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Palestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza’s ‘ghost towns’ - The Associated Press ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Palestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza’s ‘ghost towns’ The Associated PressWhat Gaza looks like today, after 15 months of war Reuters.comIsraelis’ Joy at Hostage Release ... Continue Reading »

At least 76 dead in Turkish ski resort hotel fire - ABC News ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

At least 76 dead in Turkish ski resort hotel fire ABC NewsAt Least 66 Dead, 51 Injured in Fire at Popular Ski Resort Yahoo! VoicesTurkey Detains Nine ... Continue Reading »

Trump’s UN ambassador pick says Israel has ‘biblical right’ to West Bank - Al Jazeera English ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Trump’s UN ambassador pick says Israel has ‘biblical right’ to West Bank Al Jazeera EnglishTrump nominee vows to combat ‘antisemitic rot’ at UN, slams UNRWA’s ‘terrorist ... Continue Reading »

Popcorn Is Taxed at Three Rates in India. A Nation Says This Is Why We’re a Mess. - The Wall Street Journal ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Popcorn Is Taxed at Three Rates in India. A Nation Says This Is Why We’re a Mess. The Wall Street JournalSimplify India’s GST regime: The case ... Continue Reading »

Israeli military chief to resign as tensions rise between Netanyahu, army brass - The Washington Post ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Israeli military chief to resign as tensions rise between Netanyahu, army brass The Washington PostIsraeli military chief of staff resigns over failure to prevent October 7 ... Continue Reading »

Australian police say antisemitic crimes may be funded overseas - BBC.com ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Australian police say antisemitic crimes may be funded overseas BBC.comAustralian childcare center torched and sprayed with antisemitic graffiti CNNPolice investigate whether foreign actors are paying for antisemitic ... Continue Reading »

US green card holder, a Moroccan national, wounds 4 in Tel Aviv terror stabbing spree - The Times of Israel ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

US green card holder, a Moroccan national, wounds 4 in Tel Aviv terror stabbing spree The Times of IsraelFour injured in Tel Aviv stabbing attack BBC.comTrump considering ... Continue Reading »

Prince Harry's court battle with Murdoch papers is delayed - Reuters UK ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Prince Harry's court battle with Murdoch papers is delayed Reuters UKPrince Harry’s lawsuit against The Sun is part of a long saga of alleged tabloid misbehavior The ... Continue Reading »

Zelenskyy says Russia-Ukraine peace deal would require 200,000 allied troops | Davos 2025 - The Guardian ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Zelenskyy says Russia-Ukraine peace deal would require 200,000 allied troops | Davos 2025 The GuardianWhy Zelensky is reading Trump’s script to Europe’s elites CNNAs Trump Takes Office, ... Continue Reading »

Same-sex couples in Thailand speak of happiness before marriage equality law takes effect - The Associated Press ↓

Monday January 20, 2025

Same-sex couples in Thailand speak of happiness before marriage equality law takes effect The Associated PressMarriage equality kicks off Bangkok PostThai PM joins LGBTQ+ couples ahead of ... Continue Reading »

As Davos 2025 reacts to Trump tack, EU chief leads defense against climate change - The Associated Press ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

As Davos 2025 reacts to Trump tack, EU chief leads defense against climate change The Associated PressEU tells Trump’s America: We have other options POLITICO EuropeLeaders at ... Continue Reading »

South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol denies ordering arrest of lawmakers at impeachment trial - BBC.com ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol denies ordering arrest of lawmakers at impeachment trial BBC.comSouth Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol denies ordering troops to ‘drag out’ lawmakers The ... Continue Reading »

Possible Rapprochement Between US and China Will Embarrass Moscow | Bohdan Nahaylo - Kyiv Post ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Possible Rapprochement Between US and China Will Embarrass Moscow | Bohdan Nahaylo Kyiv PostAiming to weaken US foes, Trump faces an 'unholy alliance' ReutersFrom Ukraine To The ... Continue Reading »

As fighting in Gaza stops, Israel launches major military campaign in West Bank - CNN ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

