the city's water. Seawater enters the system from 52 suction connections along the waterfront, and it's pumped in from fireboats and two high-pressure pumping stations. There are more than 200 underground cisterns to store backup water. A high-elevation reservoir and two large-capacity tanks use gravity, not pumps, to feed special high-pressure emergency hydrants that can be seen around the city with black, red and blue tops.
The problem is - older women have no game. And they have no game because they never NEEDED any game. Just being a woman always worked for them. But once they hit forty and men are asking ''so, what else do you bring to the table?'' these women have nothing else to draw upon. You might as well have just asked them to wire up the space shuttle.
There are other solutions that cities can implement.
A company called Rain is working on autonomous, unmanned aircraft for dropping water on fires. In Japan, an autonomous system of water cannons protects a cultural heritage site with 200-year-old thatched roof houses.
Cost is the main reason these solutions haven't been implemented widely.
"There's always this delicate balance of being afraid to go to your customers and raise their rates, but if you don't raise their rates, you can't do these extra things," said Marcus, the former state water board chair. "It's the kind of thing that keeps you up at night when you manage one of these agencies."
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What is DeepSeek?
Last week, DeepSeek released R1, its new reasoning model that rivals OpenAI's o1. A reasoning model is a large language model that breaks prompts down into smaller pieces and considers multiple approaches before generating a response. It is designed to process complex problems in a similar way to humans.
DeepSeek was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, co-founder of AI-focused quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, to focus on large language models and reaching artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
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AGI as a concept loosely refers to the idea of an AI that equals or surpasses human intellect on a wide range of tasks.
Much of the technology behind R1 isn't new. What is notable, however, is that DeepSeek is the first to deploy it in a high-performing AI model with — according to the company — considerable reductions in power requirements.
"The takeaway is that there are many possibilities to develop this industry. The high-end chip/capital intensive way is one technological approach," said Xiaomeng Lu, director of Eurasia Group's geo-technology practice.
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"But DeepSeek proves we are still in the nascent stage of AI development and the path established by OpenAI may not be the only route to highly capable AI."
How is it different from OpenAI?
DeepSeek has two main systems that have garnered buzz from the AI community: V3, the large language model that unpins its products, and R1, its reasoning model.
Both models are open-source, meaning their underlying code is free and publicly available for other developers to customize and redistribute.
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DeepSeek's models are much smaller than many other large language models. V3 has a total of 671 billion parameters, or variables that the model learns during training. And while OpenAI doesn't disclose parameters, experts estimate its latest model to have at least a trillion.
In terms of performance, DeepSeek says its R1 model achieves performance comparable to OpenAI's o1 on reasoning tasks, citing benchmarks including AIME 2024, Codeforces, GPQA Diamond, MATH-500, MMLU and SWE-bench Verified.
In a technical report, the company said its V3 model had a training cost of only $5.6 million — a fraction of the billions of dollars that notable Western AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic have spent to train and run their foundational AI models. It isn't yet clear how much DeepSeek costs to run, however.
If the training costs are accurate, though, it means the model was developed at a fraction of the cost of rival models by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others.
Daniel Newman, CEO of tech insight firm The Futurum Group, said these developments suggest "a massive breakthrough," although he shed some doubt on the exact figures.
"I believe the breakthroughs of DeepSeek indicate a meaningful inflection for scaling laws and are a real necessity," he said. "Having said that, there are still a lot of questions and uncertainties around the full picture of costs as it pertains to the development of DeepSeek."
Regarding the windshield fogging issue, all cars off gas-especially the newer they are. It is the seat and upholstery treatments that off gas. What always concerned me is sure the windshield fogs, but we are breathing that off gass in the mean time. I always leave my windows cracked in the heat of the summer to hopefully vent away alot of that off gassing. I dont know how effective it is, but it makes me feel better.
I don't believe there's any such thing as a human remote driver. this will be GROK in car and Collosus or DOJO which will run scenarios and supervise remotely IMHO. Why not? It drives BETTER than a human at that point, at scale, so why use a human at all? I also think we (investors) fully appreciate the honesty from Elon. If tesla needs to upgrade the hardware for FSD v3 cars then they should. Any of these cars in the taxi network will more than make enough money to reap the costs back and then some.
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Meanwhile, Paul Triolio, senior VP for China and technology policy lead at advisory firm DGA Group, noted it was difficult to draw a direct comparison between DeepSeek's model cost and that of major U.S. developers.
"The 5.6 million figure for DeepSeek V3 was just for one training run, and the company stressed that this did not represent the overall cost of R&D to develop the model," he said. "The overall cost then was likely significantly higher, but still lower than the amount spent by major US AI companies."
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Comparing DeepSeek, OpenAI on price
DeepSeek and OpenAI both disclose pricing for their models' computations on their websites.
DeepSeek says R1 costs 55 cents per 1 million tokens of inputs — "tokens" referring to each individual unit of text processed by the model — and $2.19 per 1 million tokens of output.
In comparison, OpenAI's pricing page for o1 shows the firm charges $15 per 1 million input tokens and $60 per 1 million output tokens. For GPT-4o mini, OpenAI's smaller, low-cost language model, the firm charges 15 cents per 1 million input tokens.
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Skepticism over chips
DeepSeek's reveal of R1 has already led to heated public debate over the veracity of its claim — not least because its models were built despite export controls from the U.S. restricting the use of advanced AI chips to China.
DeepSeek claims it had its breakthrough using mature Nvidia clips, including H800 and A100 chips, which are less advanced than the chipmaker's cutting-edge H100s, which can't be exported to China.
However, in comments to CNBC last week, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, said he believed DeepSeek used the banned chips — a claim that DeepSeek denies.
I love everything about TESLA, FSD, their cars, and Elon's Space X, brains, tunnels, etc., but legislation is not produced by these companies, and outside the USA things will be even more difficult (in China, fine, until they imitate FSD and send Elon back home). I really do not like him in politics, especially what he is doing in Europe, against democracies.
Nvidia has since come out and said that the GPUs that DeepSeek used were fully export-compliant.
The real deal or not?
Industry experts seem to broadly agree that what DeepSeek has achieved is impressive, although some have urged skepticism over some of the Chinese company's claims.
"DeepSeek is legitimately impressive, but the level of hysteria is an indictment of so many," U.S. entrepreneur Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus and Anduril wrote on X.
"The $5M number is bogus. It is pushed by a Chinese hedge fund to slow investment in American AI startups, service their own shorts against American titans like Nvidia, and hide sanction evasion."
!summarize #microsoft #nvidia #demand #chips
Seena Rejal, chief commercial officer of NetMind, a London-headquartered startup that offers access to DeepSeek's AI models via a distributed GPU network, said he saw no reason not to believe DeepSeek.
"Even if it's off by a certain factor, it still is coming in as greatly efficient," Rejal told CNBC in a phone interview earlier this week. "The logic of what they've explained is very sensible."
However, some have claimed DeepSeek's technology might not have been built from scratch.
"DeepSeek makes the same mistakes O1 makes, a strong indication the technology was ripped off," billionaire investor Vinod Khosla said on X, without giving more details.
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It's a claim that OpenAI itself has alluded to, telling CNBC in a statement Wednesday that it is reviewing reports DeepSeek may have "inappropriately" used output data from its models to develop their AI model, a method referred to as "distillation."
"We take aggressive, proactive countermeasures to protect our technology and will continue working closely with the U.S. government to protect the most capable models being built here," an OpenAI spokesperson
Commoditization of AI
However the scrutiny surrounding DeepSeek shakes out, AI scientists broadly agree it marks a positive step for the industry.
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, said that DeepSeek's success represented a victory for open-source AI models, not necessarily a win for China over the U.S. Meta is behind a popular open-source AI model called Llama.
"To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: 'China is surpassing the US in AI.' You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: 'Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones'," he said in a post on LinkedIn.
"DeepSeek has profited from open research and open source (e.g. PyTorch and Llama from Meta). They came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people's work. Because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research and open source."
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"It's important to point out that the net income in Q4 was impacted by a $600 million mark-to-market benefit from bitcoin due to the adoption of a new accounting standard for digital assets," Taneja said.
At the end of the third quarter, Tesla's bitcoin holdings were recorded at a carrying value of $184 million, though their fair market value was significantly higher at $729 million. That means the actual increase in the value of its holdings in the period was about $347 million, reflecting bitcoin's fourth-quarter rally.
!summarize #tesla #earnings #automation
Much of the recent gain in bitcoin is tied to optimism surrounding the second Trump administration, which was heavily backed by the crypto industry. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was Trump's biggest financial supporter and is now a top adviser in the White House. Longtime Musk ally David Sacks was tapped by Trump to the be the White House AI and crypto czar.
Bitcoin tracking website Bitcoin Treasuries ranks Tesla as the sixth-biggest holder of bitcoin among public companies.
Tesla's fourth-quarter earnings and revenue fell short of analysts' expectations on Wednesday as auto revenue dropped 8% from a year earlier, yet the stock climbed in after-hours trading.
!summarize #tesla #stock #earnings #guidance
Meta's shares rose nearly 2% on Monday, indicating some investors believe DeepSeek's cost-efficiency could mean the social media company may be able to create powerful AI systems for less money. Meta announced last week plans to invest between $60 billion and $65 billion this year as part of its AI push. The company on Wednesday said its 2025 total expenses would come in between $114 billion to $119 billion.
Zuckerberg said Meta is still digesting some of DeepSeek's feats and his team hopes to eventually implement some of those advancements for their own AI projects.
"That's part of the nature of how this works, whether it's a Chinese competitor or not," Zuckerberg said, referring to how one company's advances end up benefiting others.
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While it's possible that companies will eventually require less computing resources to train these powerful models, Zuckerberg said that having a ton of server power may be necessary when the software is actually running and performing actions, resulting in "a higher level of intelligence and a higher quality of service."
"It's going to be expensive for us to serve all of these people because we are serving a lot of people," said Zuckerberg, whose company said it had 3.35 billion daily active people in the fourth quarter.
Meta will continue to learn from technologies like DeepSeek's and release its own open source and free Llama AI models that can also push the industry, Zuckerberg said.
"I continue to think that investing very heavily in CapEx and infra is going to be a strategic advantage over time," he said. "It's possible that we'll learn otherwise at some point, but I just think it's way too early to call that, and at this point, I would bet that the ability to build out that kind of infrastructure is going to be a major advantage."
Zuckerberg also said that DeepSeek's emergence validates Meta's commitment to an open-source approach to AI, Zuckerberg said.
"There's going to be an open-source standard globally," he said. "For our own national advantage, it's important that it's an American standard."
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DAOs use smart contracts to organize, rendering transactions traceable, transparent and irreversible. This may change how financial institutions, legal firms, real estate industries, insurance companies and even governments function and operate.
Essentially the participants of the DAO own, operate and facilitate the running of the organization
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Tesla shares have soared 55% since Trump's election victory in early November. The stock rose another 4% in extended trading on Wednesday even though Tesla reported weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue for the quarter.
Amazon lays off 'small number' of employees in communications and sustainability units
Amazon laid off more than 27,000 employees in 2022 and 2023 and has continued making smaller cuts.
!summarize #tesla #cybertruck #europe #earnings
Amazon is laying off some employees in its communications and sustainability units, an executive overseeing the divisions announced internally on Wednesday.
In a note to staffers viewed by CNBC, Drew Herdener, who oversees public relations and corporate responsibility, wrote that the company is eliminating some jobs in those groups as part of a wider review into the "current org design" of the divisions.
"As we examined our current org design and decided on the shifts outlined above, we identified some roles that were too narrowly scoped or that introduced unnecessary layers, where we couldn't solve the challenge by flattening the structure or shifting workloads," Herdener wrote. "To address this and do the right thing for the business, we're eliminating a small number of roles in Communications and Sustainability. This is a difficult decision to make and one that my leadership team and I do not take lightly."
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Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser confirmed the layoffs and said in a statement that the job cuts would "help us move faster, increase ownership, strengthen our culture, and bring teams closer to customers." Bloomberg earlier reported the job cuts.
Herdener went on to say that the company may rehire some employees for roles at lower levels, "and in others, we will redistribute the headcount to other areas within the org." Amazon will provide financial support, continued benefits and job-placement assistance to laid-off staffers, Herdener said.
Amazon cut more than 27,000 jobs across the company in 2022 and 2023 as part of CEO Andy Jassy's efforts to rein in costs. It had smaller rounds of job cuts in 2024 that are stretching into this year. The company has also continued to wind down some of its more experimental or unprofitable initiatives, including a "Try Before You Buy" clothing service and a speedy brick-and-mortar delivery program.
