February 5, 2025news Sources: banks sold $5.5B in debt borrowed by X at $0.97 on the dollar, following strong investor demand; they had planned to sell ~$3B at ~$0.95 on the dollar (Wall Street Journal) Sources: banks sold $5.5B in debt borrowed by X at $0.97 on the dollar, following strong investor demand; they had planned to […]
February 5, 2025news Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash via its API, an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro version via its apps, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, and 2.0 Flash Better responses in a sometimes lengthy flash. Read More »
February 5, 2025news The USPS resumes accepting China and Hong Kong mail hours after suspension due to Trump’s EO, disrupting e The USPS said it will resume accepting inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts, just hours after it suspended […]
February 5, 2025news AWS aims to use “automated reasoning”, which uses mathematical logic to encode knowledge in AI systems in a structured way, to prevent AI models’ hallucinations (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) AWS aims to use “automated reasoning”, which uses mathematical logic to encode knowledge in AI systems in a structured way, to prevent […]
February 5, 2025news Uber opens a waitlist to request a driverless Waymo vehicle in Austin, ahead of a planned launch later in 2025; Austin rides will be limited to 37 square miles (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) Uber Technologies Inc. has set up a waitlist for customers interested in requesting a driverless Waymo vehicle in Austin, ahead of a […]
February 5, 2025news Uber opens a waitlist to request a driverless Waymo vehicle in Austin ahead of a planned 2025 launch; rides will be limited to 37 square miles (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) Uber Technologies Inc. has set up a waitlist for customers interested in requesting a driverless Waymo vehicle in Austin, ahead of a […]
February 5, 2025news The EU unveils e The European Commission plans more customs checks and fees to stem flood of low-value parcels from China. Read More »
February 4, 2025news Mark Zuckerberg says users on Threads can now make their custom feeds public and follow custom feeds made by others (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Meta’s Threads is doubling down on support for custom feeds as it faces challenges from the growing social network Bluesky, now with […]
February 4, 2025news Adobe adds “contract intelligence capabilities” to Acrobat’s $4.99 per month AI Assistant, letting the PDF manager summarize complicated contract language (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) Saving you from signing something you don’t fully understand. Read More »
February 4, 2025news Elon Musk accused an X user of “a crime” who named federal staff in a post that X then removed–showing what actual government social media censorship looks like (Mike Masnick/Techdirt) For years, we’ve watched self-proclaimed “free speech warriors” hyperventilate about imaginary government control of social media content moderation. Mysteriously, as I pointed […]
