Google is paying $32 billion in cash to buy Wiz, a noted cybersecurity startup. The purchase not only improves Google’s cloud services’ security but also leads the company beyond its search engine and Internet services businesses.
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TOP TREND 2024, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: SEATTLE DEVELOPER DEFAULTS ON $135 MILLION IN OFFICE BUILDING LOANS
Martin Selig Real Estate, a commercial property developer in Seattle, has defaulted on $135 million in loans against three office buildings after failing to secure refinancing.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: THE AGE OF ‘AI ANTI-ABUNDANCE’ IS IN FULL SWING
A breakthrough in creating (gene edited) biological muscle tissue to build flesh robots, and WIRED magazine is growing more concerned about AI white collar job threats…it’s all part of what we’re dubbing the Age of AI Anti-Abundance.
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TECH COMPANIES CARRIED OUT ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ SCALE OF IP THEFT, SAYS THE ATLANTIC (WHICH WE HAVE POINTED OUT FOR YEARS)
In several stories this past week, The Atlantic has focused on how AI companies including Meta used a large digital repository file containing thousands of copyrighted books, in order to train its generative AI models.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
For anyone reading these pages still wondering what makes Bitcoin a compelling phenomenon, there’s no one in the world who explains it quite like Michael Saylor.
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BITCOIN OP_CAT UPGRADE COULD BRING POWERFUL NEW FUNCTIONALITIES
Bitcoin might soon get a major boost with a proposed change called OP_CAT. This Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) would add a new tool to Bitcoin’s “Tapscript” coding system, letting it glue two pieces of data together—like taping together two notes into one.
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AI BRIEFS
Scientists at Imperial College London worked for 10 years to figure out exactly how a superbug virus—one that has become drug-resistant—gained its ability to infect a range of kinds of bacteria instead of just one or a related few.
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YUM BRANDS IS IN THE CHIPS
The conglomerate that owns KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell has partnered with Nvidia, the world’s dominant maker of AI chips, to ease and improve customers’ experiences, boost franchisees’ technological infrastructure, and earn more money for shareholders, Joe Park, the company’s chief technology officer, said in a statement.
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TOP U.S. COLLEGE GRADS SEND THEIR RESUMES TO CHINA
New graduates from Harvard, Stanford, and other leading U.S. universities are applying for work at China’s Manycore AI company, Bloomberg reported.
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THE BLACKROCK-MICROSOFT AI PARTNERSHIP JUST GOT BIGGER
Market-leading chipmaker Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI have joined the partnership between Microsoft and private equity giant BlackRock to build up to $100 billion worth of AI data centers and electricity supplies to power them.
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