Herdener said Amazon is streamlining its communications and sustainability divisions after the organization "grew quite a bit" in recent years. Herdener's role expanded in recent years and he now also oversees corporate responsibility, which includes the sustainability group.
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Megyn Kelly is joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio for an exclusive interview about if the Trump administration is serious about wanting to buy Greenland, the national interest America has in Greenland, what sort of negotiations could be coming, and more.
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!summarize #weather #crash #americanairlines
Amazon went on a hiring spree during the Covid-19 pandemic, adding staffers to its corporate workforce and in its hundreds of warehouses across the U.S. Its global workforce swelled to more than 1.6 million by the end of 2021, up from 798,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019. The company had more than 1.5 million employees as of the end of the third quarter.
Amazon is also making some changes to its "hub strategy," which dictates the offices teams primarily use, as part of the reorganization, Herdener said. The goal is to have "more team members working in the same physical location as the majority of their teammates and/or manager," he wrote. Herdener said he is leaving it up to his direct reports to decide which locations make sense for their teams.
Earlier this month, Amazon began requiring corporate staffers to spend five days a week in the office. In a push to get employees back to the office, some staffers were told to relocate to hubs in different states. Several Amazon employees told CNBC following the announcement of the "return to hub" policy that they had chosen to leave the company instead of relocating.
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As part of the five-day office mandate, Amazon also set a goal to flatten its corporate structure by having fewer managers in each organization.
Amazon has made sustainability a bigger directive within the company. It set ambitious climate goals in 2019, including a commitment to being carbon neutral by 2040. It also aims to power its business operations with renewable energy sources by 2025, and has amassed a portfolio of more than 500 wind and solar projects globally.
Meta’s Reality Labs posts $5 billion loss in fourth quarter
Meta's Reality Labs unit recorded an operating loss of $4.97 billion while generating $1.1 billion in sales during the fourth quarter.
Meta continues to lose billions of dollars developing the virtual reality and augmented reality technologies needed to underpin the nascent metaverse.
The social media giant reported fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday and said its Reality Labs unit recorded an operating loss of $4.97 billion while generating $1.1 billion in sales. Analysts were projecting that unit to log a fourth-quarter operating loss of $5.4 billion on $1.1 billion in sales.
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Reality Labs is Meta's unit that makes the Quest family of virtual-reality headsets and Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kick-started his company's VR endeavors in 2014 when it acquired the startup Oculus for $2 billion. Since then, Zuckerberg has characterized VR and AR as central to his plans to develop the futuristic digital world known as the metaverse, which he has said represent the next major computing platform.
Wall Street has questioned Zuckerberg's metaverse investment. Reality Labs has tallied an operating loss of more than $60 billion since 2020, as of Meta's fourth-quarter earnings report.
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Meta last week said it would invest between $60 billion and $65 billion in 2025 capital expenditures to expand its computing infrastructure related to artificial intelligence. Zuckerberg has previously said AI is core to the company's metaverse efforts, including its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Meta develops that device with France-based EssilorLuxottica.
The social media company last year also unveiled its Orion prototype AR headset that is capable of overlaying digital objects on top of a person's real field of view.
Meta released its latest VR headset, the $299 Quest 3S, during its September Connect event and pitched the device as a way for people to watch movies, play games and workout in VR.
Other tech companies are also investing in VR and AR.
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Apple's Vision Pro headset went on sale in the U.S. in February 2024 with a starting price of $3,499, and in December, Google and Samsung said they were working on a VR and AR device dubbed Project Moohan that will be available to buy in 2025 for an undisclosed price.
UPS shares tank 17% after weak guidance, plan to slash Amazon deliveries by more than half
UPS has shifted away from less profitable large contracts in recent years, while Amazon has built up its own in-house logistics empire.
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Shares of United Parcel Service plunged more than 17% Thursday after the company issued weak revenue guidance for the year and said it planned to cut deliveries for Amazon, its largest customer, by more than half.
The shipping giant said in its fourth-quarter earnings report that it "reached an agreement in principle with its largest customer to lower its volume by more than 50% by the second half of 2026."
At the same time, UPS said it's reconfiguring its U.S. network and launching multi-year efficiency initiatives that it expects will result in savings of approximately $1 billion.
UPS CEO Carol Tome said on a call with investors that Amazon is UPS' largest customer, but it's not the company's most profitable customer. "Its margin is very dilutive to the U.S. domestic business," she added.
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"We are making business and operational changes that, along with the foundational changes we've already made, will put us further down the path to become a more profitable, agile and differentiated UPS that is growing in the best parts of the market," Tome said in a statement.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel told CNBC in a statement that UPS had requested a reduction in volume "due to their operational needs."
"We certainly respect their decision," Nantel said in a statement. "We'll continue to partner with them and many other carriers to serve our customers."
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Amazon said before the UPS announcement that it had offered to increase UPS' volumes.
UPS forecast 2025 revenue of $89 billion, down from revenue of $91.1 billion in 2024. That's well below consensus estimates for 2025 revenue of $94.88 billion, according to analysts polled by LSEG.
For the fourth quarter, UPS missed on revenue, reporting $25.30 billion versus $25.42 billion analysts anticipated in a survey by LSEG.
Amazon has long relied on a mix of major carriers for deliveries, including UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service. But it has decreased the number of packages sent through UPS and other carriers in recent years as it looks to have more control over deliveries.
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Amazon has rapidly built up its own logistics empire since a 2013 holiday fiasco left its packages stranded in the hands of outside carriers. The company now oversees thousands of last-mile delivery companies that deliver packages exclusively for Amazon, as well as a budding in-house network of planes, trucks and ships. By some estimates, Amazon's in-house logistics operations have grown to rival or exceed the size of major carriers.
UPS has, for its part, taken more aggressive cost-control measures, including catering to more profitable delivery customers. In recent quarters, UPS has benefited from an influx of volume from bargain retailers Temu and Shein, which have rapidly gained popularity in the U.S.
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Last January, UPS laid off 12,000 employees as part of a bid to realize $1 billion in cost savings.
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On Baseball Night in NY, John Jastremski, Zack Scott, Hannah Keyser, and Jerry Blevins react to the latest in the Pete Alonso saga and speculate which of his stats the Mets front office is looking at to make their salary determination.
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Last week, Zuckerberg announced that Meta plans capital expenditure of as much as $65 billion in 2025 to expand its AI infrastructure, while also increasing hiring for AI roles.
On Wednesday, Meta said it expected total expenses for 2025 to be in the range of $114 billion to $119 billion, up from a total of $95 billion in 2024.
“Meta’s gangbusters Q4 results clearly demonstrate that ad revenues remain the company’s lifeblood. That said, the biggest question heading into 2025 isn’t about today’s earnings—it’s about whether Mark Zuckerberg’s $60–65 billion AI infrastructure bet will pay off,” said Jeremy Goldman, principal analyst at eMarketer.
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Family daily active people (DAP), a metric Meta uses to track unique users who open any one of its apps in a day, rose about 5% from a year earlier to 3.35 billion.
Meta’s results come after Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch of its latest AI models triggered a selloff in global tech stocks on Monday on concerns about rising AI costs in the US.
DeepSeek has said its models either match or outperform top US rivals at a fraction of the cost, including Meta’s own Llama models, challenging the prevailing view that scaling AI requires vast computing power and investment.
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Zuckerberg said it was too early to tell how DeepSeek’s emergence globally will impact Meta’s investment and capital expenditure strategy.
But what is clear are the lessons the new company could incorporate into Meta products. “There are a number of things that they have advances that we will hope to implement into our systems,” Zuckerberg said, addressing questions about DeepSeek.
The breakthrough could heighten scrutiny from investors worried about the company’s heavy spending on AI, though it may also benefit Meta if it successfully brings down the cost of building and supporting the models.
Meta — among the top buyers of Nvidia’s sought-after AI chips — aims to end the year with over 1.3 million graphics processors (GPUs) and bring about 1 gigawatt of computing power online, Zuckerberg said on Friday in a Facebook post outlining the company’s 2025 spending goals.
He said this month that Meta would lay off 5% of its “lowest performers” and warned employees about more such job cuts this year to raise performance.
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Meta agrees to pay $25M to settle lawsuit from Trump after Jan. 6 suspension
Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts.
Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to three people familiar with the matter
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It’s the latest instance of a large corporation settling litigation with the president, who has threatened retribution on his critics and rivals, and comes as Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have joined other large technology companies in trying to ingratiate themselves with the new Trump administration.
The people familiar with the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity Wednesday to discuss the agreement. Two people said that terms of the agreement include $22 million going to the nonprofit that will become Trump’s future presidential library and the balance going to legal fees and other litigants.
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Zuckerberg visited Trump in November at his private Florida club as part of a series of technology, business and government officials to make a pilgrimage to Palm Beach to try to mend fences with the incoming president. At the dinner, Trump brought up the litigation and suggested they try to resolve it, kickstarting two months of negotiations between the parties, the people said.
Meta also made a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural committee and Zuckerberg was among several billionaires granted prime seating during Trump’s swearing-in last week in the Capitol Rotunda, along with Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who now owns the platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Ahead of Trump’s inauguration, Meta also announced that it was dropping fact-checking on its platform — a longtime priority of Trump and his allies.
Trump filed the suit months after leaving office, calling the action by the social media companies “illegal, shameful censorship of the American people.”
Twitter, Facebook and Google are all private companies, and users must agree to their terms of service to use their products. Under Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, social media platforms are allowed to moderate their services by removing posts that, for instance, are obscene or violate the services’ own standards, so long as they are acting in “good faith.” The law also generally exempts internet companies from liability for the material that users post.
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But Trump and some other politicians have long argued that X, formerly known as Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms, have abused that protection and should lose their immunity — or at least have it curtailed.
The Meta settlement comes after ABC News agreed last month to pay $15 million toward Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
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The network also agreed to pay $1 million in legal fees to the law firm of Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito.
The settlement agreement describes ABC’s presidential library payment as a “charitable contribution,” with the money earmarked for a non-profit organization that is being established in connection with the yet-to-be-built library.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the settlement.
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That means the newer model can reap the benefits of the massive investments of time and computing power that went into building the initial model without the associated costs.
This form of distillation, which is different from how most academic researchers previously used the word, is a common technique used in the AI field.
However, it is a violation of the terms of service of some prominent models put out by US tech companies in recent years, including OpenAI.
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The ChatGPT maker said that it knows of groups in China actively working to replicate US AI models via distillation and is reviewing whether or not DeepSeek may have distilled its models inappropriately, a spokesperson told Reuters.
Naveen Rao, vice president of AI at San Francisco-based Databricks, which does not use the technique when terms of service prohibit it, said that learning from rivals is “par for the course” in the AI industry. Rao likened this to how automakers will buy and then examine one another’s engines.
“To be completely fair, this happens in every scenario. Competition is a real thing, and when it’s extractable information, you’re going to extract it and try to get a win,” Rao said. “We all try to be good citizens, but we’re all competing at the same time.”
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Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Commerce who would oversee future export controls on AI technology, told the US Senate during a confirmation hearing on Wednesday that it appeared DeepSeek had misappropriated US AI technology and vowed to impose restrictions.
“I do not believe that DeepSeek was done all above board. That’s nonsense,” Lutnick said. “I’m going to be rigorous in our pursuit of restrictions and enforcing those restrictions to keep us in the lead.”
David Sacks, the White House’s AI and crypto czar, also raised concerns about DeepSeek distillation in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
What are Smart contracts?
Smart contracts help you exchange money, property, shares, or any information of value in a transparent, conflict-free way while avoiding the services of a middleman.
Autonomy – There’s no need to rely on intermediaries
Trust – Your documents are encrypted on a shared ledger.
Backup – Your documents are duplicated many times over.
Safety – Cryptography keeps your documents safe.
Speed – Uses software to automate tasks.
Savings – No need for have to pay a notary as a witness
Accuracy – Avoid errors that come from manual reporting and filing.
DeepSeek did not immediately answer a request for comment on the allegations.
OpenAI added it will work with the US government to protect US technology, though it did not detail how.
“As the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures to protect our IP, including a careful process for which frontier capabilities to include in released models,” the company said in a statement.
The most recent round of concern in Washington about China’s use of US products to advance its tech sector is similar to previous concerns about the semiconductor industry, where the US has imposed restrictions on what chips and manufacturing tools can be shipped to China and is examining restricting work on certain open technologies.
