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/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25332833/STK051_TIKTOKBAN_CVirginia_A.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Supreme Court will hear TikTok ban arguments in January")
Source: The Verge The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on whether a bill that could ban TikTok violates the First Amendment. The arguments will take place on January 10th, just over a week before a potential ban could take effect. While the outcome is far from guaranteed, SCOTUS’ decision to take up the case…
Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The AI research community continues to find new ways to improve large language models (LLMs), the latest being a new architecture introduced by scientists at Meta and the University of Washington. Their technique,…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25793036/247439_KOSA_report__CVirginia_2C.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "The Kids Online Safety Act’s last stand")
Source: The Verge Two years ago, Maurine Molak visited Capitol Hill for the first time to support a proposed law she believes could have saved her son. David Molak was a lanky teen who loved basketball — “a joy of a kid,” she says. Then, as she’s recounted several times to legislators, he got injured…
Source: Venture Beat The IBM Granite 3.1 open source models provide 128K context, integrated hallucination protection and accelerated embedding capabilities. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25794662/2085252384.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "It was a rough year for robotaxis — but not for Waymo")
Source: The Verge While its rivals have been stuck in perpetual testing or forced to shut down completely due to dry coffers, Waymo has quietly amassed a legitimate robotaxi business that continues to grow and evolve. And today, it showed off a few numbers that underscore just how far ahead of the rest of the…
Source: Venture Beat Simulation Theory, a start-up dedicated to reducing waste by optimizing compute resources, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25795817/2189936159.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "The New Jersey drone hysteria exposes one salient truth: no one knows anything")
Source: The Verge Okay, I get it, we’re all sick of the drones. I went to two holiday parties over the weekend in the New Jersey suburbs, and it was all anyone wanted to talk about. The news coverage has been breathless, all-consuming, and most importantly, completely unhinged. No one knows anything. The cops don’t…
Source: Venture Beat Aethir, a decentralized cloud infrastructure company, and finance firm MetaStreet launched Yield Pass on the Arbitrum blockchain. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25795830/Flipboard_Surf_home.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Flipboard’s Surf app is a feed reader for the fediverse")
Source: The Verge Mike McCue, the CEO of Flipboard and an internet entrepreneur since the Netscape days, is a true believer in the fediverse. He doesn’t love the word: he’d much rather call it “the social web.” But whatever you want to call the open, decentralized, interconnected social networking experience that apps like Mastodon and…
Source: Venture Beat Vgames raised $142 million for its third fund to continue investing in talented gaming teams across the world. Led by Eitan Reisel and Daniel Mironov, the fund (which spells its name Vgames) will invest in game studios across different stages, backing talented founders and supporting them as they grow. “The third fund…