As fighting in Gaza stops, Israel launches major military campaign in West Bank CNNViolence erupts in West Bank as settlers attack, Israel raids Jenin The Washington PostNew ... Continue Reading »

Trump warns of 100% tariff on Brics nations, which includes India, after dropping a clanger on Spain - The Times of India ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Trump warns of 100% tariff on Brics nations, which includes India, after dropping a clanger on Spain The Times of IndiaTrump mistakes Spain for a member ... Continue Reading »

Coast Guard announces immediate action in support of Presidential Executive Orders - U.S. Coast Guard ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Coast Guard announces immediate action in support of Presidential Executive Orders U.S. Coast GuardCoast Guard surging assets to Gulf of America, other waterways to support Trump’s ... Continue Reading »

Colombia vows 'war' as guerrilla violence kills 100 - FRANCE 24 English ↓

Monday January 20, 2025

Colombia vows 'war' as guerrilla violence kills 100 FRANCE 24 EnglishColombians flee to Venezuela as clashes between rebel groups escalate in coca-rich border region ABC News80 killed ... Continue Reading »

'Shot in the arm' for business: European CEOs react to Trump 2.0 - CNBC ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

'Shot in the arm' for business: European CEOs react to Trump 2.0 CNBCDavos 2025: CEOs issue stark warnings on Europe's future and the new Trump era, ... Continue Reading »

DR Congo conflict: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels capture Minova - BBC.com ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

DR Congo conflict: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels capture Minova BBC.comM23 rebels seize key eastern DRC town of Minova Al Jazeera EnglishEscalating violence in eastern DR Congo displaces more ... Continue Reading »

Southport Killer Had ‘Sickening and Sustained Interest’ in Violence, U.K. Officials Say - The New York Times ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Southport Killer Had ‘Sickening and Sustained Interest’ in Violence, U.K. Officials Say The New York TimesTeen pleads guilty to murder in stabbings at Taylor Swift-themed dance ... Continue Reading »

OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone, according to a new disclosure ... Continue Reading »

There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

The United States and China are entangled in what many have dubbed an “AI arms race.” In the early days of this standoff, US policymakers ... Continue Reading »

A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Forget massive steel tanks—some scientists want to make chemicals with the help of rocks deep beneath Earth’s surface. New research shows that ammonia, a chemical ... Continue Reading »

The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why it’s so ... Continue Reading »

Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Peering ... Continue Reading »

The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push ↓

Monday January 20, 2025

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The second wave ... Continue Reading »

The second wave of AI coding is here ↓

Monday January 20, 2025

Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you: coding. “That’s something ... Continue Reading »

OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science ↓

Friday January 17, 2025

When you think of AI’s contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the Google DeepMind protein-folding program that earned its creator a Nobel Prize ... Continue Reading »

The Download: how to save social media, and “leftover” embryos ↓

Friday January 17, 2025

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We need to ... Continue Reading »

We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky ↓

Friday January 17, 2025

Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be ending third-party fact-checking, it was a shocking pivot, but not exactly surprising. It’s just the ... Continue Reading »

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New $500 billion Stargate initiative is basically the Manhattan Project for AI ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Box CEO Aaron Levie didn’t mince words following President Trump’s announcement today of the landmark $500 billion Stargate initiative — a collaborative effort between OpenAI, ... Continue Reading »

This bizarre animal was just captured on camera for the first time ever ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Deep in the dense, mist-laden jungles of Cambodia’s Virachey National Park, a camera trap has captured something extraordinary. Among the usual suspects—sambar deer and curious ... Continue Reading »

The ChatGPT AI model nobody talks about might add years to your life ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

ChatGPT users have plenty of options to choose from, especially if they subscribe to one of the premium tiers OpenAI offers. GPT-4o is the base ... Continue Reading »

Apple’s new Prime Target is like Good Will Hunting-meets-The Bourne Identity, sort of ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Apple TV+ is already on a tear, and the year has barely begun. The return of Severance last week, for example, feels like a rare ... Continue Reading »