Decentralized autonomous organizations aim to be - when designed, written and operating effectively
Trustworthy - Open platforms where people interact with each other according to rules running on open-source software.
Decentralized - As the rules are embedded into the code, no managers are needed, thus removing any bureaucracy or hierarchy hurdles
Democratic - Keeping the network safe and other tasks are rewarded with the native network tokens, encouraging active participation.
Secure - All transactions of the organization are recorded and maintained on a blockchain.
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Technologists said blocking distillation may be harder than it looks.
One of DeepSeek’s innovations was showing that a relatively small number of data samples — fewer than one million — from a larger, more capable model could drastically improve the capabilities of a smaller model.
When popular products like ChatGPT have hundreds of millions of users, such small amounts of traffic could be hard to detect — and some models, such as Meta Platforms’ Llama and French startup Mistral’s offerings, can be downloaded freely and used in private data centers, meaning violations of their terms of service may be hard to spot.
Easiest way to understand DAOs are with examples:
Bitcoin can be considered to be the first true DAO, It provides an operating system for money without banks and bank managers, which anybody is free to adopt, and has stayed attack resistant and fault-tolerant since the first block was created in 2009. However, Bitcoin lacks governance rules that are characteristic of DAOs.
Ethereum With the emergence of the Ethereum Network, the concept of DAOs moved up from blockchain protocol to the smart contract. Smart contracts are necessary ingredients for DAOs to be possible. Nonetheless, Ethereum itself is not a DAO but a framework for developing DAO projects.
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It’s impossible to stop model distillation when you have open-source models like Mistral and Llama. They are available to everybody. They can also find OpenAI’s model somewhere through customers,” said Umesh Padval, managing director at Thomvest Ventures.
The license for Meta’s Llama model requires those using it for distillation to disclose that practice, a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.
DeepSeek in a paper did disclose using Llama for some distilled versions of the models it released this month, but did not address whether it had ever used Meta’s model earlier in the process.
The Meta spokesperson declined to say whether the company believed DeepSeek had violated its terms of service.
Uniswap is the first DeFi protocol to have pioneered Automated Market Makers (AMMs) which led it to become the most popular decentralized exchange (DEX). The network has its own governance token UNI, which is used for voting on improvements and funding liquidity pools. As such, Uniswap is a full-blown DAO but one has to own 1% of UNI’s total supply in order to propose new governance rules or tweak existing ones, effectively barring over 90% of users from participating in directing the network’s development.
MakerDAO A DeFi protocol similar to Uniswap but for lending. MakerDAO has two tokens, stablecoin DAI and governance token MKR. The MakerDAO Foundation has been distributing MKR to incentivize contributors, spur voter participation, and decentralize the governance process. Effectively, the foundation’s goal is to abolish itself by giving away all the tokens to the network’s stakeholders.
One source familiar with the thinking at a major AI lab said the only way to stop firms like DeepSeek from distilling US models would be stringent know-your-customer requirements similar to how financial companies identify with whom they do business.
But nothing like that is set in stone, the source said. The administration of former President Joe Biden had put forth such requirements, which President Donald Trump may not embrace.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jonathan Ross, chief executive of Groq, an AI computing company that hosts AI models in its cloud, has taken the step of blocking all Chinese IP addresses from accessing its cloud to block Chinese firms from allegedly piggybacking off the AI models it hosts.
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“That’s not sufficient, because people can find ways to get around it,” Ross said. “We have ideas that would allow us to prevent that, and it’s going to be a cat and mouse game … I don’t know what the solution is. If anyone comes up with it, let us know, and we’ll implement it.”
Beyond Financial markets
Aragon is both a DAO and a platform for creating customized DAOs. This makes it extremely useful for users who don’t have advanced programming knowledge. Aragon takes care of the types of smart contracts and the interface, leaving it up to you to decide how to manage your organization. This makes Aragon a DAO ecosystem with a broad range of use cases.
Criticisms
DAOs are still logically centralized because they are reliant on software protocols. The question of how to upgrade the code – when and if necessary – is very often delegated to a set of experts who understand the techno-legal intricacies of the code, and therefore represent another point of centralization.
Further, when we look at this from a legal perspective, it is clear that a DAO is neither a corporation, nor any other type of existing legal personality. It doesn’t have a registered office and has no physical place of business or registration. There are no shareholders or managers. As a result, it cannot perform many of the tasks commonly attributed to it, like owning property or engaging in legally binding contracts.
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Blackstone reaffirms big bet on AI data centers
Lower costs could yet lead to a wider adoption of AI, boosting demand for data centers, Blackstone’s president said.
Blackstone said Thursday its massive investments in data centers would not be undermined by the low-cost artificial intelligence models from China’s DeepSeek, as the need for physical infrastructure was still vital for AI.
The alternative asset manager, which has $80 billion worth of leased data centers, said its strategy for the segment was grounded in a “very prudent approach” and touted its partnerships with “some of the biggest companies in the world.”
Data centers provide the infrastructure for storing, processing and analyzing vast troves of information that are crucial for training and running AI models.
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Investors in data centers, such as Blackstone, were expected to be some of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom as increasing adoption led to higher demand for such infrastructure.
But the sudden arrival of DeepSeek upended the tech world and sparked a debate over demand, with worries that the emergence of a low-cost option may slow investment in data centers.
Blackstone’s president and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Gray, in a post-earnings call with analysts, said the company was closely watching developments tied to DeepSeek.
However, he expects lower costs could yet lead to a wider adoption of AI, boosting demand for data centers.
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“As usage goes up significantly, there’s still a vital need for data centers. We still think it’s a very important segment,” Gray said.
His comments echo views from analysts at Jefferies earlier this week.
“In fact, we would be surprised to see hyperscalers slow their capex plans as the AI space just got even more competitive,” they wrote.
DeepSeek’s launch has triggered scrutiny from investors, who are expected to analyze tech giants’ AI spending plans closely in the next few weeks.
CEOs of Microsoft and Meta also defended massive AI spending this week saying it was crucial to staying competitive in the new field.
Blackstone shares were last down nearly 4% in afternoon trading.
The so-called support agent will then send an email to the user’s Gmail account from what appears to be a legitimate Google email address to confirm the account was compromised and receive a code to recover the account.
For Zach Latta, the founder of the Hack Club, this is where he stopped the elaborate scam.
“She sounded like a real engineer, the connection was super clear, and she had an American accent,” Latta told Forbes.
Despite how real the voice on the other end of the line sounds, however, it is a scheme to trick customers into handing over precious login information to gain access to their accounts.
Garry Tan, the founder of venture capital firm Y Combinator, issued a “public service announcement” on X after receiving convincing phishing emails and phone calls.
“They claim to be checking that you are alive and that they should disregard a death certificate filed that claims a family member is recovering your account,” he wrote. “It’s a pretty elaborate ploy to get you to allow password recovery.”
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Simiarly, Sam Mitrovic, a Microsoft solutions consultant, experienced the same phenomenon months ago, according to a blog post written at the time.
He recalled receiving a Google account recovery attempt notification, followed less than an hour later by a phone call that looked like it was from the tech company, but he ignored it. A week later, it happened again. This time, he picked up.
“It’s an American voice, very polite and professional. The number is Australian,” he recounted, adding that he verified the phone number on an official Google support page.
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“He introduces himself and says that there is suspicious activity on my account. He asks if I’m traveling, when I said no, he asks if I logged in from Germany to which I reply no.”
Then, the agent informs Mitrovic that “someone has had access to my account for a week” and was offering to help him secure it, but, luckily, he noticed that the follow-up email sent by the caller was a spoofed email address and stopped answering.
“The caller said ‘Hello,’ I ignored it then about 10 seconds later, then said ‘Hello’ again,” he described. “At this point I released it as an AI voice as the pronunciation and spacing were too perfect.”
Upon double-checking his log-in sessions in his Google account settings, he saw that the only log-ins were his own.
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“Despite many red flags upon closer inspection, this call seemed legitimate enough to trick many people,” he warned.
“The scams are getting increasingly sophisticated, more convincing and are deployed at ever larger scale.”
To protect yourself and your accounts from malicious actors, Forbes advised turning on “Advanced Protection,” which, according to a Google spokesperson, “takes extra steps to verify your identity” with the use of passkeys and smart keys to keep your account secure, even if hackers have your credentials.
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Comcast shares plunge as 'Wicked' success offset by big subscriber losses
The broadband subscriber losses overshadowed the telecom and media giant’s upbeat results and the announcement of a $15 billion share buyback program.
Comcast reported a steep decline in broadband subscribers for the fourth quarter on Thursday on competition from telecom firms that have been bundling 5G mobile services with internet plans, sending its shares about 11% lower.
The broadband subscriber losses overshadowed the telecom and media giant’s upbeat results and the announcement of a $15 billion share buyback program.
Comcast lost 139,000 broadband customers in the quarter, higher than FactSet estimates of a 91,000 loss, as it was also hurt by Hurricanes Milton and Helene that disrupted Florida businesses during the quarter.
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The company plans to introduce new pricing packages for upgraded markets in the coming months that bundle wireless and internet, Comcast president Mike Cavanagh said in a conference call post earnings.
Comcast is adopting a strategy similar to that of wireless carriers such as AT&T and Verizon, which aim to increase their market share by attracting customers with discounted premium plans that bundle 5G mobile services with high-speed internet.
“Comcast and its cable peers have a dramatic advantage in being able to offer a converged solution everywhere,” MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett said.
However, the company’s quarterly results were strong, aided by its studio business.
Comcast
Its total revenue rose 2.1% to $31.92 billion, beating estimates of $31.64 billion, according to LSEG data.
Its adjusted profit of 96 cents per share also topped estimates by 10 cents.
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“Wicked,” a movie adaptation of the Broadway prequel to “The Wizard of Oz,” was Universal Pictures’ biggest grosser in the quarter.
It earned roughly $700 million at the global box office and helped power a near 7% rise in Comcast’s studio revenue.
Peacock’s revenue rose 27.8% thanks to price hikes made last year ahead of the Olympics.
Comcast plans to unchain its main profit drivers such as studio and theme parks business from the declining cable TV unit by spinning off select NBCUniversal cable networks.
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Comcast plans to unchain its main profit drivers such as studio and theme parks business from the declining cable TV unit by spinning off select NBCUniversal cable networks.
Its cable TV networks lost 311,000 users due to cord-cutting by consumers shifting to streaming.
Trump Mourns, Blasts Biden, Buttigieg on DEI, Lowering Air Traffic Control Standards
President Donald Trump took direct aim at former President Joe Biden and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday morning, mourning the loss off the 67 lives in the U.S. Army Black Hawk collision with a passenger jet.
President Donald Trump mourned the loss of the 67 lives in the U.S. Army Black Hawk collision with a passenger jet, but took direct aim at former President Joe Biden and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday morning.
While Trump admitted he does not "know that it's necessarily the air traffic controllers' fault," he hit Buttigieg and Biden for lowering the standards he had put in place for air traffic controllers.
Buttigieg ran things "into the ground with his diversity," Trump said, pulling no punches on Biden and his unwinding of the first Trump administration's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and ATC (air traffic control) standards and a federal DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) push.
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Trump added some federal employees might be fired after the crash near Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., if they "aren't mentally competent," a claim he added to ATCs that were hired under lowered Biden standards.
"For some jobs," Trump said, singling out air traffic controllers. "They have to be at the highest level of genius."
"Sadly there are no survivors," Trump said in a White House news conference that aired in full on Newsmax, announcing "an hour of anguish for our nation."
"Our hearts are shattered alongside yours," Trump said, addressing the victims' families.
While saying the investigation is ongoing, Trump lamented American people need some "opinions" on what happened.
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"We think we have some pretty good ideas" how this disaster occurred, Trump said, adding "we will state some personal opinions" on what happened, saying investigation details come too slowly.
Buttigieg was pointed at specifically for unwinding the first Trump administration standards for ATCs, claiming the transportation secretary thought the ATC workforce "was too white."
Buttigieg "was a disaster," Trump said, excoriating his longtime political rival as only having a "good line of bullsh*t."
Buttigieg responded, blaming Trump, criticizing the sitting president for politicizing the tragedy while he politicized the tragedy himself in response.
"Despicable," Buttigieg wrote on X. "As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.
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"President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again."
Both Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth noted the height of the U.S. Army Black Hawk is the focus of the cause of the deadly collision.
"Tragically last night a mistake was made, and I think the president is right: There was some sort of an elevation issue that we have immediately begun investigating," Hegseth said at the briefing.
