TikTok
TikTok faces a possible ban in the U.S. later this month if a law that could require the social media app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to part ways with the platform takes effect as scheduled on Jan. 19. Specifically, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would make it illegal for app stores from Google or Apple, as …
Meta Layoffs
Meta $META is laying off 5% of its workforce, targeting the lowest performers, per an internal memo. This follows last fall’s 11,000 job cuts and reflects a wider trend in tech companies adjusting workforce strategies.
Google’s Willow Chip
The Willow chip is a major step on a journey that began over 10 years ago. When I founded Google Quantum AI in 2012, the vision was to build a useful, large-scale quantum computer that could harness quantum mechanics — the “operating system” of nature to the extent we know it today — to benefit …
ChatGPT AI
We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. …
U.S. Treasury Names Bitcoin ‘Digital Gold’ After Price Explosion
U.S. Treasury Names Bitcoin ‘Digital Gold’ After Price Explosion Bitcoin has seen its price climb back over $100,000 this week after bouncing wildly around the closely-watched level, with the chief executive of Wall Street’s biggest market maker admitting he’s got “FOMO.” The bitcoin price has more than doubled this year as a perfect storm hits the …
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Bitcoin ~ 12/09/24
Bitcoin (BTC) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2010. Users are able to generate BTC through the process of mining. Bitcoin has a current supply of 19,790,568. The last known price of Bitcoin is 98,616.11774942 USD and is down -0.45 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 11824 active market(s) with $60,286,935,082.06 traded …