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TL;DR Meta CTO Bosworth told employees AI gains should go into more work, not more time off. Called the Meta Days vacation question “very dumb.” Meta cut 8,000 jobs this year while spending $135B on AI. Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July
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TL;DR South Africa’s Reserve Bank and National Treasury have proposed banning companies from making cross-border stablecoin transfers, while leaving individual allowances of up to R2m intact. Exchanges including VALR and Luno have objected, with Luno signalling a possible legal challenge if Treasury bypasses parliament. South Africa has proposed
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TL;DR China faces a critical AI data shortage. Chinese is just 1.3% of web content vs 49% English. Beijing plans national datasets by 2028. WeChat and Douyin don’t share data externally. Publishers are adding AI training bans. China’s AI race has a new constraint, and it
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Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpassed the US on both monthly and overall model downloads.
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TL;DR X ends revenue sharing September 7, launches Original Content Rewards. Requires Premium sub, 500 verified followers, 500K home timeline views in 90 days. Only original content counts. Existing members must reapply. X is shutting down its revenue-sharing programme on September 7 and replacing it with a new system
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Hwatsing Technology, China’s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment, announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday that can be built directly into the polishing workflow. The company describes it as China’s first six-inch metrology system paired with CMP equipment. The integration is the substantive part.
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Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past
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TL;DR Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker urge under-16 social media ban. 62% of residents support legislation (76% of parents). Government says no plans to legislate, citing enforcement challenges. Australia, UK, France already moving ahead. Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker are urging the city to ban children under
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Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and David Allen, the US chargé d’affaires in Armenia. That guest list is
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David Silver is a billionaire, sort of. His stake in Ineffable Intelligence—the artificial intelligence lab he founded—is worth an ungodly fortune. But he stands to collect none of that money himself. He set things up that way. Between 2013 and 2025, Silver worked as a researcher at Google
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Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops Turns out the fastest way to get a company to consider paying a ransom isn't calling the CEO – it's targeting the 46-year-old IT manager. That's according