Trump ostensibly cleared fault of the passenger airliner pilots, but pinned fault on the "a pilot problem" on the helicopter, because "it was very clear night," and "it had the ability to turn."
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"The helicopter had vision of the plane," Trump added, but "for some reason there weren't adjustments made," and lamenting, "for some reason, it just kept going."
"But one thing we do know, there was a lot of vision, and people should have been able to see that. At what point do you say, well, that plane's getting a little bit close."
Trump also blasted the Biden administration for air traffic control systems having not been built properly.
"They spent a lot of money renovating a system, spending much more money than they would have spent if they bought a new system for air traffic controllers, meaning the computerized systems," Trump said. "There are certain companies that do a very good job. They didn't use those companies."
Liberal media members asked why Trump was blaming previous administrations' efforts to promote diversity at federal agencies for contributing to the crash.
Trump responded, "Because I have common sense."
"We'll find out how this disaster occurred and will ensure that nothing like this ever happens again," he said.
On my way to Eya Village I am stopping in a small town called Muli City. The city is particularly characterized by its huge variety of different ethnicities.
The next day I eventually went to Eya Village which is one of the most remote and primitive places I have ever been to in China. I met incredibly hospitable people who showed me a glimpse of their lives in far remote China.
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US Army Unit Involved in Deadly D.C. Tragedy Pauses Flights
Two U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday, meaning helicopters from that unit will not be flying for the time being the U.S. Army unit whose helicopter was involved in the overnight collision with a passenger jet near Washington has been placed on an operational pause.
The U.S. Army unit whose helicopter was involved in the overnight collision with a passenger jet near Washington has been placed on an operational pause, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday, meaning helicopters from that unit will not be flying for the time being.
A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet on Wednesday night near Reagan Washington National Airport, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River. The military helicopter was on a training flight, but it is unclear what caused the crash. Authorities have said there were no survivors.
One of the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said helicopters from the 12 Aviation Battalion, based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, would be temporarily grounded. It is not clear how long the pause would last.
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Other helicopters, like those from the National Guard, will still be allowed to help in recovery efforts, the official added.
Military helicopters are a common sight around the U.S. capital region that is home to numerous military bases. It is not uncommon for the military to order pauses after accidents or crashes.
67 Feared Dead as D.C. Army Helicopter Crashes With Passenger Jet
Prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River, an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
Everyone aboard an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members that collided with an Army helicopter was feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday.
At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River after the midair collision Wednesday night when the helicopter apparently flew in the path of the jet as it was landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., officials said.
Crews were still searching for other casualties but did not believe there were any survivors, which would make it the deadliest U.S. air crash in nearly 24 years.
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"We are now at the point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation," John Donnelly, the fire chief in the nation's capital. "We don't believe there are any survivors."
The body of the plane was found upside down in three sections in waist-deep water. The wreckage of the helicopter was also found. Donnelly said first responders on Thursday were searching an area of the Potomac River as far south as the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) south of the airport.
"We have early indications of what happened here," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a Thursday morning news conference, expressing confidence that American airspace remains the safest in the world.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the collision, but officials said flight conditions were clear as the jet coming from Wichita, Kansas, with U.S. and Russian figure skaters and others aboard, was making a routine landing when the helicopter flew into its path.
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"On final approach into Reagan National it collided with a military aircraft on an otherwise normal approach," American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said. "At this time we don't know why the military aircraft came into the path of the ... aircraft."
Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter during a training flight, an Army official previously said.
Images from the river showed boats around the partly submerged wing and the mangled wreckage of the plane's fuselage.
Investigators will try to piece together the aircrafts' final moments before their collision, including contact with air traffic controllers as well as a loss of altitude by the passenger jet.
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"I would just say that everyone who flies in American skies expects that we fly safely," Duffy said. "That when you depart an airport, you get to your destination. That didn't happen last night and I know that President Trump, his administration, the FAA, the DOT, we will not rest until we have answers for the families and for the flying public. You should be assured that when you fly, you're safe."
Reagan Airport will reopen at 11 a.m. Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. The FAA previously said it would be closed until 5 a.m. Friday.
Duffy, just sworn in earlier this week, was asked if he could reassure Americans that the United States still has the safest airspace in the world.
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"Can I guarantee the American flying public that the United States has the most safe and secure airspace in the world? And the answer to that is, absolutely yes, we do," he said.
The night was clear, the plane and helicopter were both in standard flight patterns and there was standard communication between the aircraft and the tower, Duffy said.
It was not unusual to have a military aircraft flying the river and an aircraft landing at the airport, he said. Asked if the plane was aware that there was a helicopter in the area, Duffy said he would say that the helicopter was aware that there was a plane in the area.
Asked about President Donald Trump suggesting in an overnight social media post that the collision could have been prevented, Duffy said, "From what I've seen so far, do I think this was preventable? Absolutely."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not appear at the Thursday morning press conference. He was expected to brief reporters at the Pentagon later.
If everyone aboard the plane was killed, it will make it the deadliest U.S. airline crash since Nov. 12, 2001, when an American Airlines flight just after takeoff crashed into a residential area of Belle Harbor, New York, killing all 260 people aboard.
The last major fatal crash involving a U.S. commercial airline occurred in 2009 near Buffalo, New York. Everyone aboard the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane was killed, including 45 passengers, two pilots and two flight attendants. Another person on the ground also died, bringing the total death toll to 50. An investigation determined that the captain accidentally caused the plane to stall as it approached the airport in Buffalo.
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"We are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy and hold the victims' families closely in our hearts," U.S. Figure Skating said in a statement.
Two of those coaches were identified by the Kremlin as Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships and competed twice in the Olympics. The Skating Club of Boston lists them as coaches and their son, Maxim Naumov, is a competitive figure skater for the U.S.
The FAA said the midair crash occurred before 9 p.m. EST in some of the most tightly controlled and monitored airspace in the world, just over 3 miles south of the White House and the Capitol.
American Airlines Flight 5342 was inbound to Reagan National at an altitude of about 400 feet (122 meters) and a speed of about 140 mph (225 kph) when it suffered a rapid loss of altitude over the Potomac River, according to data from its radio transponder. The Canadian-made Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine jet, manufactured in 2004, can be configured to carry up to 70 passengers.
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A few minutes before landing, air traffic controllers asked the arriving commercial jet if it could land on the shorter Runway 33 at Reagan National and the pilots said they were able. Controllers then cleared the plane to land on Runway 33. Flight tracking sites showed the plane adjust its approach to the new runway.
Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked the helicopter if it had the arriving plane in sight. The controller made another radio call to the helicopter moments later: "PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ." Seconds after that, the two aircraft collided.
The plane's radio transponder stopped transmitting about 2,400 feet (732 meters) short of the runway, roughly over the middle of the river.
Video from an observation camera at the nearby Kennedy Center showed two sets of lights consistent with aircraft appearing to join in a fireball.
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The U.S. Army described the helicopter as a UH-60 Black Hawk based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The helicopter was on a training flight. Military aircraft frequently conduct training flights in and around the congested and heavily restricted airspace around the nation's capital for familiarization and continuity of government planning.
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The Army helicopter carrying three that collided with the American Airlines passenger jet carrying 64 was on a training mission, according to a military spokesman early Thursday morning.
"While performing a training mission a United States Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Va., collided in midair with an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet Flight 5342 last night at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport," Ron McLendon, a spokesman for Joint Task Force – National Capital Region, wrote in a statement Thursday.
"The FAA, NTSB and the United States Army will investigate. The NTSB will lead the investigation. We are working with local officials and will provide any additional information once it becomes available."
An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while coming in for a landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington and multiple people were killed.
Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York. All 45 passengers and the four crew members were killed when the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane crashed into a house. One person on the ground also was killed.
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The collision Wednesday of the Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine plane and UH-60 Blackhawk occurred over the Potomac River and the aircraft fell into the water. In 1982 an Air Florida flight crashed into the Potomac and killed 78.
Feb. 12, 2009: A Colgan Air plane crashed near Buffalo, New York, killing everyone aboard the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane, including 45 passengers, two pilots and two flight attendants. Another person on the ground also died, bringing the total death toll to 50.
Aug. 27, 2006: A Comair aircraft crashed when taking off in Lexington, Kentucky, after it left from the wrong runway and ran off the end. Two crew members and 47 passengers were killed.
Nov. 12, 2001: Just after takeoff, an American Airlines flight crashed into a residential area of Belle Harbor, New York. All 260 people aboard the plane were killed.
Sept. 11, 2001: Nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania. It remains the deadliest terror attack in history.
Jan. 31, 2000: An Alaska Airlines flight crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Anacapa Island, California. The crash killed 83 passengers and five crew members.
July 17, 1996: A Trans World Airlines flight crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on its way to Paris, France. All 230 people on board were killed, and the airplane was destroyed.
May 11, 1996: A Valujet Airlines flight crashed into the Everglades about 10 minutes after takeoff from the Miami International Airport. The crash killed all 105 passengers and five crew members.
Oct. 31, 1994: An American Eagle flight in Roselawn, Indiana, crashed, killing 64 passengers and four crew members.
Sept. 8, 1994: A USAir flight crashed while attempting to land in Pittsburgh. It killed 127 passengers and five crew members. The airplane was destroyed by the impact and fire.
July 19, 1989: A United Airlines flight experienced an engine failure and crashed while attempting to land in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 110 passengers and one crew member.
Aug. 16, 1987: A Northwest Airlines flight crashed just after taking off in Romulus, Michigan, striking light poles, a rental car facility and the ground. The crash killed 148 passengers and six crew members.
Aug. 2, 1985: A Delta Air Lines flight crashed when approaching to land at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport during a thunderstorm. It struck a car and two water tanks, and killed 134 passengers and crew members.
July 9, 1982: A Pan American World Airways flight crashed just after takeoff near New Orleans, Louisiana, and collided with trees and houses, killing 145 people onboard.
Jan. 13, 1982: An Air Florida flight plummeted into the Potomac, killing 70 passengers and four crew members. That crash was attributed to bad weather.
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In a contentious confirmation hearing to be the nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced tough questions on how he would reform Medicaid or Medicare, the government health care programs used by millions of disabled, poor and older Americans.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician and key vote Kennedy needs to win, repeatedly pressed the nominee on Wednesday to share ways he plans to reform Medicaid, a multibillion-dollar taxpayer-funded program that covers health care for about 80 million people, including children. Republicans have said they might need to make deep cuts to Medicaid to fund President Donald Trump's proposals.
“I don't have a broad proposal for dismantling the program,” Kennedy said.
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Kennedy also claimed that Medicaid is fully paid for by the federal government — it's not; states and federal taxpayers fund it. He also said most Americans have purchased a Medicare Advantage plan, when only about 1 in 10 Americans have.
His apparent misstatements about the program were peppered in between suggestions that he would seek to push privatization of the programs, repeatedly saying that most Americans like private insurance and that they dislike the government run versions of the programs.
Kennedy is seeking to lead a $1.7 trillion department of Health and Human Services agency that will oversee vaccine recommendations as well as food inspections, hospital oversight and funding for hundreds of community health clinics.
In sometimes heated exchanges on Wednesday, Kennedy denied that he is anti-vaccine. But Kennedy, who pointed out that his children are vaccinated, acknowledged he has asked “uncomfortable questions” about vaccinations.
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“I believe that vaccines play a critical role in health care,” Kennedy told the Senate Finance Committee.
Republicans did not ask Kennedy about his vaccine views during the first hour of the hearing.
But Democrats homed in, with Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon pointing out that Kennedy has previously claimed there's “no safe” vaccine, initiating a back and forth between him and Kennedy. Wyden also quoted from Kennedy's books, which say that parents have been “misled” on the measles vaccine.
“You have spent years pushing conflicting stories about vaccines,” Wyden said.
Over many years, Kennedy has been clear about his beliefs on vaccines in dozens of interviews, podcasts and social media posts.
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He's headed up a nonprofit that has sued the government over its authorizations of vaccines. He's said there is “no vaccine that is safe and effective” and repeatedly called for further study of routine childhood vaccinations, despite decades of research and real-world use that proves they've safely prevented disease.
Republicans narrowed in on questions about agriculture, food and the abortion pill, which many women access over telehealth.
Kennedy tried to assure senators that he would not seek widespread bans on vaccines or food, saying he wants to provide more information to people.
“I don’t want to take food away from anybody," he said. "If you like a cheeseburger – a McDonald’s cheeseburger and a diet Coke like my boss — you should be able to get them.”