Switch 2 ‘significantly more powerful’ than the Switch, says game developer ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Nintendo finally showed us the Switch 2 last week, but we still don’t know what’s inside the new console (at least, not officially). Nintendo rarely ... Continue Reading »

iOS 18.3 to fix these annoying bugs in next week’s official launch ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Released in December, iOS 18.2 was full of annoying bugs. iPhone users reported battery drain issues, the Camera Control functionality not working as intended, and ... Continue Reading »

Netflix raises prices again, this time on all three plans ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

Prepare to pay more to watch the final season of Stranger Things later this year, as Netflix just announced that all three of its plans ... Continue Reading »

The Brutalist’s use of AI to clone actor voices should exclude it from the Oscar race ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

I just watched a trailer for The Brutalist, and there’s not an ounce of Hungarian language in it. Adrien Brody does speak English with a ... Continue Reading »

Humanoid robots will help build iPhones at Foxconn factories ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

To ramp up iPhone production at Foxconn factories, the manufacturer closed a deal to start using more humanoid robots. With the process of making iPhones ... Continue Reading »

New on Max & HBO: February 2025 ↓

Tuesday January 21, 2025

In 2023, HBO Max and Discovery+ combined to form Max. As a result, the new releases on Max are more varied than ever, with HBO and ... Continue Reading »

The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon (Becky Bracken/Dark Reading) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Becky Bracken / Dark Reading: The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating ... Continue Reading »

Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation (Financial Times) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs ... Continue Reading »

DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633 (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, ... Continue Reading »

An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales (Bloomberg) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Bloomberg: An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales — ... Continue Reading »

Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly ... Continue Reading »

Filing: OpenAI spent $1.76M on lobbying in 2024, up from 2023's $260K, with focus on the AI Advancement and Reliability Act and the Future of AI Innovation Act (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: Filing: OpenAI spent $1.76M on lobbying in 2024, up from 2023's $260K, with focus on the AI Advancement and ... Continue Reading »

Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate helped spur Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's Jan. 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision (Washington Post) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Washington Post: Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate helped spur Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's Jan. 20 EO embodying Elon ... Continue Reading »

Sources: ByteDance plans to spend ~$5.5B to acquire AI chips in China in 2025, double the amount spent in 2024, with ~60% going to Chinese suppliers like Huawei (Financial Times) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance plans to spend ~$5.5B to acquire AI chips in China in 2025, double the amount spent in 2024, with ~60% going ... Continue Reading »

Render, which offers developers cloud services for building, deploying, and running apps and websites, raised an $80M Series C led by Georgian (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Render, which offers developers cloud services for building, deploying, and running apps and websites, raised an $80M Series C led by ... Continue Reading »

StackBlitz, which offers an AI tool to create websites using text prompts, says it's finalizing raising $83.5M at a $700M valuation, following a $22M Series A (Bloomberg) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Bloomberg: StackBlitz, which offers an AI tool to create websites using text prompts, says it's finalizing raising $83.5M at a $700M valuation, following a $22M ... Continue Reading »

Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cryptocurrency cult hero, serving a life sentence on money laundering and drug charges (New York Times) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

New York Times: Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cryptocurrency cult hero, serving a life sentence on ... Continue Reading »

Highnote, which offers businesses a card-issuing software, raised a $90M Series B led by Adams Street Partners, a source says at a $750M+ valuation (Stephen Pastis/Forbes) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Stephen Pastis / Forbes: Highnote, which offers businesses a card-issuing software, raised a $90M Series B led by Adams Street Partners, a source says at ... Continue Reading »

Survey of 3,000+ game devs: 11% were laid off in the past year, 58% back unionization, 30% say generative AI is having a negative impact on the industry, more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Survey of 3,000+ game devs: 11% were laid off in the past year, 58% back unionization, 30% say generative AI is ... Continue Reading »

Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership (Bloomberg) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Bloomberg: Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give ... Continue Reading »

Microsoft says it has a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft "right of first refusal", meaning it's no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) ↓

Wednesday January 22, 2025

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft says it has a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it's no longer OpenAI's ... Continue Reading »