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Kennedy hails from one of the nation’s most storied political families and is the son of the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy. He first challenged President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. He then ran as an independent but abandoned his bid over the summer after striking a deal to endorse Trump, a Republican, in exchange for a promise to serve in a health policy role during a second Trump administration.
Trump selected Kennedy in November, shortly after he won the presidential election, saying Kennedy would “end the Chronic Disease epidemic” and “Make America Great and Healthy Again!”
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NASA in August, during President Joe Biden's administration, deemed Starliner too risky to bring them back to Earth and tapped SpaceX to return them on a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
That craft is already docked with the space station, having flown there for NASA's Crew-9 astronaut rotation mission in September with empty seats for Wilmore and Williams.
The astronauts' original February departure date on Crew-9 was delayed to late March because SpaceX needed more time "to complete processing" of a new Crew Dragon capsule that will replace theirs for the Crew-10 mission, NASA said in December.
The agency has a delicately coordinated ISS schedule, and an early return might leave the station's U.S. contingent understaffed.
It was unclear whether Trump's demand would mean NASA bringing Crew-9 back to Earth before the Crew-10 capsule arrives, or SpaceX launching Crew-10 earlier than planned.
A sleeping giant is the Tesla dojo multi wafer, call it a silicon system in a cube, project which we do not have public visibility on the creation of more cost effective electronic brains to do the heavy lifting for current and new projects. While we are aware of shadow mode vehicle processing I expect dojo clusters to become the hardware robot brains possibility for AI-6 assuming good manufacturing progress and yields. It makes a lot of sense to expand core and distributed processing solutions.
Full Self Piloting coming to a Starship near you.
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Returning Crew-9 to Earth before Crew-10's arrival would mean NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who flew to the ISS with a Russian crew in September, would be the only American aboard the station, a rare staffing imbalance that NASA has said complicates maintenance of the station's U.S. components.
Wilmore and Williams are among seven astronauts on the ISS, and they remain healthy and busy with routine scientific research aboard the station, NASA has said.
Though Starliner's development since 2019 has been a persistent challenge for Boeing, rife with engineering troubles and cost overruns, some Trump advisers in recent months have sought to blame Biden, although the former president had no involvement in Starliner's development.
"Having closely examined the technical data and tips from concerned citizens, we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones," the statement read.
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XM-30: US Army’s biggest combat overhaul in a century is finally rolling
This development comes after two aborted programs that sought to replace the aging M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle.
The US Army is moving forward with the development of the XM-30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle.
This ambitious project aims to create an advanced platform that will significantly enhance operational capabilities on the battlefield.
This development comes after two aborted programs that sought to replace the aging M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), which has been in service since 1981.
XM-30 Infantry Combat Vehicle
Previously referred to as the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV), the XM-30 is currently in its detailed design phase, expecting to reach Milestone B by the second quarter of fiscal year 2025.
The XM-30 is positioned as a next-generation military platform capable of operating with either a full crew or autonomously, depending on mission requirements.
Designed to engage in close combat while delivering decisive lethality, the XM-30 will feature a modular open system architecture.
This design will allow quicker updates and adaptations as technologies evolve, positioning the Army to maintain a strategic edge over adversaries.
According to a recent report by the Congressional Research Service, the XM-30 is being developed as the Army’s first ground combat vehicle, leveraging advanced digital engineering tools and techniques.
This innovation aims to ensure that the Army can rapidly respond to the evolving nature of modern warfare and threats.
Lessons from history
The XM-30 project faces a challenging history of canceled programs to replace the M2 Bradley.
Two significant initiatives—the Future Combat System (FCS) and the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV)—were shelved due to budget overruns and program management issues.
The Bradley has undergone numerous updates since its introduction. Still, it has reached its technological limits, making the need for a new platform more urgent than ever.
The M2 Bradley was designed to transport infantry, provide fire support, and engage enemy vehicles on the battlefield.
However, evolving warfare demands have highlighted the need for a more modern solution.
The Army is committed to addressing these challenges with the XM-30, emphasizing that this new vehicle will ensure troops are better equipped to engage with near-peer adversaries.
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Procurement approach
The XM-30 project is classified as a Middle Tier Acquisition Rapid Prototyping (MTA-RP) program, reflecting the Army’s shift towards more agile and responsive procurement methodologies.
Designed to adopt a Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA), the XM-30 aims to facilitate rapid upgrades and integrations as technology and operational needs evolve.
This open standard approach encourages innovation and enhances competition among contractors, potentially leading to better solutions at lower costs.
The Army has developed a five-phase acquisition strategy to streamline the process of bringing new capabilities to the field.
The first phase focuses on Market Research and Requirement Development. This phase is critical for understanding the needs and expectations of the end users and ensuring that the resulting products are aligned with operational requirements.
Following this, the strategy moves into the Concept Design Phase. During this phase, modeling, simulation, and analysis refine the initial requirements. This helps to explore various design alternatives and assess their feasibility, setting the foundation for a robust project.
The third phase, the Detailed Design Phase, culminates in a Critical Design Review (CDR). This review is an important milestone that evaluates the detailed designs against the established requirements, ensuring that all necessary specifications are met before moving forward.
Next, the process enters the Prototype Build and Test Phase. In this phase, prototypes are constructed, and their performance is rigorously assessed through a Limited User Test (LUT). This testing phase is essential for identifying potential issues and validating the design before production.
Finally, the strategy concludes with the Production and Fielding Phase. This phase results in a Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) contract, enabling the transition from prototype to production while ensuring that the capabilities developed meet the necessary field deployment standards.
On July 23, 2021, the Army awarded five firm-fixed-price contracts for the XM-30’s Concept Design Phase to contractors, including industry leaders like BAE Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems, totaling approximately $299.4 million.
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Currently, the XM-30 is in its detailed design phase as it progresses toward Milestone B.
However, there are pressing concerns that could impact the program’s timeline.
The necessity for robust testing and evaluation, coupled with the inherent complexities of integrating advanced technologies, presents significant hurdles.
Moreover, the Pentagon is under increasing scrutiny regarding budget constraints and program management after previous setbacks in defense modernization efforts.
As the Army moves forward with the XM-30, it faces the dual challenge of fulfilling operational requirements while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
Stakeholders are monitoring the progress closely, as this new vehicle represents a replacement for the M2 Bradley and a pivotal development in the Army’s future combat readiness.
The successful realization of the XM-30 could redefine the US Army’s ground combat capabilities in the face of contemporary threats and rival forces.
US to deploy ‘hellscape’ of drones in Taiwan Strait by 2025 to counter China
This strategy aims to create such a strong deterrent that China would not risk attacking Taiwan.
he US seems to be rapidly advancing with its ambitious “Replicator” initiative. Under this program, the US aims to deploy swarms of lethal autonomous drones in the Taiwan Strait by August 2025. Interestingly, US officials have called this deployment an “unmanned hellscape.”
Captain Alex Campbell, the maritime portfolio director of the Defense Innovation Unit, confirmed the August 2025 target date at the recent West 2025 conference.
“It’s not another [science and technology] project. It is meant to get to production, meant to field systems, in this case, in support of [US Indo-Pacific Command],” said Campbell, as reported by the US Naval Institute (USNI).
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Networked unmanned systems to create a “hellscape”
These unmanned systems, deployed across air, surface, and underwater, will be networked to form a cohesive force.
This strategy aims to create a powerful deterrent that China would be unwilling to risk a military operation against Taiwan.
Eventually, the Navy’s goal is to develop a hybrid fleet of manned and unmanned craft, and the underlying connective command and control and software decisions that are part of Replicator will inform the effort, noted USNI.
The sheer number of drones, combined with their ability to coordinate and adapt, is intended to create a “hellscape” for any adversary.
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Rapid drone development and specialized units
This emphasis on rapid deployment reflects the situation’s urgency and the perceived need to counter China’s growing military power.
“It’s a lot of taking… a pretty wide and diverse set of systems and a wide and diverse set of software, and smashing them all together at a pace that is really more akin to commercial software tempos,” added Campbell.
The Pentagon has already allocated approximately $1 billion to fund the initial phase of Replicator.
The Navy has also established specialized units to operate and maintain these new drone systems.
One such unit, Unmanned Surface Vessel Squadron 3, known as the “Hell Hounds,” recently received its first four Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Crafts (GARC).
While the specifics of their missions remain classified, these vessels are expected to play a crucial role in the Replicator network.
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Defensive measures and arms race
Beyond offensive capabilities, Replicator also focuses on defensive measures, specifically developing counter-drone technologies. This reflects the understanding that future conflicts will likely involve a complex interplay between offensive and defensive unmanned systems.
The US and China are investing heavily in drone technology, leading to a potential arms race.
The push to create an “unmanned hellscape” in the Taiwan Strait marks a bold gamble on the future of naval combat. The success of Replicator could significantly alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region.
Amid the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, the use and importance of drones have increased manifold. Subsequently, new developments have also been taking place in this sphere.
Recently, Ukraine introduced a drone that can soar to 13,000 feet with a 90-mile range. With these specifications, the drone can operate beyond the reach of many enemy air defense systems.
Meanwhile, a Chinese start-up aims to develop a supersonic drone capable of reaching four times the speed of sound.
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Hyperelastic rubber soft robots mimic mantis shrimp-level punch, flea-like leaps
A flexible joint releases stored energy under compression, enabling strong, repetitive motions with a simple tendon-motor setup.
research team has developed the “hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism” (HeTRM), inspired by natural principles, allowing robots made of rubber-like materials to perform rapid, powerful movements.
By leveraging hyperelasticity, a team at the Seoul National University created a torque-reversal mechanism in a soft joint that produces repetitive cilia-like motions through an embedded tendon.
The HeTRM shows a temporary switch between two states when a certain amount of pressure is applied, with a quick change happening when the pressure reaches a specific point.
According to researchers, the breakthrough enhances the performance of soft robots, enabling more efficient and dynamic actions.
Torque reversal innovation
Snap-through is when a system quickly shifts from one stable state to another, and it’s useful in soft devices that turn a single trigger into powerful movements. This is often achieved with bistable structures.
In nature, torque-reversal mechanisms use snap-through with muscle forces, offering potential advantages. However, current artificial versions of these mechanisms are complex and rely on advanced movement mechanics, limiting design options for soft joints and devices.
Fully autonomous driving which relies only on visible light cameras can really only be reasonably reliable during day light hours. The low contrast at night between objects and the background is the reason cameras arent good enough at night time for sel
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According to researchers, the mantis shrimp strikes with speeds of up to 55.6 mph (90 km/h) to break its prey, and the flea can jump more than 200 times its body length. The ability of these creatures to generate powerful forces with their soft bodies is attributed to the “torque reversal mechanism,” which allows for the rapid switching of rotational force direction applied by muscles to their limbs. This mechanism is key to their remarkable physical capabilities.
“Our research team previously developed flea-inspired robots capable of achieving high jumps both on land and water, and this latest study is particularly significant as it is an advancement that achieves powerful performance in soft, rubber-like structures,” said Kyu-Jin Cho, a professor at the Seoul National University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, in a statement.
Soft robots innovate
The research team claims that the fundamental idea behind the created hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism is to take advantage of the properties of soft hyperelastic materials, which stiffen quickly upon compression.
They discovered that a flexible joint reaches a critical point when the stored energy is instantly released when compression is exerted on one side of the joint. They clarified that similar to cilia in nature, repetitive and strong bending motions could be achieved even with a basic construction that joins a tendon and motor to a flexible joint.
“The instant wrapping of slap bracelets is driven by a rapid transition between two stable states, known as snap-through. While many efforts have been made to mimic this behavior, we introduced a novel approach by leveraging material properties rather than structural designs,” said Wooyoung Choi (currently at Naver Labs) and Woongbae Kim (currently at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology), who are co-authors of the research, in a statement.
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The study team showed several real-world applications and extended this idea. Other applications include a robot with strong propulsion that crawls over rough terrains, like sand, and one that wraps around objects like an octopus tentacle. The soft gripper, based on the developed principle, can instantly catch falling ping-pong balls.
They also showed a mechanical fuse that trips when the structure experiences unexpected external stresses above a certain threshold.
Ex-SpaceX team building faster, cheaper hypersonic missiles for US gets funding
Due to their speed and maneuverability, hypersonic missiles represent a significant advancement in weaponry.
dvanced defense capabilities are highly important in today’s time due to rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific. This demands a strong and credible deterrent.
Now, Castelion – a new manufacturer in the defense industry — is developing affordable, mass-produced hypersonic weapons to safeguard America and its allies.
The California-based startup Castelion was founded by former SpaceX executives in 2022. Recently, Castelion raised $100 million for faster, cheaper hypersonic missile development.
The company is applying the innovative principles of the commercial space industry to advance missile manufacturing.
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“With rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the United States and its allies need a non-nuclear deterrent capability. Affordable, mass-produced hypersonic long-range strike weapons are required to build a decisive combat power advantage and deter future aggression,” Castelion stated in the press statement.
Advancing missile development
Castelion’s Series A funding round raised $100 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and including several other firms. Moreover, Castelion secured $30 million in venture debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The deal is expected to close in February.
“Funding will be used to continue Castelion’s rapid flight test campaign and invest in scaled manufacturing infrastructure for key missile subsystems,” the press release noted.
Before this, the company raised $14.2 million in seed funding and received various Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts from U.S. military services.
In this episode we investigate how increase in population in the Neolithic stage of humanity contributed to the emergence of the noosphere through the deepening bonds with one another.
This can be seen as an expression of the cosmic law of love.
Love is the foundational dynamic for the universe's development. The elements of the universe are seeking to bond in order to deepen their creativity, which we see even at the level of gravity. Atoms attracted to each other give birth to stars and planets.
It is the same at the human level. Our attraction might have different names – fascination, allurement, love – but the dynamism is the same. Union differentiates. That is, union with things that one is not gives birth to who one truly is.
Pursuing what we love enables the universe to advance. If a new world is to be born, it is crucial that we follow our unique fascinations.
Reportedly, Silicon Valley is making inroads into the defense sector, which has been typically dominated by established players.
As per SpaceNews, Castelion isn’t trying to directly compete with defense giants like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. But they’re focusing on producing higher volumes of hypersonic missiles at lower costs, targeting a different market segment.
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Hypersonic missiles are incredibly fast
Hypersonic missiles, traveling at over five times the speed of sound, represent the next generation of defense technology. Castelion’s missiles combine incredible speed with pinpoint accuracy and maneuverability, making them virtually impossible to intercept.
These missiles merge the rapid flight of ballistic missiles with the ability to maneuver like cruise missiles. These weapons fly at high altitudes (40-100 km) and can strike diverse targets with conventional warheads.
China and Russia are actively pursuing this technology. That’s why the Pentagon has made it a top priority to develop its own hypersonic capabilities — thus continuing global competition in advanced military technology.
The company seeks to revolutionize hypersonic missile production by using methods from the commercial space industry.
Castelion handles all manufacturing in-house, from avionics to rocket motors. This allows them to conduct frequent prototype launches (bi-weekly in the Mojave Desert). Reportedly, they recently completed their first full weapon test in March 2024.
The goal of their missile design is to ensure it can be launched from platforms used by the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Castelion’s leadership team includes former SpaceX executives Sean Pitt (COO) and Andrew Kreitz (CFO), along with advisors Mike Griffin and Lisa Porter, both of whom held high-ranking positions in the Pentagon during the Trump administration.
‘Hunger for power’: US plans advanced modular batteries for all-electric destroyers
Defense Innovation Unit Launches LOC-NESS Monsoor Project for Fleet Resilience.
The Department of Defense has awarded a $14.2 million contract to Siemens Energy for developing an innovative modular energy storage system for warships. Named LOC-NESS (Long Operation Combatant Naval Energy Storage System), this initiative aims to enhance the capabilities of the Navy’s all-electric DDG-1000 class destroyers and other maritime platforms.
The contract, facilitated by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) in collaboration with PEO Ships, focuses on the energy storage system’s scalability and compatibility with current and future naval needs.
The prototype will be installed on the Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001), a monumental step in modernizing the naval fleet’s energy solutions.
Rapid contracting reflects the urgency of meeting warships’ energy needs
Andrew Higier, DIU’s energy portfolio director, noted that this contract represents the fastest solicitation-to-award process in his portfolio. “The Navy approached us about replacing one of the weapons systems on the DDG-1000 with large-scale energy storage. That’s an electric ship. So we said, yeah, we think we could do that,” Higier stated at the WEST 2025 conference, co-hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA. This urgency highlights the project’s critical nature.
The energy requirements of the all-electric Zumwalt-class warships, particularly when docked, significantly strain existing installation power grids. This challenge is compounded by the rapid growth of AI data centers, which are also heavy energy consumers.
Rear Adm. Brad Rosen, commander of Navy Region Southwest, emphasized the critical power needs during the “Energizing the Battlefield” panel discussion.
“If you look at ships coming here to San Diego, you’re going to have a Ford-class carrier at North Island in the coming years – tremendous power upgrades associated with that,” Rosen explained.
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Military preparedness and energy resilience
The strategic importance of energy resilience cannot be overstated, especially as Navy and Marine Corps installations on the West Coast prepare to deploy most naval forces in response to crises or conflicts in the Indo-Pacific region. Camp Pendleton, Miramar Marine Corps Base, and Yuma Marine Corps Air Station are key hubs, training over 75 percent of Marines deploying overseas.
Brig. Gen. Nick Brown, commander of Marine Corps Installations West, highlighted the bases’ role as power projection platforms, crucial for the gateway to the Pacific. “We need to invest in it like it is,” he stated, highlighting the need for robust energy solutions to support both peacetime activities and wartime operations.
The increasing likelihood of multifaceted threats, including cyber-attacks and natural disasters, necessitates a resilient power infrastructure. The Navy and Marine Corps are actively pursuing enhancements in energy storage and micro-grid technologies to ensure continuous military operations, even when regional power grids fail.
These installations, like small cities, require uninterrupted power for critical operations, from airfields to hospitals. “Operational energy needs to be reliable, resilient, and efficient,” said Brown, focusing on the essential areas during crises.
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Investing in the future of military energy technology
Recognizing the outdated nature of some military infrastructures, such as those at Camp Pendleton dating back to the 1940s, the military is pushing for substantial investments in modern energy solutions. Projects like the $40 million, 40-megawatt storage project at Camp Pendleton and a similar initiative at Naval Base San Diego are set to provide crucial backup power capabilities.
The ongoing efforts include partnerships with the California Energy Commission and initiatives like installing electric vehicle chargers, reflecting a broader move towards sustainable energy use within military installations.
By focusing on advanced energy storage systems and resilient infrastructures, the Navy and Marine Corps are not only preparing for current energy demands, but they are also strategically positioning themselves for future challenges, ensuring they can maintain operational readiness under any circumstances.
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US to deploy molten salt reactors to turn wastewater into freshwater
Each module of a small modular reactor can produce up to 300 MWe of energy.
Anovel nuclear reactor currently under construction at the Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas will help generate carbon-free energy while also desalinating water, solving two problems at once, a press release said. The nuclear reactor is being built by Natura Resources, a company specializing in developing small modular reactors.
With the world looking for new ways to power its economy, nuclear power is poised for a comeback. Wind and solar power work great at their peak but face intermittency issues, leading to no power supply when demand is the highest
On the other hand, nuclear power can offer a reliable source of carbon-free energy. However, the massive scale of building reactors means that projects get delayed, and cost overruns are common. These shortcomings are being addressed through innovations such as small modular reactors (SMR) that can be up to a tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear reactor and can be built in factories.
Each module of an SMR can produce up to 300 MWe (megawatt equivalent) of energy and has advanced safety features.
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Founded in 2020, Abilene, Texas-based Natura Resources has quickly become a governmentally recognized advanced nuclear reactor developer. In 2023, the company built the Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC) at ACU, the first advanced reactor research facility outside a national lab in the US.
The company uses liquid-fueled molten salt reactor (LF-MSR) technology, allowing molten salts to act as fuel and a coolant. According to its website, a mixture of lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2) salts or thorium fluoride (ThF4) salts can be used, which allows the reactor to operate at temperatures higher than solid-fuel reactors.
Since the fuel also works as a coolant, it is removed continuously from the reactor for fissile material to be replaced. This process also makes MSR reactors meltdown safe.
A primary heat removal system in the reactor design also ensures that heat generated during the fission process is removed through a cooling loop. Here, it can be repurposed for other applications. In the case of Natura’s upcoming reactor in Texas, it will be used to desalinate water.
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Solving water woes
As the most populous state in South Central US, Texas has a growing demand for clean water and clean energy. While oil and gas wells produce water as a byproduct during extraction, they do not serve any direct purpose. Purification by spending energy from fossil fuels is more polluting, but SMRs now offer a scalable solution that can help desalinate water.
Natura Resources conducted a feasibility study at the Texas Produced Water Consortium, based at Texas Tech University. With the MSR operating at 1112 Fahrenheit (600 degrees Celsius), up to 250 megawatts (MW) of clean energy is generated, which can be used for desalination.
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“There are great opportunities for beneficial uses of treated produced water in Texas such as rangeland restoration, crop irrigation and streamflow augmentation, among others, especially in the Permian Basin,” said Doug Robison, founder and president of Natura to Midland Reporter-Telegram (MRT). “Thermal desalination processes need high-reliability clean power, and the Gen-4 molten salt reactor (MSR) technology is a prime example.”
The reactor is currently under construction and is expected to be online by 2026/27. Once the demonstrator is completed, the team will begin work on integrating systems to start desalinating water.
Guiengola is estimated to span 360 hectares of land and is said to have contained more than 1,100 buildings, temples, and ballcourts.
he archaeological site of Guiengola in Oaxaca, Mexico, was once thought to be a fortress, just an outpost where soldiers were garrisoned. However, new research has found that it is now known to be overgrown ruins of a 15th-century Zapotec city.
Guiengola is estimated to span 360 hectares of land and is said to have contained more than 1,100 buildings, temples, and ballcourts, along with four kilometers’ (around 2.5 miles) worth of defense walls and an internal network of roads.McGill University researcher Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis made the discovery, which radically alters assumptions made about the function of the site, as well as shifting understanding of Guiengola toward a highly sophisticated urban center featuring clear divisions between elite and common neighborhoods.
“Although you could reach the site using a footpath, it was covered by a canopy of trees. Until very recently, there would have been no way for anyone to discover the full extent of the site without spending years on the ground walking and searching. We were able to do it within two hours by using remote sensing equipment and scanning from a plane,” he says.
A city lost in time
Guiengola’s ruins were covered with dense vegetation, making traditional archaeological surveys impossible. Ramón Celis used lidar, a method that employs light detection and ranging digitally, aiding in reaching beneath the foliage and unveiling the entire extent of the city.
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Furthermore, using the maps generated from the lidar alongside the artifacts found on the site, Ramón Celis was able to establish Guiengola as a military base alongside an urban center consisting of planned community spaces that reflected social stratification. The city was abandoned just before the arrival of the Spanish, and the citizens subsequently relocated to the nearby Tehuantepec.
Ramón Celis affirms that this discovery is key to understanding the politics and social structure of the Zapotec civilization right before European contact was established, including how the power was exerted and how the native Zapotec leaders dealt with the Spanish.
In addition to their highly ritualistic ties to the Mesoamerican civilization’s underworld and connections to fertility, ballcourts held great importance in Guiengola. Their existence indicates that spiritual life and politics were integrated with the organizational structure of the city.
A personal connection
For Ramón Celis, the project carries personal significance. His mother’s family is from Tehuantepec, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Guiengola, and childhood stories about the site inspired his pursuit of archaeology.
“Because the city is only between 500 and 600 years old, it is amazingly well preserved, so you can walk there in the jungle, and you find that houses are still standing… you can see the doors… the hallways… the fences that split it from other houses. So, it is easy to identify a residential lot. It’s like a city frozen in time before any of the deep cultural transformations brought by the Spanish arrival had taken place,” he says.
These findings, which were recently published in Ancient Mesoamerica, mark the start of a broader examination of Zapotec society.
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US firms plan floating nuclear plant with 175 GWh yearly power to rival Russia
Earlier, Core Power had signed an agreement with Westinghouse for design and development of FNPP using the eVinci microreactor.
ore Power has roped in naval architecture and marine engineering firm Glosten to help design a floating nuclear power plant to power ports in the United States.
Created by Core Power, the floating nuclear power plant consists of a barge-based nuclear power plant, barge support services, electrical grid integration, and operational teams.
The company also says that it is an easy-to-transport and even easier-to-deploy concept that can supply clean energy.
The nuclear power plant will enable ports in the US to achieve zero-emissions electrical generation for visiting ships, terminal cranes and equipment, and port vehicles.
As per a press release by Core Power, the floating nuclear power plant will provide an estimated 175 GWh of clean electricity per year.
Glosten has been entrusted with the duty of developing the operational concept and designing the floating facility for the nuclear power plant.
The firm will also establish a regulatory path for the barge, navigate site location approvals, and identify a potential supply chain network for the FNPP’s fabrication, assembly, integration, transportation, and installation.
“The marine industry has experienced a massive push to decarbonize, and Core Power’s FNPP offers an effective and practical means to meet that demand,” said Morgan Fanberg, CEO of Glosten.
“Glosten’s job is to turn CORE POWER’s vision into a design that demonstrates the practicality of providing reliable, zero-emissions nuclear power to port facilities and has a defined path to regulatory approval,” he added.
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The project is currently in the concept phase and is being designed with the intent to serve a non-specific port located in the southern United States, as per the press release.
The companies will also work closely to perform risk assessments and develop the general arrangements for the barge that will house the nuclear reactors.
“Nuclear fission is a well-understood and practiced process. It allows us to access an enormous energy resource safely, reliably, and on-demand without emitting greenhouse gases. Over 80 percent of the cost of nuclear power on land is in civil construction, with reactors and power systems accounting for less than 20 percent,” said Mikal Bøe, CEO of Core Power.
“FNPPs will be shipyard-manufactured and mass-assembled, ensuring delivery speed and low costs. Using FNPPs to power ports solves the electrification challenge and creates local energy security.”
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Core Power’s earlier strides toward FNPP
Earlier in November 2024, Core Power had entered into an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Company for the design and development of a floating nuclear power plant using the eVinci microreactor.
Under the agreement, Westinghouse and Core Power would advance the design of an FNPP using the eVinci microreactor and its heat pipe technology. The eVinci microreactor is fully assembled in the factory and can be easily shipped in a container. The machine has very few moving parts and can be used for power systems ranging from just a few kilowatts to five megawatts.
The microreactor is also capable of producing high-temperature heat for industrial applications.
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In September, Westinghouse announced it had successfully completed the Front-End Engineering and Experimenting Design (FEEED) phase of the eVinci microreactor. That milestone paves the way for testing of a 5MW microreactor within two years.
Earlier this year, Russia had announced that its floating nuclear power plant – named Akademik Lomonosov – had generated its first billion kilowatt-hours of energy.
Russia’s state atomic energy corporation Rosatom had also said through a press release that operational for over five years, the FNPP had also completed its first fuel cycle.
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How did the DC plane crash happen? Experts tell The Post what may have caused the accident
The Post spoke to several aviation experts about a number of factors that may have contributed to the fatal collision.
A short runway and intersecting flight paths with precariously close altitude requirements may have played a role in Wednesday night’s deadly collision of an American Airlines plane and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport, experts told The Post.
Officials have not yet provided any causal information behind the crash — the deadliest aviation disaster in the US in more than two decades — but Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Thursday that the tragedy was “absolutely” preventable.
The Post spoke to several aviation experts about a number of factors that may have contributed to the fatal collision.
Originally built to shuffle VIPs into the nation’s capital on private or government jets, Reagan is a smaller airport and the only one physically in the district.
With a runway nearly half as long as the standard 13,000-foot runways of other airports built to accommodate large commercial jets, landing is tricky for incoming planes, according to former DC-based American Airlines pilot John Wright.
“The first few times you fly there, you usually are with [a fellow pilot] who’s really experienced. He’s kind of talking through it, too,” Wright told The Post.
“Where you land on [runways] that are 13,000 feet long, you’ve got plenty of room to play with. But at [Reagan] it’s only 7,000 feet.”
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Air traffic controller audio captured operators warning the military helicopter that it was getting close to American Airlines Flight 5342 and directing it to pass behind the passenger plane, which would have had the right of way for the trickier landing.
“It’s such a challenging airport to land a jet airplane at your focus is really on your airspeed, your altitude, your rate of descent,” he said, adding that “the last thing you’re looking for is to see if somebody’s crossing in your path.”
Still, he insisted, “it’s totally possible to operate safely at Reagan International — I did it for 50 years, of course.”
“The last thing you’re looking for is to see if somebody’s crossing in your path,” former DC-based American Airlines pilot John Wright said, calling the airport “challenging.” REUTERS
In addition to the shorter runway, intersecting flight paths with close altitude requirements could have also played a role in the tragedy.
There are two flight paths — one for helicopters and another for airplanes — that converge near the Reagan airport, according to an official flight map.
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Helicopters are directed to fly no higher than 200 feet in their path, while airplanes should be at roughly 500 feet, aircraft aviation attorney and former pilot Jim Brauchle told The Post.
“That approach to that runway, the commercial aircraft published approach, is to basically fly down the east side of the [Potomac] river and then about a mile and a half from the touchdown, the aircraft would make this 50-degree turn to go land,” he said.
“And when it makes that turn, it’s just under 500 feet, and then obviously it’s going to descend,” he explained.
“Well, there’s also a helicopter route that goes right down the river that’s at or below 200 feet. And so you’ve got intersecting routes that are apparently de-conflicted by, you know, only several hundred feet — which is not a lot of room for a margin of error.”
What’s more, Federal Aviation Administration rules allow pilots a standard 75-foot deviation from the prescribed altitudes, which could potentially drop that margin even lower, Brauchle said.
“Hypothetically … that’s a 150-foot difference,” he said.
“If there’s only initially going to be about a 200-foot separation, that gets the [airplane and helicopter] within 50 feet of each other.”
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Wright said the helicopter regardless “should not have been crossing the flight path at any altitude at that time.”
“Somehow something broke down between the helicopter’s clearance to be there and air traffic control tower,” the former pilot surmised.
“It’s kind of seems like a very preventable accident that shouldn’t have happened if normal procedures were followed.”
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Generative AI is already taking over our world. As these AI models continue to improve, we face immense societal changes. This piece examines the imminent rise of AI Atlantis — a world dominated by highly talented AI agents and robots.1 We explore why current AI models fundamentally differ from previous technological paradigms, their potential to reshape industries, and the critical choices humanity faces. Everyone must understand how the advancement of AI will rewrite the rules of economics, creativity, and human potential. A few entities will monopolise and control these transformative technologies — this power — unless AI is democratised. Choices made today will determine whether AI amplifies or diminishes human agency and freedoms. This piece is a foundation for further explorations of the topics covered here. It is an urgent call to action that aims to catalyse informed, proactive engagement with AI’s remarkable challenges and opportunities.
As things stand, a handful of people will determine the future of AI. They have the potential to control every part of our lives. Annual global AI investment will approach $200 billion by 2025.2 Yet the drastic change we shall soon encounter is understood by few. A new form of intelligence is being created that will transform our collective human existence.
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Let’s be crystal clear: humanity standing on the edge of the most transformative events in our history. This piece isn’t just another tech forecast. It’s a wake-up call, a roadmap, and a vision of our imminent future rolled into one.
Here’s what you need to know:
There Will be an AI Explosion. 100 billion AI agents and a billion robots. This will soon be a reality.
Current AI models? They’re Just the Appetiser. This is a tipping point. AI capabilities will soon accelerate at an unfathomable rate, making today’s tech look like Stone Age tools. Most cannot imagine — nor are ready for — the cultural and societal implications.
No Industry is Safe. From software to creatives, finance to pharmaceuticals — AI will change the nature of work and society. Creatives were the last thing predicted to be displaced by AI technologies. Now they’re the first.
The Cost of Intelligence is Plummeting. The value of human ingenuity in applying this new resource will skyrocket — it will shortly become one of the most important skills you can have.
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BPO stands for Business Process Outsourcing, which is the practice of contracting specific business functions or processes to external service providers. This approach helps companies improve efficiency, reduce costs, and focus on their core competencies.
It’s Time for Urgent, Decisive Action. To harness the benefits and mitigate the risks of this AI tsunami.
This piece will equip you with the mental models and insight to handle the imminent AI wave. You can agree or disagree, but this is the objective reality we face.
Think this is an exaggeration? The global generative AI market will reach $1.3 trillion by 2032, increasing by over 13x in the next seven years.
AI brings with it both unimaginable challenges and opportunities. This document is your crash course on the future.
In the upcoming sections, we’ll explore different AI models, their effects on knowledge, and their impact on society and individual control.
Imagine waking up tomorrow to find a new continent that has emerged overnight. Not a landmass — a digital realm populated by 100 billion AI agents, and a billion robots. All ready to go. Welcome to AI Atlantis: a seemingly far-off utopia which is actually a vivid reality unfolding before our very eyes.
Here’s an incredible idea: you can now hire digital offshore talent and robotic workers for a salary lower than what you spend on coffee — yet they have the same skills as an average university graduate. This is a monumental shift that will alter economic and social structures.
If you’re saying to yourself, “That’s impossible,” or “AI will never reach that level,” you can stop reading now. We’re appealing to reason here, and if you disagree with this mental model, the rest of this document might be a tough pill to swallow.
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For those who believe in the iron laws of supply and demand, brace yourselves. We’re about to throw Keynesian economics out the window. When you have an almost infinite supply of organised intelligence available worldwide at virtually no cost, traditional rules no longer apply.
We’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible with AI. What you’re seeing is the approaching (and inevitable) turning point where AI capabilities will ignite, making the current models look primitive in comparison.
If you don’t believe the rapid progress in AI development, take a look at GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in the graph above. The two models were released just under a year apart, but the training compute increased by almost 10x.
Today’s AI models are certainly more than just fancy calculators — they’re pure inference engines (more on that later). Think of them as Prometheus, offering humanity boundless creativity and problem-solving abilities.
By using generative AI, mere mortals turn into instant geniuses. Picture having a window into all of humanity’s knowledge in your hand. Well actually, there’s no need — it’s happening right now.
The impact is already cutting through industries. More than half of US businesses have started using generative AI in some way4 — PwC, for instance, has invested a billion dollars in training 65,000 US employees on integrating GPT-4.
Here’s the glaring issue — jobs. AI automation puts 300 million full-time jobs at risk.6
But before you panic, remember this: new AI-related roles are sprouting up everywhere. The adoption of AI will create 97 million jobs by 2025 — across all industries: automotive, energy, healthcare, mining, the list goes on.7 The key is adaptability and continuous learning.
The cost of intelligence is plummeting, but the value of human ingenuity in applying this unique resource will skyrocket. Those who excel in AI collaboration will thrive in this new world.
AI Atlantis is rising. The question isn’t whether it will happen, but how to navigate its shores. In the next section, we’ll look into why these models differ from anything ever seen.
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What’s been done with modern AI models is the creation of a new type of technology that can understand and generate human language, create art, and solve complex problems. Why exactly are they so revolutionary? Allow us to explain.
These AI models aren’t just fancy calculators or “if-then” machines. They can process and generate information in ways that mimic human cognition. To top it off, they can do it at a level that’s simply spectacular.
Consider that a publicly available large language model (LLM) can train on trillions of words (tokens). If someone had compressed these into a regular zip file, the words would have occupied thousands of gigabytes. Yet, the final model might only be tens of gigabytes in size — stored almost entirely in one file.
The model can do this because it learns patterns from training data instead of just storing it to retrieve later. The AI model generates responses that are right up there with the original data, but never a perfect copy.
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It’s as if you carried around the Library of Congress in your pocket. Just look at how Tesla replaced 300,000 lines of self-driving code with a single AI model.8 This new model’s code is 100 times shorter — most of the storage space is dedicated to a single model weights file. This is an immense change to how we handle and process information.
These models are universal translators. By taking input in one form, whether it’s text, images, or code, they can turn it into another. They can explain complex ideas to a five-year-old or rewrite Shakespeare in the style of a rap battle.
Provide these models with any context, and they can adapt. It’s this versatility that makes them so powerful. It’s this versatility that makes them so applicable across industries. It’s this versatility that makes adaptation essential.
Daniel Kahneman outlines a concept which helps explains how these models work.9 He describes two types of thinking:
System 1: Fast, Instinctive, Emotional
System 2: Slow, Logical, Calculated
Today’s generative AI models excel at System 1 thinking. They can quickly generate responses based on patterns they’ve learnt, much like how you might instinctively react to a sudden noise or complete a familiar phrase. For this reason, they can produce human-like text or images almost instantly.
The fascinating part is, as these models evolve, they’re beginning to demonstrate capabilities that resemble System 2 thinking — something that used to be unique to non-generative AI such as chess bots or spam filters.
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We’re moving from a world of static files to one of dynamic information flows. The world we’re stepping into with AI is one where information is constantly updated, combined, and repurposed in real time. This changes everyone’s relationship with information.
Tools like ComfyUI are early examples of this shift — people can now create intricate AI workflows where information and tasks flow seamlessly from one stage to the next. Once a parameter is changed, the flow adapts downstream.
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This means processing information and generating new ideas faster than ever before.
The result of all of this? A dramatic increase in the velocity of knowledge. Whether you’re an individual, an organisation, or an entire society, these AI models give you the ability to process, understand, and act on information at a pace and scale that has been beyond our reach until now. Ushering in new tools for ideas, and eventually creating at the speed of thought.
The important part of all this is the agency. More choice, more capability, and more power to change our world than any of us have ever had before — by using these tools.
Sceptics might argue, “But these models make mistakes. They can’t truly understand or reason like humans do.” And they’re right — to an extent. These models aren’t perfect. They do ‘hallucinate’, and they don’t have the deep understanding that humans do.
…Yet.
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They’re improving at an astounding rate. Despite their current limitations, when combined with human intelligence, they’re already transforming industries and changing how we work and live.
These AI models will amplify human potential in ways we’re only beginning to understand.
The question isn’t whether they’ll change the world. The question is: are you ready for the world they’ll create?
Let’s talk about power. Not the kind that keeps your lights on, but the kind that’s about to reshape our world. We’re talking about agency — the ability to shape your destiny. And AI is about to supercharge it.
Visualise life as a grand buffet. Before AI, most people were stumbling around with just a fork, maybe a spoon too if they were lucky. But now? AI is handing out Swiss Army knives to everyone. It’s not just about having more tools; it’s having the right tools for any situation. This is the essence of increased agency.
We’re not just talking about AI replacing humans. We’re talking about AI-human hybrids — ‘Centaurs’.
A Centaur is more than just a human using AI. It’s a symbiotic relationship where both amplify each other’s strengths. Human creativity and intuition, combined with AI’s processing power and precision. It’s like giving Einstein a supercomputer for a brain.
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Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of billions on AI
Mark Zuckerberg said during Meta's first-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that the company will be investing very heavily in AI this year. Meta considers DeepSeek a new competitor, but it says that it is way too early to tell if demand for chips will stop increasing, as they are still crucial for inference. The company is aiming to make Llama 4 the world's most competitive model. Llama 4 is expected to have multimodal and agentic capabilities.
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Waymo reportedly testing robotaxis in 10 new cities in 2025
Waymo will send less than 10 vehicles to each city, where they will be manually driven.
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OpenAI Alleges DeepSeek Used Its Models for AI Training
OpenAI says it has evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used a technique called 'distillation' to use its models to train a competing open source model.
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“Everything that moves will be robotic”: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says robots and self-driving cars are just around the corner
Jensen Huang believes that Nvidia will have a big role to play in a future where we are surrounded by robots.
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Microsoft brings a DeepSeek model to its cloud
DeepSeek R1 is now available on Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry service.
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Meet Alibaba's Qwen 2.5, an AI model claiming to beat both DeepSeek and OpenAI's ChatGPT
Alibaba's Qwen 2.5-Max reportedly outperforms GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B.
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SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says
SoftBank may invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see it spend more than $40 billion on AI initiatives.
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Tesla reports $600 million bitcoin profit jump after digital assets rule change
A recent change in the rules for how companies account for digital assets led Tesla to report a $600 million mark-to-market gain.
Tesla's bitcoin holdings led to a big pop in reported net income for the fourth quarter because of a new rule change in how companies account for digital assets.
After showing a carrying value of $184 million in digital assets for the prior four quarters, the number suddenly jumped to $1.08 billion in the December period, Tesla reported in its earnings release on Wednesday.
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The increase followed a recent policy change from the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which mandates that corporate digital asset holdings be marked to market each quarter starting at the beginning of 2025. Before the FASB rule change, companies owning bitcoin had to report their holdings at the lowest value recorded during their ownership, regardless of any subsequent price gain.
Tesla said in its earnings deck that the change resulted in an earnings per share boost of 68 cents in the quarter, and CFO Vaibhav Taneja noted on the earnings call that the net income increase was $600 million.
Zuckerberg says Meta won't slow down AI spend despite DeepSeek's breakthrough
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said China-based DeepSeek has created a powerful artificial intelligence model, but it won't likely curb Meta's AI spending.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said it's too early to tell what impact DeepSeek's breakthrough AI model will have on his company and the broader tech industry.
Still, Zuckerberg poured cold water on the notion that Meta's overall AI spending will soon drop now that DeepSeek has allegedly proven that cutting-edge AI requires far less money and computing resources than previously thought.
"It's probably too early to really have a strong opinion on what this means for the trajectory around infrastructure and CapEx," Zuckerberg said. "There are a bunch of trends that are happening here all at once."
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The technology markets were reeling this week over an AI model created by DeepSeek, which is a Hangzhou-based AI lab linked to the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer. DeepSeek claims it only took two months and less than $6 million to develop its R1 large language model. That news caused Nvidia shares to tank 17% on Monday because of the implications that companies don't need as many of the chip-maker's graphics processing units for their own artificial-intelligence projects.
Zuckerberg discussed DeepSeek during a call with analysts Wednesday as part of Meta's fourth-quarter earnings. The company reported that sales rose 21% year over year to $48.39 billion, ahead of Wall Street expectations.
The more we have daring products like Deepseek, the more the entire ecosystem could grow.
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CascadeV: An Implementation of Wurstchen Architecture for Video Generation
CascadeV introduces a cascaded latent diffusion model that generates 2K-resolution videos with improved efficiency. It employs a novel 3D attention mechanism and can be integrated with existing text-to-video models to enhance resolution and frame rate without fine-tuning.
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Writers vs. AI: Microsoft Study Reveals How GPT-4 Impacts Creativity and Voice
Microsoft and USC conducted a study using GPT-4 to explore how generative AI affects writers' authenticity and creativity. Writers expressed concerns about AI impacting originality, emotional satisfaction, and ownership of work. Despite initial skepticism, personalized AI models that align with a writer's style helped alleviate these concerns, enhancing creativity without compromising authenticity.
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Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR
Interview Mega HR has launched "Megan", an AI agent designed to streamline and automate recruitment processes. Megan handles tasks from job posting to candidate management, aiming to improve hiring efficiency and transparency.
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DeepSeek R1's recipe to replicate o1 and the future of reasoning LMs
Nathan Lambert breaks down the recipe for R1 and talks through what it means for us now and for the field broadly. Specifically, he focuses on the interesting application of reinforcement learning.
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Google’s Titans Give AI Human-Like Memory
Google has introduced the Titans architecture, an evolution of Transformers that incorporates neural long-term memory for better data retention and "surprise-based" learning.
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The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are partnering with U.S. military agencies to use AI for threat identification and planning.
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Czech central bank to consider holding bitcoin as reserve asset
The Czech National Bank is considering allocating up to 5% of its €140 billion reserves to Bitcoin, which would mark the first such move by a Western central bank if implemented. Governor Ales Michl plans to present this consideration to the bank's board today as part of a broader reserve diversification strategy that includes gold purchases and increased equity exposure, citing growing institutional interest in the digital asset as contextual support. No immediate decision is forthcoming.
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Tesla's CFO says tariffs would 'have an impact' on company's profitability
Tesla's finance chief said on Wednesday that the company's profitability could take a hit if the new presidential administration implements tariffs.
President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to slap tariffs on goods from many top trading partners. Elon Musk's electric vehicle company may feel some of the pain.
During Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday, Chief Financial Officer Vaibhav Taneja said the company's profitability could take a hit if the new administration implements tariffs.
"Over the years we've tried to localize our supply chain in every market, but we are still reliant on parts from across the world for all our businesses," Taneja said. He said the "imposition of tariffs" would "have an impact on our business and profitability."
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President Trump, who returned to the White House last week, is weighing tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada in an effort to protect U.S. business interests.
Tariffs were a popular tool in the first Trump administration, and were used on goods including solar panels, steel and aluminum. It remained a major talking point on the campaign trail. The president has touted a 60% tariff on China, and over the weekend threatened Colombia with a 25% tariff on goods coming into the U.S.
Musk was Trump's biggest backer, pouring $277 million into his campaign and in support of other Republican candidates. Musk is now running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and many analysts have speculated that his tight relationship with the president could benefit his companies.
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Mark Zuckerberg reveals thoughts on DeepSeek as Meta's AI spending under scrutiny
Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch of its latest AI models triggered a selloff in global tech stocks this week on concerns about rising AI costs in the US.
Meta Platforms’ fourth-quarter revenue beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, but the company predicted sales in the current first quarter may not meet forecasts, sending mixed signals about how bets on pricey artificial intelligence-powered tools are paying off.
The Facebook and Instagram parent company expects first quarter revenue between $39.5 billion and $41.8 billion, compared with analysts’ average estimate of $41.72 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.
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Meta shares were flat after the market closed but rose as CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke optimistically about Meta’s AI initiatives and the company’s conviction that open source AI is the right strategy after a Chinese company launched DeepSeek open source AI, which tanked global markets.
“There’s going to be an open source standard globally,” Zuckerberg said on a conference call. “It’s important that it’s an American standard.”
The forecast raised fresh questions about Meta’s capital spending. The company relies on its core social media ads business to cover the costs associated with its AI ambitions and investments in “metaverse” technologies like smart glasses and augmented reality systems.
Why blocking China's DeepSeek from using tech from US AI rivals may be difficult
Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of US rivals called "distillation."
Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China’s DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of US rivals called “distillation.”
The technique, which involves one AI system learning from another AI system, may be difficult to stop, according to executive and investor sources in Silicon Valley.
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DeepSeek this month rocked the technology sector with a new AI model that appeared to rival the capabilities of US giants like OpenAI, but at much lower cost. And the China-based company gave away the code for free.
Some technologists believe that DeepSeek’s model may have learned from US models to make some of its gains.
The distillation technique involves having an older, more established and powerful AI model evaluate the quality of the answers coming out of a newer model, effectively transferring the older model’s learnings.
Gmail warns users to secure accounts after 'malicious' AI hack confirmed
Sophisticated scams fueled by artificial intelligence are threatening the security of billions of Gmail users.
Gmail warns users to secure accounts after 'malicious' AI hack confirmed
Sophisticated scams fueled by artificial intelligence are threatening the security of billions of Gmail users.
Sophisticated scams fueled by artificial intelligence are threatening the security of billions of Gmail users. security warning issued
As AI-powered phone calls mimicking human voices have become incredibly realistic, a new report from Forbes warned that the email service’s 2.5 billion users could be targeted by “malicious” actors that are employing AI to dupe customers into handing over credentials.
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The outlet reported that the cybercriminals deploy phone calls posing as Google support — complete with a caller ID that looks convincingly legitimate. The technician might say the person’s account has been compromised in some way, or that they are attempting an account recovery.
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Trump, Musk Seek Sped-Up Return of NASA Astronauts
President Donald Trump has asked Elon Musk's SpaceX to return two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station, who were already scheduled to fly back on a SpaceX capsule in March.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday night he had asked Elon Musk's SpaceX to return two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station, who were already scheduled to fly back on a SpaceX capsule in March.
Musk earlier Tuesday said Trump had asked him to return the two astronauts "as soon as possible," suggesting a change to NASA's current plan for a late March return.
"We will do so," Musk said.
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"I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to 'go get' the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden administration," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "They have been waiting for many months on @Space Station. Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!"
His demand SpaceX retrieve veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been assigned a SpaceX ride home since August, was an unusual intervention by a U.S. president into NASA's operations that caught many agency officials by surprise, two officials said.
A NASA spokesman did not immediately return requests for comment.
Wilmore and Williams flew Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the ISS last summer for an eight-day test mission that instead has lasted nearly a year because of problems with the craft's propulsion system.
White House: N.J. Drones 'Authorized' for 'Research'
The White House on Tuesday announced that the drones flying over New Jersey in the last few months of 2024, drawing national attention, were "authorized to be flown" by the Federal Aviation Administration "for research and various other reasons."
The White House on Tuesday announced that the drones flying over New Jersey in the last few months of 2024, drawing national attention, were "authorized to be flown" by the Federal Aviation Administration "for research and various other reasons."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a press conference that Trump directed her to share a public update "on the New Jersey drones."
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The White House on Tuesday announced that the drones flying over New Jersey in the last few months of 2024, drawing national attention, were "authorized to be flown" by the Federal Aviation Administration "for research and various other reasons."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a press conference that Trump directed her to share a public update "on the New Jersey drones."
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